la bam Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Hi all, Considering moving to fully rackmount for everything to keep things simple. Has anyone any recommendations for the following in rack form: 1) bass tuner. 2) bass compressor. 3) any multi fx? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perrybassbp Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Line 6 helix rack maybe? it has all of that and plenty more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebassmusic Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 TC Electronics G-Major 2 multi effects processor. Light, 1U, multi fx, compressor, tuner (not wonderful though) and a fraction of the price of the Helix (the Helix are good though ) No distortion or overdrive type sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Helix rack. By a long way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bam Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 Sorry - i just think its way too expensive for what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 15 hours ago, la bam said: Sorry - i just think its way too expensive for what it is. It's cheaper than an SVT head. It can sound like an SVT head. It's lighter than an SVT head. It must do a decent impression of, what, £250,000 of gear if you added up all of the models. Any of it in infinitely variable in any order. To answer your original question, I've used a Peterson Rack Tuner and a Presonus Studio Pre before (which has a great compressor built in), both of which I would highly recommend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bam Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 Yeh, maybe i put that across wrong..... it is great value, but for me you are paying for a lot of guitar stuff in there. If they made a bass only model at half the price id have one in a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 21 hours ago, la bam said: Yeh, maybe i put that across wrong..... it is great value, but for me you are paying for a lot of guitar stuff in there. If they made a bass only model at half the price id have one in a shot. And that's why you are looking at the Helix all wrong. The only bass-specific module I am currently using in any of my patches is there as an "effect" because I like the distortion sound the drive control on one of bass amp models adds to the bass. Most of my patches don't have any amps or cabs at all, because after all an amp (as I keep saying) is just something to make your instrument loud with a baked in sound and some limited EQ adjustments to that baked-in sound. I normally just use one of the EQ modules instead. Same result and usually with more versatility. Where I am using an amp model it's a guitar one - based on the Roland Jazz Chorus combo. For me, this is the big strength of the Helix. You can do what you want. Because everything is digital there's no chance of breaking it, as you could if you used the actual device and expected it to reproduce bass guitar frequencies at gig volumes. The worst thing that will happen is that it simply won't sound very good, in which case simply try another module instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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