elephantgrey Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Today i noticed that gear4music where doing there own pedals now, link follows: http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar_--_Bass_Effects/Gear4music.html They seam to have there own branded multi effects for both guitar and bas, but seam to be endorsing RedSub pedals under there own brand in bass effects. For £30 a pop for the most part, i must admit theyve got me curious. im wondering how they compare to the joyo pedals which seam to be kicking about amazon for about the same. They seam to come in metal casings, but with rubber end points at the top and bottom, which seams an odd choice to me. Does anyone have any experience with these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoker Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 They look pretty solid but I'd want to at least hear one first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyquipment Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Same. Seen them before but curious to hear them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elephantgrey Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Those where my thoughts really. No soundclips on the site, and no YT videos of them. Would like to see what someone who has held on thinks about the build quality also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Yes, come on. Somebody buy one and review it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoker Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Give it time and someone will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 The DI pedal looks fairly similar to the Harley Benton version. I'd imagine these are sourced from Elder/Beta Aivin just like the Prometean clones are. There's quite a few brands that source their pedals from them, albeit with different enclosures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Mariner Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 These are Beta Aivin pedals, rebadged, just like GLX and a couple of similar makes. WTFAccessories sell them along with the better known Beta Aivin pedals for about $30-$80 each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Question is though are Beta Aivin any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) [quote name='stoker' timestamp='1360450168' post='1970776'] Question is though are Beta Aivin any good. [/quote] At least some of them seem to cut the mustard. [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/glxbeta.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.c...s/glxbeta.shtml[/url] Someone posted here a little while ago about the HB bass DI pedal and they were less than impressed. Horses for courses, different strokes and all that, but until we get a few more reviews I'd say the jury's out. Edited February 10, 2013 by Musky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Mariner Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I have a GLX limiter pedal, and that worked well enough that I'd happily buy GLX again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoker Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Sounds like they could be worth a punt then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Bit of a thread revivial, but as I bought a RedSub DI-2000 Bass Drive + DI Pedal, I thought I'd review it. It's basically exactly the same as the Harley Benton BDI-2000 (except it's £10 more expensive, d'oh!) but with a RedSub logo on it. RedSub are gear4music's brand name. [size=4]This is what it looks like:[/size] It has 6.3mm mono jack input, output and parallel outputs and a balanced XLR DI output. The controls are as follows: CONTOUR (which supposedly works a bit like Markbass's VPF filter), COLOUR (which supposedly works a bit like Markbass's VLE filter), TREBLE, MIDDLE and BASS (self-eplanatory), LEVEL, BLEND AND DRIVE. The LEVEL control does not only set the overall level of the unit, it also has a bearing on the DRIVE control. I found this annoying. BLEND sets the amount of effected signal to clean signal. At least that's what I thought, as the maximum effected signal seems to happen when this control is in the centre of its travel. No idea what's going on there. The unit has a heavy steel case with rubber ends and feels like a quality item, and the controls are positive and give confidence. But in practice the contour and colour controls cover their whole range within a quarter-turn of the controls, making them difficult to use - and they are just nowhere near as effective as Markbass's VPF and VLE filters in operation. Which is what you'd expect at this price point. The bottom line is that it sounds really terrible. The drive in particular is harsh, unmusical, and in no way emulates any kind of 'vintage' or 'valve' tone whatsoever. The bass, mid and treble controls don't seem to cover the full audio bandwidth. The bass is 'boxy' and unnatural and never seems to go low enough; the mid control makes this worse and just adds what I'm going to call 'honk'; and the treble control does not add any lovely ethereal sparkle as it should - it is digital, tiring and strident. I found that it was impossible to get [i]any [/i]kind of useful sound out of this unit. Whatever you do to it, it sounds like a morose goose lost in thick fog. Because this cost nearly £60 posted I naively imagined I'd be getting something twice as good as Behringer's BDI-21 V-Tone; in fact the RedSub unit is [i]way[/i] less than half as good as the BDI-21, and it's twice the price. For £26 or so, the BDI-21 is a true bargain and sounds great! I have taken advantage of gear4music's 14-day returns policy and they are sending a courier to collect and giving me a full refund. Which is as it should be. I haven't tried any of RedSub/Harley Benton's other bass pedals, but I would certainly avoid this one! Edited March 16, 2013 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoker Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I've heard some bad things about this particular unit too. Although the couple of Harley Benton pedals I've got work fine, sound good and seem to be pretty solidly constructed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 (edited) Update: used the DI-2000 at rehearsal last night, and even the other band members figured out something was seriously wrong with the bass sound. Which is saying a very great deal, really! It was only the fact I used it with a Markbass Super Booster that allowed me to come up with any half-way usable sound at all. Which says a lot for the Super Booster. Edited March 16, 2013 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyquipment Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 HONK ! LOL Brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Thought I would give this thread a bit of a revival. Im buying the RedSub BLM-2 Compressor from a mate for a tenner tomorrow, thought it would be worth a short for only £10. I will be using it at band practice tomorrow too so I will do a little review on it after, see whats what when put through its paces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skej21 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Having recently visited the G4M showroom and trying the RedSub branded amps, I wouldnt hold much hope for the pedals... But having not tried them, I would to try it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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