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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 9:36:38 GMT
Time Core; Pan, P.Pong, Mod and Reverse are all good if you dont use the MIX knob much, meaning if you dont pass 9 o'clock. Moderate use of Mix will give some nice sounds but over done will cause clipping and even latency strange sound. So basically finding a soft spot and you good to go, but limiting. Tape, Digital and Analogue seem to be better at this Mix knob. Not impressed with this pedal still but can find its use. Did I mention that one cant undo the last overdub on the Looper thats crap if you overdub a few times and you screw up so you must delete everything and start from the scratch Good for one Loop and playing over it, so not much fun for creating scapes etc ...
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 13, 2016 19:17:53 GMT
Got the NUX AS-4 pedal a few days ago and so far I am deeply disappointed. Ok, in relation to the price of sub-$20 it is probably better to say underwhelmed.
With my SC-550 the sound is fine if I set tone and sound on the guitar to ~2-3. And the gain level should be at 7´o clock.
Anything beyond that the noise level of the pedal dramatically increases (both with my tube and transistor amp) and anything that is beyond 10 o´clock produces so heavy distortions that it is unbearable.
This could be because of the quite hot PUs in the SC-550 but with an old HB-35 it is not much different.
With a single-coil guitar it is a little bit better, then I can turn the gain pot to almost 12 o´clock but after that the muddyness kicks in again.
I will make some comparisons in the near future and report back.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 19:40:58 GMT
My NUX Amp Sim pedal helped heaps with my Kustom PH2012 amp which lacked character. I never used much gain, just between 0 and 1 ... maybe even less But the Bass and Treble knobs helped shape sound. That said it serves no purpose with my Bugera. Amp Sim is basically design to be used direct into Audio Interface to model certain amp sounds. Direct into an amp its a distortion pedal. I dont use it anymore. That said, the NUX Drive Core is always on infront of my Bugera V5. An awesome sounding pedal with an extra Boost function. Very happy about it.
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 13, 2016 21:17:01 GMT
When the Drive Core is played with Gain, is it muddying the sound as the AS-4?
I wanted to use the AS-4 as a distortion pedal but seems it is not that suitable with a humbucker guitar.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 21:57:34 GMT
When the Drive Core is played with Gain, is it muddying the sound as the AS-4? I wanted to use the AS-4 as a distortion pedal but seems it is not that suitable with a humbucker guitar. Not on single coils. There is a Tone pot to remedy this. But do note that the more Gain you drive the more Mids are upped. It seems that Gain knobs have more Mids and act as an EQ a bit. This is not a bad thing if you have an amp lacking in Mids but in my case the Bugera V5 has an 8" speaker packed with Mids so I dont need much Gain (ehm, Mids I mean). Must say that my neck humbucker on L-450+ sounds muddy on this amp and this Nux Drive but this is due to the speaker Im sure. But the bridge bucker sounds awesome! You play into Marshall right? Which has lots of Mids already compared to a Fender amp which would work better with this NUX Drive Core Im assuming. Again, speaker itself has lots to say about this issue. If mids are muddying too much then a more trebly speaker like Jensen would do better (again Im assuming from what I've read). Maybe someone here in the Club knows more about this! Ah almost forgot to mention, the Boost knob on the Drive Core adds a bit more Treble (or high mids maybe) which again helps shape the sound. I love this Drive Core for my P90 guitar (TE-90QM). If your amp has lots of Mids or is bassy maybe an EQ pedal would be a good idea. My Kustom PH2012 had lots of bass, too boomy. It was closed back so I cut the back and made it semi open. This fixed the issue. Could this be your problem?
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 14, 2016 9:22:33 GMT
I have a Fame Tub 5 Special amp, which is supposed to be a clone of a Fender amp.
It also has a closed back and is quite boomy when I drive up the volume. It only has one volume knob and one "Presence" knob.
But even through a clean transistor amp (Vox DA5) the sound is quite muddy if I set gain to 9 o´clock or more.
I guess this could be due to the hot humbuckers in the SC-550.
During my tests the volume and tone on my guitar was set to 1-2 so I cannot go much more down on those knobs. So everything is up to the AS-4.
I will test if I could get better results with the different knobs on the AS-4.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2016 9:33:19 GMT
9 o'clock is raging distortion already That Fame is not meant for Heavy Metal Just kidding. EQ pedal might be your best friend with amp that has no EQ except that Presence knob which obviously can't fix the issue. Yes, my ex SC 550 Amber Flame had very hot pups indeed. Boomy, muddy could be because of the closed back + small speaker. Is that the new Fame amp with upgraded speaker?
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 14, 2016 10:44:44 GMT
Exactly, it is the upgraded version with the Jensen 8" speaker. I wanted to use the AS-4 as the Amp-Sim (instead of buying the American True Tone) but since the output is just mono it drives me nuts to use it with headphones and sound in just one ear. Don´t know of a solution to that one.
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Post by mrdes on Nov 14, 2016 13:56:31 GMT
Hi Alex I posted elsewhere about a wiring mod I did to my sc550 as it was very muddy and boomey when I rolled back the tone or volume pots with the amp set low volume. It may work for you or maybe not. Then post is in the builds mods part of this site.
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 14, 2016 17:53:39 GMT
Thanks mrdes, that 50s wiring is still on my to-do list. I guess I have to order new pots sooner than I thought. :-D
I will report back after I did the re-wiring.
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Post by mrdes on Nov 14, 2016 22:00:11 GMT
I reused the pots that are in the guitar already but lots of folk hate the small Chinese pots. Good luck with the job.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 10:02:51 GMT
I had an issue with Nux Chorus but I fixed it now and it surprisingly sounds great. When engaged it would lower volume. So I now placed it in front of the Nux OD and it sounds perfect and does not lower the volume when engaged. Who said that Chorus can't be placed in front of OD
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Post by EvolatoR on Dec 16, 2016 19:07:03 GMT
After all the good things I´ve heard about the NU-X pedals (here and elsewhere) and because I needed a looper, I´ve ordered the NU-X Loop Core. I´ve tried the Boss RC-3 and some other loopers at my local musicstore, but to be honest, 140€ was too expensive for me and 5-30 minutes of loop-time wouldn´t be enough.
I always thought this meant that any loop couldn't be longer than 5.30 minutes before it loops again. That already seemed like more than long enough for a loop, heck, that's long enough for a whole song. Have I misunderstood it? Does it simply mean it can only store 5-30 minutes of total loops? No, I meant that the other looper pedals I´ve tried had only 5 to 30 minutes of loop-time, and that wasn´t enough for me, because I want to loop whole songs to play lead guitar. And I guess the loop-time is "unlimited" (6 hours), but I will try it out tomorrow to see how long a single loop can be. (btw Doom-Metal Songs can be long )
Now I´m dreaming of my new pedalboard:
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