Kev

all important bass switch changes everythin

iv just set it to gmt + 1, itl do for now

if DHA costs are a little too high for your needs, red onion solutions do great custom loopers/blenders

okay my first review, lets see how it goes. Bixonic Expandora 2000R. rrp £115 This pedal i bought on a total whim after its shiny little case caught my eye. Its the reissue of the legendary pedal used by all the old skool guitarists. the reissue particularly interested me as it had a bass/guitar switch, which the original did not. so it works very well as a bass distortion. Ease of Use : 8 Okay the pedal has the usual 3 fuzz knobs: Volume, Filter (tone) and gain. These ar self explanatory, the filter just cuts highs. Its the 2 switches above the knobs which make things interesting. the pedal is classed as having 3 different modes: crunch, overdrive, distortion and 'forbidden zone'. it takes a bit of getting used to, so i give it an 8 Sound Quality and Features : 9 the crunch setting is when the two switches are up. this gives a beautiful valve tone, cliche i know but it really can sound sweet, and with the bass switch, NO low end loss. The overdrive mode is when the left switch is down and right is up. This is exactly how it sounds, and overdrive, more gain than the crunch, but still pretty reserved. The next mode distortion is selected by settin the right switch down and the left back up again. this again is just more gain than the overdrive, however with the gain turned right up, its breaking into out of control territory. which is where the last mode comes in, the forbidden zone, which is both switches down. this is insanaly high gain fuzz, which is crazy good! great features, one of the best units iv ever used, and trust me iv tried plenty! it doesn't quite get that muff fuzz tone that i love, so for that reason its a 9. Build quality: 10 Bulit like a little brick, a shiny circular brick ran off 9vdc, or a battery. cant see it breaking anytime soon. Overall: 9 Overall, a great multi stage distortion pedal, certainly a great one for bass, and would certainly recommend it!

thanks still can't decide whether this will be right for me, will lower gain valves take that fuzzy sound away and leave just warm tube overdrive?

what do you mean by looper, an effects loop or a sample loop?

fixed it was the screws mountin speaker onto cab being loose embarrassingly, first time i took it off i noticed screws were slightly loose, so when i put it back on, i left them a bit loose again, as i thought thats how they must go..... n00b ay??

ye i do, that could well be it

joke aint it why do the people with no money get all this luck? iv not done anything with it, but the buzzin seems to have got less loud since i unmounted the speaker and blew it...

i have a trace elliot blx130 combo iv just turned the trace up to about half volume, and played, but when i go low, the speaker crackles, quite loudly, doesnt sound to great, what is that? iv just opened her up at the back and checked connections to speaker, nothing seems loose whats it more likely to be, speaker or head? i know nothin about this

how big do you need?

[quote name='dub_junkie' post='168094' date='Apr 1 2008, 11:57 PM']Kev, it cost £600 with G&L hard case from BB2000 on these boards.its minted,very light with teriffic sustain and bags of wood,thump and growl in the tone. well worth every penny whole neck is like that ^^^ Keir[/quote] gorgeous, if that neck had a maple fingerboard i might even prefer it to my fenders neck! but it suits your bass beautifully, love it