Maruszczyk can make the best (at least best-value) Wal-inspired basses imho, and yours is a great example for that! You can also get a Wal-like preamp on it on request (the Lusithand Double NFP). But I would struggle with those, even though this would be close to the original. The combination can produce some awesome sounds, but also some really strange honky/nasally ones. I think your parametric 3-band EQ is a great compromise, it can produce similar results but it's much more intuitive to handle. I guess it would still be too complex for my taste. But it's a beautiful and awesome bass!
The Noll is a cool preamp but it is not a high/low pass filter Alembic or Wal-style preamp. Much like a standard 3 band preamp may have a mid control with sweepable midrange frequencies, this goes a step further and adds sweepable low and high frequencies. From Noll's website, the freq ranges are Bass Control +/- 15dB @ 40Hz - 180Hz Midrange Control+/- 15dB @ 250Hz to 1,5KHz Treble Control+/- 15dB @ 1,8KHz - 7,8KHz There is no Control over filter peak or resonance as you would find on an HP or LP filter preamp.
The filter is like what Alembic uses and designed. It is a low pass filter. A low-pass filter (LPF) is an audio signal processor . It progressively filters out (attenuates) the high-end above its cutoff frequency while allowing the low-end to pass through, ideally without any changes. Yours has both a LPF and a HPF (High pass filter) just like the Darkglass X-7 pedal has. Very cool.
OOooohhh SO glad you posted this DREAM bass. You have the BEST taste, Fred.
Love that mafia collage you got behind you!!
Maruszczyk can make the best (at least best-value) Wal-inspired basses imho, and yours is a great example for that! You can also get a Wal-like preamp on it on request (the Lusithand Double NFP). But I would struggle with those, even though this would be close to the original. The combination can produce some awesome sounds, but also some really strange honky/nasally ones. I think your parametric 3-band EQ is a great compromise, it can produce similar results but it's much more intuitive to handle. I guess it would still be too complex for my taste. But it's a beautiful and awesome bass!
Lovely looking bass. Nice tone too. What are the woods that you selected?
The Noll is a cool preamp but it is not a high/low pass filter Alembic or Wal-style preamp. Much like a standard 3 band preamp may have a mid control with sweepable midrange frequencies, this goes a step further and adds sweepable low and high frequencies. From Noll's website, the freq ranges are Bass Control +/- 15dB @ 40Hz - 180Hz Midrange Control+/- 15dB @ 250Hz to 1,5KHz Treble Control+/- 15dB @ 1,8KHz - 7,8KHz
There is no Control over filter peak or resonance as you would find on an HP or LP filter preamp.
It's a parametric
The filter is like what Alembic uses and designed. It is a low pass filter. A low-pass filter (LPF) is an audio signal processor . It progressively filters out (attenuates) the high-end above its cutoff frequency while allowing the low-end to pass through, ideally without any changes. Yours has both a LPF and a HPF (High pass filter) just like the Darkglass X-7 pedal has. Very cool.
My suggestion is you get a filter preamp lke the Lusithand Devices Double NFP.
How would you get one of these basses, I’d imagine it’s custom
Hello Fred, phenomenal tone. Did Chris from Bassculture made those pickups? German manufacturer that works with Maruszczyk...
Yes sir. :)
your bass come with the preamp ?? trying to find one for my gibson lpb-2 it has a old bart preamp want the noll and 4stacked pots. let me know
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which preamp model