Henriksen & Nocturne Brain Barnyard Jr

[Zheul]

Hello everyone,

I am currently using a Henriksen Blu 10 with my jazz band and i am realy happy with it. I have also added more than 1 year ago to my small pedalboard the famous Barnyard Jr v1 to reach more trad/swing tones and it works Very well.

I have read somewhere that some of Br Jr users are directly pluging the pedal into the return input and rather prefer the sound (guitar to pedal to return input).

I wanted to test that way and bought a TRS cable as the Henriksen blu 10 send/return loop is working with TRS tech.

So the flow is:

Guitar to Pedalboard to return with TRS cable.

If i only use the Br Jr i am loosing a lot of power and i néed to switch on my strymon Flint ( places just after thé preamp on my pedalboard) to recover the lost power. As soon as i swith off thé Flint i loose half of the power.

Do you think it is normal?

For those who are using the Br Jr v1 how do you play with it and the send/return loop ? With trs loop as for Henriksen blu ?

Regards
Julien

[omphalopsychos]

The reason your level is lower if you only plug into the return of the fx loop is because you are bypassing the Blu’s preamp. Just turn up the level in the JB and you’ll be fine. Alternatively, you can put the JB in the fx loop after the Henriksen preamp by using an insert cable. That’s what I’m doing (with a different pedal, not the JB).

FYI the way you are currently wiring this, you don’t need a TRS cable. The henriksen uses Tip for the return path, so any instrument cable will work if you are just sending your signal from the guitar to the pedal to the power amp of the henriksen.

[Zheul]

Thanks for thé reply Omph,
And do you know Why when i switch on thé Flint thé volume is going back to a more normal level ?
I will try your proposal to keep thé henriksen pre amp for volume and then thé BJr to coloré thé sound in the loop.
Thanks


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[sgosnell]

With the TRS cable, everything is in the loop. Use a standard cable, and the volume problems should go away.

[The Nocturne Brain]

FWIW.. the Jr. Barnyard was designed to sit in front of your amp and closest to the instrument in the signal chain as its a dynamic preamplifier and reacts w pick attack. Its responds w an octal tube character and saturates more as the chords hit it. Its somewhat unorthodox as a preamp but is attempting to give you a realistic response the way the old gibson EH-150 / EH-185 amps respond. So putting it in an amps effects loop is now placing the Jr Barnyard, AFTER the amplifiers 1meg input and the amps preamp. This is a much difference response in comparison to directly coupling the pickups (usual range 4Kohm resistance to 10Kohm resistance of pickups being altered by a guitars tone pot of 250Kohm to 500Kohm) to the front of the guitar amplifier.

Just thinking out loud in response, cheers -Tavo

[ccroft]

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Thanks Tavo!

[The Nocturne Brain]

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Thanks Tavo!

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