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[Mattress5]

Aroused.

The green KoT has to be a rare beast???

Well, it's signed by Analog Mike. It's the colour of his Porsche that he races apparently.
It was an upcharge, but I figured that I'd waited 6-7 years to get to the top of the list so I'd go for it. Not sure if it's limited edition.

Although not a sales post, everything is negotiable

The colour scheme matches nicely with the Noble Screamer neighbour! What's the desired signal chain in this lineup?

Been messing around with it, but pretty much settled on:

Fuzz-->Comp-->Tuner-->Noble Screamer-->KOT-->HX One-->Delay

Pretty standard order I think..

[jeremyb]

Aroused.

The green KoT has to be a rare beast???

Well, it's signed by Analog Mike. It's the colour of his Porsche that he races apparently.
It was an upcharge, but I figured that I'd waited 6-7 years to get to the top of the list so I'd go for it. Not sure if it's limited edition.

Although not a sales post, everything is negotiable

That's so cool, I have a purple one in the mail....

[jeremyb]

Well, it's signed by Analog Mike. It's the colour of his Porsche that he races apparently.
It was an upcharge, but I figured that I'd waited 6-7 years to get to the top of the list so I'd go for it. Not sure if it's limited edition.

Although not a sales post, everything is negotiable

The colour scheme matches nicely with the Noble Screamer neighbour! What's the desired signal chain in this lineup?

Been messing around with it, but pretty much settled on:

Fuzz-->Comp-->Tuner-->Noble Screamer-->KOT-->HX One-->Delay

Pretty standard order I think..

Personally I'd put the screamer after the KoT for that Mayer thang

[codedog]

Aroused.

The green KoT has to be a rare beast???

Well, it's signed by Analog Mike. It's the colour of his Porsche that he races apparently.
It was an upcharge, but I figured that I'd waited 6-7 years to get to the top of the list so I'd go for it. Not sure if it's limited edition.

Although not a sales post, everything is negotiable

That's so cool, I have a purple one in the mail....

Of course you have, Jeremy...

Joking aside, are you getting a genuine one?

[jeremyb]

Well, it's signed by Analog Mike. It's the colour of his Porsche that he races apparently.
It was an upcharge, but I figured that I'd waited 6-7 years to get to the top of the list so I'd go for it. Not sure if it's limited edition.

Although not a sales post, everything is negotiable

That's so cool, I have a purple one in the mail....

Of course you have, Jeremy...

Joking aside, are you getting a genuine one?

Don't be silly

[Mattress5]

The colour scheme matches nicely with the Noble Screamer neighbour! What's the desired signal chain in this lineup?

Been messing around with it, but pretty much settled on:

Fuzz-->Comp-->Tuner-->Noble Screamer-->KOT-->HX One-->Delay

Pretty standard order I think..

Personally I'd put the screamer after the KoT for that Mayer thang

Yeah, I've messed around with that. I prefer to use the boost from the KOT after the screamer

[rickenbackerkid]

This year I’m going direct for the Bruce Springsteen tour.
I was really hoping I could do my normal thing and get a nice overdrive tone and use my volume knob for cleaning it up when needed, but ran into issues pretty fast.

I found that when the Ruby is set to overdrive, hitting it hard with more distortion gets things into a pretty spitty and fuzzed out state, which just didn’t work.
Also in a huge 9 piece band, I need serious level boost for any solos which just wasn’t possible with pedals in front of the amp.

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I have ended up with this. Ruby set mostly clean, just compressing a little bit. Ruby treble boost available for the 70’s bright, hard sounds on the Born to Run record. Deco overdrive for the nicer more modern drive sounds. Hotcake for a couple leads and sustained heavy bits.
GE-7 to boost whatever I need into very loud mode.
Old DD-2 after the amp for long delays and Deco slap before the amp for the vintage-y stuff.
Boss ÇS-2 only ever used with my 12 string and using the Ruby tremolo, which is quite fabulous.

Whole band is going direct for the first time, there are also Iridium pedals and a Boss GT on stage and it’s a bit of a game changer for stage sound in our ears, clean and pristine and I suspect our sound guy will be a very happy chappie

[Cdog]

Elegant setup. Bit of a paradigm shift moving away from amps. I did something similar and was it was good to lower the stage sound. 9 piece also. Only gripe I had was if the sound guy's not attentive enough to mix you up for the extra-guitary-songs... When there's not enough guitar in FOH, there is definitely nothing from the stage. We did covers from a range of genres, you prolly won't have that problem. Look forward to hearing how it goes!

[jeremyb]

This year I’m going direct for the Bruce Springsteen tour.
I was really hoping I could do my normal thing and get a nice overdrive tone and use my volume knob for cleaning it up when needed, but ran into issues pretty fast.

I found that when the Ruby is set to overdrive, hitting it hard with more distortion gets things into a pretty spitty and fuzzed out state, which just didn’t work.
Also in a huge 9 piece band, I need serious level boost for any solos which just wasn’t possible with pedals in front of the amp.

I have ended up with this. Ruby set mostly clean, just compressing a little bit. Ruby treble boost available for the 70’s bright, hard sounds on the Born to Run record. Deco overdrive for the nicer more modern drive sounds. Hotcake for a couple leads and sustained heavy bits.
GE-7 to boost whatever I need into very loud mode.
Old DD-2 after the amp for long delays and Deco slap before the amp for the vintage-y stuff.
Boss ÇS-2 only ever used with my 12 string and using the Ruby tremolo, which is quite fabulous.

Whole band is going direct for the first time, there are also Iridium pedals and a Boss GT on stage and it’s a bit of a game changer for stage sound in our ears, clean and pristine and I suspect our sound guy will be a very happy chappie

Damn, thats a proper working muso's board, great work Ben!

I run the UA Enigmatic in a similar way, I'm using the Joey Landreth edge of breakup preset which with my Strat is still pretty clean, then add layers of overdrive or fuzz to taste, seems to respond really well that way!

[sihirst]

This year I’m going direct for the Bruce Springsteen tour.
I was really hoping I could do my normal thing and get a nice overdrive tone and use my volume knob for cleaning it up when needed, but ran into issues pretty fast.

I found that when the Ruby is set to overdrive, hitting it hard with more distortion gets things into a pretty spitty and fuzzed out state, which just didn’t work.
Also in a huge 9 piece band, I need serious level boost for any solos which just wasn’t possible with pedals in front of the amp.

IMG_9694.jpeg

I have ended up with this. Ruby set mostly clean, just compressing a little bit. Ruby treble boost available for the 70’s bright, hard sounds on the Born to Run record. Deco overdrive for the nicer more modern drive sounds. Hotcake for a couple leads and sustained heavy bits.
GE-7 to boost whatever I need into very loud mode.
Old DD-2 after the amp for long delays and Deco slap before the amp for the vintage-y stuff.
Boss ÇS-2 only ever used with my 12 string and using the Ruby tremolo, which is quite fabulous.

Whole band is going direct for the first time, there are also Iridium pedals and a Boss GT on stage and it’s a bit of a game changer for stage sound in our ears, clean and pristine and I suspect our sound guy will be a very happy chappie

Sick rig, Ben!! Looking forward to hearing it when it comes to town!

[philipnz]

Hotcake for a couple leads and sustained heavy bits.

Nice setup. I love the sound of those hotcake settings but the volume increase into my amp is massive. Can't work out how to get a medium setting.

[StratMatt]

Going direct makes life so much easier. At one point I was controlling the singers guitar, the bass and my guitar all through the Fractal. Then all we had to do was blame the drummer when it sounded like shit!

[rickenbackerkid]

I run the UA Enigmatic in a similar way, I'm using the Joey Landreth edge of breakup preset which with my Strat is still pretty clean, then add layers of overdrive or fuzz to taste, seems to respond really well that way!

Seems to be the way to do it and I guess it makes sense - in reality I have never cranked a AC30 to 10 and then punched it with more distortion so it's pretty logical to do what most people would do, get the amp loud but not psychotic and then use some drive pedals. The Ruby really has given me a taste for amp modelling though, I'm really tempted to get the Lion or even the Mesa flavour for some high gain stuff

[jeremyb]

I run the UA Enigmatic in a similar way, I'm using the Joey Landreth edge of breakup preset which with my Strat is still pretty clean, then add layers of overdrive or fuzz to taste, seems to respond really well that way!

Seems to be the way to do it and I guess it makes sense - in reality I have never cranked a AC30 to 10 and then punched it with more distortion so it's pretty logical to do what most people would do, get the amp loud but not psychotic and then use some drive pedals. The Ruby really has given me a taste for amp modelling though, I'm really tempted to get the Lion or even the Mesa flavour for some high gain stuff

Mmmm Rockshop had the Lion on special for March and I was tempted to get one to run in tandem with the Enigmatic

[TmcB]

Those UA products make me wary – feels like they could be bricked at any time