The 4 On The Floor low gain drive unit is very versatile and has a HPF and LPF which makes it very adaptive to feed into other pedals. It has switchable hi and lo gain too and can really enhance a signal chain.
Posted this ovwr on TB but thought I’d ask here too…
I heard some say that the Fifteen is very addictive and playing along with IEM’s to prerecorded audio the bass and saturation just dissolves into the mix (my way of describing this is very food related thinking like “soul stock cube” or “bass roux”) The saturation fattens and thickens things and the tone blends into the whole ensemble.
Have 15 owners found this to be a fair description of what’s happening with this pedal? I’ve always fancied trying the SV but the fifteen feels like it would suit my band (and playing style) better adding thickness without needing the brighter top end. As an example I run a ‘Four on the Floor low gain drive pedal with the HF dials back to about 2.4/2.8kHz for that type of reduced bite up top.
I’d happily gig with just the one pedal as ultimately all I need is one bass tone. I did just get a modded Box Of War in the recent Wren and Cuff mystery sale (and it is a low mid monster- every time I’ve used it on a gig I’m immediately pulled back to big full on 90’s/00’s muff bass tones… I digress)
I suppose I’d add a compressor and maybe a drive unit/BOW just to have some additional dirt flavour but I’m confident from what I’ve heard it can be set to respond well to dynamics so that would be fun getting more grind as you dig in or use a pick if the notion took?
It’s more that I simply don’t need it 😀
I have a cab m with loads of great IR’s (really like the Mesa cabs pack) which really sound great for FOH/IEM mixes!
Ultimately there’s just the fear of pedal board ego death. If one pedal can do what I need then everything else is redundant which I’ve loving and painstakingly curated over a few years.
But yeah I’ll likely just buy one in jan when my Monzo 1p saving challenge finishes.
I might even nab the matching compressor too.
Some of the captures/ models built in and a heap of captures from users on the cortex cloud.
Same goes for IRs. You can upload your favs and save them/use them on the device
Here’s a list of the bass specific built in gear. There’s a Loveyone Meatball filter too and some nice reverbs There are of course heaps of guitar specific drives, amps and cabs you can experiment with as well!