Al Krow
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Duplicate post.
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Great review, thanks! PS @gobasserk I should have added: I actually really LOVE your clean tone, too! What's your full clean signal chain in terms of bass, strings, amp and cab?
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That completely ties in with @Old Horse Murphy was saying about it being "a lot more organic sounding than a number of other similar pedals". I can see the old Borg saying about this pedal is going to prove true...😁 I'm really delighted for Laney (who are based not too far from where I grew up) that they seem to have such a winner on their hands!
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How highly would you rate it compared to other similar pedals you've had?
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You really aren't helping my GAS for this pedal at all! Just been added to my 'wishlist'! In terms of the rattle it seems to only be when you move it towards and away from you and not when you shake it from side to side. Wonder if that is no more than just one of the stomp switches? Would it be easy to open it up and have a quick peek inside and if nothing obvious - you could maybe send that clip to Laney to get their thoughts on it. You've had various Tech 21 pedals recently. How does this compare to them?
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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2021?
Al Krow replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Super impressed with all you guys who have managed to limit your gear purchases to just a couple of items and, have instead, been managing to put what you already have to good use! I'm hoping that will be me one day soon, but certainly wasn't the case this year! I recently took a pic of my function bass rig and realised that most if it, apart from a couple of pedals and my Boss WL-20 wireless, were actually all 2021 purchases! If I allowed myself 'category' awards for things I've bought this year, then: best bass is the pictured Yamaha BB2005 (just pipping a lovely Elrick); best amp: Bugera Veyron 1001M; best cab: Bergantino 212 NXT; and best new pedal: Boss OC-5. -
Now that is a good question! But it's not according to @agedhorse and tbf he does know his onions from his garlic.
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Haha - zero need to do that as I also happen to have a copy of the said dictionary. It says: 'multi' [primary definition] 'many' (from the Latin multus = much, many) so it's hardly "my own interpretation" of the word, is it? It certainly does give a secondary definition of 'more than one'. However, I suspect very few guitarists and bass-players would consider something having just two (i.e. more than one) features to be a multi-fx. Just sayin'...
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Some very helpful posts, gents. Had a discussion with the OP a long while back as to what constitutes a multi-effect, he was of the view that more than one = multi, whereas for me "a few" = more than one but not many and that multi is more than a few i.e. many. Most pedals describing themselves as multifx do have many fx available (Zoom B1-4, Helix Stomp etc), so I personally wouldn't regard my VTDI as a "multi-fx" in commonly used bass-player parlance. But it does leave me wondering which of the so called "pre-amp" pedals you would agree on being a true pre-amp and which ones you would regard as being merely an EQ with tonal colour added? E.g. Noble, Tech 21 plethora (Q Strip, VTDI, BDDI, dUg DP-3X etc.) MXR M81, DG plethora (AO, B7K, X Ultra), EBS Microbass 2, 3, Stanley Clarke etc
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I sense that @ped has taken the concept of "being on the shelf" to a whole new level.
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Interesting one. Would you say the same thing about an iPhone?
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I felt it was a pretty disappointing review by Juan of the SY1 - he does seem to be a bit hit and miss. I actually prefer the reviews done by the BasstheWorld crew, both entertaining and surprisingly informative.
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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2021?
Al Krow replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
I find the 3 light tuner on B1-4 to be incredibly whelming! But that pedal was my best gear purchase of 2020, which trumped two basses and a Barefaced cab, so probably entirely inappropriate to be still going on (and on and on!) about it a year later... 😁 -
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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2021?
Al Krow replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
I may have just acquired the other half of that once amazing rig that you began dismantling by plundering the amp from. So who is jinxing who now? 😁 -
Particularly liked the bit right at the end from 3.24 onwards. Love the story of you hearing that tone and thinking "yup that's what I want!"
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We definitely need to your hear your clips! 🙂
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The preamp / EQ / DI / headphone amp is down to a really good value £125 at GAK. If it can deliver that bottled 'valve' tone @gobasserk shared in his clips of his DB500H (and I'm assuming there shouldn't be any reason it won't?) then I agree it's a very tempting proposition! Only thing holding me back is I've got a Tech 21 VTDI sitting on my board already, but it might be neat to have this as a standalone pedal to slip into the gig bag...
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Haha - we maybe need @Chienmortbb to put us out of our misery and share what he thinks the slope is! The Veyron is certainly an amazing value bit of kit and if it's delivering 18dB/octave cut below 30Hz, well that works for me.
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It does blur at the edges though as the Q-strip also includes HPF and LPF, albeit not sweepable, whereas it provides a variable/sweepable dual-band mid EQ which the RE/Q doesn't. I was just using the Q Strip as one example of preamp/EQ with DI, obviously there are loads of others similarly featured with a DI e.g. MXR M81 or the excellent value Laney DB-Pre. And then you have something like the Boss EQ 200 which is a 'pure' EQ and doesn't. I'd be interested in whether folk consider the RE/Q to be closer to a classic pedal 'preamp' or a 'pure' EQ of the Boss EQ 200 variety? My hunch is that it may add a little Genzler Magellan tonal colour and would therefore fall into the 'preamp' category, but I'm looking forward to hearing the OP's review when he's had a chance to put one through its paces. In which case @rmorris's point about it lacking a DI out would be spot on.
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What you're saying makes very good sense. It seems that 'preamp' pedals will typically have a DI out whereas 'pure' EQ pedals less commonly so. Although at exactly what point an EQ pedal decides it's a preamp is an interesting one! I guess a 'transparent' preamp is basically an EQ and introducing tonal colour marks the transition to being a preamp. The Tech 21 Q Strip, which does have a DI and which I suspect would be a competitor to the Genzler, markets itself as both.
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But if an amp can comfortably deliver a higher wattage at 4ohm and the cab can receive it, is there any real downside? You mention headroom, but surely the quid pro quo with a 4 ohm cab is you don't need to dial the amp as much to get the same volume, so doesn't the current headroom point come out in the wash? I've heard folk describe 4 ohm cabs as allowing their amps to "breathe" more comfortably. Is that just wishful thinking?
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Thanks very much for that - appreciated! I'm reading approx +3dB at 30Hz and down to -12dB at 15Hz: allowing for my error looks like a very respectable 12dB/octave HPF cut.
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Hah, it's not your SY-1 I'm after! 😁
