dannybuoy

I have put mine up for sale if anyone following this thread is interested:

There probably wasn't until you just mentioned it! I'd swap it for a B3n!

If you're looking at it from a web developer's point of view, I'd say it's more to do with the content and community rather than the site design and features. The design is great of course, but it would still succeed if you stripped all those bells and whistles away. So I guess if you want to make a site succeed, you need to fill it with bassists!

They look pretty nifty! https://www.schmidtarray.com/custom

The VT Bass already has a HPF built in, so I'd say you can do without!

Depends on your needs I guess. The SH1 is a lot cheaper, has a blend, tuner and DI going for it, which would make me lean towards picking that from the two!

Wilson make a mini Freaker now?! You shouldn't have shown me that! Had the full size one, also the Chicago Iron Parachute many years ago. I miss it, probably the best wah I ever had.

No audio interface on the newer B3n though, only the B3.

Any interface with an XLR input, ideally one with a direct monitoring switch, and an XLR cable is all you need. Flick the +48V phantom power on, and you can power the Sansamp via the XLR cable too! What I do is just play my music player app then flick the switch on my Focusrite interface to direct monitoring - then I can hear my bass overlaid on top of the music without having to faff around in software to reroute the input to the output and adjust the latency. Then only pull Audacity or the like out to actually record. If not using direct monitoring, you'll want to select ASIO drivers and find the settings to pull the latency / number of samples down as low as you can get away with. This is the size of the buffer used to temporarily store incoming audio before it's processed and pumped back out, so obviously you want that delay as low as possible or it'll affect your timing!

Price is very good IMHO - parts usually won't cost much if it's something replaceable like a pot/jack/capacitor. Modern compact pedals are such a pain to disassemble/reassemble, I'd charge more if it were me!

Doesn't the III have an internal control for the attack time? The 3X does, which I only discovered after selling mine! It was too slow for my liking, which was a contributing factor for me moving it on.

Yeah, just a regular jack cable out of the unit into a DI box would work. If your active monitor has a thru output, you might be able to even send that to the desk instead.

Yes, sounds like you'd end up with a weird signal for sure doing that. I'd use a regular TS jack straight to the desk, or via a DI box if you really want a balanced signal. Then if you want the signal without speaker sim going to your amp, you'd need to split that TRS into two mono outputs.

Tech21 have had a lot of my money lately, so I'm out. Only thing that would tempt me for now would be a dUg Deluxe model with presets, adjustable crossover frequencies and an fx loop for the high channel!

It is a bargain for a professionally reliced instrument!

It depends on the design of the blend control, which could vary between different amps and pedals. Blend controls on pedals are not usually 100% wet + 100% dry with the blend knob half way. But that doesn't matter of the pedal has a volume control. Blend controls on basses for pickup selection are usually set up so that centre position is 100% of each. Amps, I'm not so sure as I've never had one with a blendable loop, but I bet not all manufacturers design them to work exactly the same. It'd be easy to tell by adjusting the blend knob with nothing in the loop (or a muted tuner pedal if it needs something plugged in) - does that affect the volume? Anyway, I'd put a distortion pedal in front of the amp and forget the loop!

Basically it'll let you switch between like 128 presets with a separate controller. Depending on their implementation, they may even have all the individual knobs controllable by MIDI values too.

I get it now, it sounds to me from reading the manual that Buzz/Punch/Crunch is simply a 3 band EQ before the clipping stage, and Low and High a 2 band EQ afterwards. So you can lower the Buzz to reduce the low end going in for a tighter drive sound, then boost it back up again afterwards to compensate. I like the sound of that, it achieves a similar thing to the character control of the VT Bass, which is a pre-drive mid control. I like to crank that up rather high to affect the breakup then rebalance with the blend and EQ.

Product page is up: http://www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp/psa-2/

@Wolverinebass multiband you say? I’ll have to check out the manual then! Lack of a blend or crossover etc had made me less interested in this.

Certainly more pedalboard friendly than the original. Although you could always put velcro on top of one of these and use it instead of a Pedaltrain:

KFC Bargain Bucket works as well!

Tech21 SH1, the new Steve Harris signature? I have one and it has. A very mid-focussed clanky tone.