Nickthebass

@bassist_lewis is right the biggest difference EQ-wise is that the SV gives you more control in the mids - so may make your life a bit easier if the BassRig unit is where most of your EQ flexibility lives. Also he's right that a good starting point would be to do some research on the bands / sounds you like and find out what sort of gear was used. If you name some examples I'm sure folks on here will be able to chime in with some useful thoughts. @Ian McFly With all that said - there is more than one way to get a sound. What else is in your signal chain? The BR Fifteen is there to emulate an B15. (I would venture to suggest) that a large number of studio folks - who have to have pretty much any sound on tap when needed - stick a mic on a B15 as a default in pretty much any situation and make it work. Could you make the BR Fifteen work in a rock / indie context? Yes - absolutely you could. Could you make an SVT work in a rock / indie context - yes absolutely you could. If you wanted to have 2 sounds available (a clean-ish core sound and a dirty sound) you could try the BR Fifteen - set it clean(ish) as a main sound and stick something in-front of it for a bit more grit (maybe a Darkglass Vintage Microtubes for example). There's a nice video on the Origin Effects website about stacking a compressor, clean preamp and a BassRig SV to give you 3 sounds (clean DI, clean-ish amp and dirty). If you wanted to go dirty most of the time with the odd clean sound you could run a nice EQ (the Empress ParaEQ is great) into a BR15 (set for some grit) and use the EQ to give you a bit more mid control that is maybe a little harder to do with the BR15. Leave the cabsim always on on the BR and kick the pedal off for a clean sound. Oddly - I had the exact opposite of your question before buying the SV - "can an SVT work outside a driven rock context"? (Spoiler alert - yes!)

This is exactly my experience with the cab model on the BassRig SV - everything is a bit tighter and more controlled.

So - caveats and bias first - I have not played the Anagram so can't comment on it or compare to the BassRigs. I have had a BassRig SuperVintage at the end of my board for the past 18 months or so running to front of house / interface from the DI, to the back line from the jack out. Generally it's an "always on" I have also been running it "off" with the cab sim engaged on the DI. I wouldn't worry about an adverse impact on octavers or synths. There will be an impact which may mean that you want to tweak things but in my experience (OC2 / line 6 purple filter modeler / Mastotron / Envelope noises) the impact is generally positive (a bit more focused and consistent a sound - less alarming for the FOH / mix when you kick in a new sound). If you turned up to a gig with your effects and had to use the in-house SVT / 810 - would you be upset? Bootsy and Tim Lefebvre don't seem to be scared about running squelches or "doooh" noises through an SVT. I don't think of the BassRig as a pre-amp or effect - I think of it as an SVT + fridge that fit in a biscuit tin.

So if I’m understanding properly - your thoughts at the moment are that the SV has more fullness etc. in the bottom end and also more range at the top? Are you running one into t’other?

Winner winner *insert preferred roast protein* dinner. This is exactly what I’m trying to do with my SV. I’ve been fiddling with the amp out EQ via a Radial JDI and some decent cans.

How does the BR15 compare to the SV - tonally? I know they’re modelling different amps but how does that translate into a sound (more lows, tighter lows, does one break up more easily than the other etc.) Anyone who can compare a real B15 to a real SVT+fridge feel free to chime in too! 😆 I’m mainly interested in the DI sound with the cab sim on. The SV BassRig is generally always for me but not with huge amounts of overdrive - a little bit of push or break up at most. Tonally I’m normally going for old school supportive punch and clarity. I’m not normally looking for clangy Geddy Lee overdrive. (It drives me crackers that every demo of the SV spends 93.7% of the time driving the nuts off it.)

TBH I want the cab sim on the jack out too - not just the DI. 😆

Big vote for the Origin Effects BassRig SV - an SVT in a wee box. I use both as a preamp and my DI. Most of the demo videos will make you think it does distortion and nothing else - they’re wrong. This box is so much more than just a driven rock sound. The clean valve / edge of break up sound is great. The cab sim (on the DI only) is excellent and is a big part of the DI sound. The way it tightens the lows and rounds off the highs is great. I use mine (generally) as an always on pre-amp with the DI taking the amp and cab sound to the desk. Jack out takes the amp sound (“head” part of the circuit only - no cab sim) to back line - also with it’s own EQ to help you tune the sound for the stage without messing with the FOH signal. This is my board - normally with the EQ, comp and BassRig all on, jack out to back line and XLR to the desk. I’ve been really digging the sound of the EQ-comp-cab sim - it’s a great clean sound. I can then use the “amp” part of the circuit to give me a dirty sound without having the two be so different that they can’t work in the same mix. Just using it as a preamp is also great, I’ve got a portable, vibey sound with saturation (clean or as dirty as I want) that makes me impervious to random rehearsal room or borrowed amps! I’ve also used to do the clean / dirty thing on a small gig. Clean from the amp when needed and a little grit from the SV when needed. You don’t get the cab sim on the jack out (only on the XLR) - but there is an extra “jack out only” EQ - the two small silver knobs and switch just above the “BASSRIG” logo. I’ve managed to get these to give me a pretty decent approximation of the rounding and warming effect of the cab sim. This could work really nicely if you’re not going to use the XLR. I’m in the process of building out a “noises” board to stick into loop 2 on this small main board. Anything I throw into the BassRig sounds great - fuzz, envelopes, octavers, synths all benefit from the head, cab or both on the SV. It has taken a bit of time for me to get used to it - I felt for a little while as though I was fighting the cab sim but that was my fault. Right now the only thing I’d even think about switching it for is if Origin release a B15 flip top BassRig.

I’m in a similar space to this, although I’m not amp-less. “My sound” is controlled by my pedalboard - EQ -> compressor -> BassRig SV. Front of house gets the sound of an SVT rig which has been tweaked to be genre appropriate and has already had a band pass to remove most of the junk. The rest of the EQ and compression is pretty light. I’ve done my best to make it easy for the engineer if it sounds bad out front it’s not my fault. 😁 Also - they’ll have a job making an SVT into an 810 sound like something different! The BassRig jack out feeds the amp which can be EQ’d for the stage without comprising the FOH signal.