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    How do you use your preamp pedal?

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    I've never found an amp that could deliver the tones in my head, so messed around with pedals instead until finding what I was after in the Tech21 stuff - I have the VTDI, YYZ and DP3X. I tried the VT500 amp which was great but felt a bit gutless in the power section, so am running one of those into an Orange Terror Bass set up for a fairly neutral sound.

    The DP3X is like a studio producer in a box - clean compressed lows mixed with piercing distorted high mids, and the mid-mids sucked out to make room for the guitars and vocals. About as heavily processed as you can get, but fits like a glove in a really heavy mix, it really shines when you hear it alongside everything else, you can hear the bass clear as a bell without the ear fatigue you get from too many instruments battling for the same frequency range.

    YYZ is more midrangey, basically a clean channel EQ'd to emphasise the lows and roll of the highs, mixed with a dirt channel that has the deep lows cut off to keep the drive tight, and the mid-EQ placed before the drive.

    When playing solo through an amp I prefer the sound of the YYZ, but the DP3X sounds better in a headphone/monitor mix. But I'm not playing with anyone at the moment so hanging onto both for now!

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    Expression pedals..

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    I've got the Hotone Bass Press. Great little wah pedal, much better sounding than the Dunlop 105Q in my opinion.

    Are any of the Helix wah models decent on bass? I've not tried them but I know there aren't any bass-specific ones. You could of course blend it with clean or have it on the high channel of a crossover if you had the blocks to spare.

    It does the job as an expression pedal, but the Dunlop DVP4 Mini outclasses it in every respect. Wider, smoother, more stable, more travel, built like it would last forever.

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    Plethora Effects list

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    It’d be a total marketing fail if it had those fx and they just couldn’t be bothered to list them, I think what you see is what you get.

    Shame, as they had the Spectradrive out so they could’ve included some drive models, then all they had to do was put out a filter before getting to work on the multi!

    Plethora Effects list

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    Posted · Edited by dannybuoy

    From the product page:

    FX include Hall Of Fame 2 Reverb, Flashback 2 Delay, Sub n Up Octaver, Brainwaves Pitch Shifter, Corona Chorus, Hypergravity Compressor, Mimiq Doubler, Vortex Flanger, Pipeline Tap Tremolo, Quintessence Harmony, Sentry Noise Gate, Shaker Vibrato, Viscous Vibe, Helix Phaser, Tape Deck Looper

     

    Lack of drive and filter rules it out for me as a multi fx, they’re the most important effects to me. Even if you were happy to have those as separates, you would be forced to have them before or after everything in the Plethora.

    Compressor

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    I've still not even bothered with the editor! Although I might do just do bring down the volume a tad. When it comes to pedals, I generally hate multi-fx and app-driven pedals, and this is coming from a techie that works in IT that spends all day fiddling around with scripts and settings. Maybe that's why in my downtime I just prefer simplicity! Luckily the Spectracomp works just as well in that regard, with it having just one knob.

    Compressor

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    I liked the stock one the best after going through them. I don’t find the volume boost a problem as I leave it always on and I prefer the sound of my drive pedals with a bit of boost into them anyway. You can always adjust the master volume via the app.

    Strange ground hum noise

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    I also had a hum issues caused by a dimmer, but only when combined with the flat EBS cables which didn't have great shielding!

    Maybe try a simple DI box into the interface as a means to isolate ground loops etc?

    First 5 string recommendations?

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    Posted · Edited by dannybuoy

    On 01/12/2020 at 16:59, Reggaebass said:

    My first 5 was a Yamaha 415  which I still have , i too mainly play jazzes and I was quite surprised how easy the Yamaha was to play, the nut is only 42mm I think, I can check if you want , and it’s pretty slim front to back, which I like , they are a great bass and very good value for money 🙂

    I second the Yamaha recommendation - I went through a bunch of 5 strings including a Fender Precision and Jazz, but they were all too wide at the nut for me, until I found a BB415 that was 42mm, the same width as my 4-string P-Bass! I didn't get on with the Sterling Ray35 or Sandberg TT5 necks either. Ibanez would also be a good bet!

     

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    If you could only choose one filter pedal

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    7 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

    Yes, they stock some pretty decent synth stuff. They were listed as official dealers on some synth companies’ websites so assumed they were legit but I’ve never bought from them so far. 

    Scan are legit, I bought various bits from them to build a PC about 10 years ago!

    Maybe bass distortion isnt for me.

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    6 hours ago, Yan_Hurei said:

    hard alt rock sound.  I like the clear bell ringing highs and beefy lows.

    Give some Tech21 stuff a try - Sansamp BDDI (of which there is a dirt cheap Behringer version, the BDI21 if you fancy dipping your toe in on the cheap), VTDI, YYZ, or DP-3X. The last 2 in particular - as the YYZ has a bass-heavy EQ'd clean channel and the DP-3X a crossover and compressor on the low end side.

    Also the Orange Bass Butler - there's one in the classifieds!

    Buffer

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    You don’t need one if you have an active bass, or a pedal with a buffered bypass early on in the signal path. It’s likely that you already have at least one in your chain already!

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    NPD: Tech21 SH-1 Steve Harris

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    Best tip when it comes to stacking, if you have a bright clanky sound set up, don’t boost into it with the same. It’s best to use a darker overdrive to boost into it; if you’re stacking a VTDI into the SH1 for example, turn the bite off on the VTDI.

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