Al Krow

Sure, but it can also be a question of cost and value for money as well as how pretty the pedals look? For some folk spending £900 on two pedals, whose job can be done by just one other which is well regarded and well established, for a fraction of the price, is also not going to be rational or potentually indeed affordable. So whilst the discussion may be tedious to some, it can also provide useful information to others?

Thanks. It is indeed possible to turn the speaker sim off on the VTDI, but I guess I'm looking for a comparison of the two pedals as standalone - shame I no longer have my VTDI otherwise I could have loaned it to you to do a proper A/B, Peter!

Exactly thanks. Two Origin pedals under one hood on the highly regarded Sansamp pedal, which is often available for around £150 used. So, back to my question of whether this is a material step up over the much loved VT Bass DI? Look forward to an unbiased A/B of the two in due course.

That's a really useful point, thanks Linus! So essentially we can go from bypass --> clean or dirty B15 tone, depending on what you have the pedal set on. Tbf I guess that's exactly what you would have to do if owned the amp? Some great bass tones from this - particularly liked what IMA was producing - that Retro Rock! Ooof! Question: how much different / better than a Sansamp VT Bass DI, is this?

She tried the wireless out at a gig on Sat and worked great. @Woodinblack Do you guys just use the one wireless? Just wondering if there will be interference / drop-outs if more than one of us get the same wireless set up? I note that, in theory, both the Joyo and Lekato have 4 channels. Amusingly her Lekato wireless via Ali Express arrived in time for the gig, but her AKG D7S from Thomann didn't!

Haha - no, simply meant I agree 100% with Rich! I'll edit to avoid any confusion!

We found the wifi connectivity improved a lot and we no longer suffer drop outs following switching the CQ desk's internal setting from 2.4GHz to 5.8GHz

Yeah fair about dynamic pricing, still being possible. "Ticketmaster faced intense scrutiny and hundreds of consumer complaints after the prices for both the 2024 Oasis and 2023 Bruce Springsteen tours soared dramatically with high demand, leading to accusations of price gouging. Resulted in a Competition and Markets Authority investigation. While the CMA did not find evidence of real-time algorithmic "dynamic pricing" in the Oasis case, it did find concerns regarding a lack of transparency about different price tiers and that consumers were not given clear information, which may have breached consumer protection law." I guess at the end of the day folk can't stop sellers selling tickets at whatever prices people are willing to pay. Same goes for anything that shoots up in value e.g. some bass pedals right? But at least these tickets are being sold to someone who actually wants them - will now be illegal for touts and commercial resale sites to scoop up thousands of tickets purely for resale at massive margins. And, sure, I appreciate that it's also illegal to sell cocaine and that doesn't stop the equivalent of ticket touts pushing drugs, so the resale of tickets may simply go underground? But I guess the argument goes if coke were legal, take up would be massively higher i.e. making it illegal reduces the supply and demand?

100% agreed!

Should also hopefully now be history. Can only resell at face value, plus service fee.

As in the Soundcraft Ui16 was considerably better in terms of pre-amps?

Personally delighted that the Govt are introducing this reform: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/17/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown Great news for those of us wanting to see live music having saved up for the actual face value ticket price (although these can be eye-watering!) and not some ridiculous rip-off figure. The only remaining fly in the ointment is the continued ability of the online platforms to charge a "service fee", but hopefully this will also be capped to a reasonable amount.

Can't comment on how good relative to Behringer as never owned latter. But definitely better preamps and IEM experience than with our Soundcraft Sig.12MTK, and has excellent channel EQ options. Very happy to recommend.

Love this! Inspired me to start getting up to speed on midi (I'm a complete newbie!), but have got myself a Disaster Area 3XL and three of my Boss pedals are midi capable: GT1000Core, SY-200 and the XS-100 Any tips and suggestions very welcome! Also just asked ChatGPT to prepare me a midi introductory course!

Fyi BRX - If you end up giving this a good try-out and find it's not for you and are out of time to return it to Music Store who are selling it new for £305 - there are several of us with this on our 2026 wish list (including me!) and I'm sure will be happy to guarantee you a very decent used price for it! If you end up deciding to keep it, given the high synth standards you have, well that would be high praise indeed!