dannybuoy

An EHX engineer has posted on the Talkbass thread. He said he tried to clone the best sounding tall font they could find, and the resulting pedal has kicked the BBM off of his own personal board. That Russian Pickle sounds amazing though, I'm surprised it hasn't received more attention!

It's weird how my experience of the COG was so different - I thought the tracking was amazingly good out of the box. It's a great sounding octave for adding a beefy sub under your higher register playing, but I just preferred the tone (and volume) of the 3Leaf when soloed, and at the time I was chasing that solo keyboard synth style effect. I don't think looking at it in terms of it being a low priced poor quality pedal is fair - COG pedals are extremely well made, better than most mass produced stuff, and the only reason it's cheaper is probably because they are made in the UK and imports are expensive these days!

I'd love to see a shootout between that and the Way Huge Russian Pickle that has been tempting me as of late: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FO0zJCG770

Interesting about the COG mods, my T16 was quieter than an OC-2, did your mod give it more volume? Also I reckon the POG and Digitech Whammy track and sound better than Eventide's algorithms. This is just based on a few versus comparisons out there on Youtube however such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92A5Gv0NlU8 Pedal A is the Eventide and it has a bit more latency and glitches out every now and then whereas B (the Micro POG) is solid.

Those that are strongly against tab seem to be those who play in situations where they are handed a sheet of music to play and are expected to keep up without having heard the piece before. Therefore they need something that can convey rhythm properly, which tab is not really capable of. For most other situations where you can read the tab alongside listening to an original recording, it does its job perfectly!

Totally different kettle of fish I think. The Zeus is two pedals in one, a sub octave and a fuzz. The octave fuzz in the Aftershock is a fuzz with a hint of octave up, like the classic Octavia.

Cab sims are usually used when recording direct or for when you want to feed the PA an amp-like sound, particularly to remove the top end fizz from distortion/fuzz. Using one to make your cab sound like a different cab isn't so effective unless you have a flat sounding speaker since your cab will impart its own character on top of the simulated one. If you want to make your 15 sound like an 18, what does that mean exactly? If you just want more bass and less treble then maybe all you need is EQ, or an amp with better EQ. 18" cabs are rare for a reason - they are big and heavy, and more suited for use in PA subs where they're not expected to need great midrange performance that you would typically want from a bass cab.

I think it'll sound fine with an active bass as long as it doesn't have a really hot output, as that may tend to give more overdrive than intended, even at lower gain levels.

The OmniCabSim is good, fully analog with adjustable parameters - no explicit option for 18" speakers but are you sure you really need it? The Digitech DryCabVR has an option for a 1x18: http://digitech.com/en/products/cabdryvr There are digital ones such as the Two Notes Torpedo and AMT Pangaea where you load in an impulse response, and there's bound to be some profiles for 18" cabs floating about.

The power ratings usually refer to how much power it can put out and stay clean. So for example a 120W bass amp might be designed to be used clean, putting out about 120W clean with the volume knob cranked. A 120W guitar amp on the other hand might be designed to hit 120W clean with the knob at halfway, so you have extra room to push it into overdrive, which is something many bassists don't want from their amps.

Nice. I was thinking recently of getting the same bass but adding chrome Thunderbird pickups to it!

28.6" scale, comes in sparkly purple. This is what I would buy: http://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/jumpstart/GSRM20.html

First time I've seen one with a Jazz body too! A search for Precision Bass Junior on Google images brings up plenty of the 28.5" scale P-shaped basses, but nothing like this.

Also the Squier Bronco with a cheap hotrail clone pickup sounds pretty good: http://youtu.be/PXld4T47Prs

If looking for a single 210 for carrying on the tube I would also check out Barefaced. You can get a 4 ohm version that can handle over 500W. The Ampeg is a great little cab, but you might struggle to get enough volume out of just one. They are only rated for 200W. The Mark Bass can take 400W and is a lot deeper front to back than the Ampeg so should go much louder and deeper. It is ported and has a harsh sounding piezo tweeter so will sound pretty different to the Ampeg, but at least you can dial the tweeter down.

If you like the Vintage but want a more brighter sound, the latest version of the VMTD has the attack switch from the B7K, effectively a pre-gain hi-mid boost. But then there is the Pike Vulcan, which sounds like a more aggressive version of the Vintage, which happens to be available to rent from the newly sprung up https://fxpedalrental.com!

That's why they simplified the new line so that you can treat it just like a standard drive pedal with a 3-way toggle, then only delve deeper into programming and presets if you want to. I was pretty disappointed with both the Aftershock and Bass Soul Food though, I struggled to get a pleasing tone out of either of them. They seem to work very well for others though, so don't write them off! For a Chelsea Dagger type sound I would pull out something with a bit of upper mid clang to it like a VT Bass, Aguilar Agro, or Two Notes Le Bass. If I didn't own those and was starting from scratch though, I think my first port of call would be the Joyo Orange Juice, hard to beat for the price! It's set a bit toooo agressive in the first part of the vid but it demos some more tones later on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq9CDL4Jdyo

[quote name='GisserD' timestamp='1501856513' post='3347841'] i just noticed theres some stem files for vulfpeck on bandcamp. anybody with a DAW can pretend to be Joe its so awesome that vulfpeck do stuff like this. its awesomeness is awesome! [/quote] I can't see these, are they in the list of formats when you download? I have the first three in my collection and don't have an option for stem files.

Yup, they are using FedEx so import fees pretty much guaranteed, rather than the 50/50 gamble you take via regular post.

Digital and analog octavers sound very different, so hit up some YouTube demos to get a feel. I would narrow it down to which type you want before exploring the options, since they're like entirely different effects. Digital - POG, Pitchfork, Sub'n'Up, Whammy, etc - these are basically pitch shifters that sound like the result you'd get from transposing a sample of your bass up or down in a sampler or DAW. Solid tracking but there is a bit of delay/latency behind the dry note and some fake sounding digital artifacts. Analog - OC-2, EBS Octabass, Aguilar Octamizer, 3Leaf Octabvre, etc - these try to lock onto your note and generate a synth tone at the same pitch, hence the tracking can jump around a bit. But on the other hand they sound fat and there is no processing delay. Usually octave down only, there are a few with octave up also but it's more of an octave up fuzz. If you are looking for a fat synthy octave down, the Boss OC-2 is the daddy, however it's lacking a little in volume with the soloed octave. I tried replacing it with a COG T16 but I found it rather bland as well as quiet, now I'm using the 3Leaf Octabvre Mini which nails it.

Amazing what passes for genius these days. Taking a vocal sample up two octaves so it sounds like cats screeching then adding some unimaginative rapping over the top seems to be the bar!

Economy delivery is $75 for a small pedal?! WTF

[quote name='tobiewharton' timestamp='1501443775' post='3344721'] Thanks. One other thing: Is there likely to be a noise issue using a daisy chain with any of these effects? [/quote] You should be ok, it's usually digital pedals that add noise into the signal when sharing power. The only likely culprit is the Spectracomp, but then again I have a TC Corona that's happy on a daisy chain so perhaps TC have some special filtering to take care of it! The Gigrig stuff is good, but overpriced when you can get an isolated power supply elsewhere for the same price as one of their adapters.