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It’s a combination of things, we live in the golden age of gear, it’s never been so abundant, available and to a degree cheap. When I started collecting pedals I was having to get custom buffer/blenders made to use fuzz pedals with active basses. There was a time when I sold all my pedals for a Line 6 M13, it was easy enough to cop decent fx from multis. The issue was amps, but as PAs got bigger and better a lot of us could go ampless. Which made the pedalboard more and more important and bigger and bigger. But until the Anagram the right combination of tone, fx, form factor, method of power and inputs and outputs just didn't exist at least for me. The Quad Cortex came close but it’s still a pretty big device if you've been running a pedaltrain nano for years. In between owning the Quad Cortex (which I hated) and the Anagram I built the board you see (along with additional things) for sale currently. This is where the problem became apparent, that board had like 3 core rigs, 3 sets of pedals I could take to a gig and get through the gig. So practice became this endless loop of comparing them and switching between them, the equivalent of going this song really needs and SVT, ah but this next one needs a Fender Bassman. Then on top of this you have more esoteric sounds that I wont use on a gig but I enjoy having, playing with, using on random songs I learn etc. So the board ends up being pretty large, you pull a few things off to do a gig, realise that no one cares and then comes a long a box, 2/3s the size of your smallest pedalboard, that you can power with your phone charger, that not only does all the combinations your current board but also any crazy signal chain you can imagine, has enough io to run a clean and dirty DI in the studio or work as an IEM mixer live. Then you look at your board and spares, price it up like Shep has, realise you've got 3+k sat there and even if/when you sell all that you’ll still have enough left over to build 2 nanos 😂….. well you end up where I am now.

Does anyone even use an amp these days?

And a year

It’s great, perfect, but it has space for the power supply and it adds about a 1/3 to size of the unit. So I wasn’t able to get that case in my bag but I could easily fit the anagram. I just want something as an alternative that’s as small as possible for chucking in a bag.

Good idea, it’s a bit taller than I would have liked but I’m sure once I’ve got some cables going in and out of it I won’t notice. Still on the hunt for another case, just going to be shoving it in my bag for the next few weeks 😅

Picked up a laptop stand so I can tilt mine on a desk

That’s getting to the size where you’d fit it on my Boss BCB1000 😇 and I say this for no reason at all 😅

Yes it does, it comes with a Royal Blood style preset all down for you

Anagram after I’ve been tone matching against my pedalboard. Its a very samey same video but that’s the point. I’m either using the Leo Bass or the Noble block then I’ve replicated a lot of how I was running my Darkglass Element. My alternative for the Cream Pie is a nam of the origin DCX which isn’t quite doing it. It’s a lovely tone but different. The harmonic boost is probably closer. I have a million ways to arrive at the same thumpy mud now. I’ve not quite nailed the Subdecay Noise Theory but I’m going to just try and capture it instead of replicating it, but at the same time what I have is easily giggable. There is a depth to the punchline I’m not sure I’ve copied yet but again, likely just going to capture it and the new entropia is really really nice.

I had a play with it today and it has a tubey preset/example that I’m loving. Never paid much attention to the multiband distortion outside of the tech21 psa as I thought it was just for those Dingwall playing prog and metal bassists. But there are some nice lightly gritty tones in there. Also some that sound weird af with how rolled of my treble is 😂