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For what it’s worth I’m loving my Stomp into RCF NX12-SMA setup. Having great fun playing with presets and building sounds I really like. I’ve found it very sensitive to different instruments as well. I thought it might be one of those things were everything sounds the ‘same’ because the effects/amp/cab are having a major impact on the final tone but it’s really not the case. The only downside to this is that I can spend lots of time setting up a tone for one bass and then when I try another I almost have to start all over again. I think I need more banks of presets to play with, lol.

I thought the purpose of this thread was to try and avoid all the random fragmentation already available across the site? Padding it out with criticisms and personal opinions about why NOT to use an FRFR based setup seems very counter-productive 🤦‍♂️

Looks like it’s already getting congested with comments about why someone doesn’t like FRFR cabs 🤦‍♂️

The pedals are essentially the onboard controls set in an external casing so, yes, they work. The Sad pre is a boost only circuit with a very significant effect on the sound - I think not least because of those frequency and Q settings. I’ve swapped a few tone circuits in and out of basses over the years and generally found that the aftermarket ones have more of an overall effect than changing pickups. Obviously depends on which pre and which pups of course - some are more subtle than others.

No, not at all. A Sadowsky running completely passive sounds very different to one with both treble and bass set at 10 (which is pretty much unusable). Roger spent a long time selecting the frequencies for each tone pot and the Q of each as well specifically to work interactively with each other and not to overlap in the mids. Lots of people have tried to cop this sound but I’ve never really heard anyone get it close before.

Exactly. That how I tested it vs the onboard pre. I didn’t use an expression pedal but simply moved the low and high gain settings in line with manual adjustment of the tone controls. Obviously not an exact science as the manual tone controls aren’t visibly calibrated but it’s easy to set them at half way and then pop the preamp off and on.

Only if the preamp setting genuinely matched the onboard Sadowsky pre.

I was having some fun with this today. Using my ‘real’ Sadowsky I set it to passive and used the HX setting and played with different boost levels whilst flipping between passive and active on the bass itself. Sounded incredibly accurate to me

Got my Stomp on Friday and an RCF NX 12 SMA and having great fun with it. Seems really intuitive to use Didn't find much in the stock patches i liked but downloaded a clutch and have been playing with them off and on all weekend! Is there a single link that shows all the potential downloadable presets for the Stomp? I don't want to simply 'collect' a million of them (been through that silly game with Adobe presets!), just want to see how some people have approached getting a great live tone with an FRFR setup.

This is a really common issue with flats, especially La Bellas. I’ve sorted lots of issues with a random dull sounding flat that turned out to be a little twist whilst fitting. The guy who ran La Bella’s sales operation for years taught me how to do this and said he was the only person who could fix dead strings ‘on the phone’ back in the 60’s when people used to call up complaining 😂

That’s a really kind offer Chris. I’m in Henley if that’s any use for someone. Easy to get to west London and up the M40 to Birmingham.