Kev

With modern multifx controllers, they are very much designed to not need adjustment mid performance, scenes/presets and whatnot, so i'd imagine there's no market for that.

Big nope! Unless they're EMGs

It's getting dangerously close to a tone wood argument I'll admit

I guess its how the woods and general build of the bass resonates. If its dead acoustically, that transfers through when amplified. If its loud and alive, that seems to too. The effect diminishes with active preamps and especially active pickups (I find anything with EMGs in the same positions sound the same).

Always the first test I give a bass. If it doesn't sound good unplugged, it doesn't usually sound good amplified either, unless it's running something like EMGs. Why? Don't know, but it's absolutely my experience of it.

Looking forward to some unbiased thoughts! Still working through the deep dive video, mega impressed with the bloke doing it, probably the clearest explanation of a complex device i've heard in a while, thorough but easy to listen to. It's a really interesting device, on the face of it i probably would have bought it over the Quad Cortex, but it'll take a hell of a lot to make me want to bother changing. Still, if Neural keep ignoring bassists, its going to be tempting if its as good as it seems!

Ohh I get it now, the EXP is on the send and the splitter is on the return. Feel they could have just squeezed an extra EXP socket on there, but that works. Edit* the manual says its the other way around than the video. Still much confused but either way, looks like it's possible.

It's interesting then that the manual doesn't advertise this use of the return in that case, good if it does work though!

I don't feel like a single stereo jack is capable of running a mono signal and an expression pedal input. I get confused when there's more than one ring, but I feel it's not that simple and the manual may be being misinterpreted there...

It gives a vibe of a compact version that has somehow come out before the main one, even though that won't be the case. Like it's been adapted to fit in a small enclosure? Seems odd to design a screen and UI that has to be scrolled to see a full signal chain?

I'd be amazed if they do. This is clearly a product aimed at drawing bass customers away from the likes of a QC, so if they weren't competing before, they are now!

It looks like it'll land at over £1k, which is getting VERY close to Quad Cortex money. Is it comparable? Edit* Actually £899 https://www.andertons.co.uk/darkglass-anagram-bass-workstation/

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