funkydoug

Yep that's what I've read too, and it sounds more drive than muff. Blend control is really effective too.

great BCer - very smooth sale of comp pedal. Thanks, Doug

Bought a Trace Elliot combo from DeeDee that he'd modified. He was great - offered to meet halfway to avoid a courier. Lovely guy and a stonking amp! He clearly knows his stuff and cares about his gear. Thanks, Doug.

hi folks, I thought I'd share my experience with the EHX bass battalion with you. I haven't seen many reviews of it online at all and it seems to exist below the radar of many folks looking for their preamp-DI-drive-comp-box, so here goes... First things first, as the title suggests, I love it. There a few reasons: 1) It is solid and sturdily made - as one would expect for one of these things. Easily in the same ball park as the rest, despite being quite a bit more affordable 2) It clean section simply sounds great. The main things to notice about it are that the 4 band EQ has a shelving bass that kicks in at 200Hz on the bass end. This is different to most (all?) others in this category both in that it is a shelf not a notch / peaking EQ and the frequency; 200hz is way higher than most other bass knobs! the closest I've seen is the VT bass @ about 120hz, while most are at or below 100hz. That's a significant difference. The mids are low-mid @280hz and high-mid @750hz but they miss out the zone of honk (at about 500hz) meaning, in my experience, you can add some heft in the low mids and / or some bite in the high mids without the honk-factor. The treble end is smooth, glassy and ... erm ... nice! 3) the drive section is also really flexible, and can go from barely there bite / sizzle to full on distortion. It is way more flexible, and subtle, than the branding would lead you to believe. I sold a lovely vintage drive pedal because this does everything I want in one box in that regard. I was pleasantly surprised by this, didn't really expect to like the drive section much at all (I bought it mainly for the clean+comp) now .. I didn't say it's perfect... The compression end of things is fine for me, and does what I want from a comp, in fact it does subtle comp as good as my ears can hear, but that's about all. If you want something more technical / more demanding from your comp, then I would not expect to get it from a one-knob job like this, and that does seem to be the case here. Keep it subtle though (in an always-on kind of way) and the comp does a really nice job. For the compression anoraks ... the comp comes before the drive and EQ, so if your forensic analysis shows a roll off of anything you are only the twist of a knob away from addressing that ... but I can't hear anything missing from the tone. The noise gate... bit of a novelty as the pedal itself is quiet and the gate seems to be ... basic... but I just do't use it. Bells and whistles: It drives headphones really well so makes practicing with 'your tone' very do-able. All in all, I think it is highly under rated. The paint job and the price might lead you to think its a bit of a toy, or that its a bit 'rock', but I have been very pleasantly surprised. Hope someone finds this useful! Doug.

Dan bought a pedal from me. Smooth transaction throughout. Thanks

Just to add to this love fest, bought a pedal from Bigwan, one he'd assembled himself from a clone kit. It and he were marvellous! So good that I nearly bought another one... Thanks and all the best, Doug.