If you are regularly flipping 1000 pound basses, at 80 quid a throw, you are carrying your own insurance for free if you can get to 12 undamaged first.
There was a SP'd Squier J sold on TradeMe not so long ago. It was a little rough around the edges but it had wires and lights to go with the tin plate. It had a fair bit of body hogged out to save weight.
The extent to which the bands are separated determines how much of your spectrum is vulnerable. Unfortunately it's not possible to brick wall it without some serious rack gear so we always wind up with several hundred Hz that is in common between the effected and unaffected. That's all assuming a crossover and blender is in play.
With your 'garden biamp' of a distorted signal playing over a clean signal the usual approach is heavy EQ separation. That's even less reliable than a crossover.
It took them so long because it really is a very small Trace Elliot team within Peavey. They did a good job putting the SMX into the Transit pedal and adding a overdrive. It may be a combination of parts of that with power.
One guesses they have made another breakthrough and 500w 'Donk' with fuller featured preamp is GK MB200 size. I was hoping for 'Gnome' but Warwick stole that.
Two basses are a VERY different ball of wax to slightly messing with half of the signal and putting it back with its unmessed twin.
Iirc doubling up on incoherent sounds gets you 3dB louder. Coherent sounds x2 is 6dB louder.
But adding coherent sounds out of phase results in a cancellation!
Trouble is effected sounds retain much of their original form but could be 90 or 180 deg phase shifted if unlucky. Chorus and distortions commonly return 180 deg out. The blending of clean with the effected then suffers.
Yes it matters. That is the very reason many blend pedals come with a phase switch option. I guess you have to hear a phase mismatch to understand.
The clearest demonstration is twin cabs miswired from a single source. The bottom drops right out.
In my case I wrote of up the page my crossover zone was affected by some pedals coming back inverted relative to the clean lows.
In the usual series line up of effects the various phase shifts are immaterial w.r.t our hearing. Not so when blending parallel effected signals, either before the amp or "in the air" with the bi-amp/ cab.
Host of my regular open mic is a hua of a musician, guitarist singer, can't play fretless 5 string bass to save his life. Doesn't stop him trying after a few whiskeys. I figure it saves on other wannabes asking for a go.
Your problem changes from the lows to the mids when an effect that causes a large phase shift is used. Everything gets woolly.
My old heavily effected rig got around the clean blend problem with a bunch of gear. I sent lows through unaffected and blended them back in with a phase adjustable blending system using three channels of a Wounded Paw blender.
If you only use pedals that maintain phase you can skip the phase flipping but blending clean bass lows with effected skinny string guitar range is very fun.
The other way to skin the cat is only use pedals that don't gut the lows. They are out there.
I know you mean what you say but it's a bit of a mystery to me exactly what you have in mind.
If the rig is for sale in parts just say so.
If the rig has to go in one deal then say so.
There aren't any sales or trades that don't fit either of those parameters.