SumOne

I have had the Paradriver, and tried compressors before and after.... but to be honest I think the only thing for it is to try for yourself because unless you have the same playing style/Bass/strings & setup/other pedals/amp/cab and tastes as me then my opinions aren't going to be worth much to you. To also help turn up the GAS though, the BC-1X (or other Compressor pedals) will give you more control over compression than just using the Paradriver, especially if you want low drive clean settings on the Paradriver but with a lot of compression. Generally though, as @ped said, how much the Paradriver compresses depends on how much drive is used- so if you use a lot of drive then a seperate compressor is perhaps not as worthwhile as if you use it relatively clean, and as the video you posted says - there are certain advantages/disadvantages with a seperate compressor being placed before/after drive. If a compressor is going to be worthwhile then there is the massive choice of compressors and it depends on what sort of control you want, and what 'flavours' of compression. I've found it to be a very deep inter-connected rabbit hole once also considering how different setups interact. Buy/sell second hand on Basschat and it isn't too costly (at least, that's what I tell myself!).

Yeah, that makes sense. £159 at DV247 looks a good deal. I'm still on the fence though. A bit of a negative guitar review here, good reviews here and here. Negateve Talkbass thread about the UA Max clipping issue, but someone on a Talkbass thread that has a Cali 76, and Hyper Luminal, AND two of the original 1176 and highly rates the new UAFX 1176.

Is that how it works though? (Genuine question, I don't know). Can a company basically put a digital VST plugin into a digital pedal? The pedal doesn't have the same processor, RAM, digital architecture etc as a computer (although I guess some of the expensive multi fx might). Isn't it equivalent to 'Mercedes make good F1 engines so the new Mercedes van will have a good engine'. As far as I know, the Cali 76 gets very close to the real deal in analogue pedal form.

Yeah, I've had similar - digital overdrives/distortions and compressors (and octavers and envelope filters) never quite match up to their analogue counterparts for me, digital modulation and delays are great though. To just listen to two sound clips A/B it's be very had to tell the difference with many, but actually playing them there seems to be a very slightly different feel - something a bit uncanny, perhaps too uniform/predictable without subtle quirks, perhaps a tiny delay due to processing time, sample rates not being high enough to completely fool you into thinking it's the same as analogue, or perhaps that the emulation just reacts and sounds a bit different? Or probably the most likely is my personal bias and preconceptions! I thought the Source Audio Atlas was really good - the thing that let it down for me wasn't the sound, it was the hardware (fiddly 'alt' button to access controls for a few seconds - wait a second too long and you end up adjusting the wrong thing, not great for live tweaking), so I'm certainly not against digital compressors in principle.

Joe sold me a Source Audio C4 pedal and all was good - arrived quickly, well packaged, all as described and working well. Thanks!

Little Boss board: This is probably about as far as I'm gonna go with my Boss fad. I've got the AW-3 for sale, a C4 will cover for this and an OC5 that @Al Krow kindly let me borrow. The C4 will ruin the Boss aesthetic but gets the job done in one pedal. My Amp has decent EQ/Drive/DI so I don't really need those things as a pedal, would be nice to stomp on some distortion though so perhaps an ODB-3 or a BB-1X at some point.

I've never been too fussed about Bass pedals having XRL DI (mostly as I always use Amp/CAb and ocasionally also Amp DI to PA) but aren't the supposed problems: phantom power could cause damage to the Stomp, possible ground loop - need a ground lift, and line level signals over long cable lengths can pickup interferance? I just ran into interferance problems with a line level keyboard output to a mixer so bought a passive XLR DI box which fixed it.

After a lot of pedal and multi-fx buying/selling (inluding Stomp, and Boss Core) I'd now agree with this.....although might change my mind in 6 months! If just needing a few basic things like tuner, EQ/DI, Drive, then there's a lot to be said for just having a few individual hands-on/foot-on pedals that are 'what you see is what you get' and avoiding complexity wherever possible. Or something like this:

Nice! Seeing as the Origin Effects Cali 76 (about £280) basically replicates the original 1970's Universal Audio Urei 1176 in pedal form (http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/cali76.shtml), and now Universal Audio themselves are making a 1176 in a pedal available at GAK for £178 it seems a bargain........However, that's if it works as hoped and a company isn't just trading off the good name of past glories. It isn't analogue, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but there are plenty of digital emulations about so it all depends on how good the emulation is. Unfortunately, the Universal Audio Max Compressor (which I assume uses the same software) has this negative Bass review: https://www.compressorpedalreviews.com/post/universal-audio-max-compressor-review but perhaps that is because of the preamp making Bass signals clip, the 1176 and LA2A don't have that preamp so perhaps don't have the same issue. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/universal-audio-max-dual-compressor-preamp-pedal.1603504/page-8

I'm also listening to something from 1980, Steel Pulse album 'Caught You' which has this on it:

Pretty much all my favourite songs have a bassline hook, it's one of the many advantages to liking dub music!

^^ Keep an eye out for the confusing naming of the EBS BassIQ (there are two different ones for sale, both called BassIQ, the 'blue label' one has the extra features and costs more).

If you're anything like me it is a never ending journey rather than destination! The M82 is a good start as it gives a lot of control (pay about £90 second hand) but is only 'up' sweep and bandpass, there are other envelope filter types: The EBS BassIQ blue label does up/down sweep, and bandpass/lowpass so is a good way of hearing those different things. They are both available in the effects for sale section right now. 'Good' Envelope filters are quite a personal choice though and can sound quite different with different playing styles/strings/pickups/other pedals etc. so I'd buy/sell second hand on here to try quite a few out and you don't lose much £.

Turn the 'enhance' knob right down on the LMB-3, it's a hiss enhancer!

I wasn't expecting the £13 sub zero DI to be quite so small! Cute little thing! I've only used at home so far but seems good quality and does what it's supposed to do.

Tony bought a tuner pedal: good communications & quick payment, all good! Thanks.