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David Houck

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« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2012, 07:24:12 PM »
Thanks Juan Carlos; the rig ...
 
Alembic DS-5R power supply
Alembic F-2B preamp
Alembic SF-2 superfilter
Sans Amp Tech 21 preamp (overdrive effects)
T.C. Electronic M-One XL multieffects
BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
QSC PLX 2402 poweramp
Bag End D10BX-D speaker cabs (2)
 
The stuff on the floor are midi controllers for the M-One and the Sans Amp.

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« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2012, 05:00:04 AM »
I still have an old BBE 422A laying around I used it on my guitar rig about... 18,20 years ago, and has not seen much action lately. I assume the SansAmp you' re using is the MIDI, silver-faced one? (I have the older, non-MIDI rackmount one, but have not used it for bass... yet!)
 
My main rig has become quite simple... I think I can add a picture here, if I find a nice, fast way to resize it. A Yamaha PB-1 preamp, and a DBX163x compressor and a Digitech RDS1900 digital delay, one after the other, thru the PB-1's fx loop. I' ve been using a Hartke HA2000 head since I've found it easier to handle on most situations than what I originally was using (a QSC GX5 power amp), somewhat forcing me to divide my rig into Tone shaping on a 4spc rack, and Powering on a separate 2spc rack with the head (it used to be an all in one huge rack system of which I've found I' ve been using only a half). But the BBE thing got me intrigued again, and after so many years without using it I'm wondering whether I should use it on my bass rig or not. Where in the chain are you using it. or where would you hook it?
 
This tone madness never ends... does it?

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« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2012, 05:11:38 AM »
Here a pic of the rig... please let me know if it should rather be posted anywhere else.
 
 
(Message edited by jcdlc72 on May 31, 2012)

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« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2012, 07:16:54 AM »
The BBE is strange.  With all the other tone shaping stuff in my signal path, I have an idea of how it works and can picture what will happen if I move this knob that direction this much (well maybe not the Sans Amp).  The BBE, not so much.  I think what happens is that turning the knob (here I'm talking about the high frequency knob) chooses between algorithms that boost combinations of different harmonic frequencies.  Interestingly, when I sit down to play and find the tone lacking, I can turn those high frequency knobs one click, and the tone is suddenly different.
 
And yes, the Sans Amp is the midi silver faced rack mount.  I don't use any of the built in settings, but have set up a few that work for me; and I use the midi to choose between them.  It is a very complex tool.
 
The list I posted above is pretty much in order of where they are in the chain.  So if I recall correctly, the BBE is pretty much the last thing in the chain before the power amp.  The BBE and the M-One are sitting in the effects loop of the Sans Amp; and I'm pretty sure that loop comes after all the overdrive circuitry in the Sans Amp.

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« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2012, 06:36:23 PM »
My SansAmp (Same thing, only non-MIDI model), has been an absolute mistery to me. Plus, the names they put on those knobs (Buzz Punch Edge and such) make little sense to me when I compare them with what I hear turning them one side or the other. Still, a nice tool, and have yet to try it on bass (Which I will do, eventually, once my studio in the countryside is prepared to start moving equipment there. Currently all the gear that will go there is on storage, piled and stacked right where I cannot bring it out to give it a try right now  But it will, it will...  (And now BS&T's House in the Country is my earworm, go figure...)

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« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2012, 06:32:43 AM »
Wow, just caught this video.  Great stuff, Dave.  Very---if I can use the word---poignant.  Nice chops, nice dynamics.  Thanks for sharing.

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« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2012, 06:35:33 AM »
Thanks Will!

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« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2012, 02:59:25 PM »
yeah Dave, ur a freak, i like it very much!
more of this please...
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« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2012, 03:28:52 PM »
Thanks Peter!

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« Reply #24 on: June 14, 2012, 05:19:10 AM »
Beautiful.

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« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2012, 03:18:24 PM »
Just saw your video tonight. It's really wonderful..... A big bravo, me likee very mucho...!

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« Reply #26 on: August 01, 2012, 04:39:08 PM »
Thank you Pierre!

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« Reply #27 on: August 08, 2012, 02:34:36 PM »
Nicely done Dave!  
 
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« Reply #28 on: August 08, 2012, 07:09:02 PM »
Thanks Kimberly

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« Reply #29 on: August 16, 2012, 04:27:41 PM »
After a very long day, you're pourin' your heart out.