Rig of the amateur: happyorange

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 09:33:06 AM

Quote from: Poster on January 19, 2012, 03:35:06 PM
If you dont get rid of those shitty cables, Iam going to pull my fucking hair out.

*edit: I have a spool of george l cable, but cant find my foam block of plugs. Iam going to find you some cables dude.

Tahdah!!!

manicstarseed · January 29, 2012, 02:04:12 PM

soooo...

Did Poster come through or did you break down and git 'er done right?

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 02:08:38 PM

Quote from: manicstarseed on January 29, 2012, 02:04:12 PM
soooo...

Did Poster come through or did you break down and git 'er done right?

Both! I bought a bunch off him and constructed these myself. I'm sure I'm better off now than my Chinese cables.

Heady Jam Fan · January 29, 2012, 02:09:46 PM

Quote from: Happyorange27 on January 29, 2012, 09:33:06 AM
Quote from: Poster on January 19, 2012, 03:35:06 PM
If you dont get rid of those shitty cables, Iam going to pull my fucking hair out.

*edit: I have a spool of george l cable, but cant find my foam block of plugs. Iam going to find you some cables dude.

Tahdah!!!

DUDE - I THINK YOU LOST A TS9!

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 02:12:21 PM

I've never had a second TS-9 but I want one badly.

Heady Jam Fan · January 29, 2012, 02:14:09 PM

Lol, yea, they aren't too rare

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 02:20:32 PM

Well my guitar is rare and that's where all the money went my friend. I'm slowly saving up money to rebuild.

Heady Jam Fan · January 29, 2012, 02:21:56 PM

Yea, that is a sweet guitar!

Brian27 · January 29, 2012, 02:27:48 PM

Is the retro sonic comp good?

Heady Jam Fan · January 29, 2012, 02:38:31 PM

I like it so far. This year I have tried an Analogman Comprossor, Barber Tone Press and Keeley 4 Knob (as far as Ross clones).

The AM was the darkest and most compressed, IIRC it has the least amount of headroom, but plenty of boost.

The Keeley was a little less dark, less compressed which makes it easier to dial in on the lower end, it had significantly more headroom especially with the clipping knob, but I could barely get to unity volume even with the clipping maxed. With more volume, the Keeley would be my favorite.

The TP didn't do much of anything for me, takes up more real estate and I didn't care for the blend knob. It also got gritty pretty quickly.

The Retro Sonic is voiced a little sweeter in the upper midrange, it also has a treble boost switch, which I don't use, but I could see it being useful for a dark rig, where a Ross would completely kill the top end. It also has a more mild onset of sustain so it is easier to dial in. There is plenty of volume and it seems to have slightly more headroom than the AM. The attack is a little different than the others, while most Ross clones seem to have the grey ross preset attack at 12 on the knob, the RS seems to be more similar to that at about 10 o'clock.

PS - check out ovnilabs.com - great comp reviews, though by a bass player so he stopped covering Ross clones since most roll off too much bass for him.

Brian27 · January 29, 2012, 02:41:01 PM

True Bypass?

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 02:44:24 PM

Heady how can you say that Ross clones have Ross attack time at 12 o'clock? The Ross has a 4ms attack time. That's pretty damn quick. That would make anything under 12 o'clock useless. I doubt that's how those clones are set up.

Heady Jam Fan · January 29, 2012, 02:51:42 PM

Yea it is true bypass.

As for the attack - I have never played an actual Ross, but Analogman says his clone matches the stock Ross at 12 o'clock on the attack knob, which leaves plenty of sweep on each side. I found the RS to have more attack, so I backed it down a bit.

From Analogman's site: We came out with the ATTACK control in 2001, which one of our COMPetitors finally added in 2005 after years of saying it was not needed. But seems he only added half of an attack control- it only goes one way from the stock setting. Ours is able to ADD or SUBTRACT from the stock setting, which we put in the middle of the range.

Brian27 · January 29, 2012, 02:57:37 PM

I have never liked any kind of Attack or Threshhold on any kind of comp. If i did have a comp with attack id leave it at 12:00. I have had a Dynacomp for so long now and im ready to give a Retro Sonic a try since i dont have enough for a Ross. JHS i think makes a Modded Dynacomp called a Dynaross and that looks kinda interesting. Anyways anything True Bypass would be better then a Dynacomp

Happyorange27 · January 29, 2012, 03:06:02 PM

OK Heady I read you. I saw that once as well. I think Analogman doesn't know what he is talking about unless he is offering 0-4ms of attack as something that's going to be noticeable. It's not. But hey I bet folks eat that shit up and say they have to have it. I'm just saying its a scam. You can't have a negative attack time either. Thanks for supporting your claim. If you can't tell I love all the details.