Recommend Me a Clean PreAmp

vigilante398 said:
I have never heard anyone say this before.
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I'm simply not ready for a tube project, especially since I've never played through a tube amp before. As reference I am primarily a bass player so guitar is a distant secondary, I just want to build a small board that I can plug into my bass head's power amp without needing my HX Stomp to play.
 
anevilspar7an said:
I'm simply not ready for a tube project, especially since I've never played through a tube amp before. As reference I am primarily a bass player so guitar is a distant secondary, I just want to build a small board that I can plug into my bass head's power amp without needing my HX Stomp to play.
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Tube preamp into a power amp is a pretty common use case for my pedals. Just saying.

I'm obviously biased here as I make money from selling these things, but hearing someone say they don't want a tube preamp makes me sad.
 
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I was wondering why you don't just add a quality EQ pedal to the end of your PB chain, put that into a Class D power amp?
I'd personally go with a splitter (to front of house and that EQ pedal), into a used EHX 44 Magnum, Duncan Power Stage or a QSC GX3, into a used passive full-range PA speaker (12" w/ horn). Maybe skip the separate amp and speaker and find a used powered PA speaker.
 
andrewsrea said:
I was wondering why you don't just add a quality EQ pedal to the end of your PB chain, put that into a Class D power amp?
I'd personally go with a splitter (to front of house and that EQ pedal), into a used EHX 44 Magnum, Duncan Power Stage or a QSC GX3, into a used passive full-range PA speaker (12" w/ horn). Maybe skip the separate amp and speaker and find a used powered PA speaker.
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I already plan to play through my 4x10 bass cab using the power section of my bass amp, so I have no need to buy an FRFR speaker or a separate power amp, especially since I'm not playing guitar on stage.
 
anevilspar7an said:
I already plan to play through my 4x10 bass cab using the power section of my bass amp, so I have no need to buy an FRFR speaker or a separate power amp, especially since I'm not playing guitar on stage.
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The pedal I posted above works great in situations like yours, for both guitar and bass. There are details in the build threads, or here: https://github.com/Passinwind/PW3B-LPF

If hand soldering SMD parts is too much hassle there's another through-hole version in the works, but it's down my work queue a bit for now.
 
Passinwind said:
The pedal I posted above works great in situations like yours, for both guitar and bass. There are details in the build threads, or here: https://github.com/Passinwind/PW3B-LPF

If hand soldering SMD parts is too much hassle there's another through-hole version in the works, but it's down my work queue a bit for now.
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Hell yeah, I'll take a look man. SMD is a PITA but it is something I can do.
 
anevilspar7an said:
Hell yeah, I'll take a look man. SMD is a PITA but it is something I can do.
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I spec'ed relatively large SMDs (1206 resistors, SO-8 opamps) and all the caps are through-hole. There's a new version in the works that runs internally at +/-15V and can directly drive any power amp, but the current version already has plenty of headroom, especially if you run it at 12-18 volts.
 
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