dannybuoy

The problem is releasing a product designed exactly how the artist specified - for a mass release version it would be better to make certain things configurable. This doesn't impact the artist's original vision, only enhances it for wider appeal. In this case, for those using dark wooly 15 inchers vs those with hifi or FRFR rigs. There was a similar fuss kicked up over the Geddy preamp, which has separate outputs for the high and low channels with no option for a blended output and also no bypass switch without opening the unit up and changing jumper settings.

As is Luger Baruga, commonly spelt as Loughborough, just to the north east of BirmingHAM.

Guitar peddles. Joined together with patch chords.

Same!

Don’t get me started on Morrischick basses.

Here you go: https://1drv.ms/f/s!ApKsVfvGwYkOiqcUT79WoDBsenS1pQ Couple of bonus clips, my Yamaha BB playing notes down to the low B, and a bit of Super Sharp Shooter as I can never resist playing a bit of D&B when an octaver is plugged in!

True, but when your base tone is dirty, you can demo a clean boost and everyone is like "OMG THAT SOUNDS AMAZING!" Then they buy one and put it through the clean solid state rig with a tweetered cab and it sounds nothing like it. If I use an amp sim like a VT Bass or a B7K at the end of my chain, then I could feed it a with several different distortions and they'd sound pretty similar. Record them direct and they'd all sound very different to each other. Ideally a demo should have recordings of both, but the only demos I've seen that did that regularly was the old bassfuzz.com ones!

I didn't think it sounded that much like Darkglass (no clean blend on it for a start), but a lot of Patricks demo's sound similar because he's not recording the pedals direct. At one time he was going into Line6 POD modelling, looking at the gear used list, these days he is demoing the pedals into a mic'ed up Darkglass amp and cab. His clean tone always sounds overdriven to start with, sometimes sounding worse when the actual pedal gets engaged!

I can oblige, USA P with TI flats and an Octabvre Mini. Somebody on the Helix thread on Talkbass got pretty close with the Helix legacy octaver effect into a chorus and some other bits. So digital is getting closer!

I know this isn't the filter thread but whilst we're off topic I'm really digging the Discumbobulator going into overdrive/distortion. Sounds like guitar->wah->dirty amp sounds but without the aching ankles!

It's pretty clear from the thread on TB they are talking about treble roll-off. I expect it was designed this way to try and even out the sound you get going to the PA and coming out of a cab when you turn the tweeter off (or have no tweeter), that's the only thing that would make sense to me.

BTW folks, heard word from Tech21 on 'that other forum' that the XLR 'is darker' than the main output, as per Dug's specs. Whether this means there is no speaker sim at all on the main out, or just a brighter one, remains to be seen! Just for those folk sending the XLR to the desk and the main out to your FRFR wotsits, you won't get exactly the same tone out of each.

Looks interesting, comes with 16 built in amp models in a compact 350W head. I didn’t think much of the bass amp models in the original BIAS, but I’ve not tried them into an actual cab and besides these are based on the new improved ones from BIAS Amp 2. https://www.positivegrid.com/bias-head-mini-bass/

@Al Krow if you get a 735A you know you are going to need a Yamaha BB735A to go with it!

It sounds better than Lemmy. But that's not hard!

I thought we were talking about the country!

I find it much better to test a pedal at home, with my bass/pedals/amp/cab with the option of a free return, than limit myself to mainstream items stocked in shops, having to travel there and test with limited time in less then ideal conditions with a less generous return policy. When it comes to basses and cabs though, I would much rather test in person since they are more of a faff to post!

Reserve judgement until you have heard someone else demo it, all his demos sound the same!

Well there's this if you can live without XLR and headphone out: http://ampeg.com/products/pedals/classic/ I've only tried the standalone Scrambler pedal which I assume is the same circuit, it's not that bad actually. I moved it on in the end, but I did think it was miles better than the EHX Bass Soul Food for example, which (somehow) gets a lot of love around here!

Have you seen the B7K Ultra? It addresses those issues, and the new V2 one has a cab sim too. Personally, I think the footswitchable OD isn't that useful as the EQ changes are too drastic. I prefer to leave it always on at low gain, then stack other pedals into it for overdrive/distortion. Alpha Omega into a B3K is a favourite combo of mine lately!

I assume that's how it works yes.

You can also send a best offer to their Reverb store, and try for more than 10%!

There's a lot of people out there that would want to swap the other way, I'm sure you could find someone wanting to swap an almost identical neck for no cost on your part other than meeting up or getting a courier. Which Jazz bass tickles your fancy?

The Polyclip has a bass mode? If that means I don't have to use 12th freth harmonics to tune my low E and B then I'll give it a try!