Your Peavey Session 400 Preamp Pedal Review

[Dennis Detweiler]

Brooks, the EPS 15C pronounces the highs a little more than a Wheelhouse 200 or 1501. When I used a 15C I bought a Broughton Low Pass Filter mini pedal to dial down the the highs. It's a handy pedal and works great for controlling the highs. The Hi Cut on the 201 may be enough to knock the edge off. My 400 pedal settings after the Elks job last night are:
Volume 7, Bass 8, Treble 5, Sensitivity 10, Mid 3, Shift 6, Presence 0. I used a Matchbox last night for a buffer and mellowed it out a little more with the tone control. Everybody's tone settings will vary with regard to the steel, pickup, cords, volume pedal. I played my 1975 Maple body MSA, Telonics X12 pickup, ShoBud volume pedal. Connections: guitar to Matchbox to volume pedal to Ibanez Anolog Mini Delay to Nux Damp Mini Reverb to Session 400 pedal to Quilter 201.
Fred has a point with having to use another delay and reverb for the lap steel unless an A/B box could quietly switch the delay and reverb from steel to lap steel?
We were typing at the same time. Sounds like you have it figured out.

[Fred Treece]

Edit: and I guess, thinking ahead, the disadvantage of going both instruments thru the one Quilter Toneblock 201, is that there will be just one D.I. out for those occasions where there is a bonafide soundman: he’ll most likely have to tweek sound on the fly when switching instruments (?).

Or put a mic on the speaker into one channel plus run the direct out to another. That way the soundguy can just mute one channel or the other. Of course, this requires the attention part of someone with attention deficit disorder.

[Dennis Detweiler]

As Fred said. Then, have another mic for you patched only to the sound guy to wake him up when you switch instruments.