SteveXFR Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 2 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said: Playing devils advocate : why not change the precision for an Ibanez or Warwick ,or Schecter ? You may not need a pedal .🤔🙂 As much as I like my Ibanez, I find the tone straight out of the instrument really bland but it's s really great starting point to build on with effects. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 36 minutes ago, SteveXFR said: As much as I like my Ibanez, I find the tone straight out of the instrument really bland but it's s really great starting point to build on with effects. Good point , it brings me back to the '90s when the bass really cut through on a lot of metal albums . One other thing I just thought of , is the boom in active preamps in basses in the late '80s onwards . Even my Washburn status has that "clang " to it . Having said that, it's a marmite sound . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokalo Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Another +1 for the Laney Digbeth. Although recently when I needed one pedal for an outdoor gig with no spare mains power points, I took a Zoom MS-60B (I didn’t need anything fancy, just a preamp and tuner that could run on batteries) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rOB Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 21 hours ago, Bassman68 said: You’ve obviously never tried an EBS Microbass 3 then? I'm aware that some do. Microbass 3 is one of the ones that do isn't it. Well pointed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumOne Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 (edited) The question is a bit like 'I can only have one pair of shoes, which ones should I get - Wellies or High Heels?' (not that either one of the pedals mentioned fit those descriptionsl!), so the annoying answer is that it depends on what your needs are. Saying that though, if I was only getting one pedal and the budget was about £100 I'd get a Zoom B1-Four. Then you have a Tuner, Compressor, EQ, Drive, Modulation, Octaver, Synth, Delays etc, and a decent practice tool with drum loops/metronome and can plug headphones into it, and can be battery powered. If you really need a XLR DI (which I've found is only really needed if you are doing long cable runs to a mixer/PA and you can't do it from your Amp XLR out) then there are seperate passive DI boxes like the SubZero for about £15. Edited May 1 by SumOne 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Mark Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Does this qualify as one pedal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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