Sent the following to a manufacturer, who's reply I am still waiting on. I then thought about the forum and an old adage about carts and horses came to mind! Anyway, if any of you can help with this I'd value your input (pun?)....
[b]"....................Ok so the bass generates the signal, in my case one that is 'actively pre-amped. Let's say, for argument's sake, you wanted the 'boomiest' reggae sound on the planet. One could well assume that, in order to 'max out' the bass-end of the spectrum, you would simply wind up the bass on the instrument, then crank it up on the pedal, do the same on the Bass Pod and finally turn it up fully on the amp itself. I doubt if anyone has ever done this, but do you get my point about successive 'tweakings' along the signal chain? Presumably there must come a threshold point beyond which you simply can't mess with the sound any more. If so, how do you know where this is? I'm sure I once heard someone say that you should set all of your instrument controls at zero and then let the amp do the lot. But what about the rest of it? Why, given that scenario, do so many people bother investing in all of the other stuff? Incidentally, I did try the above approach only to discover that adding the pedal and all the other gizzmos did help! Do you see how this can cause confusion? Just how do you know the way to stack these controls up? Nobody has ever explained this to me...............". [/b]