Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[Blackened Soul]

Put in an order for a customized Rio Grande pitbull bass pickup

I wanted to go with a stonewall wide range but they don’t return emails and never followed up on reverb after asking for a measurement for several weeks and attempts at contacting them…

[Zork]

So, I bought this for 40 bucks:



But there's hardly any information online. From what I can tell it has two seperate aux channels, individual inserts per channel, three band eq with +/-15db per band, probably a built in spring reverb (not sure), individual channel strips, parallel balanced and unbalanced stereo outputs and it looks pretty cool. Other than that, a handful of people on reddit and TGP say it's shit and a different handful of people say it's great. I dunno, will find out soon.

[dubkitty]

as i often ask in these kinds of situations, how good does it really have to be for $40? if it passes signal and isn’t horribly noisy i’d call that a win, and if the possibly-spring reverb doesn’t suck that’s worth over $40 on its own.

[Zork]

Yes, of course. According to the seller everything works apart from some crackles. I hope it sounds good, though. If it only passes signal and nothing more that's fine for me, best case would be if it added a special something so I can use it as a sound shaping "character mixer". I found a video on youtube about a similar desk and the guy demonstrates overdriving the channels. Sounds good to me. Apparently these desks were somewhere in the "prosumer" segment and they seem to have a very low noise floor. But yeah, 40 bucks. If it's not broken that money will be well spent in any case. I'm looking forward to experiment with the monitor send and hopefully utilize it as a feedbacking effects send for dub style delays.

[dubkitty]

just how long does Catalinbread diddly-fuck around sending out Proto Club releases? i ordered the Pads 10/18 and as of yet nothing.