dannybuoy

Cranborne thump settings sounds killer. BTW I just picked up an MS-60B+, and its emulation of the BDDI v2 is bang-on.

I think the overall EQ / bass boost is the same. Heard one commenter saying one or the other was more ‘amp-like’, but that’s about it. I can get the V pretty close with the switch to the right and boosting the presence, but it’s not exact.

Is there really much of a difference between mk1 and mk2? I sold my original, missed it, picked up a mk2 again after a gap, so never got to A/B them.

Hotone Bass Press or AMT Electronics WH-1B - I preferred both of these to the Dunlop too. The Bass Press is discontinued now though I think. Hotone have a newer wah, but no idea if it’s any good on bass. Looks like the AMT is still in production though! https://amtelectronics.com/new/amt-wh-1b/ The recent additions to the Morley range look quite small as in they’d fit on one of the long thin Pedaltrain boards, but they still take up a lot of width.

I have one - currently in a bass that I want to convert back to passive and sell before trying it out in my Sandberg Basic (also a Stingray-like setup). That has 40Hz/550Hz/18kHz controls, and I find boosting 40 adds too much rumble, and there’s not much going at 18kHz when I’m using flats! The Tone Capsule should be much more usable with 70Hz/500Hz/2.8kHz.

Several years ago, I had the pleasure of playing bass with Phil Manzanera at a wedding reception in his garden when my best friend married his step-daughter! We played a short set (Let’s Stick Together, Love Is The Drug, No Church In The Wild) while the main function band took a break.

Came here to say Sandberg Basic also - picked one up for about £350 several years ago, I wouldn’t mind another one!

From their site: I remember trying their half rounds vs GHS Brite Flats and they were very similar, but not identical.

Also IdiotBox:

Anyone tried the MS-200D+? Over 150 distortion models, you’d hope some of them might be good for bass.

It can work well in the right setting. I’ve been considering picking up the newish Fender bass reverb since it allows you to filter out the low end from the reverb signal, as you don’t want too much of the low frequencies being reverberated.

You can also use a simple blender pedal as a mixer. I’ve gotten good results sending the dry out of my Sansamp into another preamp, which then goes into the return jack of a One Control Mosquite blender. The Sansamp main out goes into the Mosquite main input, and the Mosquite’s send jack sits unused. With the blender off, I get pure Sansamp, when engaged I get that mixed with the 2nd preamp in parallel. With the mix control halfway I get a 50/50 blend of each, but you can control the overall mix and volume by adjusting the blend control and master volume of the 2nd preamp. E.g. set the blend at 10% and whack up the master volume of the 2nd preamp and you’ll get an overall volume boost when engaging.

It can be hard to hear bass distortion in a mix with distorted guitars. The 2 very different pedals that have worked best for me: SolidgoldFX Beta - a mild overdrive without a blend (no need for one either), but it has a boost in the lows/low mids that helps you to be heard when everything else gets louder. At low volume it sounds kinda muffled/murky, but at high volume it excels where other pedals that sounded great at bedroom levels seemed to disappear in the mix. Tech21 DP-3X - this splits your signal with a crossover, applying a really punchy compressor to the lows and Sansamp distortion to the top end. If you play quietly, you just hear smooth bass, and when you play more agressively you get distorted high mids coming though. Then you’re punching below and cutting above the midrange where the guitars and vocals typically sit, rather than battling them for the same frequencies.

Try the switch to the right, body and presence at noon, LPF at max. I found that reasonably close to the MkII.

Main difference is the blend, and the bite switch and cab sim buttons. V1 VT Bass had none of these. The V2 has a cab sim button, but turning off the cab sim also turns off the presence boost, resulting in a darker sound than you had with the cab sim on, which is not what most people (IMHO) would want from this button. But that’s remedied in the DI version, which puts the presence boost on a separate Bite switch. I really like the blend feature, since I dial in an obnoxious clanky overdrive sound with the character turned up fairly high, but back that off with the blend. Result is kinda like the Geddy Lee pedal, and it’s a tone you can’t get from the original without a separate blender.