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Having adopted Reaper as my recording vehicle, I have inevitably discovered plug-ins. So far I have tried free models such as those in Pod Farm and NI Guitar 5 Player, and I am in the process of offloading my hardware amp modelling kit. However, I didn't want to limit myself to 'in-the-box' solutions, so I have been trying a few other things. Obviously I can mic up a valve amp, and/or connect a speaker-simulator DI box to the speaker output, but even a 5W amp quickly becomes too loud for late evening recording. So I started trying drive pedals into a speaker simulator DI box, and then I remembered the Bad Monkey. Like the other Digitech pedals in that range (Hot Head, Screamin' Blues, Metal Master), the Bad Monkey has a speaker-simulated second output, marked 'MIXER'. I found that if I kept the drive low and the treble high, I could get a very usable almost-clean amp sound out of it, direct to recording interface. The output impedance is a very low 100ohm, so it will even work without engaging the Hi-Z switch on the interface. Anyone else using old-school analog amp sims - Sessionmaster? Sansamp? Tom Scholz Rockman?!

Debut outing for my latest project, EPIC - 'the biggest, brashest and boldest rock songs of all time, played by some of the UK's best tribute musicians' (ahem!) We're a six-piece plus 2 backing singers, and we'll be playing those big production numbers that you don't hear in pubs... Tickets £8 in advance, £10 on the door. Between, you and me, I'm bricking it!

Do you even really want a dirt pedal for your bass, or is it just something you think you ought to have?

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1485180112' post='3221805'] The 414/415 have matching headstocks though! [/quote] Can't hear you! La la la la la! etc

If your budget will run to it (less than £300 delivered at DV247), try the Tech 21 Trademark 30 - the preamp has analog modelling (not digital) along the lines of their Sansamp GT2 pedal. It weighs just over 14lb, so pretty light.

The stripes of different-coloured wood visible on the face of the headstock - that's what puts me off, because I'm shallow.

[quote name='Tee' timestamp='1484732285' post='3217799'] [/quote] I quite like the look and concept of that bass - P-style pickup, short scale, nice colour. When I saw Mike Watt with the Stooges he was playing some kind of EB, which I've never really fancied. On NAMM and the whole 'new kit' thing, the trends I've seen in recent years are: (1) Cheaper knock-offs of famous pedals (e.g. Phase 90, Tube Screamer) in micro-size boxes; (2) Ever more far-out boutique pedals with (as far as I can see) very limited application, despite huge cost; and (3) Yet more (and presumably more accurate) digital modelling amps. Only (1) is of any interest to me (for guitar anyway), but I live in hope of a pleasant surprise...

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