The Watering Hole

This is sloppy as hell, more so than my usual but what the hell.  Just testing out some of the juicy sounds in the RAH pedal directly into the Torpedo CAB with sm57 at the outside of the cone at 30degree angle.

Play quietly and the pedal is clean, dig in and it juices up nicely.

This was all done on headphones ...pure randomness as you can tell.  Not sure how the bass sounds, seem ok in the headphones but can't play it through speakers at the moment - too late here, so the levels and everything maybe way off.

Anyway, sounds thick and juicy on the headphones.

Thoughts ? (on the guitar sound that is, never mind the playing as it is pretty bad)

hard to tell with the mix - guitar's a bit low... lots of bass going on.

ironsheep — Apr 10, 2013hard to tell with the mix - guitar's a bit low... lots of bass going on.

Just played it through the speaker system.....whoa I see what you mean about it being bass heavy, worse than I anticipated, I guess I overcompensated for my headphones lack of bass  :)

Bassy for sure, but sounds like excellent potential...

Give us more :)

KrankZilla — Apr 10, 2013Bassy for sure, but sounds like excellent potential...

Give us more :)

I will have a go a eq,ing the tracks and the mix and see what that does. But, yes the variations that can be had with the different cabs and mics and ability to move the mic feely in space around the cab gives some incredible results.....plus no latency at all...free at last from vst cabs  :)

OK, I have just re- eq'd the individual tracks to "hopefully" make everything sit together better.  Unfortunately still had to do this with headphones so I did it with curve eq on each track instead of my ears....hope I haven't gone too far the other way now  ;D  (also cleaned up the bass as my timing was way off in parts, most parts actually, so I moved each note to line up with kick drum)

http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/2013/2013-04-10/2013-04-10-213050-TorpedoCAB&CatalinBreadRah-remix.mp3

I find it incredible the way the CatalinBread RAH pedal reacts to picking strength.

As soon as my new amp arrives I will post some examples of a the line out from the hotplate into the CAB.

sounds good in the sense that it sounds like an "sm57 at the outside of the cone at 30degree angle" as you mentioned... 90deg at the edge of the cap next time! ;)

can it accept any IRs? most that I have are mic position specific, I'm wondering how it deals with that... do you load in a bunch of IRs? one favorite, and it generates different mic placements? different mics? I'm curious... no GAS, YET! :)

The continuous mic placement only works with the buit-in ir cabs, however you can upload your own Ir's to it using the import software but the mic position is fixed for those at whatever the ir was taken at.  The best thing about this is that it gets away from using a vst on the pc for the cabs as I have never been able to get the latency at a level that is playable on a pc, but with this there is no noticable latency at all.

This is THE gadget that I have been searching for.  Can't wait to try it with a real amp, don't have one at present and new one won't be here for a couple of weeks yet

I read up on both these gadgets.  The Torpedo CAB really has a great feature set.  Host latency is not an issue for me luckily so I wouldn't need it to avoid VSTs, but some of the other goodies in there make me somewhat GASed...  

I can see why you went for the RAH pedal as well.  Pagey in a box :).  

There are so many good pedal makers these days - I started thinking I'd like a plexi pedal around and got lost looking at all the variations out there...

Take a look at this. Frank Moreno doing a nice laid back review of the torpedo (the version that has a load box etc)

http://youtu.be/VajnU6Au04Y

Thoroughly enjoyable review in a really cool laid back way