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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.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1501347876' post='3344210'] Hmm.. that is getting a bit tempting. I am sure there are going to be a flood of vintage classic tbirds coming up for sale soon! [/quote] I've been meaning to sell mine for some time, better pull my finger out before the flood!

They also make a semi-rigid (oo-er) foam gigbag/case for a bit extra: [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Protection-Racket-Bass-Guitar-Foam-Case-Standard/KHX"]http://www.gear4musi...se-Standard/KHX[/url] I have one of these and find it offers almost the same protection as a standard hard case, but with shoulder straps and without the bulk and weight!

John East make one modelled after the original Stingray pre with a few improvements, and an added mid control. It is said that a large part of the Stingray tone is due to the preamp, so I would go this route if you just want to add a mid control. The Aguilar will no doubt sound great but it might sound rather different to what you already have, but then again you may want that!

I bought a new Streamer Std 5 a couple of years ago, got it from an Italian site for about £280! Prices have shot up to around £500 since but it looks like the bass is identical. The pickups are very low output on this particular model, but I don't think this applies to the rest of the range. I had to had an active pre, but it now sounds great. The carolena body is light but very soft and easy to ding. But onto the good bits that would be common across the range - it's the most comfortable 5 string neck I've ever played, it's nice and light, the neck is very stiff, the fretwork is great and the neck pocket as tight as can be. It's very well built and the low B rings out like a bell. The Fortress looks to be priced well above this one, but with nicer woods and electronics. I expect you'd be very happy with one!

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1501147070' post='3342778'] rather than a clean blend it'd be good to have a lo-pass blend, so keep everything up to like 200Hz clean and then wah above that. Otherwise the bass can really drop out [/quote] The Wahoo can do all that and more. The stock bass wah preset is very much like that, with a fixed lowpass filter in parallel with a foot controlled bandpass filter. You can blend full range clean in on top of all that as well, and also add a bit of drive, reduce the Q at the bass end to stop speakers exploding, all kinds of stuff to play with. It is a pain to program as you have to use an app to get the most out of it, and it needs isolated power to overcome noise issues.

You missed:[list] [*]Dunlop Mini Bass Wah [*]Hotone Bass Press [*]AMT Alien Girl Bass Wah [*]G-Lab Bass Wowee [*]Sonuus Wahoo [*]Real McCoy RMC9-Bass Eqwahlyzer [*]Wilson Bass Wah [*]Wilson Freaker Wah [*]Source Audio Manta + Expression pedal [*](in fact tons of envelope filter with expression input, such as the Wonderlove) [/list] I'm currently using the Hotone Bass Press, it's decent, cheap, tiny, and triples as an expression or volume pedal. It sounds better than the mini AMT wah too.

I'd expect a divorce if I bought a pre-CBS Precision...

It doesn't have a VT Bass or an envelope filter built into it so that rules it out for me. If the overdrive/distortion sections don't have good low end retention then it's game over.

The VTDI has a few extra features, namely bite and blend. Bite is an extra hi-mid boost to add clank, baked into the original VT. The v2 VT has a speaker sim defeat which also removes the bite when removing the speaker sim; the VTDI essentially splits speaker sim and bite into separate switches. Blend is self explanatory, totally unnecessary at low gain IMHO (unless you want to roll it all the way off to remove the VT colouration entirely), but very useful at high gain, which otherwise squashes all the dynamics from your sound without a bit of dry signal added back in.

There's no reason why you can't send the effected out to headphones when you record, just set the latency as low as possible and you should be golden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8E1poBX_uA

The SDrum is the only one that will let you program beats by strumming your lower/upper strings as kick/snare though... which is a killer feature, but only if it works out to be reliable in real world situations and if you have the flexibility to add fills/endings like the BeatBuddy can.

Check these out: http://www.jowbass.com/en-gb