dannybuoy

BTW, the forthcoming Helix update will contain a BDDI V2 model. I have high hopes for this seeing as their B7K model is pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing (I did some A/B tests with the M900 amp and I'm rather picky!). Also since you can do parallel chains, crossovers and compression, you just might be able to replicate the DuG, Geddy, BDDI, B7K and X7 all in one tiny box with presets and tons of other effects. That's what I'm hoping anyway!

Is this new update with the SVT-4 Pro and the Sansamp BDDI v2 released yet and if so does anybody have a verdict? Also I am hoping an amp sim pedal such as the Sansamp is classed as a stompbox rather than an amp, so that HX users can get in on the action. I have the DuG pedal and am eyeing up the Geddy one, but the Helix might be able to replace both if I can run a BDDI with parallel chains and compressors. Plus I already know it can nail a B7K sound!

Sounds like a ruse to get non musicians to turn up to a jam night if you ask me!

If you're particularly wedded to two certain preamps you want to use, and you fancy getting your hands dirty with some soldering, go for it. If not, I would just try a few existing preamp pedals, find two you like, and switch between them!

The Mojomojo is quite dark so I could see how it wouldn't work for everyone. But I do feel it fits the description of 'warmer vintage style tone' very well. A bit like the Bearfoot Blueberry, it's quite dark and squishy sounding, not the best if you want to hear the clang of roundwound strings, but perfect for classic rock or RnB. The Soul Food on the other hand is like a polar opposite - it mixes a harsh midrange focussed drive with not much low end into your clean signal. If I was playing with a Precision with a pick in a punk band for example, I might choose the Bass Soul Food over the Mojomojo.

The only baked in non-adjustable EQ is on the deep/clean channel. I would assume this is to roll off the mids/highs and boost the bass to provide a deeper sound that blends well with the other channel which has less low end and more present mids. Overall, since you can adjust the balance of these two sides and you have a full 3 band EQ on the dirty side, I think you’ll be pretty much sorted when it comes to EQ options! Looking forward to trying this combined with a Spectracomp, then flipping between that and DP3X as different channels.

I have the 500W but find it quite easy to reign it in even to sensible bedroom levels. True. I had the AD200 for a while and the it sounded very different. Even at low master volume, where those KT88s aren't being pushed, cranking the gain on the AD200 sounded a lot more open / less mushy than the Terror.

“I’ve completely redesigned the Terror Bass to make it much closer to the AD200 front end.” Ok, now I might have to try one to compare with my trusty original!

I wonder if they fixed the awfully loud fan in the original too. Had to replace mine with a quieter one!

The switch on the back that lets you get 500W from a 4 ohm cab hasn't changed from v1 to my knowledge. The clean switch on the front panel is new though, I wonder how it works exactly, if it's another pad, or it takes the tube out of the circuit, or something else.

Cheap BB Preamp clone going here that will do the job nicely too:

Without doing any research whatsoever I would hazard a guess that means turning the distortion on and off.

Well done Doug. Cab sim with 3 switchable cabs! Separate pre and post DI outs! Compressor! Headphone amp with aux in! The only thing I could wish for would be that both distortion engines were in the one single amp instead of making 2 amps! Also, I would hope that the cab sim only affects the DI and headphone out and not the speaker output...?

I tried a bunch of sequencers / DAWs out when I first got started around 2002. I could not get my head around Cubase and stuck to Acid and Fruity Loops. Later on a new Windows only product came along called Sonar and I found it incredibly powerful yet easy to use. Fast forward many years, Cakewalk were no longer developing Sonar so I tried the often recommended Reaper. Like Cubase I could not get to grips with it very easily. I'm sure if I sat down and took time to read the manual properly I would figure it out, but with Sonar I could figure out everything I needed without having to look stuff up. Now Sonar lives on as Cakewalk by Bandlab and the best part is it's now free: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk Saying that, Bandlab's main product is a free online collaborative DAW. Might be worth giving this a shot too if it's easy to record and share the project with your bandmates online: https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features

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I wouldn't dismiss it just because it doesn't have a DI, if the sound is so glorious it makes you want to ditch the Paradriver, it'll be worth working around that. You can either just use the DI out from your amp or add a simple passive DI box (I found one for £6.99!). You might even find they complement each other, well and you want to use both and switch between them, in which case XLR out from the Paradriver would serve both pedals. The reason to give this one some attention is because a bit like the DP3-X, it's engineered to emulate the sound of running two separate amps in parallel. The problem with a lot of bass overdrive is you lose the low end punch due to the clipping and compression, and the low end negativley affects the character of the drive - it sounds gnarlier with the lows filtered out before the clipping stage. The Geddy pedal has two channels you can blend between; a 'deep' channel that is a cleaner Sansamp tone with the highs rolled off, and the drive channel which is a typical higher gain Sansamp circuit, with a 'tight' switch that filters out the lows going into it to make the distortion sound tighter and more defined. Mix those together and you have punchier lows and a more open roaring drive sound than you would get from a standard full range single channel Sansamp BDDI / PDDI / VTDI.

This is going to sound silly, but have you tried adjusting the volume knob?

It's being released simply because there's been big demand for a pedal version of the Geddy preamp. Can't really call it a cut down VT Bass as that doesn't have a DI either! This will sound pretty different to the VT anyway, blending 2 signal paths in parallel, sounds to me like it will bring some of the benefits of the Dug pedal (clean lows, distorted top) but without the gaping hole in the midrange.

Blueberry set to low gain would have worked well for me... Only way to see if an octaver works for you would be to try one!

Since I know there are a lot of synth fans amongst our ranks... https://www.ehx.com/blog/electro-harmonix-introduces-the-bass-mono-synth

Which ODs have you tried? If you go for a light overdrive with plenty of mids, it won't necessarily sound heavy, more of an eq/boost with some added harmonic content to help you be heard. You can try an OC-2, but you have to be aware that analog octavers work best when you are playing in the upper registers and letting the pedal fill in the bass range, so you might have to play differently to accomodate. On the other hand a digital octaver can produce an octave up from your regular played down low basslines, but the effect can sound fake/distracting sometimes. I've messed about with both types and preferred to use a light OD over both. TC Mojomojo, Xotix BB Preamp, or Solidgoldfx Beta worked out best for me in this role, I find a pedal with no blend, plenty of natural lows and low mids is the order of the day here.

Yeah, I had one and sold it pretty quickly. Did not like!

Behringer BDI21 is a good place to start!

+1, it's what I use for warm/vintage drive and not just because it's the cheapest pedal on my board but because it beat everything else!