dannybuoy

The clean channel is worthless to me as you need drastically different EQ settings for clean vs dirty. I just set the EQ up for the dirt setting then switch the pedal on and off. If one of the other footswitches ever wears out I will have a spare unused one on the left hand side! If you wanted two channels, I would flick between this and some other Sansamp pedal or preamp.

Hats off for producing an in-depth review, although I'm not sure if it's the bass, settings or the way it's recorded, but there is a really nasal midrange frequency going on there at 11:32 that makes it unlistenable for me. Yet to see what other settings are explored but the video is pretty epic! Shame he didn't record straight off the XLR.

Ammonia is used in the process, not quite as drinkable as Chardonnay! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_fuming There's quite a range of colours the process can produce though, hence my interest in seeing some examples out in the wild! For example:

That might be one pedal but if it's 3 times the size and 3 times the price of some separates it starts to become less attractive! You could line up a TC mini Corona (which I have in stock!), Flashback and Shaker for less. There are plenty of small multi function pedals like the Mooer Mod Station but not sure if any cover all 3 areas. Zoom MS-60B or MS-70CDR not an option?

Apparently it's nothing unique to Sandberg having been used for furniture and flooring for years, but perhaps the first instance of it being used for guitars/basses.

This is what I’ve been messing about with. The fumed oak almost looks like a charcoal grey in the pics which would go well with the finish!

Well the pedal gets a big thumbs up from me! Playing along to my (ex) band’s albums which were pretty light in the bass department, it delivers such a ‘produced’ tone that it just sounds like they’ve been remixed / remastered with better bass! I thought I was getting this effect from my B3K also, but now that tone sounds completely off. It’s funny how our ears adjust - I’ll probably change my mind next week! It’s made me change my technique for the better too, forcing me to play with a lighter more consistent touch and only dig in when I want to hear distortion. You can get a lot of sound variation just from how you play.

Checking out their configurator earlier and I noticed they now offer 'fumed oak' as a fingerboard material. Has anybody ever seen one of these in the flesh?

Only had the B3 and B1on but struggled for enough volume with both on maximum!

'The right pair of headphones' is the sticking point. Mine are harder to drive than some (Beyer DT770 Pro 80ohm version) but I love the way they sound and the Bighead drives them much better than any other headphone out I've found on an amp head or preamp pedal.

Peavey T40?

I rate the Spectracomp very highly, and as long as I could find a light drive to my tastes, the cab sim sounds decent (not overly dark or coloured) and the headphone amp is as loud and clear as my Bighead, I could see myself acquiring one of these down the line too.

Couldn't be more different to mine! Can't believe you boost the treble, I cut mine quite a bit and my strings are dead and I have no tweeters! One tip is turn chunk off whilst you set your compressor level so you can better hear what it's doing. Also remember the gain boost hits the compressor harder too. I find the mid band to have a very wide Q, so much so that if you cut the mids below 9 o'clock, you've got hardly any sound left at all!

12 bar being the lowest common denominator? These two seem to get some good mileage out of playing just one chord! My local jam does this from time to time, it’s a great way to strip everything back to basics, stop worrying about changes and just concentrate on phrasing and responding to what others are playing.

So I found a setting that works for me with my BB1025X. Reduce the treble, bump up the mids (shift switch out) and bass, compression just below noon, gain around 3 o’clock with the gain switch off (clean/bass channel clips otherwise). Sounds great in the mix in a heavy rock setting. Play lightly and all you can hear is clean bass, dig in and it can get very grindy indeed. One thing that felt odd was playing high up on the D & G strings with a decent amount of compression and hearing a low end thump as if an octaver was switched on! With this setting, turn off the mix to get a clean tone and it sounds terrible as the EQ settings were tweaked for the other channel. So I would’ve preferred this switch did something else or wasn’t there to make the pedal smaller!

You could switch between them, but you wouldn't be able to mix them!

Mine's here, cheers Tony the Tiger. It's grrreat! Just gave it a quick blast through headphones. Main out is noticeable brighter than the XLR, thankfully a XLR to jack cable in conjunction with the ground lift button means I can use the XLR into my headphone amp. Yes it has a headphone amp on board, but this is the same brighter sound as the main jack plus there's no aux in and I don't knoiw where my mini-to-big jack adaptor is! I will reserve judgement until I've put it through its paces! Oh and if anyone wants to sell me a BDDI v2 give me a shout as I'd love to compare them!

I don't know, I just twiddle the knobs until it sounds the bestest. I tried all the Toneprints and preferred the stock setting. I think they dialed they one in just right!

Try a compressor. Can't recommend the TC Spectracomp highly enough, a bargain of a pedal. With a suitably long attack time, the compressor lets the note attack through untouched, then clamps down on the volume. The overall volume is then boosted to compensate for this. End result is the attack of each note really pops, yet your overall dynamic range is smooth and controlled.

Another good clip here, even if it does sound a little bit like the theme tune to Inspector Gadget: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bik1QdqlAPd

Sounds good to me! @Cuzzie would say otherwise and that it sounds like a Bontempi organ though!

Not sure why you'd want to intentionally replicate his tone either if this is representative of it:

Got an Octamizer a little while ago... I really like the tilt EQ control on the clean channel, I wasn't expecting it to be as useful as it is. If you have your octaver early in the chain, adding the extra subs can end up feeding too much signal into dirt pedals, driving them pretty hard. By rolling off a bit of low end from your dry signal, you ease up on the amount of bass going into the rest of the chain which makes things sound much clearer and tighter as a result.