dannybuoy

If you have an audio interface you can download a free trial of Helix Native and see for yourself if it can replace all of those.

In Joe Dart's fingertips!

That's quite impressive they sold that quickly!

It looks like a short/medium scale to me as well? I'd like one of these, but I'm quite happy enough with my flatwound-wearing Sandberg Basic that I picked up for about tree fiddy!

They sound pretty different, that would be the deciding factor for me.

I've seen a few custom BB2024Xs (one with a maple board, one with a stealth matte black finish including painted neck) around, always worth asking Yamaha direct about custom options on the Japanese models.

@fuzzonaut which band do you play with?

I don't think Interparcel's terms and conditions contain anything about hard cases or payout limits for musical instruments. Worth checking out just in case. But then again, if they are just contracting the work out to other couriers, is the insurance with the end courier (who will each have different rules), or the middleman?

BB2025Xs were under £1800 new on BassDirect when they first came out. Prices (or RRP at least) seems to have crept up since then, but street prices were always much lower. The main difference between the two for me was the neck, more of a hand rubbed oil finish on the Japanese model, much nicer in the hand!

The processing delay inherent in the digital side will result in issues when blended with the dry signal, it would produce an effect like a flanger but stuck in one position instead of cycling round. However you might not notice it if the latency is very very low. You could of course get two similar digital multis in each loop of the LS-2 to counter this!

The mono channels have a pan control, so leave it dead center at it will fill both left and right from a single mono input.

The tight button chops off some of the lows going into the drive circuit. Why might you want that? Because particularly with high output basses with a lot of low end, those low frequencies make the overdrive sound overly fuzzy/bloated. This way you can tighten up the distortion, and you still have a full range deep channel and an EQ you can use to compensate.

It's basically two Sansamps in parallel @dave_bass5, one has the gain and EQ pre set, the other adjustable via the controls, then the deep/drive control adjusts the blend between them. So it should be just as, if not more versatile as a BDDI or VT Bass, and they are no one-trick ponies. Looking forward to trying one, I could never persuade myself to get the preamp, but don't need much persuading to get the pedal!

These Yamaha models get great reviews and have modelling on board for guitar and bass: https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/amps_accessories/thr/index.html

This popped up on Zoom's site during the Namm show a week or so ago. It'll be better than the B1on for certain effects, it should contain the Darkglass models from the B3n for one, also I think the amp models on the B3n are a step up from the previous generation, I couldn't get a decent overdriven SVT from the B3/B1on.

It sounded like you have an active bass already which would be fine, but just be aware that most mixing desks do not have a high impedance input suitable for plugging a passive bass straight in. For that you'd want something designed with bass/guitar in mind, such as the Bighead.

I'd avoid the Amplug, the standalone units have more of an amp sim quality to them rather than clean and transparent, I assume the headphones would be the same? The EHX headphone amp does not have an aux in btw, which you'll need if you want to play along with anything. Bluetooth isn't worth looking into as the processing delay renders it unplayable. However it's rare but some units can accept an aux input over Bluetooth, which is handy for playing a backing track via your laptop or mobile etc. If you have a DI box or a preamp with an XLR out, the Behringer MA400 is a good choice.

@tonyxtiger I’m in!

@Al Krow Did you try the middle pickup position out? It's the only setting I use! Stock strings are D'Adarrio nickels by the way, I'm a fan of them and bought the same sets as replacements since I had it.

Try a Tech21 VT Bass or Sansamp BDDI. Also fresh strings, perhaps steel over nickel.

Never tested them but I imagine the slope of the Thumpinator is much steeper.

You’ve also got HPF and LPF blocks so you can use one of those in conjunction with a crossover to create a DuG style ‘chasm’ in the midrange!

I would say Duality into B3K, with B3K always on and add the Duality for some utterly over the top filth. I like what the B3K / B7K does as a tone shaper at the end of a chain after other fuzzes. So the answer is obviously to try both!

All of them should get it.