Hi Cetera, I have seen the unit you are talking about at bass direct, to be honest between my dark glass BK7 mkII and my Dug Pinnick pre amp, I can get any tone I want to be honest , I have never struggled to find a tone I would use or need, I recently endeavoured into Head Rush territory, another additional tone manipulator lol, all good though, The head rush is great as you fire a mono signal in to record in stereo out it also lets you use any external preamp as part of the sound too, getting used to that unit, it is very convenient, there is a lot of weapons at your finger tips with that unit, plus it sounds pretty good via most basses, My Rics, The Spector, P bass etc, but the Spector is a stunning bass in every way I think. Once you splash the money for it you have it, no regrets , it is a really confident , well built , superb sounding instrument, but I wish Spector would supply a hard case as standard at that kind of money, very mean I think, that part annoyed me, there should be a case, all you get is a standard gig bag with Spector written on it , not good enough in my eyes. thanks to all for the comments.