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I still use the Sansamp BDDI v2 and love it. Clean punching sound and a great DI. I don't use the drive on it either.

It sounds like you might be better served with a preamp pedal of some sort anyway. If you're going direct and don't need any stage volume... It'll be less gear to take to gigs.

Yes but then you lose the preamp and tone stack colour.

Well that's made the decision for me

The fun thing about these amps is that the FX loop also comes after the master volume 🙃 Really the only option is to stick a DI box between the bass and the amp

This always confused me too. I have a Mesa Carbine M3 combo - and the DI is taken post master volume, and the DI level (for which there's a pot) is affected by master volume level too. Really poor design on an otherwise superb combo because it limits what you can do with it in a sudio recording setting. Surely just a pre/post switch for the DI would have solved this cheaply and easily?

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according to the rumble 100 circuit diagram which is on line, the main volume is actually before the EQ, so yes, the volume affects the outputs. The circuit doesn't seem to have a pre/post DI switch so I assume it is before the change noted by Dad above. It does seem odd, on my amps (BAM200, TC450, ABM600, CTM100, etc) or even the ME90B effects, the DI wasn't effected by the volume*, which seems the right way. * note, the DI on the ME90B isn't affected by the volume knob, which changes the overal volume of the jack output, but it is affected by the volume pedal, which again seems right as that is an effect.

A bit more AJ, this is the complete bass performance of the title tune 'One More Once' from the 1994 Michel Camilo album of the same name. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/one-more-once-michel-camilo/

A very interesting and apparently impressive design. However, it strikes me that this thread should either be in the ‘affiliates’ section, or a ‘sponsored’ thread. There’s some fairly clear advertising/marketing going on in the posts. Could I respectfully and constructively request that the originator of the thread contacts the site moderators to discuss?

Best wishes to you Lee. Time's the great healer and at 51, you've got lots of dreams still to chase.

I had a chance to buy a ticket for villa park last week when they released some more for sale, but just couldn’t bring myself to pay £412.50 for a seat

Completely crap design. DI output should not be affected by the master volume control. Whoever decided that this was acceptable shouldn't be allowed to design any more musical equipment because they are clearly not competent. Like the others I'd suggest a separate DI box with a loop through that you put between the effects send and return, However IME any amp that has the DI out after the master volume control may also have the effects loop in the same (wrong) place. If you can check to see if the effects send is affected by the master volume before shelling out on a DI box that would be sensible.

You lower the tone...

This video explains it pretty well: Note that the above gives two examples of a square wave: the initial pictured one is going from 0 to +Vmax, but to match the sine & sawtooths it should go from -Vmax to +Vmax.

I have a Rumble 100v3 combo and the DI is affected this way, but the larger 200 and 500 versions are not. It’s the only thing I don’t like about it, but as Tim says above a cheap DI box is the solution if you can’t live with it. For how I use mine it’s not a problem.

defo not. 3-4 days after it will be on youtube

You can get a DI box for £20.