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Nomade-07 « Very good, good and not so good ... :) »
Published on 10/26/13 at 01:45Hybrid preamp, transistors and lamps (2x12AX7) in a pedal format.
Three channels, clean, crunch, lead.
Three classic EQ bands.
Separate EQ for clean, common to channels crunch / lead but gain settings, volume and tone boost separate EQ for each channel.
A return effect.
A switch to turn the HP simulation output.
What is missing to be perfect?
- A master volume
- A separate channel for crunch / lead EQ
- A separate simulation output HP
UTILIZATION
configuration is not a problem, it's a classic preamp
The manual ... what manual? No seriously ... no need, it is not a multi-purpose fifteen billion settings, adjustments are made very quickly.
His side ... Are we easily get a good sound? A good sound ... yes ... the sound you want ... not
Two minor drawbacks ...
1) the output level of the pedal goes from nothing to very strong from the start ...
2) the volume of each channel affects the level of the effects loop, it is necessary to review all the effects of dynamic type settings (compression, dynamic delay) if the volume of the channel is changed.
Finally, if you want to use it properly it is necessary to add him in one way or another something to act as a "Master Volume" to exit to solve these problems.
SOUNDS
His side ...
CLEAN
The clean ... TOP ... not much more to say, depending on the gain was very clean Fender, or you can go to the very beginning of crunchy / bluesy ... there really ... a success.
CRUNCH
Dynamics, harmonics and saturation quite significant with microphones having a good level of output (of Tom Anderson for me).
A very beautiful crunch + ...
I'm going to nitpick ... it's been over thirty I'm looking for the GRAIL preamp easily transportable ... so I tried the machines ...
Despite the tone controls it is difficult ... not actually impossible to get a typed his Hard Rock 80s
Funny thing, when we reduced the gain, the mids become ultra imbalance present and in my opinion the sound.
In overall it's still the very very good and certainly what I tried there best in this format.
LEAD
There for me this is a disappointment, we feel the compression diodes, but has lost momentum (not unusual as it is much more compressed) but also the entire harmonic richness ... sniff
In the end my ears it sounds like channel more compressed hands less saturated than the Crunch ...
HP SIMU
For my part I found it quite good and usable on clean and crunch channels. Much better than the simulation of POD types.
The lead part ... it clearly reveals the defects of channel ...
In short
CLEAN + + +
CRUNCH + +
LEAD -
OVERALL OPINION
Interest: Paradoxical
To my taste (all this is subjective) far beyond what I tried better in this format there to clean and crunch better than blackstar particular.
I had two left in the first feedback on the lead channel at all costs, so back to the sender, the second did not have the same power, the "A" no longer appeared in the No. series.
Consistency does not seem to be the watchword of the production of AMT
In the end, I have long hesitated to keep, I think it would have been two crunch channels with gain and volume separated, I would have. But it's very typical (too much for my taste) and the Hard Rock 80 lead channel disappointing ...
Not for me ...
Three channels, clean, crunch, lead.
Three classic EQ bands.
Separate EQ for clean, common to channels crunch / lead but gain settings, volume and tone boost separate EQ for each channel.
A return effect.
A switch to turn the HP simulation output.
What is missing to be perfect?
- A master volume
- A separate channel for crunch / lead EQ
- A separate simulation output HP
UTILIZATION
configuration is not a problem, it's a classic preamp
The manual ... what manual? No seriously ... no need, it is not a multi-purpose fifteen billion settings, adjustments are made very quickly.
His side ... Are we easily get a good sound? A good sound ... yes ... the sound you want ... not
Two minor drawbacks ...
1) the output level of the pedal goes from nothing to very strong from the start ...
2) the volume of each channel affects the level of the effects loop, it is necessary to review all the effects of dynamic type settings (compression, dynamic delay) if the volume of the channel is changed.
Finally, if you want to use it properly it is necessary to add him in one way or another something to act as a "Master Volume" to exit to solve these problems.
SOUNDS
His side ...
CLEAN
The clean ... TOP ... not much more to say, depending on the gain was very clean Fender, or you can go to the very beginning of crunchy / bluesy ... there really ... a success.
CRUNCH
Dynamics, harmonics and saturation quite significant with microphones having a good level of output (of Tom Anderson for me).
A very beautiful crunch + ...
I'm going to nitpick ... it's been over thirty I'm looking for the GRAIL preamp easily transportable ... so I tried the machines ...
Despite the tone controls it is difficult ... not actually impossible to get a typed his Hard Rock 80s
Funny thing, when we reduced the gain, the mids become ultra imbalance present and in my opinion the sound.
In overall it's still the very very good and certainly what I tried there best in this format.
LEAD
There for me this is a disappointment, we feel the compression diodes, but has lost momentum (not unusual as it is much more compressed) but also the entire harmonic richness ... sniff
In the end my ears it sounds like channel more compressed hands less saturated than the Crunch ...
HP SIMU
For my part I found it quite good and usable on clean and crunch channels. Much better than the simulation of POD types.
The lead part ... it clearly reveals the defects of channel ...
In short
CLEAN + + +
CRUNCH + +
LEAD -
OVERALL OPINION
Interest: Paradoxical
To my taste (all this is subjective) far beyond what I tried better in this format there to clean and crunch better than blackstar particular.
I had two left in the first feedback on the lead channel at all costs, so back to the sender, the second did not have the same power, the "A" no longer appeared in the No. series.
Consistency does not seem to be the watchword of the production of AMT
In the end, I have long hesitated to keep, I think it would have been two crunch channels with gain and volume separated, I would have. But it's very typical (too much for my taste) and the Hard Rock 80 lead channel disappointing ...
Not for me ...