dave_bass5

Its almost like there isnt any music left in the signal. Just as well I’m not in to that type of tone. As long as i can get a tiny bit of OD colouring thats all ill need. My AS will supply the magic :-) EDIT: Just noticed a couple of other videos from the same source. Dear me, they really arent selling this thing well IMO. Even the off tone sounds poor.

Another YT video. Not my cup of tea at all, but i know its capable of a lot more.

Gear 4 Music. I probably use them more than I should these days lol.

Right, all ordered. The Spectradrive should be here sometime next week. I was surprised to see the price drop once i went through to the Payment options. The cost of the unit itself was only £186, plus £7.99 delivery. Im quite pleased with that. i will of course post back with my thoughts once ive had a play with it.

Yeah ive done that now. Hopefully anyone that did see it will also see more than one of us saying no one here has it after that was posted. Logic will say that includes me as well.

Thanks Dad. Well i do apologise to the mods for my small outburst last night. Had I realised i had posted using the wrong word in one (and only one) of my posts (thanks for pointing that out Bas) I would have corrected it immediately to avoid any more confusion.

It does seem like a different gig culture over there. Blue’s posts on here seem to show there are types of gigs that we don’t really encounter over here much.

I’m struggling to get the Helix tone print to work with it, but other than that its all good :-)

No one here has one, thats what we have been talking about recently.

And looking on Talkbass you’d be lead to believe all bass players are American lol.

Well it says ready for imidiate dispatch. I also found this YT video. This guy already has one.

By the way, Sweetwater have it in stock now, so hopefully we will start seeing soem real world reviews.

And lets face it, who doesn’t already own a tuner.

Ill agree with that. There are quite a few of these type of boxes already out, and the one thing that puts me off is they are all trying to do so much. Ok, the SD could have had more things on it, but when to stop? A tuner would have been good, but that would involve a display of some kind, which I’m sure would push the cost up and maybe make the box larger. the thing that jumped out of Rome was that it offerese just what I need, in a box the size I want, with an effect I’m already using so wont lose out by replacing it with the SD. It’s still way under the cost of the Darkglas Ultra boxes, and for me at least, much more usable in more than one situation. .

Yeah, and I have no idea what a TC OD sounds like, as I’ve never used any of their dirt boxes or heads. At least it has its own footswitch so can be turned off.

Ive just been to many times to find it interesting now. It’s a great place to visit every now and then though. My old band used to play a Christmas party in the American hanger. We did it 3 years on the trot. As you can imagine the acoustics were not ideal. Back the the SD. I won’t find lack of tone prints an issue, as I’m quite happy with the stock SC TonePrints if it comes to it. I’m sure there will be others once the pedal has been out for a while. I’ll be interested to hear what the OD section can do though, but im not expecting much.

Yeah, I’d like to read a bit more about it first. If only to see what the cons are. Im very impatient though, and about to spend the afternoon at RAF Duxford, so might get bored and push the buy now lol.

Just went back to G4M and it looks like they are shipping them direct from Sweeden, with £7.99 delivery charge. Looks like someone has already ordered one as the number has gone down I have it in my basket already but will hold off for a bit as I’d rather not pay that much for delivery. I expect by the middle of the month other places will have them in stock.

Pretty much agree with all that. Just a hair of dirt is all I’ll need from the SD, and the AS can supply the real dirt. Just going off topic a bit, I tried the Tap tempo with the AS yesterday. Very impressed. It turns the AS in to almost 2 separate pedals. An always on mild dirt, plus a full on (or anything you want) dirt pedal. Thanks to the tones being two channel. Not bad for £20

I’ve taken my SPECTRACOMP off my board at the moment. It was getting too cluttered and I was hitting my phaser and AS at the same time. Having more specs has helped. If the SD can replace the VTBass DI as the always on preamp, supplying EQ and comp, then that’s a win win for me. I don’t need to use the VTBas, it’s just there at the moment because I’ve not used it for ages so fancied a change. Plus I want some from of EQ at the start of the chain. Where the comp sits in the SD signal chain is really how I use my SC anyway, so that’s good. The downsides will come if I want to use it at home. Ironically this was my intended use for it, but it now doesn’t seeem practical as having the headphone out at the start of my board will mean bypassing the other effects. Still, I can use just the SD at home I suppose, I don’t tend to go all out with using all my effects when just learning songs etc.

Glad it’s not just me that finds the Spectracomp as usable as the much more expensive Cali. I also find the SC has a bit more life in it under certain situations. Not surprising as it has a lot more control under the hood. Mine doesnt make a strange noise when turned on and off. Maybe it’s down the the TonePrint in use.

I just heard back from TC. Not much help really. They went and looked on G4M’s website and said it looks like they should have them in 1-2 weeks. To me that doesn’t sound like an official confirmation, although they didn’t mention any hold up either, so fingers crossed. I have a space on my board that needs a Spectradrive. At the moment it’s got a VTBas DI in it.

Yeah, i just sent them a message on FB to ask if the G4M time frame is accurate. If it is then ill order one. Ill let you know what they say.

Yeah, same here. If it was definite I’d take a gamble, I think they state just under a 2 week delivery time, but i feel this could change once the order is placed if TC arent actualy shipping yet. I read on Talkbass that Sweetwater are saying June for thier batch. Not sure how accurate that is or if it effects us, but its worrying.

I saw that as well, but on closer instpection its actualy in stock at TC’s warehouse in Sweden that they are showing. I had thought about risking it but will wait until its in stock in the UK.