dannybuoy

Have you tried the one from the legacy effects? That one's not bad, but still no Octamizer I agree!

They seem to be on the ball when it comes to real time stock levels, I don’t think you can add something to the cart they don’t have. Anyway, I’m convinced they have stock due to the fact that I have a tracking number! 🤤

The Joyo American Sound and Orange Juice both have a lot of hiss compared to the Tech21 products, which only exhibit noise when you crank the gain.

In stock here for anyone that can't wait for them to show up on these shores - they have a tendency to offer discounts when asked nicely via online chat also btw! https://www.prymaxe.com/products/tech-21-steve-harris-sh1-signature-sansamp

Have you had any of the other Tech21 pedals? I reckon the VT Bass would do a good job of that.

In that case, if you want to keep it simple, stick to lemons: One will provide you just shy of 0.9V. So 10 of those in series will give you 9V, then arrange enough of those in parallel to give you enough mA for the Stomp. This should do it:

You can still have one cable to the wall - just a standard USB charger. If you add a battery to your pedalboard, you can treat it like a laptop, i.e. leave it plugged in most of the time so you don't have to worry about the battery, but unplug whenever you need to be mobile! However, if you're looking to power a HX Stomp from a battery, you'd have to invest in a rather large one!

Probably not, the DP-3X isn't. They couldn't use phantom power for the Bass Fly Rig because it had digital effects that drew too much power. But it would've been nice if the all analog ones had it, unless the tuner takes up a lot of mA?

BB615 is active!

I honestly could not give a flying fig about the name on the pedal. I'd never heard of Dug Pinnick before his amp and pedal came out, and never listened to a Rush album before the GED2112 / YYZ came out. Yet I bought both pedals for the tone and features they offer, and will likely do the same with the SH1 even though I've never listened to an Iron Maiden album. I guess I'm more of a Tech21 fan than a Dug/Geddy/Steve fan!

They probably received the same typo as posted earlier in this thread. Guitar Guitar have opened pre-orders at £299 - let's hope it's not them who made a mistake, cos they won't sell many of these at £399 when you can import from overseas at $299.

I'd verify with Truetone that it will in fact give you 200mA at 9V from a 100mA 18V output. I know voltage * current = power, but it's not quite so simple as that. Their website only says 100mA max, which suggests 9V at 100mA: https://truetone.com/1-spot-accessories/ V189 - 5.5 x 2.1mm plugs. Converts 18V to 9V on 1 SPOT Pro power supplies and most other brands. Handles up to 100mA. I'd either use the 500mA output, or use a Y cable on two of the 100mA outputs. Then again, it might run fine on a 100mA output alone, depending on your power supply (which one is it?), but that could be risky depending on how gracefully the power supply handles an overload situation!

He broke a string. He'll probably break a nut soon also with that break angle!

They do look handy in that they offer a switch as well as the expression in one unit. Saves tapdancing to turn a wah on or off! They also seem to offer a specialised pedal for nearly every brand going. I just looked up the specs for their Kemper / Eleven / Line6 models for example, all are 10K linear pots with a momentary switch, but otherwise look indentical. The cynic in me says it's a marketing ploy to sell more pedals - you'll choose Mission because they designed a pedal just for your unit, then you'll buy a different unit and end up buying a 2nd Mission pedal for that one!

An external mic will bypass the internal 'sound card' if it presents itself to the phone as an audio interface rather than just an analog headset mic. Same way that plugging in a USB mic into a laptop will not use the laptop's internal sound card. I assume most of the decent ones will fall into this category, but it's not something I've looked into!

So I guess the important questions are - are there any features you need above and beyond a basic expression pedal, and do you want a mini one or happy to go full size? I wanted a basic mini one so went with the DVP4. But if you're happy with full size, might want to control more than one pedal with it, or link it to any Source Audio pedals, the SA would be the way to go.

I haven't had many, just the Moog EP-2 and Hotone. The Moog felt cheap and creaky, and the Hotone too small with limited travel. I like the build quality on the Dunlop - it's solid as a rock, with a great thick tread rubber on top, and it does not flex or creak at all. It does not use any pots or bits of string (like the Ernie Ball pedals), just a solid mechanism that'll seems like it'll never wear out or need recalibrating. Even though it's a mini pedal, it has a very wide range of motion (more than a traditional wah enclosure) and doesn't feel small under the foot, although they so make full size versions too of course! The jacks are all up top to save space, plus it can be used as a volume pedal.

The Dunlop DVP4 is the best I've used - fits nice next to the Helix HX Stomp as well:

I'd either get a Zoom Q2n / Q2n 4K, or a Zoom audio recorder such as the H2n plus a smartphone and sync up the audio later. In fact, you should be able to hook up the Zoom H2n to an Apple or Android phone with the correct dongle and use it as an external mic, so no need to sync the audio track up separately. I've seen a few demos on YouTube for this, and intend to try the same with my H2 and Galaxy S8 very soon!

Not for me, thought you might be tempted though!

A rare BB5000A for sale in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/219406111488370/permalink/2417746774987615/

Option B!

Lemmy setting!

They're both quite different, the MXR being super clean and the Markbass imparting a bit of old school tube tone. Judging by your avatar, Funk Stax Lightning Band sounds like the Markbass might be a better fit! They're reassuringly expensive, but the Origin Effects compressors are considered some of the best available. Their compact version has an adjustable filter on the side chain so that it doesn't react to the low end as much, which is a great feature. Their bigger boxes have great visual metering and some have transformers in to add a bit of vintage flavour. I've had a few and settled on what happened to be the cheapest, the TC Spectracomp. It only has one knob, but a ton of downloadable presets and an editor app with tons of settings to tweak. Main reason I like it, is multiband compression, which is surprisingly not that common amongst bass compressors. Once my ears became accustomed to it, I found it hard to go back to single band compression. Particularly if you have an aggressive playing style, as the comp can be set to be faster reacting and more limiting to the high end, but with a totally different response on the lows to make them pop. I also have an Effectrode PC-2A, which is a tube-equipped comp rather like the Markbass. I actually prefer this for playing fretless or vintage P-Bass & flats type stuff.

The bass amp it's modelled upon doesn't have a clean blend either. But yes, I'd always prefer one! There's an Alembic model too: https://amt-sales.com/preamps/bricks-preamps/a-bass/