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I feel this was all my fault. I run mine into the front end of my trickfish amp. Just letting the signal pass through the electronics in that amp warms it up nicely. Has anyone though of running this is s blend pedal mixing the dug amp sound with the clean uncompressed signal of your bass... More like how bass would be mixed on a studio console type of thing?

Contemplating getting a gss baby sumo Poweramp to use with the dug. It seems a waste to obliterate my trickfish with it... But I've always been a rocker at heart!

I got the dug pedal a few weeks ago. Took it on a private wedding gig the same night playing funk/modern r n b stuff... I hadn't really spent any time with it prior to this and it was a good learning curve, I was on in ears so that helped me dial it in throughout the gig. Nobody said anything about the completely different tone I usually have from my trickfish DI out despite starting off with way too much gain! What surprised me was how much low end this pedal has, it was huge! Also the compressor I found doesn't need too much to work and sound natural... This is probably bass dependent. I already use a muira comp in front of it which does hardly any compression just enhances the tone. Since the gig I've had an afternoon to further mess with settings and I've found a really nice ampeg svt tone that bites when you dig in or also with just a bit of break up. It is a bright pedal but you can dial it back using the high/treble control as if you were filtering it off in a mixing/studio environment. What I love about this pedal is that I can hear my basses through the pedal compare to previously sansamps. You can push the midrange back in to the tone if needed. Also with the bddi I found the presence control almost plastic and fake sounding and drive too wooly when pushed which is something I don't experience with the dug. It has a really nice clarity and the drive holds it self together instead of turning to fuzzy mush. Used to run a b3k into a bddi with very little drive on the DG just to sharped up the bddi. Closest thing I can relate it to is a loud ampeg svt vr with the hi and lo switches engaged in a conservative setting and then you can gradually push it into dug territory! Also the DI out just works and sounds good, no DSP etc which I have found weird in the past especially when your tone from your cab is drastically different to what is out front with how much drive/gain is audible. Anyway there's my thoughts / praise. Not 100 percent on tuner yet but a nice addition

I've moved to Dunlop super brights. Never been one for caring about the tension but I really like the way the super brights feel to play. Also seem to last a decent length of time. In the past I had a deal with Ernie Ball and Rotosound. Loved Ernie Ball steels, tho I was prob the only person to ever buy them. Rotosound were awful, dead within a couple of gigs. Actually I stuck some on for a shoe recently as they were cheap and they practically dead after soundcheck!

Just to chime in on the volume of the trickfish .5k head. I have and use one. It's loud at 8ohms through the 210v cab. Cuts through two Marshall valve heads and 4x10 stacks and a hard hitting drummer. Actually it really compliments the sound providing an awesome low end for the guitars (80hz switch is amazing, it almost feels like there is s sub tone running underneath the main tone) At 4ohms with an 8x10 the amp is a monster. Never had to push it!

My Alpher got assembled yesterday. One piece swamp ash body Crotch English Walnut top with matching headstock Roasted maple neck with a bit of flame Rocklite fingerboard Nordstrand Blades Passive with 4 way selector for the Blademan Neutrik locking jack Hipshot hardware Looks better than I had imagined!

Hi Jack, I ended up with the Darkglass Ultra Alpha Omega. Really cool, versatile pedal.

Hi, I have used the Big trees a few times. My brother in law is a producer and I've borrowed his a few times. It's very cool, tho I feel the amp/drive is more suited to guitar than bass. For me, it wasn't the kind of break up/drive I was looking for live tho I imagine it would sound killer as a blend in the studio. That being said the clean side (the small trees) does wonderful things to the sound of your bass. It seems more upfront, richer and has a sparkle. I have used Reddis and tubeworks DIs in the past and this totally kills them! I'm actually saving up for one to put in my signal chain. Drop Steve a message at Audio Kitchen, he's a really good guy, informative and patient!

Hi, I have the 600WTP (actually it's for sale since falling in love with Trickfish). Here are my experiences with it. I ran the head through at 4ohms 410XLT. The rig was loud enough for me. The fan kicks in when the head gets warm but never noticed it working overtime. The eq and enhance can create a huge amount of low end if boosted to much, which if you are isn't going to help you get volume out of the rig. As far as I'm aware the amp only outs out 600w at 4ohms. This is usually halved at 8ohms. How are you connecting the cabs? Are you clipping the power amp? What are your input gain and master volume settings?

Yes, definitely loving this. Spoke to Richard Ruse about a pedal like this after I got my Trickfish rig. Sadly Richard passed away recently but hopefully Trickfish will continue to grow and do the guy proud. Will probably cave and get one when they're available, especially with all those routing options!

I also have an Alpher bass elite passive 5 string in the works. Crotched English Walnut top on a swamp ash body, roasted/flamed neck with rocklite fingerboard and nordstrand big split and big man pickups with him some crazy pickup switching options! The wait is a killer tho, I just want it now!! haha

Picked this up a few weeks ago whilst over in California. I was previously a great fan of the EBS multicomp before selling it to use the compressor on my eden wt600 and then eventually compressor free using my trickfish rig. I was sold on it by Janek Gwizdalas little demo on youtube and also the few Miura demo videos with a few other well known bass players, just sounded what I was after from a compressor and decided it was worth taking advantage of my time in the states. I had considered the FEA labs Opti-fet but it just seemed that I would disappear down a compression rabbit hole trying to find the right setting! AFAIK Miura is Xotic but under a different new name, I think the guy had sold xotic and started Miura, which would explain the artists using his gear! It really is an incredible compressor. So far I've found it very natural and warm sounding even at high ratio/fast attack settings without doing that overly squashed tone that I've experience on many previous compressors and remaining noise free. On subtle "normal" settings I would say the compression is very transparent as in you can't really hear the squash of the notes but at the same time it really does open up your bass tone adding warmth and clarity to the higher notes whilst evening everything out naturally. It's quite strange because you put it on and you think "it's not really doing much' and then you turn it off and you suddenly notice a huge difference between your bass with and without the m2 I have no idea if it's a VCA or optical compressor or whatever, but it does remind me a lot of a buzz optical compressor that was in the studio I once worked at. Just thought I'd share my thoughts on it if anyone is looking for a new compressor or thinking about buying one