Gabriel Simões
New member
Hello all.
Based on the theory that bass players always have less products on the market to shape their sound if compared with guitarrists and, since building chassis and boxes is the worst diy part to me, I decided to get a bigger chalenge since I'm a begginer (some stompboxes for now) and build a rackmount unit with some great stuff, that could be controled by a footswitch unit I would build too.
But I'm now facing 2 problems:
First of all I think it would be great to put 2 different preamps in there (and always have one receiving the input signal and throwing it out on the audio path for the other circuits) so I could choose between them based on my needs at each playing situation (now I'm trying to go in the passive bass guitars path so this could help me forget the active onboard electronics too), but since I'm not that skilled with electronics and voltages and stuff I do not want to go with tubes right now, so wich preamps do you recommend for bass in a situation like this since I just know the stompbox pres, my gallien and some onboard ones like ntmb (mid based on inductors) and stuff ?
I've found some material on the net about acoustic 360 and portaflex (using mpf102 and j201 instead of tubes) ....
Second: Some of the units I've been thinking of using are rated with different kinds of PSUs, some bipolar, some with different voltages .... like acosutic 360, portaflex, bassballs, sparkledrive (modded for bass), what compressor, bass paralooper (for effects loop), .... any tips or ideas about how to handle this?
I'm sure some of you do not understand why putting all this stuff into one unit, but my idea is portability, good live sound, and for sure the chalenge, at least for me. Groupping this units and some others for other features like headphone, different outs, is still not that clear or easy to me and this, I think, will be a good oportunity to learn, building things I will use instead of guitar stompboxes =).
I hope you guys can help me...
Thanks
Gabriel Simões
ps: sorry for my bad english, it's 00:10 here and I'm almost sleeping in front of the PC. Gotta close my eyes right now ....
Based on the theory that bass players always have less products on the market to shape their sound if compared with guitarrists and, since building chassis and boxes is the worst diy part to me, I decided to get a bigger chalenge since I'm a begginer (some stompboxes for now) and build a rackmount unit with some great stuff, that could be controled by a footswitch unit I would build too.
But I'm now facing 2 problems:
First of all I think it would be great to put 2 different preamps in there (and always have one receiving the input signal and throwing it out on the audio path for the other circuits) so I could choose between them based on my needs at each playing situation (now I'm trying to go in the passive bass guitars path so this could help me forget the active onboard electronics too), but since I'm not that skilled with electronics and voltages and stuff I do not want to go with tubes right now, so wich preamps do you recommend for bass in a situation like this since I just know the stompbox pres, my gallien and some onboard ones like ntmb (mid based on inductors) and stuff ?
I've found some material on the net about acoustic 360 and portaflex (using mpf102 and j201 instead of tubes) ....
Second: Some of the units I've been thinking of using are rated with different kinds of PSUs, some bipolar, some with different voltages .... like acosutic 360, portaflex, bassballs, sparkledrive (modded for bass), what compressor, bass paralooper (for effects loop), .... any tips or ideas about how to handle this?
I'm sure some of you do not understand why putting all this stuff into one unit, but my idea is portability, good live sound, and for sure the chalenge, at least for me. Groupping this units and some others for other features like headphone, different outs, is still not that clear or easy to me and this, I think, will be a good oportunity to learn, building things I will use instead of guitar stompboxes =).
I hope you guys can help me...
Thanks
Gabriel Simões
ps: sorry for my bad english, it's 00:10 here and I'm almost sleeping in front of the PC. Gotta close my eyes right now ....