dannybuoy

I put the Octabvre on the board for last night's jam... Considering I'm using it to fill out a layered octave down rather than as a synth effect, I'm now looking at the Aggie, EBS and the T16 v2. Aggie with its top jacks would slide in as a direct replacement! £225 for one of those 3Leafs though?! I paid about £160 for mine new last year. Agreed that the BSW has a killer octave down too, cheap as chips to boot.

Sushi body? Sounds a bit fishy to me. 🐟

I’m going to be downsizing my collection soon if you fancy a good deal on a Yamaha RBX270F...

I have a 500W 4x10 in my house! You can always just stick with one gigging amp and simply turn it down at him e. I would only look at a separate practice amp if you didn’t have room for it and were going to keep your large amp in storage, or if your main amp had a really noisy fan that could not be tamed, or, you just fancy another amp of course! Just don’t be scared off thinking you can’t use a big rig at home. Do you have another amp already? Do you gig or rehearse that might need a powerful amp? If just wanting something for home use, or low volume practice, I would look at a Markbass 801 or PJB Cub / Double Four at exotic end, or a Roland Cube, Fender Rumble or Line6 Studio 110 at the more affordable end. But there are tons of options in that price range!

Just to piddle on a couple of suggestions so far - the EHX has no aux in, and the PX4D is very noisy.

Dood - another way to hide that sharp attack of the octave up without sacrificing overall brightness is to fade in the attack slightly, something you can do with the POG2 and the new Mooer Tender Pro and Mk2 octavers.

So until Alex straightens us out, my best educated guess is this. If I hook up two '12 ohm' cabs in parallel then my amp should see 6 ohms. If I hook up two '4 ohm' cabs in serial then my amp should see 8 ohms. However both configurations would result in the same wiring (two parallel chains with each having two in series), the actual load [b]should [/b]be the same for both of the above. So I can only guess that we're looking at 7 ohms per driver, making the cabs either 3.5 ohms or 14 ohms in reality. In which case hooking up a pair of 4-ohm Two10s would give your amp 1.75 ohms, which should (hopefully) be within tolerances?

They do integrated versions such as the XT / X3 Live: http://uk.line6.com/legacy/basspodxtlive/ Cheap on eBay now that they are a few generations old! Pretty much any solution you come up with is going to involve carrying a unit in a case/bag with power supply and cables though. Unless these things take batteries, but digital devices eat batteries for breakfast, not something I’d want to risk at a gig!

The MXR is indeed a good choice for that track. Maybe look for a cheap DOD FX25 or FX25B, or a Digitech Bass Synth Wah on eBay?

Would a Tech21 Bass Fly Rig fit your requirements?

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1507061482' post='3383149'] How about one of these: http://www.sfxsound.com/h1/ I've heard very good things about them. Beyerdynamic DT-770s are the dog's danglies. [/quote] The H1 is probably top notch, but unfortunately more expensive than the PJB at £185 (!) and has no EQ, built in rechargeable battery or USB audio interface.

Might have been Strings Direct, that’s where I usually go.. the same set have been on the bass for ten years though, so who knows!

I found the Zoom to be a little noisy and very much lacking in volume compared to the PJB, but you have to decide on cost vs sound quality vs features, where the Zoom wins 2 out of 3! I think the PJB is well worth the £70 I paid for mine used but £180 is taking the pee a bit. I think I would rather pair a Behringer BDI21 and MA400 than go for the Zoom personally though. A better preamp and headphone amp (IMHO) for about the same price as a B1on. Not battery powered though... I have only tried the PJB headphones everyone seems to rave about (but I thought they sounded a bit thin) and the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro (80 ohm). I LOVE the Beyers and have zero desire to try any other cans out. Very comfortable with skull rattling sub bass!

It would be simple if it were just those two drivers involved, but you require a different crossover when switching between serial and parallel, hence why it's taken them so long to come up with a method of doing so!

I've always thought something doesn't quite add up with these cabs. If the higher value is 12 ohms, that suggest the speakers are 6 ohms each, which results in 3 ohms when wired in parallel. That's all fine and dandy if your 4-ohm capable amp is actually pretty happy at 3 ohms. But then if you add a second cab you have 1.5 ohms, which might be pushing your luck when it comes to 2-ohm capable amps, no? Since my amp is ok at 2 ohms, I'd be happy with a pair of 4-ohm cabs, and carry a serial wiring cable in case I ever ended up rig sharing and someone wanted to use their 4-ohm capable amp with my cabs (which would give them a 8 ohm load, or 6 depending on if the above were true or not!).

The Spectracomp does indeed look good, great price and unparalleled flexibility. I do prefer hands on control though and find any pedal that needs an app a bit of a faff, but on the other side once I have something dialled in I tend to leave it there, and then there's fewer knobs to nudge accidentally!

In vein of similar thread titles... I was very happy with the RMI Basswitch Dual Band until it died last night. No noticeable pumping, just a very natural sound, the dual bands working well to keep control when playing aggressively. Word of warning is that it needs isolated power due to the internal charge pump producing some high pitched hum in other pedals if using on a daisy chain. Only got it a couple of weeks ago so hopefully no problems returning it to Thomann, they are usually very good. I have an Effectrode PC-2A tube comp as well, which sounds like a vintage tube preamp and adds a big pillow of low end fatness with absolutely zero noise. It works really well on my fretless but isn't what I'm looking for as my main compressor as my main bass has more than enough low end already. I'll just keep this one around for recording I reckon. Since I would have to wait a while for a replacement and I have rehearsal tomorrow, I just threw caution to the wind and ordered a Cali76 Compact Bass. I like the idea of the LPF and blend to stop it clamping down so much on the low end, which was the main reason I went for the dual band in the first place. Also the comments that it tightens the lows and makes everything sound more hi-fi sounds like a good fit for my Yamaha BB1025X, which has tons of lows but is quite dark sounding. The RMI had the same effect and really helped to even out the balance between lows and highs.

Pretty sure you can save 3 individual presets (which each have tons of parameters), one to each position of the switch. If you keep your patches simple, i.e. one distortion model at a time, you can even assign different presets to the left and right channels and use a simple A/B box on the output to give you 6 presets. You can also hook up a Tech21 MIDI Mouse (there's one in the classifieds) and a Source Audio MIDI Hub (which I'm going to be selling soon!) to give you 99 presets or thereabouts! I couldn't quite cop the B3K with mine though, and forget about getting the sound of the VT Bass. The Aftershock would be a downgrade in my opinion, but worth checking out if your main motivation is saving cash and board space!

That only works with a passive volume pedal though, I don't think it would work with an active buffered one like this!

I'm not sure this pedal would be compatible with most expression jacks... rather than taking the voltage supplied by the pedal and feeding it back to the same TRS jack, it supplies it's own voltage to a TS jack, making it a CV pedal. The Dunlop DVP pedals take some beating though. Best action I've felt in an expression/volume pedal, and I only have the mini one!

I tried the original Billy Sheehan... I reckon it might have been my email to them complaining how the clean and dirt sides were out of phase that made them release the Deluxe!

I've tried that in the past wirh SFX X&M but didn't like the results I was getting at the time, mainly because the dirt reacted so differently without any low frequencies going into it, and the different dynamics from having dirt on one side but not the other. It would be interesting to try again though several years later! I'd been neglecting the Two Notes lately due to doing a lot of headphone practice (even with the band) where I preferred the VT or B7K due to their speaker sim / filtering. But adding the OmniCabSim after the Two Notes sounds incredible, I'll just need to see how it compares when played through my rig!

Current generation Super Compact I suppose. But hey, why not post them all!

Alex, I'd love to see a frequency response plot of say a Two10 vs a Compact, do you have any that you can share?

I think the point he was making is that speaker size is not as important as the voicing of the cab, and if you are looking at the flat full range type of 2x10 from other manufacturers, you would get a more apples-to-apples comparison by looking at the BB2 than the Two10.