dannybuoy

From that same Tonehammer thread back on Talkbass, I understood the AGS switch on the pedal to essentially be similar to having the drive knob at minimum or maximum. E.g. you can crank the drive and still have no drive if the gain is low - increasing the drive kind of lowers the headroom so that the gain knob causes more distortion, as well as gradually bringing in various EQ shifts. So you can get different mild overdrive sounds - drive set high and gain set low, or drive set low and gain set high, or anywhere in-between.

Mint/sunburst/burgundy in stock also! I really can’t get another one in until I’ve shifted some first though!

Nothing wrong with the Spectracomp other than a lack of hands-on controls. I’ve tried several much more expensive comps but landed on the TC. I find multi-band essential to reign in my clanky playing style without clamping down on the lows too much - and there’s not many of those on the market.

If/when the fretless models come out, I’m going to have a hard time saying no.

Kala U-Bass with Pahoehoe Dreads:

Awesome - there are not many reverbs or delays out there with a low cut feature.

Yeah it’s a keeper for me. I’ve ended up keeping 2 filters overall - I prefer using the Emma for Geezer Butler wah type sounds going into a dirty Sansamp, and the Fwonkbeta straight into the amp for old school funk.

TI flats on my Sandberg Basic, they’re perfect for me and the same set’s been on there for several years now.

They sound quite different, it’s not a bad idea to have both! I prefer one or the other for different sounds or with different basses. I certainly wouldn’t sell the BDDI immediately until you’ve had a good chance to try both side by side.

Reminds me of the Bassig ‘64 Black Panel.

First!

I’ve bought all my Tech21 stuff from US sellers in the past, and most of them ended up devaluing the package to avoid import fees... I work for a US company now though so would probably just get something sent to a colleague’s house and get it from them next time we meet up! It is a lot of money for a pedal, but looking at it in a relative way, it’s half the cost of the dUg amp (which is one of these with a power amp) and twice the cost of a regular Sansamp (and it has double the knobs/jacks/etc. If I can sell my BDDI and DP-3X and get the same tones + more out of this, I may be interested.

I’ve never thought about this until now, but I use my right foot for almost everything, including wah, except for when I play analog-delay-spaceship-theremin with my left foot. (right-handed player, left-handed writer, everything else is a mix)

Personally I can’t stand clicking through menus on multi-fx. I’m a hands-on-knobs guy. This looks new one from Boss looks cool however: https://www.boss.info/us/products/me-90b/

Yes and no… drive will squash but it doesn’t shape the envelope of the attack to make it punchy like a well set compressor. I put a Spectracomp at the start of my chain, before my Beta.

I’ve only used them for small things like pedals, but you could give this a shot: https://www.shipito.com/en/

I gave this another try today - Sansamp BDDI with the parallel out going to a Leeds, then a Mosquite blender used to mix them together. With the Mosquite set at 100% I can essentially use it as a channel switcher. Set at 50% I can switch between pure BDDI and a mix of BDDI/Leeds. It sounds particularly good blended with the presence/treble dialled back on the BDDI and the bass rolled back on the Leeds, so that each pedal is handling a different frequency range.

Mine arrived a couple of weeks ago, without an additional PCB trinket! No import tax (on a single Jive at least).

I’ve done something similar, split the signal with one Sansamp, run the parallel out into another Sansamp or Darkglass box, then blend together at the end with a blender pedal.

Don’t be put off by the toneprint functionality of the Spectracomp. I geeked out and tried every preset going and fiddling with all the parameters just to find that the stock preset was pretty much dialled in perfectly out of the box. So I reset it back to that and haven’t touched that side since, and I just have a simple one-knob compressor. I have owned several much fancier comps in the past but this one is perfect for my needs.

Tech21’s new XB Driver will likely be the king here, but it’s not cheap. It’s like a more flexible DP3-X (which uses a similar approach but with a fixed crossover frequency). Tech21’s YYZ range do something in this vein also. The dry signal is EQ’d to boost the bass and roll off the highs, and the ‘tight’ button rolls off the lows hitting the drive circuit. And the EQ knobs just affect the drive channel. Orange Bass Butler is also worth a look, like the YYZ it doesn’t actually have a crossover, but you have 2 channels in parallel with their own EQ, so you can roll the bass off one and the mids/treble off of the other.

The Spark is best in clean mode I find, it has the deepest lows that way. At first I was using it in Fat mode and preferred the Mojomojo until I realised I could flick it over to clean and just turn up the gain. The Mojomojo was just too murky sounding for me.