Fionn Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Highly versatile bass distortion pedal that is the result of a design collaboration between MXR and Ryan Ratajski of Fuzzrocious. It’s based on a RAT circuit, tweaked for bass, and with enhanced control and clipping diode options. It’s a RAT, sure enough, but without the obvious limitations of the original. This one retains your low end, even without any dry blend dialled in. There are two clipping modes, LED & silicone. The former being more open and throaty with good mid presence, and the latter being more thick and intense. It covers a lot of ground, especially given the separate dry and wet level controls. It stacks very well too, in various ways. My personal preference was to use it in the lower gain range in LED mode with the tone control open and the signal full wet. Very natural sounding, responding well to playing dynamics. You can hear this setting at the end of both demos I linked below. It goes into the brutal range too, absolutely no doubt. And if you want even more gain, there’s an internal trim pot that can be cranked. Like I said … it’s very versatile. Product blurb here … https://www.jimdunlop.com/mxr-bass-distortion/ Demo here … https://youtu.be/WJXXePJLE2U Another demo here … https://youtu.be/yc6EMg9dKZc The pedal works perfectly. Will post 1st class recorded (UK only) for an extra fiver. Trades: Always interested in dirt … What you got? Edited March 24, 2022 by Fionn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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