MrDinsdale

Totally forgot about my Boss Katana:Go! Its pretty great, perfect for noodling or playing along to stuff while the child is distracted and I get a few mins. Shame it got discontinued after the 1st batch pretty much due to supply chain issues. It does make me sad that its even more unlikely to receive future quality of life improvements too, not that Boss are well known for high software update cadence.

Finally get to have a play with the DCX Bass, loving the EQ mode for some light touch tone sculpting 👌

EAE Model Fet + EAE Dagger (or pretty much any mid to high gain drive). Also the Origin Cali76 and DCX Bass compliment each other wonderfully. If I ever wanted a mini board I thing it'd be all 4 + a tuner. Tuner > Cali76 > Dagger > DCX > Model Fet Perfection 👌

They both sound excellent and definitely on the same ballpark as the Rusty Box. The bonus is that the boost is far more usable on these, the Rusty Box has such a big increase in level when you activate the boost its virtually unusable as anything other than an always on.

Best purchase was the Quad Cortex by far. Worst was the Walrus Audio Canvas tuner. Great tuner but bought it just before the QC which rendered it mostly useless.

Well the QC is back off my desk and on the board again. I love having the pedals to play with but definitely missed having the scenes etc configured. Wanna get into the QC looper too 👌 I may at some point bump up to a RB4.1-4.2 to make more space for pedals but for now this is a perfect balance of having my favourites and still being pretty compact. The Gojira clean amp is great for bass too 👌

I'm really loving the Gojira Clean amp for bass at the moment. Had a play to see if I could dial in some nice tones without looping any physical pedals or captures in which I usually rely on a bit and very impressed. I'm definitely going to make more effort to utilise the models rather than reaching straight for a capture. It helped settle my mind to not bother with a Nano Cortex.

I am very interested in how it handles lower gain for a little extra clank. The Cosmic Trigger and how in handles the boost does sound like a big improvement though.

PS I'm curious if anyone has hands-on experience with the Rusty Box and the Moose Cosimic Trigger or the other Traynor/Bob Weston in a box type pedals?

Got a Rusty Box for a good price. It was supposed to be the newer 9v version, but when it arrived, it was the older 24v centre positive one. Real pain to power and was about to return it but my mate wants it for his studio. I get to create lots of captures on the Quad Cortex before I hand it over, though, so win-win!

I didn't, although I have Nolly and Gojira, and both fave stuff that sounds great for bass. The clean amps with some tweaking are pretty usable.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome how much stuff is available and for a great price. It's made for interesting reading, too. I need to experiment more with vsts. I'm pretty happy with stuff I'm doing on the QC, but stuff like the space echo would be fun. Will be following!

Looks like a cool setup! I can't help but notice you've had a few different setups from multifx to dedicated pedals. What's the driver for moving to this setup? Is it just experimentation, or is it a specific problem to solve? I've been blown away by some of the vst effects, amp sims, and captures available. My mate was using his Steam Deck as a little portable practice rig with a tonex one. it's a great time to be nerdy and into effects 🤣

Same with the Capo, loved A, B felt redundant. That sounds excellent 👌 Yeah split keyboards and all the monitors is the way to go 🤣