Big Low End

The 200h is a bit limited in terms of EQ control compared to the 500h. Having just looked at the (non-Foundry) 210 200w combo I see what you mean, there’s even less control on that one. Other than using your own EQ pedal I doubt there are any solutions. My 200h is ok for rehearsals but on stage I’d only use my 500h for that very reason - better control of the mids.

My band is losing our spacious garden studio (our friend who owns it is moving house soon), and we’ll need to fit into a much smaller garden studio when that happens. I needed something which could still keep up with our drummer but with a tiny footprint and here it is - Laney Digbeth 200h paired with a Warwick Gnome 210. Whole thing is just 305mm wide and is very loud. Not the highest quality speaker but definitely good enough for rehearsals.

Lakland and Fender

I’ve been using an OBNE Signal Blender for a while to blend overdrive, a harsher distortion and a clean signal. Despite trying all the options of the phase buttons, I was never able to quite stop it from sounding a bit muddy/unclear. So I recently looked at all the reviews for the EHX Tri Parallel Mixer and swapped it in. I’m parallel mixing exactly what I was with the OBNE (clean, OD, distortion) but I’m far happier with the clarity of the final signal. I don’t know what it is, whether there’s better management of phasing, but it just sounds better and less muddy. Just my observations in case anyone is considering buying one of the two. With neither pedal was there a loss of low end, it’s just that the EHX seems to do everything with a bit more clarity.

Love the purple GZ so much I had to buy the white one. Pickups are different so I don’t just have two clones.

Best of luck, it might just be something like firmware. Please let us know how you get on.

Sounds like it might have Windows 98 running inside. 😳

I just bought Nigel’s Handbox WB-100, it’s an amazing amp. Great transaction, nice bloke. Thank you Nigel!

Yes it looks the business in the pictures but it’s a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

I’ve had exactly one of these - very flimsy but you can’t tell from the picture. Not recommended I’m sorry to say.

Wise words. For me it’s even worse than “won’t reach”, it’s often a case of thinking I’ve finally attained the tones I always wanted, then something in my brain gradually talks me out of it. Not sure if it’s that I get bored with sounds or that I have a relentless view that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Then I spend a stupid amount of money and the new pedal has to be justified. It sounds fresh and temporarily becomes the pedal which “ends my need for further adjustment of the pedalboard”. And so it goes on, the never-ending cycle. I have two shelves at home cluttered with pedals no longer used. I hope the ME90B is a keeper for you.

Do you feel you’ll remain happy with the ME90B a year from now or do you have a long history of chopping and changing like most bass players and guitarists? If the latter don’t sell those pedals.

Has anyone made a recent video of the various sounds after owning one of these for a few weeks?

Some very usable sounds there (plus the usual complete nonsense sounds you get on all multi fx). I’m impressed by it. If I was in the market for new tones I’d be very tempted. Everything i heard on that video apart from the synth stuff sounded as good as analog pedals to me.