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Nice. DHA tube overdrive sounds great. The controls are simpler than it looks: IP = Input (like changing the volume on your Bass, it is before the tube gain, and level is after) HP = Headphone volume Q = The mids are semi parametelric - this control adjusts their centre frequency (which is potentially a bit confusing as Q usually refers to the width of the EQ band rather than the centre frequency)

Andy bought a pedal from me and all was good!

This is the first time I've used https://www.fxpedalplanet.co.uk/ and it has been great service - next day delivery, well packaged....and I might need to test out their returns policy! JPTR FX Tesla Wolf v2 arrived today: It looks great (and comes with all the 'boutique' pedal trappings - plectrums, stickers, decent box (and a PCB as a company card). On paper it should be great too: Volume, Gain, Tone, Clean blend, internal switches for different gain types and internal adjustable bass boost, analogue, well built, relatively small and with top mounted jacks. I'm not sure in reality though: Volume: Does nothing from 8am-2pm, and then probably too much from 2pm-4pm with a massive boost. On the minimum setting there is sometimes still a volume boost - depending on how you have the tone and gain set. Gain: Does very little until about 2pm-4pm (max), so in a similar way to the volume you only have a small turn of the dial for a sudden big range. Blend: Doesn't quite go to 100% clean, so need to turn down the gain if you want to use it as a clean boost. Internal clipping switches: They alter the distortion with Muff and Rat type sounds, it is good to have these options but opening the pedal up and clicking those small switches isn't an easy way to adjust things. Tough external switches would be ideal. ...........that all sounds negative but it does produce some good mild overdrive all the way through to muff and rat type distortions and it is responsive to playing and plays well with other pedals. I think it was partly designed to push a tube amp (I have a solid state one though so I'm perhaps missing out on a big part of what it does). The shop (FX Pedal Planet) encourages people to take their time before returning products, so I'll do just that as it has good points and perhaps I can put the negative things down to character/mojo?! Will try it out at proper volume at band practice tonight.

Queen 'It's a Kind Of Magic' turned up loud is brightening a dull day. Great bassline, overly technical noodling basslines don't do it for me - a simple solid funky loop is where it's at!

Okay, I'll bite! Nice video and review thanks. I'm not completely sold on Totality, seems at higher distortion levels it needs that clean blend to keep the Bass/definition but then it sounds like a Bass and a Bass with distortion being played in parallel rather than one unified sound? I'm probably not the target audience though as I've never been much of an Animato fan, I prefer smoother more natural sounding distortions. Some of my favorite ways of distorting: Mild overdrive: Fairfield Barbershop Tube: DHA VT1 Tubescreamer: Way Huge Green Rhino V5 SVT: Broughton SV Pre Rat: Idiotbox Landphil Tonebender: MXR Brown Acid Muff: EHX Green Russian And I'm quite excited to have both of these on order: Overdrive/Fuzz: JPTR FX Tesla Wolf V2. Brassmaster: Latent Lemon.

I bought a couple of Pedals from JP and all was good - good communication, quickly posted, well packaged, condition and working as expected. Thanks!

Once you get that I'd recommend a loop switcher that can do reverse, something like this: https://brightonion.co.uk/products/dual-reverse-looper Then at the click of a button you can hear what the compressor is like before/after drive. And can put whole groups of Pedals in each loop so it opens up a lot of possibilities.

Perhaps snake oil. But Pino's pedalboard includes a EUNA, I guess he knows a thing or two about these things and thinks it's worthwhile. (Then again, perhaps he gets ££ to put one on his pedalboard). https://www.reddit.com/r/basspedals/comments/12zwcce/pino_palladinos_pedalboard_for_his_blue_note/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_title&embed_host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.basschat.co.uk%2Findex.php

Added bonus: The EUNA has an FX loop that can bypass the buffer.... for when you just want a massive box with an over engineered power supply.

I have had the Paradriver, and tried compressors before and after.... but to be honest I think the only thing for it is to try for yourself because unless you have the same playing style/Bass/strings & setup/other pedals/amp/cab and tastes as me then my opinions aren't going to be worth much to you. To also help turn up the GAS though, the BC-1X (or other Compressor pedals) will give you more control over compression than just using the Paradriver, especially if you want low drive clean settings on the Paradriver but with a lot of compression. Generally though, as @ped said, how much the Paradriver compresses depends on how much drive is used- so if you use a lot of drive then a seperate compressor is perhaps not as worthwhile as if you use it relatively clean, and as the video you posted says - there are certain advantages/disadvantages with a seperate compressor being placed before/after drive. If a compressor is going to be worthwhile then there is the massive choice of compressors and it depends on what sort of control you want, and what 'flavours' of compression. I've found it to be a very deep inter-connected rabbit hole once also considering how different setups interact. Buy/sell second hand on Basschat and it isn't too costly (at least, that's what I tell myself!).

Yeah, that makes sense. £159 at DV247 looks a good deal. I'm still on the fence though. A bit of a negative guitar review here, good reviews here and here. Negateve Talkbass thread about the UA Max clipping issue, but someone on a Talkbass thread that has a Cali 76, and Hyper Luminal, AND two of the original 1176 and highly rates the new UAFX 1176.

Is that how it works though? (Genuine question, I don't know). Can a company basically put a digital VST plugin into a digital pedal? The pedal doesn't have the same processor, RAM, digital architecture etc as a computer (although I guess some of the expensive multi fx might). Isn't it equivalent to 'Mercedes make good F1 engines so the new Mercedes van will have a good engine'. As far as I know, the Cali 76 gets very close to the real deal in analogue pedal form.

Yeah, I've had similar - digital overdrives/distortions and compressors (and octavers and envelope filters) never quite match up to their analogue counterparts for me, digital modulation and delays are great though. To just listen to two sound clips A/B it's be very had to tell the difference with many, but actually playing them there seems to be a very slightly different feel - something a bit uncanny, perhaps too uniform/predictable without subtle quirks, perhaps a tiny delay due to processing time, sample rates not being high enough to completely fool you into thinking it's the same as analogue, or perhaps that the emulation just reacts and sounds a bit different? Or probably the most likely is my personal bias and preconceptions! I thought the Source Audio Atlas was really good - the thing that let it down for me wasn't the sound, it was the hardware (fiddly 'alt' button to access controls for a few seconds - wait a second too long and you end up adjusting the wrong thing, not great for live tweaking), so I'm certainly not against digital compressors in principle.

Joe sold me a Source Audio C4 pedal and all was good - arrived quickly, well packaged, all as described and working well. Thanks!

Little Boss board: This is probably about as far as I'm gonna go with my Boss fad. I've got the AW-3 for sale, a C4 will cover for this and an OC5 that @Al Krow kindly let me borrow. The C4 will ruin the Boss aesthetic but gets the job done in one pedal. My Amp has decent EQ/Drive/DI so I don't really need those things as a pedal, would be nice to stomp on some distortion though so perhaps an ODB-3 or a BB-1X at some point.

I've never been too fussed about Bass pedals having XRL DI (mostly as I always use Amp/CAb and ocasionally also Amp DI to PA) but aren't the supposed problems: phantom power could cause damage to the Stomp, possible ground loop - need a ground lift, and line level signals over long cable lengths can pickup interferance? I just ran into interferance problems with a line level keyboard output to a mixer so bought a passive XLR DI box which fixed it.

After a lot of pedal and multi-fx buying/selling (inluding Stomp, and Boss Core) I'd now agree with this.....although might change my mind in 6 months! If just needing a few basic things like tuner, EQ/DI, Drive, then there's a lot to be said for just having a few individual hands-on/foot-on pedals that are 'what you see is what you get' and avoiding complexity wherever possible. Or something like this: