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Thanks for the review! Glad you seem to like your new bass Mine is also coming from Andertons but not due til 24th of March! 😫. Seeing this has made the wait a bit more difficult!

To add a bit of back story, years ago I had a TC RH750, hated the head but loved the one knobs compressor and what it brought.. fast forward numerous amp changes and countless board rejigs and I've always felt something wasn't "right". After several trips down the YouTube rabbit hole, I decided a compressor was the way to go, but covid and lack of funding said otherwise. After a bit of Saturday afternoon amazon trawling, I came across this little fella... "Xvive Bass Squeezer". £38 delivered! Very little info online, but nothing negative meant it was worth a punt. After putting it through its paces (through phones admittedly) it sounds tremendous, to the point I expect it'll be an always on pedal. The one knob compressor adds a lot of punch without sounding artificial, and whilst the built in overdrive isn't good enough to be a stand alone dirt pedal; at low settings it adds a real warmth that seems to compliment my GK head beautifully. No doubt GAS will inevitably kick in and I'll NEED an ebs multi comp or something, but for now I'm thinking £38 well spent! 👌

Has anyone successfully used the Bluetooth adapter and app method in a live setting?

Would the GK not pull the warmth out of the tone hammer sound though? The GK is quite a cold sounding amp by comparison. I also use a plethora of subs and synth sounds and I wonder how the TH pedal would handle them 🤔

I love the simplicity of a plug and play set up... But in truth, without my synth tones and sub octave my band honestly wouldn't sound like my band

I'm horrendous for this! Then I usually regret getting rid of what's been replaced! Gigged a GK 1001RBII for 10 years comfortably, Then got a TC RH750 'cos lights, Then back to another 1001RBII after 2 years because I missed it, Then to an Aguilar TH500 because of YouTube, Then I bought back my first 1001RBII because I thought it had more "heft", and the TH500 sounded better through a friend's Aguilar cabs than my barefaced cab And now I REALLY miss the Tonehammer and have extreme gas for a TH700, as well as wanting to delve into ashdown's all tube offerings for warmth and heft 🤦‍♂️... It's never ending!

I've watched this a few times, also a great help! I feel like C4 should employ him to make a full instructional video!

Again, your help has been invaluable! Thanks so much! I felt like I was getting somewhere with patch making last night, things seem to be taking shape. it's a shame you can't run two different drives at once like you can the filters... Ended up running it into my alpha Omicron to add a bit dirt.

I literally have no clue with synthesis... Guess I've jumped in at the deep end! That website is great though, I've been going through it all morning! Still not sure how to shape the envelopes on the C4 or get it all super gated, but it's not like I haven't got plenty time to experiment! I've got a couple of your spectrum patches downloaded on my C4 already, don't miss my BEF at all! 😁

My C4 arrived!!! I've spent ages playing through your patches @Quatschmacher! They're tremendously fun! Admittedly I'm in over my head with the editor though, even with your tutorial! I've spent hours now trying to match both bonkers by dizzee rascal and omen by prodigy and can't get near them! 😔

Thanks mate, can't wait to check it out. Will have a dig through your tutorial whilst I await delivery!

Thanks a million for this man! The fact that you've not only spent your time on this but are so willing to share it is hugely generous and very much appreciated!

As I've now got the time to make changes etc as there are no gigs on the horizon, I've bought a C4... Can't wait to try some of your patches @Quatschmacher! I've been skulking on the C4 thread and the graft you've put into that is tremendous! I'm worried I'm going to be out of my depth with it as it looks a steep learning curve! But basically I'll be looking for a prodigy - omen/dizzee rascal - bonkers style synth, and a squelchy envelope, something in the ball park of an Aggie filter twin would be the dream if not a tad ambitious! Any pointers you may have would be HUGELY appreciated 😬

Looks like I have a C4 incoming! 😁. Am I right in thinking you have access to 6 presets without using a midi controller? In an ideal world I'll have a standard gated fuzz/synth, a normal envelope filter, a patch with the two together... And then 3 left over for experimenting!

Problem is, it's the same when keys and guitars drop out... Its almost as if the overall sound has taken a volume dip. Not sure what the freq is for the bass eq on my head, but it's set pretty high. Never thought to try it pre or post in honesty... I always just have it set post so it's as close to my onstage sound as possible... Never thought to try the FX loop either! Always assumed that was a no no for drives and fuzzes!

I'm also on the fence with my BEF in honesty, wanted the filter twin but was out of budget at the time and was too impatient to save up haha. Only issue with selling pedals to pay for a C4 is I'd need them all to sell at once, which isn't likely in the current climate! Plus I REALLY love my octabvre! I was flabbergasted when I tried it for the first time through my rig, it sounded world shattering through 'phones, but just so quiet through my rig. Have tried with mini mix 50/50 and all wet, even tried without it... Subs switch is set to 3 as well. A lot of the knobs on mine are closer to 12, bar the relax/push and volume which around around 3 o clock, but both basses are passive... The clip light on my head goes wild when I kick it in so I'm assuming there's more hitting the front of the amp 🤯 (That clip sounds awesome btw)

Haha it's as if you've seen is! Unfortunately aim afflicted by both of these things, but the issue also happens when it's just drums and bass 😬... Through headphones the mastotron sounds absolutely huge! It just doesn't want to translate to live volumes 😫 a bit of dry blend may not be a bad shout though!

Hi mate... I use the D.I. out to run into a headphone amp I've actually got an MXR BEF Inbetween the mastotron and chorus... Worth mentioning all of my pedals go into a patch kommander switcher but that shouldn't effect it surely? I've tried the envelope with it but didn't help. I'll try the tone setting dialled clockwise though! A C4 would've been the dream of covid hadn't have lost me (like everyone else) a fortune in gigs haha. Not sure what you by blending ampside ... But my clean tone is fine, I'd assume that'd be affected as well if it was phase?

Hey Folks! The more learned bass folks of this community have solved a fair few dilemmas for me in the past, and I'm hoping you can do it again 😀 I'm currently using the following pedal combo for my synth sound 3 leaf octabvre mini > zvex mastotron > tc Corona mini chorus I'm finding that this sounds monstrous through headphones, but when run though my rig at gig volume it disappears! Like REALLY disappears. I've tried it without the chorus, but still exactly the same. I've tried maxing the zvex volume and still the same, although the clip light comes up on the amp I assume there's a volume increase hitting the amp. My rig is a GK 1001rbII into a barefaced big twin II so there should be plenty of juice on tap. Any ideas please????

As many others have stated, if I'd paid 2k for a bass and I wasn't completely satisfied with it then I'd be asking as many questions as I liked and provided that I was being reasonable (which I believe the OP is) I would expect them to be answered courteously as possible. You wouldn't take that sort of attitude from someone working in a supermarket, so why accept it with such a large expensive purchase? And as much as its "a special thing at a special price" I'm guessing it's not so special a price that Adrian doesn't do extremely well out of it; I'm assuming he isn't doing it as a labour of love...

It's a no from me... compression is something I've always wanted to use, but I've always been afraid of it taking away from my tone 😬

My BB734A for me... I also own a sandberg california II and a Spector rebop currently and have had an array of various fenders, rickenbacker, EBMM, ibanez et al over the years, but this is the one that punches well above it's weight and is categorically the best all rounder I've ever had. Blows me away every time I pick it up.