bassman7755

I think the first camp in exists large part because in times past (say 20 to 30 years ago) it was the only economically viable one for most people unless you were going to say import some Acme LowB's at eye watering cost. Of course some people like the sound of "bass" speakers (the intended audience of the BF 10 range) but I'm not one of them, I want my bass to sound like it does though headphone or my computer/studio setup floor standers which I use when practicing. The other point is that many people who think they need the bass speaker sound probably don't once they have heard a properly setup and EQed FRFR type setup and there are a whole bunch of advantages that come with this such as your DI (and thus monitors and FoH) having the same tone as what you are hearing.

Well its £25 so not the end of the world if true. Also the caps in the pics of the unit are 63v so it would be a pretty elaborate scam.

Yes in practical terms this is very true, I've just been looking for an excuse to have a tinker trying to build my own as cheaply as possible. I think the thing is theres a certain satisfaction you get from doing something yourself even if it doesn't make economic sense, for example I bought a complete set of re-fretting tools including a gizmo to pre bend fret wire to the right radius all to be able to re-fret (one partially, one completely) two basses, probably cost me far more than paying someone to do it.

Yeah been watching a few youtube vids of people bench testing various modules, the worst offenders seem to be blessed with fake voltage regulators which over heat and marginally specced caps (50v). I've pulled the trigger on a module with 60v caps so now I just have to wait for the boat from china ...

The tune tone control on the RH450 does much the same job - adds a grittiness through the whole dynamic range. I'm pretty sure thats what they modelled it from (having previously owned an SVP pro ...).

TC RH450 - does both types of music: rock AND roll. Seriously though its essentially an SVT soundalike in a small formfactor with a great compressor and tuner built in. Its a bit of one trick pony though, doesn't do clean / hifi at all.

Seems a lot of the boards have a bridging option but reading between the lines this seems to involve running both channels in parallel to be able to go down to 2 ohm rather than the more usual opposite phase setup, still I guess it doesn't do any harm.

The 1% THD graph shows you can get 100w and change into 8ohm at 48v which would probably translate to a decently useful pedal board amp for monitoring / rehearsal perhaps paired with a PSU something like this https://docs.rs-online.com/2729/A700000007590264.pdf. With a higher current PSU you would have to option of running 2 speakers and probably getting gigable level output.

I think all these "ebay special" mini amps are based on single chip switched mode amps like TPA3255 as @Phil Starr says, they perform very decently according to various reviews I've read with the limiting factor being the power supply rather than the amp itself. Very tempted to give one a go. Another decent looking one is this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355582766811?itmmeta=01HYFTFC2VWKW18NHKQN7HRDAK

I dont think you mentioned what amp it is that your actually trying to capture ?

There isnt much I grew up on that I dont like anymore. If anything listening to old classics often reveals riches I didnt appreciate at the time e.g. Micheal Anthony's bass playing on early van halen albums, or the bluesyness of Angus Youngs playing to name some random ones.

Noone is handing out medals for forcing yourself to listen to stuff you dont like. I've been through phases where I felt I ought to be listening to things will more cultural significance (Bowie etc) and/or musical sophistication (Jazz), but at some point I thought sod that and went back to AC/DC ...

All right now is one of my favourite songs ever to play, original bass work on it is superb (sadly the vast majority of people I see cover this song have obviously never sat down and really listened to it to do it justice ...).

I get the sense of underutilisation of a multi effects but it is irrational because the marginal cost of adding extra effects to a digital unit is tiny so of course they are going to thow in everything they think anyone might concievably want just like most phones and computer come with loads of stuff on them that most people never use. Digital units that do just one effect are actually the illogical choice because they will have generic DSP hardware internally anyway - just running one effect instead of many. I realise the OP was talking about analogue seperates but I see no reason to use analogue audio processing in this day and age (with the possible exception of valve power amps, but even there its getting iffy).

It will work and gets good reviews from guitarists BUT ... guitar needs a lot less power amp headroom than bass so there is a question mark around whether it would be loud enough for live band bass applications (if thats what you had in mind).