Blumes - Earthquaker Devices - Low Signal Shredder

[greentext]

Earthquaker have just released the bass demo for the new Blumes pedal, which is the bass version of the Plumes guitar pedal. Sounds great if you ask me! I used my band mates Plumes guitar pedal on bass before as a test and found it to be awesome if lacking a little low end so this is gonna hit the nail on the head! 

 

 

[stewblack]

I've been excited by this too. The guitar version sounds great on all the demos I've heard 

[greentext]

Yh the Plumes is awesome on bass, and super affordable at £99 when it came out in places, was a lot of bang for little buck, the Blumes seems to be retailing about £120. So a little bit more pricey but still for a solid bass overdrive in the grand scheme for a decent price.

[oltranzista]

Has anyone picked one of these up yet? Mine arrived yesterday and I'm having a few issues with it. According to the demos/handbook using Mode 2 (OPAmp) with gain set below 11 'o'clock should provide a clean boost, but mine stays very distorted all around the dial. I've replicated the exact settings I've seen in online demos and I'm, just not getting anything close to what I've seen. Just wondering if anyone else had any experiences of using it before I get in touch with the shop

[Supernaut]

3 hours ago, oltranzista said:

Has anyone picked one of these up yet? Mine arrived yesterday and I'm having a few issues with it. According to the demos/handbook using Mode 2 (OPAmp) with gain set below 11 'o'clock should provide a clean boost, but mine stays very distorted all around the dial. I've replicated the exact settings I've seen in online demos and I'm, just not getting anything close to what I've seen. Just wondering if anyone else had any experiences of using it before I get in touch with the shop

Are you using an active bass? 

[oltranzista]

Nope. Tried it with a few of my basses (all passive) and still getting the same effect.

[Supernaut]

Defective - send it back then. 

[greentext]

Sorry to hear you are having issues mate, can you get a little video of what you are describing? Be interesting to hear/see what is going on? 

[oltranzista]

I've sent it back now. Shame, as the other two modes worked as expected. I'll report back once I've got a replacement.

[greentext]

5 hours ago, oltranzista said:

I've sent it back now. Shame, as the other two modes worked as expected. I'll report back once I've got a replacement.

that is a shame for sure, hopefully it was just a faulty unit and the next one will sound great 

[bigbottomend]

Well I got one of these and sent it back for refund the same day. Very generic and boring distortion tones imo.. 

[greentext]

oh for real? that 2/2 returning it 

 

likely just a swing and a miss by the sounds of it. 

 

what was it you didnt get on with? 

[bigbottomend]

Just very generic and uninteresting sounds. I'm running a Spector ns2 into it and felt nothing that i cant get from the other collection of distortion pedals i have.

Maybe i should have tried a P bass but spent about 30mins thinking " MEH  , boring! " Send it back immediately.

 

[greentext]

Fair enough, got to know you ran it with a Spector NS2 as thats the same bass I use, was this in standard tuning? 

 

A real shame, but if it aint for you, get it gone.

[bigbottomend]

Yes and tried to low D on E ... 

[greentext]

4 minutes ago, bigbottomend said:

Yes and tried to low D on E ... 

Fair enough, didnt know if you where using a super low tuning or something so thought I'd ask, but i'd also be using it in standard and drop D. From experience when you tune to low on a bass and use distortion it just doesn't work as well but yh

[Baloney Balderdash]

Judging alone from the demo posted in the OP, I got to be honest and say that I think it sounds horrible (and not in a good way).

 

Edited January 19, 2024 by Baloney Balderdash