Kiwi

There are two standard 'vintage' compressors modelled after the red and blue MXR pedals I believe. They're a little leaden sounding although the blue sounds good for slap. You can programme in your own compressor settings to whatever degree you like. Might be fun to see if you can create a version of Trace's dual compressor using the crossover? Like Paul suggests, if you're going to have it on all the time, its worth getting a separate compressor as it will only suck up the processing power unnecessarily.

It took me about 6 months as a complete rack-effects-virgin simply to come to terms with what its capable of. If you like wild and whacky, there's loads of potential for you to blow speakers I think what is most interesting about this unit is that it doesn't obstruct your creativity once you can visualise how things can potentially hook up inside it. Thats why the processing power and (according to Steve) lack of user patches is a bit of a bummer. The most complicated effect I've set up so far is an Akai Unibass type effect but with multitap delay and chorus added to the pitchshifted signal. I've resisted hooking up the effects to one another in weird ways because there are so many options that it would take too long to find something useable and the band I'm in at the moment doesn't have that kind of requirement anyway. I'd quite like to do an effect where the delayed signal is subjected to a very severe noise gate to make the echoes choppy, then I could add effects like phaser or an over feedbacked, unstable sounding chorus

[quote name='alexlotta' post='65286' date='Sep 25 2007, 12:58 PM']I thought that thing was a Guitar_oriented machine I would like to know what Is so good for bass guitar in that one (comp section,effects or whatever) i 've always disliked DIgital_all_in_one solutions ,finding those tone-destroyng.[/quote] It was designed for guitar but its frequency response is as good as any studio effects unit so it suits bass too. You can set it up either to have dedicated patches per song, or set up a patch as a bank of effects which can be switched on and off at will using the footswitch. It also has a range of both modern and vintage effect simulations, speaker sim, noise gate etc. and you can order/patch the effects in any number of ways so that feedback from one will influence a setting on another. Its a bit of a swiss army knife with the footswitch. The only things I would say against it is the lack of processing power does impose limits. Alternatively, the TC Electronic G-Force is a close rival and if you want dedicated bass effects, Ped speaks highly of the Bass Pod XT.

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='64209' date='Sep 22 2007, 10:11 PM']They're great things aren't they, you only need listen to a Steve Lawson album for an insight into what they can do.[/quote] Yeah he recommended it to me during one of our chats.

Well done Andy! I have one of these and they're the dog proverbials. As much as GAS tempts me, I can't find anything better out there. This unit can do nearly anything. [quote name='R,5,R,5...' post='57667' date='Sep 9 2007, 11:10 AM']While I'm at this, by way of feedback, shame on kjb who 'bought it' and promptly disappeared, after making me hold on to it for a week.[/quote] Sounds VERY familiar to me.