Al Krow
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Useful side by side comparison of XS-1 vs Drop. Comments enlightening: - little in it on latency - Boss have focussed on the attack and response as the processing catches and retunes your instrument => the feel is better preserved and the sound of that initial attack sounds right.
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Thanks Phil and I was getting somewhere similar with my thinking this afternoon: positives - combos can be light! - ability to use existing kit (and great that @synthaside is getting benefit from his set up - something has gotta be better than nothing, right?) neutral - cost of combo comparable to subs negatives - limited speaker excursion on bass combos vs dedicated subs - only really interested in the sub delivering 30Hz to 110Hz and the combo is not designed to excel in volume at these frequencies (see chart above for illustrative representation)
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Such a neat idea! And obviously the combo can double up as a bass amp, if needed on separate occassions / home use. Super compact and portable too! It turns on its head the approach of the PA providing support to backline, working the other way around. Sub 40 Hz is pretty flubby anyway. Kick drum at 50 Hz is the big target here I would have thought? I guess a refinement might be to set cross over frequencies on the desk, directing the lower frequencies to the combo eg up to 100 Hz and everything above that to the PA tops? I've not seen this approach suggested elsewhere, but conceptually I love it. Be very interested to hear from a couple of our resident experts such as @Bill Fitzmaurice and @Phil Starr on why this is bad idea, before seeing if I can bag a used CMD121P (always wanted an excuse to get one, haha!)
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Just picked up a pair of KZ ZARs for a bandmate for £31.79 inc P&P from Ali XP. That's 40% less than I paid for mine 18 months back, and I thought they were good value back then! -
Just arrived! Great excuse to uprate my little mini gigging pedal board, which has been unchanged for 5 months (must be a record) with something bigger and can provide a home to a few more noise boxes currently sitting on my pedal shelf... PS I'll put a note on file that you want first dibs @Woodinblack if it ever gets upgraded - can give you a status update in a couple of years maybe?
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@pantherairsoft - suspect this will be right up your street in relation to our recent chat about the XS-1 vs XS-100, from one of the TB'ers: FUN FACTS about attaching a dual switch to the XS-1 !! I connected a Boss FS-6 dual switch and tested the feature of storing settings on each of the two external switches, plus the built-in switch. The XS-1 can store BALANCE amount, SHIFT interval/mode, and the TOGGLE/MOMENT option for the built-in footswitch, and each of the dual switches giving you instantaneous access to each (one at a time, though). With instantaneous access to 3 different intervals, you could, for example, have a minor 3rd, major 3rd, and perfect 4th, for various harmonizing tasks. Similarly, m6, M6, and P5. You can have up to 4 different keys (counting bypass). I tested this running a full mix through the pedal, the transitions are instantaneous but without any clicks or pops at the moment of change.
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Yeah - that Lasse Vuorsola did a great job with his first video, which was all the confirmation I needed given that from my OC5 and SY 200 experience I knew that Boss seemed to have nailed tracking algorithms better than most. Loved the fact he then asked for and dealt with specific queries with a second video. Hero.
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Nah, get your own! You didn't wait for me to move my recently purchased cheap-as-chips Ali XP floor floor light on, before getting one, did you? And what about those excellent KZ-ZARs eh, which you jumped on post Krow purchase and recommendation? You're definitely at risk of becoming a West Country Krow gear groupie... But where were you when I eventually upgraded my Boss SY-1 for a Boss SY-200? Boss SY-1 - Effects - Basschat
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Yeah I think it's the same side by side spec for the XS-1 and XS-100; I think the key difference being the presets (very useful) and the built in expression pedal on the XS-100
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Thanks - doesn't seem to be any info online? But, if that's the case, that could make it a serious contender with 2 speakers each delivering 600W RMS. Scrap that, apparently the power module delivers 600W RMS so that will be split between the two speakers, and its claim of 2,400W peak is pretty far-fetched.
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Appreciate that @Happy Jack was already sorted before I happened on his thread, however also an ongoing topic of interest for me! I've come across 3 subs which could also tick the box, which may be of wider interest: Behringer B1200D Pro - 500 W RMS 19.5kg / 43 lbs £239 Subzero 2 x 10 - 600W RMS (I've asked G4M for the weight) - normally £500, currently on sale at £380 dB Tech 612 - 600W 19.8kg / 44 lbs £395 No idea how decent any of these are, so if anyone has had experience of any of these, I'd be very interested to know?
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I was very tempted by the XS-100 - having presets to scroll through would make it super useful live. But as I already have an expression pedal and wanting to go for something compact I've ended up with the XS-1, hopefully arriving in a couple of days. Our Alto singer is very excited about this opening up more of our set list to her and I'm equally excited about not having to learn songs in different keys!
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Follow up YT post by Lasse Vuorsola dealing with several queries about the pedal he received from TB'ers:
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May be a while off, we're still at F1-4 VIP methinks? 😅
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Thanks for sharing that! Would you say it performs better at 8 string emulation with high rather than low notes?
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Or, if you're desperate for one but haven't been able to get your hands on one yet, start at 4 and work backwards?
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I'll take that as a "yes" then? 😅 I think I'm maybe excused from needing excuses, having bought (and subsequently moved on) 5 of these FIs over several years (starting way back in 2018)? You know, a bit like getting lifelong immunity from having had a course of vaccines? Risk is that HMRC will come after me for trading in FIs...
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Sounds good! Is that what the new VIP model looks like with a light shone on it?
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I've caved. I'm in a band where certain songs can be done in up to 3 different keys, a few semis apart, to suit the vocal register of whichever of our singers is taking lead on a particular night, so this could potentially be a game changer and has rightly pushed itself to the front of the queue, ahead of a couple of more exciting/fun pedals on my wish-list - but which would have been more icing and less cake. Should be arriving next week, fingers crossed.
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Looks great!
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With you on MXR Bass Synth as a wish list item! Can recommend the EBS IQ as an excellent and really good value filter. PS and my only variance (given how well our multifx does general modulation!) with your expanding wishlist would be to trade the Boss RE-2 for an SL-2 😉
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Re. chorus - I think he was using an external chorus as I can't see anything on the pedal itself that does chorus? But if I missed that, even better! He goes 4 semitones down (= 2 steps in his terminology) at 01.40 and says it get "flubby", although it sounds way better than on my multifx! Going down from E --> B is 5 semis i.e. 2.5 steps (not 4) using his terminology - he's actually open to requests (see the equivalent post on Talkbass), so you could ask him there? (If you're on that, if not I can gladly ask him on your behalf?) My sense is it won't be awful, but probably not great either?
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And maybe worth mentioning a big plus of the XS-1 is the Drop is a one way street: only down. Word on that same street is that the XS-1 not only up-shifts, but has one of the best octave-ups in the business. If that's the case, looks like my OC-5 could be heading for the exit!
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Yeah same re. the Drop - disappointingly didn't find that much, if any, improvement over my Zoom B1-4. Look forward to getting your thoughts!
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How good is the pitch shift on the Anagram for bass? Generally loving my GT1000 Core as a serious quality step up from my previous Zoom multi, but its pitch shift is pretty meh!
