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Bought a Valeton Mini Bass Dapper off me, easy transaction, no issues. Thanks Sean

Gonna throw out an alternative here. Use a light overdrive with a slight volume dip for the main sound and then turn it off for the parts you’re thinking would suit the distortion. The jump in volume and fullness of signal might cut quite nicely 🤷🏻‍♂️ Might be what you need is a phat clean in those moments and you can get away with quite a lot of saturation the rest of the time smoothing out that sound.

My work around is to have 4 compact boards

XPND 😉

Nudge that tuner up to the top of the board and it can all squish up a bit more and you might be able to avoid the overhang that I know is bothering you.

Sure you can 😇

Can relate to you massively on this. I found my solution to be an IR loader (obviously still need the distortion pedal and really you do still want the blend on it), or at least for picking my sound for live use. So I recently got a Darkglass Element and it’s been an absolute revelation. I spent a while finding an IR and eq that gave me the sound I try and get out of preamp (which is just me rolling quite a lot of highs) and I’ve ended up with 2-3 settings where the “clean” sounds pretty much the same across all of them but any distortion is wildly different depending on how much high the cab is allow. So this would be my first recommendation, I think the Element is incredible, I now own two and it’s my di, IEM mixer, IR loader, eq, practice headphone rig, etc etc, so using something like that to dial in the sound at home through headphones. Then I would look at something like the Kasleder Albatross, Lusithand Ground and Pound or Backburner Big Booty Judy https://kaslederfx.com/albatross/ https://bassbros.co.uk/product/lusithand-alma-comp-mkii/ - Though you may want the newer model https://backburnernoise.com/products/big-booty-judy The latter two are both rat clones, which I’ve really started to appreciate in the mix with my JHS Punchline, but it has to have the clean blend and it has to run into some sort of cab simulation for me to dial it in.

Well my 2nd punchline purchase fell through so I’m thinking of keeping this now, but I did already send it off to @Sibob to have a play with. Will spend more time this week with the mk1 and see how I’m feeling.

Would something like https://audiob.us potentially work with having the routing through that and ending up in the Camera/Video app? Obviously you’d have to check to see if that app is available as an output, but if it is another app in the chain could solve the issue. Even as an absolute Darkglass hater, I could gush about how great the Element is for hours and hours. I haven’t tried it as an audio interface though yet but I’m excited for it’s ability to record a bass with and without ir at the same time along with bluetooth audio so I don’t have to rip tracks from the net for playalongs. Final option, use something other than the default camera/video app, I don’t have any suggestions past that but I imagine there are some available for your use case.

I had, I’ve probably spent the last 5 years playing with just a DI, using a D’addario muting cable and a headstock tuner. But as I only play with IEMs I was pushed to essentially always have a 2 channel mixer (mix one side, bass the other) so I could get something I enjoyed on gigs. I honestly feel having got a pedal tuner recently that the period with headstock tuner was a mistake, they’re fine, don’t get me wrong and I’ll always have one in a gig bag but it’s so much more comfortable on a gig to just click a button and mute your whole chain. So between having some form of DI, Tuner, IEM mixer you’re back to a pedalboard very quickly (or a very faffy setup each gig) so why not chuck a preamp and overdrive on there. Then very soon you’re back to the whole huge pedalboard thing. My recent posting is essentially Tuner - Boost - Patchbay so I can add other fx mid chain without pulling the board apart) - Preamp/DI. It’s mounted on a board I can extend and I’ve got a very flexible power supply in the Cioks 4 that I can daisy chain power to whatever additional fx I have. But it’s a very very tight setup and I do wonder if I could go to some more full sized pedals and have more margin for error when stomping on them, but the moment I get a bigger board….. there is a space to fill…… and so the cycle begins a new. Now go buy a pedal and tell yourself it’s just a tool and you’ll only have the one and it’s not some weird life altering choice.

If you’re only recording bass and want the smallest no power solution I’d recommend the Boss Katana Go

The only negative about this unit. I love mine so much I bought a second, I can’t express how useful this pedal is. Everything a spicy Di (Di with some eq, gain, cab sim) to an IEM Mixer live.

For the next few hours at least

So mine arrived from @fretmeister the other day and I’ve played through it quite a bit. I think it’s very different from the beta. I don’t think I’d easily be able to get one to sound like the other. Overall with all the gigs, studio and buying and selling of gear I’ve done the past few weeks I’m a bit fatigued. Off the bat it’s a very nice pedal, I was able to dial in what I’d consider a very amp like tone very quickly. Running the gain from 9 o clock or lower is really pleasing. At higher gain settings it feels far more like an always on preamp than an on/off overdrive. I got some fabulous sounds running it into a 6x10 ir. So currently, I don’t know where this sits in my setup. It’s doesn’t stack particularly nicely with the mk1, but the cream pie makes either of them sound phenomenal as does the element with the right ir/eq settings but it’s all rauchier than how I’m running my main rig with the punchline. Between the punchline and the element, I don’t know when I’d use it, vs the combo of the cream pie and mk1 just works great slamming either of them as if they were an amp. Its definitely nicer out of the box than the quad cortex though 😅

Seems we’re going to find out.

That’s very interesting, as I’m also into it as very very low gain drive. I’m in the process of getting a second Mojo Hand Cream Pie which does the same thing but is even lower gain and fattens up the tone a bit more pleasantly (to my ear). It was specifically the lpf and body controls that interested me on these V (not to mention the top mounted jacks for tighter spacing on a board). Thank you for the info, very useful indeed.

Nope, signal is mirrored on both sides. Basically I’m using a Darkglass Element as a 2 ch mixer, using an XLR to 3.5mm TRS, bass is through the device normally. Last gig this gave me bass in both ears, but the feed from the desk in one ear.

This was enough I’ve ordered a B-Stock from Amazon for £124 If I don’t like it I can return it, but the live changes on the app are enough to sway me. Just in the process of sending the Quad Cortex back, not that I’m directly comparing them but if the QC was £400 for example I’d be happy to keep it but at £1450 it’s held to a very high standard for me. So at £124 the Tonex only has to be ok and occasionally useful for me. I’m in the studio Tuesday so can capture my JHS Punchline and they’ve also been Tonexing things for the past few years.

Thought I’d post here as it’s IEM related (for me) Does anyone know of a cable or ideally a little box that is a combi trs/xlr in and then out to a 3.5mm (can be 1/4 inch as this is easy to convert down) but has a switch for stereo/mono but the mono is dual mono. Basically I’m having issues going from mono xlr to 3.5mm trs, maybe I just need to order some custom cables that jumper something in the xlr so it’s on both sides of the trs. 🤷‍♂️ any advice would be appreciated. Separately I’ve ordered some Cosmic Ears C8A’s since I’ve been on IEMS pretty exclusively for the last 10 years and mostly using KZ10s.