Al Krow

@Fil1ip - lovely looking bass! Came across this review of the 714BS - I presume yours also has the push / pull feature referred to [2.40]? The neck pup sounds grittier than I was expecting [3.50] and really good, although the pull switch sounded a little muffled in his clip. The solo P bass pup at [4.46] has that classic Yammy P bass sound we all love.

I think you're underselling yourself: e.g. you mentioned "You could experiment a bit in your favourite DAW, with the advantage that you can see the EQ curves, and you'll see what I mean. It's a very useful 'trick' when mixing." That's way more sophisticated than many of us get with our pedals, me included!

It simply means we have different attitudes to risk. In particular the risk of our gear breaking down, which is guided by our own personal experience. It's not possible to cover off every eventuality, you've gotta decide what risks are ones you consider negligible and which ones likely and how much spare gear you want to be carting to gigs. So one spare 9V battery for me, and a box full for Pete. But we're all grown ups capable of deciding where on the risk spectrum we're happy with being. John Paul Jones and several other pros on this thread, had / have just one bass at their gigs. That works for me, it doesn't for others. All good.

Yeah I was kinda thinking along those lines when you bought it, particularly as you have your parametric mids on your para driver plus a really nice bit of grit, and knowing how much you love that pedal!

That's a stunning bass!

Can it be more than a small amount of joy? 😁 I saw that Lozz moved his more basic model on almost instantly. But actually it's a bit of surprise 'cos the Broughton HPF stuff was I thought pretty well regarded. Keeping it on topic, what's your back up plan?

And that totally makes sense - we are all a product of our own personal journeys. Just in the same way as @owen has had 40 years of gigging with no mishaps and would not dream of taking a spare amp or bass to a gig. My own landing space is a spare lead to DI into the PA in case the amp goes and a spare 9V battery, and making sure our guitarist brings his spare axe because he regularly breaks a string!

Agreed, and I certainly did Pete - this particular thread got me thinking! But I'm still at the more relaxed end of the spectrum (by BC standards) when it comes to spare basses at gigs, particularly following my conversations with a couple of BCers I know well. Even on this ultra cautious thread it's still no more than 52:48 methinks. Brexit all over again eh? 😂 And if one bass was good enough for John-Paul Jones, it's good enough for me 😉

Excellent! Ok @paulbuzz I think that's just answered your risk spectrum question. I'm going to sleep much easier now, cheers Pete 😁

+1 ^^ My ideal back up is a passive pull switch on active basses, and failing that a spare 9V battery in the gig bag and quick check on battery voltage tester (cost just a few quid) before I set off.

That's a very good point and question! I'm feeling exactly the same as your first sentence - so much so that I messaged a BC buddy of mine who is a pro bassist and was doing around 300 gigs a year pre Covid to ask him whether he took a spare bass to gigs, and he said "pretty much never" and was pretty relaxed on the basis that he looked after his gear carefully (which I do too). Made me feel a whole lot better with my measly 30 or so gigs a year...

Nah you're quite correct. Fixed 😁 PS is it about time we had an update from you on the Broughton new super HPF thingy...

Hmmm...then why send PMs to folk you don't know at all titled "No debate" with a view to shutting down one side of a discussion? As you say integrity...

@Bo0tsy good shout on the expression pedal.

Someone recently mentioned they were thinking of swapping their Mastotron plus OC2 'synth' combination for one of these... ...must admit it feels a little bit glitchy to me and has some very limited voicings, so I'd be tempted to stick to the Mastotron + octaver down of your choice (probably a COG T16)

Just revisiting this excellent thread that started me down the road of getting a great sound out of my Euro 5LX. One thing that we didn't touch on and I've not yet been able to find is what the EQ bass and treble centre points are on the Tone Pump - anyone know this? Oh and I came across this clip of the Spector Euro 5LX while looking into the EQ point - and I think he's captured that the Euro 5LX sound, which I'm loving, very well.

Excellent summary. On the EBS BassIQ Blue Label - Effects - Basschat, the OP and myself ended up having a discussion on very similar lines about UI and SA C4 and coming to a virtually identical conclusion. The UI on a £60 Zoom B1-4 is really already very good and Boss have also upped their game with their latest models such as the RC-5, so it can be done. Word on the street is that SA are aware of the point and may well address it in their future pedal design. UI / workflow / live usability are all key features which can make a difference between a great unit and one that's a PITA that you want to abandon. In relation to this thread, very similar points have been made as to the pain so many of us put up with in trying to programme our (mostly former!) Alesis SR18s.

Yes bang on the money on all of that. But with all the most-vulnerable groups vaccinated (or at least those willing to be vaccinated) within the next three months and a target date of 31 July for all UK adults, combined with MUCH lower susceptibility and/or likely herd immunity amongst the younger members of society, we can start to be quietly confident (with the science to underpin things) that we won't have another national lockdown in 2021 after June 21st; and that Covid-19 mortality rates won't be not any significantly worse than the 'flu in the second half of the year and something that we learn to live with and we all start getting on with our lives again. For the sake of the nation's kids, let's hope that is exactly how it turns out.

I envy the fact that you've already done more gigs than I'm ever likely to do and I suspect had a huge amount fun along the way. Obviously you were risking irretrievable damage to your "brand" at every gig by having gear that you've been able to rely on and had clearly managed to look after. But sometimes it's good to live life on the edge, eh?! 😁

Some very impressive additions in the past couple of days! Looking forward to getting your feedback on how they sound and play.

There could well be some truth in that, certainly for a few months while pubs get back on their feet. The bigger chains are tapping shareholders for cash but obviously smaller pub operators aren't in a position to do that. I suspect that there are going to be a lot of weddings - all those postponed as well as the ones planned for this year, which will likely be paying as much as they have always done. And it's clear that the demand for live music hasn't gone away! Festivals selling out after map to end England's lockdown announced | Festivals | The Guardian

Nice little run through of the 121 settings on bass with fixed filter settings (even more variety available on top of that by adjusting the filter dials) - but gives a pretty good intro to the pedal on bass.

@Tech21NYC can you shed any light on the EQ center points for the VT Bass DI for us please and in particular if some versions have 500 Hz and others 1kHz center f for the mid EQ?

You bought it!! Congratulations - feels like you have a real collector's item in your herd and in such great condition! Love the neck through. Look forward to getting your thoughts on how it sounds. What do the 4 preamp knobs cover in addition to the pup selector switch? Is it purely passive?

That's weird, the manual online and the review by Ed Friedland both also say 500 Hz for mid EQ centre. And the predecessor VT Bass has the same EQ points as the VTDI, which you might also expect. So I'm struggling to think that Tech 21 would put out a different version of their best selling VTDI pedal without labelling it as the Mk2 etc.