Monique has three significant functions. We'll talk about each separately, but they are
completely interactive.
1. An all tube bass preamplifier.
2. A three stage baxandall tube equalizer.
3.
A dual drive (DI and Line Level) output section with capabilities for the studio and for
the stage.
1. The Preamplifier
The “Sensitivity” control may be the easiest single place on Monique to control the tone and
playing characteristics with one knob.
The farther you adjust to the right (CW) the more drive
you will hear from Monique.
This Sensitivity control gives you tones from pristine clean to rich
harmonics that you may have never experienced before.
When we speak of playing characteristics we are talking about how sensitive Monique is to
your string attack pressure (among other things). Some of our customers describe it as
control over the “feel” of your bass. The Sensitivity control has a lot to do with the playing
characteristics of Monique, as well as the match-up to your bass whether it has active or a
passive pickups.
The Sensitivity knob is a push/pull knob.
The push/pull function was originally designed to
accommodate the lightest wound passive bass guitars pickups (pulled out) and very high
output active pickups (pushed in) with one knob. When that Sensitivity knob is pulled out, you
are adding 4db to the overall headroom of the front end of Monique
Monique was designed to work with active pickups with the Sensitivity knob pushed in. The
truth is she can work well in both positions for both types of pickups. All that matters is what
you prefer. Remember the tone monster idea.
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