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Thank you very much for such a detailed answer. I'll build it as is. Given how many circuits you are familiar with do you have any bass pre-amps you would recommend pairing with it?IIRC, the Omnicab (which the Unicab is based on) was originally basically designed for bass. Daniel Schwartz was active on the TalkBass forum, there's info there about the OmnicabSim and reviews of its effectiveness on bass.
Mr Schwartz also had a DIY offering, the precursor to the Omnicab, which was called the MultiCab:
(Vero layout link for Multicab in DIYSB thread above.)Multicab SIM..my own design cabinet simulator .. it works!! cool! - Page 7
Multicab SIM..my own design cabinet simulator .. it works!! cool! - Page 7www.diystompboxes.com
Condor is said to have more bass than Daniel Schwartz’s Multicab sim (MULTI, not Omni). The Omni is substantially different enough from its DIY predecessor and as Jimilee alluded, you shouldn't need to do anything different with the Unicab circuit to make it work well with bass.
I suggest building all three: Condor, Multicab and Unicab.
While you're at it, check out Dead Astronaut's spiffy cab-sim. Marshall-based IIRC, but I could be out to launch and spacing on that one.
or maybe also (in no particular order) vero/perf:
There's a perf layout of Bajaman's cab sim over at ELS as well as some other cab or speaker sims.
- ROG Cab Sim — discrete
- Simple Sim by Joe Davidson
- Stoned Tone Bulldog Cab Sim
- Cab Sim/Headphone Amp/Audio Mixer by Aron Nelson
- Marshall Cab Sim
- Hexe's cab sim
- YERAYM's CAB SIM
- DISTORQUE’s Speaker Sim VERO
- LXH2 Lite FENDER Speaker Simulator DIY-PCB-ETCH (also a Marshall version)
- ...
Schematics are available for the following, if you wanted to do your own layout:
- BOSS Speaker Simulator TM-3 SCHEMATIC
- Cab Freq simulator SCHEMATIC
- LART CAB SIM schematic (NOT the simple cab sim 2) RcvNTxaP_o
- Morley JD10 clone (might be a PCB of this somewhere IIRC)
- Celestian G12H Sim SCHEMATIC
- ...
Mods & BASS version of Speaker Sim
Mods and bass version of Tonepad's speaker simulator?
Mods and bass version of Tonepad's speaker simulator?www.diystompboxes.com
Re-amping Phatt style
Hello. I've been lurking here for quite a while but now have I have a proper question. I own a Super Reverb. I'm interested in trying out the type of setup that Phatt is an advocate of which is using a tube amp into a 30-ish ohm load resistor and then
I have no skin in the cab-sim game, but IMO, looking at all the above list and associated features of each, Unicab is my favourite.
I bought both the PPCB Condor and Unicab.
If you want a ready to use pcb an svt is the Aion Artemis (Catalinbread SFT).
Ask a loaded question…
. Now that I've said that I'll probably be subjected to a forced blindfold listening test and unwittingly choose an SVT-related circuit over everything else.
Thank you for the list. To be honest I am looking for it to sound just like every Bass player. I am a guitar player but enjoy messing around on the bass / using it to fill out things I make but am in no way a bass player or could fill that role well in a band. So the goal really is just for a good rich bass sound, nothing fancy. That said - thanks for the detailed response I will give those a look!Ask a loaded question…
Loaded answer:
Depends...
Are you wanting to use this for a Tiki Surf Band that covers Elevator classics, or is this for a SLUDGE-DOOM-METAL-TRIBUTE-BAND to all the teeny bop-stars such as Brittnay Spearohead, This-Just-in Bleetbert, Mini-Smiley-Papyrus-before-she-all-growed-up, Trail-or-trash Swifter etc... A Doctors & Lawyers Booze Bland?...? ?
Traynor TS-50B
Traynor Monoblock
Acoustic 360
Gallien-Kreuger
LAB L4
Those would be my top choices, theoretically. I've yet to try them all, personally, but I like the clips I've heard.
Sacrilege for me to say so, probably, but I'd completely avoid ALL SVT-related stuff. Why would you want to sound like every other %^*&(*) bass-player out there?
Oh, right. It sounds good. So ... Sans Amp type things and other pedals such as the SFT etc...
At the very least...
Here's a few to explore:
AION LAB L5 L4
AION EP-3
TRAYNOR MONOBLOCK Vero/Perf
TRAYNOR TS-50B AION!
ALEMBIC FET2B LEAP FROG
SADOWSKY Perf/Vero whatever…
MUSIC MAN 2-band
MUSIC MAN 3-band
YAMAHA NE-1 PPCB / schalltechnik / Rullywow /
ASHBORY PERF
SUBMARINE/ICTINEO PPCB
BAJA ACTIVE
SANSAMP G2
GBD2 GPCB
FENDER BASSMAN Ciaran Haslett vero
GALLIEN KREUGER SCHALTECHNIK_04
IBANEZ GSR200 onboard bass pre
LANEY SUPERGROUP 100 vero, but can do on GPCB? See Sabotage.
TIPO ESP TETSUYA LC-1 BASSO PCB & LAYOUT PREAMP EQ
ROLAND CUBE60
ROLAND BRAINSELTZER Vero
ROLAND JC120 ELS
ECHOPLEX 2
ECHOPLEX 3 SEE AION
TILLMANN (See Kreuzer-Tillmann)
FENDER-KUBICKI LF442
SUNN 200S Vero/perf, ELS and others
TRI-LOGIC
TAOBAO TUBE x 3 BOOGIE?
MXR — I vaguely recall there being a PCB or Perf floating in the Interethers
XOTIC BB Aion Perellandra (can build on GPCB)
XOTIC AC/RC Aion Malacandra (can build on GPCB)
ORANGE AD200B
BARCUS BARRY 3000A PERF
HG AMPS BASSLINE schem
BENSON pre PCB perf
BINSON echorecalike vero
OH! Check out PASSINWIND's CIRCUITS TOO! Support a fellow forumite!
I'm sure I'm missing some, but you'll likely come across any I missed whilst looking through the list above.
