Nashville song writer, recording engineer, mixer and producer Joe West explains why Radial's Tonebone PZ-Pre is a necessity for acoustic instruments. www.tonebone.co...
You can plug just about anything with strings into this thing and the class A circuitry will make it sound better. Best box in my arsenal .... like a friggin swiss army knife.
I am just becoming acquainted with this tool and it is looking great. My main question right now is how do I have separate EQ controls on each instrument input? I want to use mandolin on one and fiddle on the other... two distinctly different sounds. Do I need an additional pre-amp on one of them?
You can run one instrument through an eq pedal first, then into the Radial to compensate for the Radials eq and bring out what you want in that instrument. The other instrument just uses the Radial settings.
Are you using K&K 's in the guitar? I have them in mine (D28 CWB & OOO28ECB) and using the older model of the Tone Bone but not getting good results in various different venues. Very thin and trebly sounding. Am very frustrated.
Any suggested stock settings for eq on these ..I realise it depends on the venue but I would appreciate some ideas on mid frequency setting for most organic warm sound.P.s using piezo /mic blend Maton Tommy Emmanuel bluegrass guitar
Hello, can I ask one question... Is the tonebone pz-pre good for guitar with preamp (in guitar) with dual source piezo and mic? (my preamp is not only piezzo) My guitar preamp model is fishman prefix pro blend. thankyou for your answer. Milos+
Radial.. i have a question for you. I bought your pedal and use it with 2 pickups in my guitar, sounds good. I have connected a T REX soulmate acoustic effects in your Effects Loop. Send in input of effect and out of effect back to your return. I have experienced clipping on multieffect pedal that is in the loop, so i lower the gain on it. When I lower the gain on the multieffect, overall volume of my guitar (PZ PRE) and all goes down. How is this possible? Should the volume of pedals in effects loop be independent of the PZ PRE? :( tnx
I have a mic piezo blend in my acoustic how do I plug the lead that comes from guitar int the 2 inputs of my pz pre?you seem to have 2 leads coming out the pre amp do I need a special lead that has 2 male connections one end?
If your guitar only has one jack for both pickups, simply connect using a stereo TRS Cable into Input 1 of the PZ-Pre. What model of guitar/pickups are you using?
I have a Tommy Emmanuel bluegrass style guitar(Maton).It has a mic pick up and a Piezo with option to blend the both.I do have a couple of those TRS cables.So in your opinion to ge the best out of my guitar going through pz pre the TRS option is a good one?I mean Im quite happy with sound now its the best pre amp Ive used leaves the LR Baggs Venue for dead in my opinion
The notch doesn't work that well. The eq is very wide but the preamp has a very chip sounding compression (very). It would be better with less compression and dual eq.