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Resurrecting this thread just to say I just got one and think it's decent, good value for money. I wrote a bit of a review that's copied below from another thread. This is a good video showing how it sounds: EQ: 3 band with sweepable mids is good. Has it's own footswitch (for preamp: Vol and EQ), clicked 'off' isn't mute - it's the preamp section bypassed. Drive: It sounds best to me on subtle low setting and using the clean blend, as good as any low-gain 'always on' type mild overdrive I've used. It has it's own footswitch and can be turned on while the preamp switch is turned off if you want to run overdrive with no EQ (or volume) changes. Noise reduction: with adjustable decay/threshold. IRs: It's a shame that it needs to be hooked up to a computer (or someone on Talkbass has made an app) to change IR. The IR is on even with both footswitches set to 'off', there are toggle switches to turn the IR off to each of the outputs though. Preamp tones: I guess that it's not exactly doing the 'Preamp' thing in terms of emulating something like a SVT or B-15 tone for me at the moment but I'm hoping the right Amp downloads will do that fairly well - It looks like you download Amps that can be controlled by the preamp controls and then use IRs mostly for the Cab sims, but I think as it takes 3rd party IRs you could potentially put whatever you want there (I haven't touched the firmware or made any changes yet - considering the points raised on Talkbass noted below I'll wait a while). DI/Connections: Connections are very useful - particularly that the 'XLR' (with pre/post preamp and ground lift switches) and 'Output' can each individually be set for IR on/IR off and there's a 'Through' too, and can record to a Laptop via USB (and do things like re-amping). Also Aux in and headphone out, not with their own volume controls though. Quality: Decent sound quality and no hissing or crackling, feels solidly built. Value: Considering it costs £120 vs alternatives it seems very good value. Talkbass has a big thread (24 pages so far) https://www.talkbass.com/threads/new-bass-preamp-pedal-from-nux.1442434/page-24#post-25662209 ...beware of updating the firmware if you don't want to change the EQ curves and Drive settings.

Nice one, I've checked that thread and it also seems that updating the firmware might not be the best move for everyone as it can't be taken back and adds more gain to the drive and changes the eq curves.

My early impressions of the NUX MLD are that it's good. EQ: 3 band with sweepable mids is good. Has it's own footswitch (for preamp - vol and EQ), clicked 'off' isn't mute - it's the preamp section bypassed. Drive: Perhaps the drive at high gain could sound better (personal taste though), it sounds good to me on subtle low setting and using the clean blend though, as good as any low-gain 'always on' type mild overdrive I've used. It has it's own footswitch and can be turned on while the preamp switch is turned off if you want to run overdrive with no EQ (or volume) changes. Aux in and headphone out: Not with their own volume controls though. Quality: Decent sound quality and no hissing or crackling, feels solidly built. Noise reduction: Built in adjustable noise reduction decay/threshold. IRs: This is the main thing that lets it down a bit - it's a shame that it needs to be hooked up to a computer to change IR (a small toggle switch to go between 3 would be plenty for me and would make it a great pedal). If I have the current IR turned on and run a Fuzz pedal into it beforehand the highs get muffled (as with running a fuzz into a BDDI with sansamp preamp/drive engaged, or any other time I've used fuzz into a preamp with anything other than mild preamp settings so it's not unique to this pedal) so it'd be handy to be able to turn off the IR via footswitch but the IR is on even with both footswitches set to 'off' (I'm hoping there is some way via the software to set it so that the preamp 'off' switch also turns the IR off, but I don't think it can), there are toggle switches to turn the IR off to the different outputs though. DI: Connections are very useful. Preamp tones: I guess that it's not exactly doing the 'Preamp' thing in terms of emulating something like a SVT or B-15 tone at the moment but I'm hoping the right IRs will do that fairly well. Value: Considering it costs £120 vs alternatives it's very good value. It seems like pedals that tick similar boxes as DI/Overdrive/Preamp/IR loader are things like the Strymon Iridium (£380) Darkglass Ultra pedals (>£360) which possibly are better but I'm not sure they are 3x better. If fact, they seem to be missing one potentially very useful feature of the NUX which is the fact IRs can be separately switched on/off for 'XLR' (which also has pre/post preamp switch) and 'Output' and there's also clean 'Through' output. So potentially the 'Through' can be used to send a clean signal to your Amp/Cab while 'Output' can send an IR affected signal (or not) to a mixer or FRFR speaker, and the XLR can send yet another signal (pre/post preamp and IR/no IR) to FOH mixer/audio interface etc. Can also record directly to a Laptop via USB with different settings (clean/affected/reamping) ....and if you really wanted to go for it could also use the headphone output so it's pushing out 5x outputs at the same time! I mostly just wanted a simple pedal for end-of pedal chain volume control and EQing that could be used as a DI if needed, it works great as that. The main competitor seems to be the MXR M81 - but that costs more at > £150 (but it does have a smaller footprint and perhaps a bit tougher build quality) so even if the NUX only did the DI/EQ things it'd be a tough call between that and the MXR, the fact it also does all the other things too I think make it very good value.

No offence to Jazz Bass' (I have a Jazz Bass type thing and think they're great) but as their look hasn't changed much in 60 years aren't they willfully dated/traditional now? ...in which case I think the sunburst is what I picture as the traditional Jazz bass colours and is probably what I'd go for whereas if I was getting something modern like a Dingwall Combustion I'd go for some completely different more modern look like these (which I don't think would really work with a Jazz Bass).

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Big fan of P.U.T.S. This one (and the whole album) is pretty much compulsory at a BBQ

He seems to do alright for himself- any pedal released sells out almost instantly, I am keen to try one at some point as he must be doing somethign right! I suppose its good that he doesn't do the usual thing of either put up his prices or scale-up production, doesn't make getting the pedals easy though.

"and who goes in on a Friday?"

Nice one, am just giving that a listen now- good stuff.

....new pedal today, EBS Black Haze, sounds marginally different (lower gain) to my MXR Brown Acid. Sounds best to actually be parallel blended with the Brown Acid and add some clean blend - just to make the difference even more marginal!

I really do! I'm sort of half serious- if I got a multi FX that did everything just as well as individual pedals it'd be great but there would be a pedal gap in my life that I'd have to fill practicing Bass!

Kabaka Pyramid & Medisun 'Natural High'

Alborosie 'For the Culture'

The big disadvantage of really good multi-fx is not having an excuse to faff around playing pedal Tetris and buying and selling pedals that are just marginally different!

An impulse (response) decision but I've just gone and bought the NUX. Will report back!

That ticks a lot of boxes, and there are additional things like an adjustable noise gate https://www.nuxefx.com/melvin-lee-davis.html there's a lot going on. My couple of reservations are: The Bass and Treble EQ frequencies seem very narrow range and are quite low/high leaving big gaps in the EQable frequencies, that area around 60-150Hz is one I think I'd want to be able to EQ. Also 12db is a bit mild. Perhaps it works well though, I guess the designers know what they are doing and set it like that for good reasons. It needs to be plugged in for firmware updates/laptop drivers installed etc. not a big deal but it almost always annoys me as there is usually some sort of faff and it makes pedals seem a bit like they have a limited life- like phones/laptops that are only supported with updates for a few years then one day your new version of windows decides it'll never communicate with the pedal again. I assume you need to plug into a computer to select which IR is being used so I'd probably end up just using one rather than connecting to a Laptop every time I want to switch between them (if I'm plugging into a Laptop I might as well use a DAW for a lot more control). I'm tempted though, for the price it seems hard to beat.

Doodle is an easy way of checking when people are available- people just need to follow the link you set up and tick boxes for the dates they are available https://doodle.com/en/ And Teamup is a shared calendar once you have the dates organised https://www.teamup.com/

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Redman's still got it:

Nice resurrection. I'm into hip hop, which reminds me:

I'd say the Bass on that is fairly clean - the distorted wah type sound is from the guitars. You could do something similar with a Bass though, probably needs distortion + Wah and perhaps an digital Octaver pedal that does an octave up. A multi-FX like the Zoom B1-4X is probably a good starting point to get a feel for what each effect does before buying individual specific pedals.