New MXR Bass Preamp! ohhhhhh!

[lou24d53]

Emailed Thomann to see if they would be selling this earlier today as I couldn't see it on their website and they got back to say they will be selling it at €177 - which works out at around £145 - although bear in mind you need to be spending €199 or over to get the free shipping.

[discreet]

Going by those vids it seems to add a bit of reverb, too...

[pendingrequests]

The DI is very appealing. Although I may just go for the SansAmp and combine the DI with a sweet pedal already.

[jassbass]

Ooh I want one

[discreet]

[quote name='such' timestamp='1390491155' post='2345986']
...the Bass control is centred at 40Hz. Everybody seems to be doing that, I think it's too low.
[/quote]

Much too low. The real power of electric bass is around 80-120Hz. In my opinion.

[1976fenderhead]

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1391939897' post='2362727']
According to mxr/ west side rep it is essentially the m80 with no drive and sweep able mids
[/quote]

And without the Color button, which frankly was the best thing about that pedal.

[dave_bass5]

Bugger. More GAS now.

As much as i love my BDDI i dont use it for drive or distortion, and this new MXR looks like it covers everything else.

Looking forward to some real life reviews.

[Me And My Bass]

Has anyone pulled the trigger on one of these yet?

I am looking for a new preamp pedal, want to add this to the list -

Aguilar TH, Sadowsky DI, Radical TB . . . . .

[dave_bass5]

I must admit i was very underwhelmed with the Sadowsky DI when i had it. I felt it was nothing more than a subtle tone boost.
I know others rate it but i wouldn't put it in the same list as the others.

IMO of course.

[dave_bass5]

Just found a thread on Talkbass

http://www.talkbass.com/threads/new-mxr-preamp.1029475/

[0175westwood29]

anyone use this to help mould a dirty signal?

just thinking of something like this at the end of all my pedals to add a bit of eq and bass boost, and its smaller than both the aggie and sansamp di's plus i dnt need the dist from those.

andy

[doctorbass]

Nice DI but seems pretty clean

[hamfist]

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1402682350' post='2475991']
anyone use this to help mould a dirty signal?

just thinking of something like this at the end of all my pedals to add a bit of eq and bass boost, and its smaller than both the aggie and sansamp di's plus i dnt need the dist from those.

andy
[/quote]

I reckon it would be ideal for that.

[Iheartreverb]

How dirty does the M80 and M81 get? Everyone seems the reference the clean sound but in looking at maybe something just on over over breakup as many use a sansamp for

[skej21]

Had a word with the guys from Dunlop who kindly gave me one to try. Really impressive and it's nice that it uses a 9v input and has an internal power double to 18v, so no faffing with about trying to find an 18v power supply or a power brick :-) looks cool and is compact compared to my Aggy TH. Awesome preamp for the money and I reckon I'll be getting one.

Edited June 28, 2014 by skej21