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Title: Tonal Brilliance
Review: My buddy was helping to record my band, and when I ran my bass through this thing, it really opened up the tone. I have an active pickup Warwick 5 string going through an SWR SM400 out of an Ampeg 8x10... My tone prior to the Black Finger was really good, but the Black Finger just took it over the top!!! We used it more as a preamp than a compressor, since the introduction to 2 more 12AX7 tubes really allowed for us to push the sound. I drove the 12AX7 in my SWR head too hard and fried it, but I'd do it again if I got that tone. As far as using it as a compressor, we didn't really look to compress my sound as much as add a great deal of drive to the gain. I suggest trying it. We drove the input up and the output down, causing it to overload, giving that push.
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