sansamp psa 1/1.1

[0175westwood29]

these units sound wicked!

but by the looks of it are stupidly expensive!?

but i can save up for that i can't find a video or anything that says about how the midi thing works you can store sounds i get that well the patches anyway, but is there a way of taking it out or does it have to be on the whole time? as i like the clean sound of my amp and if i can would run this before it.

or am i better going for a norm sansamp? but i dnt think they sound the same at all!

andy

[Wolverinebass]

Well, they're not cheap. You won't find one for less than £500 if you're going for new. 2nd hand maybe £290 if you're lucky. There aren't really that many sold on ebay.

Depends what you want to use it for really. If you want loads of different types of distortion then that's great. If you only want say one or 2 then it's just total overkill.

The midi switching is covered in the manual. It's not that difficult to work out if you sit down with it.

If you want to preserve the clean sound of your amp, put the PSA in the loop. There are 2 bypass channels on it so you can remove it from the signal chain if you wish to.

[0175westwood29]

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='1075582' date='Jan 2 2011, 06:39 PM']Well, they're not cheap. You won't find one for less than £500 if you're going for new. 2nd hand maybe £290 if you're lucky. There aren't really that many sold on ebay.

Depends what you want to use it for really. If you want loads of different types of distortion then that's great. If you only want say one or 2 then it's just total overkill.

The midi switching is covered in the manual. It's not that difficult to work out if you sit down with it.

If you want to preserve the clean sound of your amp, put the PSA in the loop. There are 2 bypass channels on it so you can remove it from the signal chain if you wish to.[/quote]

well at the minute i would probs need about 4 or 5? but i maybe joining a covers band so i will probs need a few more than that. you know original bands sounds then some to fit the covers.

cool about the bypass.

is there a massive dif between the 1 and the 1.1?

andy

[Mr. Foxen]

I had mine up for sale for £250 for ages and it didn't go, gave in and ebayed it, made nearly that much. They don't go for much when they do come up, so keep an eye out. Good unit, overkillfor my purpose when I have a VT bass and it covers me.

[Wolverinebass]

The difference between the 1 and 1.1 is that the 1.1 has twice as many locations to save and has an on/off button, as well as the "afterburner" zone on the input gain which is a lo cut/high boost function.

I gave serious thought to buying Mr Foxen's, but what put me off was that it was 110V, had it not been I would have bitten his hand off for it. Changing out the transformer sounded too problematic so I just saved up and got one new.

Mr Foxen is quite correct as well that they don't come up that often either because not that many people have them or that nobody wants to sell them. I watched Ebay for 4 months and there wasn't one that went for less than £290 whch was more than I was going to pay for one 2nd hand.

[0175westwood29]

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='1076770' date='Jan 3 2011, 09:01 PM']The difference between the 1 and 1.1 is that the 1.1 has twice as many locations to save and has an on/off button, as well as the "afterburner" zone on the input gain which is a lo cut/high boost function.

I gave serious thought to buying Mr Foxen's, but what put me off was that it was 110V, had it not been I would have bitten his hand off for it. Changing out the transformer sounded too problematic so I just saved up and got one new.

Mr Foxen is quite correct as well that they don't come up that often either because not that many people have them or that nobody wants to sell them. I watched Ebay for 4 months and there wasn't one that went for less than £290 whch was more than I was going to pay for one 2nd hand.[/quote]

looks like ill have to keep an eye out then. dnt need it at the minute but if i see one ill get it.

andy