dannybuoy

I look forward to sounds clips, I'm a big Om fan! Sounds like you've got your core sound dialed in by stacking some fairly cheap pedals! You'll probably like the Darkglass Alpha Omega if you get the chance to check that out.

Plenty of metal players using P basses out there though! If you ever want growl like this though you might want something different!

P + J pickups (or any 2 pickups really) combined together gives you a more scooped and growly tone. I'd always go for dual pickups for metal as I prefer that sound, but if having to go with just one, I'd have a MusicMan Stingray style humbucker. Maybe a Bigman or Big Blademan: https://nordstrandaudio.com/collections/4-string-music-man-bass-pickups But then I just check out those songs you mention and they are not my typical metal sound. I'd choose a Fender P for this:

Gator G-PRO-6U-19?

Sorry, I thought they were tube amps, I stand corrected!

Just noticed Thomann version is silver, probably identical otherwise: https://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_nano_legacy_thunder_bass.htm

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/hotone-nano-legacy-thunder-bass-5-watt-guitar-bass-head/99447

I would've been keen on either of these without the graphics/inlays:

The Ultralites come in different sizes, could it be that the licensed ones were just a different size to the US ones? Interested as I bought a set of 5 licensed ones for my BB1025X that I never got around to fitting, but will do some day!

I'd love to have a go on a Cristal Baschet - amazing for soundtracks:

I've been looking at handpans for a while now... I got a Rav Vast in B Onoleo a couple of years ago and play that more than my bass these days! More sustain but not as rich sounding as a handpan. Try their virtual player out if you have a touchscreen! https://ravvast.com/virtualplayer/?drum=18

Some good use cases for this... I was considering upgrading my Alpha Omega to the Ultra for the cab sim, this would be more flexible. You could dial in your favourite tone via headphones then use this as your DI box. I hope they got the headphone amp portion right, many units like the Zoom multis are no good at driving higher impedance headphones.

If only someone made a clone of it in a 1590A enclosure... http://www.sfxsound.co.uk/microfuzz/

I believe it does have the same volume drop. If you don't want to change to deal with that via other means, the Octabvre Mini has bags of volume on tap, but of course costs a lot more! I hear the volume drop was also solved in the new MXR one too, but I've never played one.

That's really quite impressive. Mice perhaps?!

Depends on your use cases... handy to have it for recording. It's free to try for 15 days so download and see how much mileage you get out of it!

C0ck!

The Sandberg Basic sounds a lot like a Ray, the pickup is a tiny bit further towards the neck but not by much. There was one for sale on here recently that might still be around, they pop up on eBay from time to time and can usually be snapped up for a bargain.

Sounds great, the riffage is very Acid King-esque too!

Are you looking for an always-on tone enhancer or a boost pedal? If you're not dead set on a straight up clone of the Dod, a TC Spark Mini would make a fine clean boost, also there a few nano sized preamp pedals from One Control (I have a Sonic Silver Peg): https://www.one-control.com/pedal

The PC2A is a bit of an unusual comp, and very expensive. I love how it makes my fretless sound though. The Diamond - I felt it just squeezed a lot of life out my sound and it plagued me with noise issues. Not a typical raised noise floor due to compression, but interference/grounding type buzzing. Weirdly it was fine on the floor but noisy when placed on the metal pedaltrain?! Tried a Keeley Bassist and just found it bland. Went to an RMI Basswitch Dual Band next. Loved what the dual band did, but it did change the tone quite drastically, needed isolated power due to a noisy internal 9v-18v converter, and in the end it died on me within 2 weeks so was returned. I got a Cali Compact Bass next, thought it was the bees knees. Missed the dual band but the HPF sidechain feature almost made up for it. Then got a TC Spectracomp. Assumed it would be cack as it cost £50 and Ovnilab refused to review it due to excessive noise issues and a bad customer service experience, but was curious because lots were raving about it. Holy moly! Best comp I've ever had, and sold the Cali. Dual band is the way to go, this has 3 bands, so even more so. Especially if you slap or play aggressively, you will benefit from having faster limiting on the top end and a slower milder compression on the lows. I considered getting a Hypergravity instead due to it being essentially the same pedal with more knobs. But I realised the thing I liked most was how the Spectracomp's stock preset was dialled in perfectly for me bar a slight volume boost that could be tweaked via the app, and there were tons of bass-specific presets that aren't available for the Hypergravity.

I can power mine with the 300mA output of my Cioks DC5. Shouldn't work on paper, and it might explode one in flames day, but it works fine! The TrueTone OneSpot Pro range should fare even better, according to their support the individual labels are just there for show and you can put huge amounts through a single socket as long as you don't exceed the total for the entire brick.

Check out the TC Spectracomp, not reviewed on Ovnilab but it’s one of the simplest and cheapest, yet sounds as good as or better than some of the top of the range units out there in my opinion.