gpuma Posted October 26, 2014 Author Posted October 26, 2014 I just want to add that while the people at MESA have always been very helpful, the guy I talked to at their Hollywood store was a total jerk. He did not even wanted to know what the problem was. It is clear to me that they are having huge problems with these units otherwise they would show some level of concern for an unhappy customer. Really awful experience. I have to say that I feel much less of a fanboy as I used to be a week agao. Congratulations!
gpuma Posted October 27, 2014 Author Posted October 27, 2014 Cabclone update! After the awful experience with this employee at the Mesa store, I spoke with the plant and with another store employee and they both have been super helpful. I followed their advices and I have to say that after those suggestions the cabclonedid not sound bad at all. I think they need to do a better job documenting the use of it because the signal reaches unity gain with extremely low settings on the recording interface and on the PA. Also the fx send level on the mark V has an effect on the overall sound so it is something to check. I'll try it at rehearsal on Thursday!
kidsmoke Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 Very cool! That's good news. Curious what settings we missed, or was exclusively AMP settings? See you Thursday.
gpuma Posted October 28, 2014 Author Posted October 28, 2014 Very cool! That's good news. Curious what settings we missed, or was exclusively AMP settings? See you Thursday. I think we will need to work on the PA as well. But I was able to make it work with the recording interface by changing both amp setting and setting to zero the gain on the interface preamp.
gpuma Posted October 31, 2014 Author Posted October 31, 2014 So, yesterday I tried the Cabclone at rehearsal. I think it's great. In a mix setting I thought my sound was mostly indiscernible from a regular cab with the main difference being the lack of feedback loop. I believe this is a useful and convenient tool that is a lot simpler and a lot less expensive than other solution which might (or might not) sound a little better. At the end of the day, I don't know if anyone would use it in the studio, maybe not. But I can see really a ton of people using this in a live setting.
JeffB Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 So, yesterday I tried the Cabclone at rehearsal. I think it's great. In a mix setting I thought my sound was mostly indiscernible from a regular cab with the main difference being the lack of feedback loop. I believe this is a useful and convenient tool that is a lot simpler and a lot less expensive than other solution which might (or might not) sound a little better. At the end of the day, I don't know if anyone would use it in the studio, maybe not. But I can see really a ton of people using this in a live setting. Im so glad you stuck it out and tried to make it work. Its a useable thing and after using one I couldnt understand how varied the reviews were. Its not a terrible thing, you can spend a lot more for a lot worse results. Since using one Ive decided to get one. Its just a really useful little device to have even if you only used it once a year. Like a Boss Ge7, aby box or spare di box, have them in your gig bag just in case.
gpuma Posted October 31, 2014 Author Posted October 31, 2014 Im so glad you stuck it out and tried to make it work. Its a useable thing and after using one I couldnt understand how varied the reviews were. Its not a terrible thing, you can spend a lot more for a lot worse results. Since using one Ive decided to get one. Its just a really useful little device to have even if you only used it once a year. Like a Boss Ge7, aby box or spare di box, have them in your gig bag just in case. I think the problem of the mixed reviews arises from the fact that the signal out of the Cabclone is gainy and it is not documented to be that way. So people approaches it with "normal" settings and gets a clipped sound. They should do a better job in the manual, I think. This is not surprising because, even though I am a Boogie fan as much as anyone, all the manuals I came across from them were mediocre at best (with a lot of mumbo-jumbo on the black magic a similar BSs and not a lot of technical details).
bolero Posted November 2, 2014 Posted November 2, 2014 I have an original H&K Tubeman pedal that has a line-out for a PA/mixer, with a cab simulator built in ( H&K Red Box I believe ) it's a really useful unit, although I primarily use it as a distortion box. or recording bass lines DI can probably find them for $100 used ps the H&K Red Box will take a line signal off your amp, but it still needs a speaker hooked up
gpuma Posted November 4, 2014 Author Posted November 4, 2014 I actually have to admit that it was 100% operator error. That little box is great. If I can find some spare time I'll post a clip or two
indravayu Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I bought a CabClone a couple weeks ago and I like it - it's definitely better than my Palmer PDI-09 "Junction". It's not perfect - I mainly use it for recording at home and I still have to add EQ and reverb to get it sounding like a miced speaker - and I have to be very careful with the gain staging on it, my amp, and my recording rig's preamp and compressor - but it's it a very useful tool to have at my disposal.
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