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Any updates form folks who have been using this out live?

Slightly changed things up as I’ve added the Pork&Pickle and Taurus Servo to my board. The Pork&Pickle is doing low gain duties as my always on drive and it’s first in line (after the tuner). I did try the Pork&Pickle after the preamp but it just sounded better before it. I’d placed a MojoMojo there recently and as good as it is the Pork & Pickle is more pleasing overall and it stacks really well with my heavier drive - they do sound glorious together! There’s very little going on settings wise but the tone control sounds great across its sweep and I’m hearing more in the midrange - maybe because it’s a bass specific pedal but it edges out the Mojo for me! After my first gig with it (I didn’t tell anyone I’d changed things up) the drummer commented that my bass was sounding great in the mix. I’ve not really tried the fuzz settings with the band but I have fuzz later in the chain. I have used it stand alone messing around at home and it’s classic muffy fuzz! Side note I’ve said this before (I’m sure) but having the Funkulator in the signal chain means I can instantly add in that classic 800hz scoop and it’s like every drive pedal takes on a second voice. It’s no different with the Pork&Pickle and it sounds great with the slight scoop and supportive lows and highs. The Funkulator is a real sleeper pedal on any board and not just for slap tones! The Taurus Servo replaces a Hyper Luminal compressor on the top row which is basically my FOH/IEM pathway (the blue box is my preamp which goes to both FOH and amp). The HL is great and BUS mode adds nice punch but I wanted to add some more character overall to the signal chain for IEM and FOH and toyed with leaving the comp as I’m routing the Pork&Pickle first in the signal chain. Hearing the Servo in this spot ticked all the boxes- some compression and the right amount of saturation in a tiny box! It adds exactly what I wanted right before the CabM+ which just sweetens things before hitting the ears and pa. I’ve the punch switch in position 1 which throws in some bump around 100Hz-300Hz and thickens things up. I did try this standalone into the amp and it’s a powerful unit with the punch in position 2 but again for my needs it sit perfectly in its new spot. At last week’s gig I could really hear the added oomph kicking on the boost side on some tunes and felt the added weight coming out the subs. No one seemed upset by the added low end but I’m always conscious of being too bass heavy in the mix and due to some timing issues everyone was late last weekend, my phone wasn't connecting to the desk for my IEM mix etc so I hope to dial in the IEM sound with levels etc. more closely this Friday - at home playing along on the IEM mix it sounds great. I think I’ll generally keep the Taurus on the ‘blue’ side (not boosted) with punch engaged in position 1 with the Pork&Pickle in low gain settings as described.

Dunlop do a mini expression pedal but I’m not sure you’d get the same sweet silver finish.

It’s all me, me, me with these guitarists😀

I think you may have my old MkV @tayste_2000 think I recognise the serial no. What @Osirissaid about the gain might be something you notice that it goes to a lower of setting than some later versions or it’s just got a quirk in it.

Having watched more videos I actually think this could really be a so single unit to do everything most folk would need. Fast processing, expandable DG ce tric but the NAM stuff means it’s likely to have everything most folk would need and potentially very expandable with plug in based stuff. @tayste_2000 covered it very succinctly. The same way a JHS Punchline would be ideal for a lot of people as a single giggable unit this is like the Punchline 2097!

New update to the nano cortex - 2.0 software which might draw some more bassists who just need a few essentials in a gig bag friendly package with iPad interface. Looks good.

I’d love to try one of these out and hear what it can do. Powerful processing (and I was tempted by the Kaamos recently) but would struggle to really get the most out it playing the set my pub outfit current plays. But in context… Infinity Microtubes £459 Kaamos £389 That would cover (albeit) the DG drive catalogue and one of the better sounding octave units I’ve recently heard. It’s not going to replace my pedals but if I won one I’d love to get it out for a weekends gigging and run it into two channels on the desk.

Ooh the 0xEAE Bass Driver! Loved the demo I heard. Was tempted to seek one out. How you finding it as my thought was lower gain as a preamp rather than a full bore filth unit