A Good Option For passive Basses

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On 11/10/2025 at 13:26, greghagger said:

If you play a passive bass, you might be finding that it doesn't quite give you the fat tone that you're after when you play live. Or you might already be on an endless search for a way to boost your bass signal.

 

As a professional bassist, I need to play a mixture of active and passive basses at my gigs, and although I love passive basses for plugging directly into my computer for teaching or recording YouTube videos, I used to find that my tone was lacking when playing live through an amp. Then I stumbled upon a pedal that fixed this exact problem - the Xotic RC Booster.

 

Now, I'm not one for using loads of effects, but I always use this pedal with my passive basses, for good reason. 

 

Check out my latest YouTube video where I chat about the pedal and give you some samples of how it sounds. 

 

 

So getting back to Greg’s post I think for others who are happy using an amp but they are not able to have several amps or digital multi fx or complex pedalboards I think he makes a good point and I appreciate him showing it. 
Might not be for everyone but I can see it has it  uses that gives us options without adding more amps or heavy investment into ampless rigs and digital multi fx / PA 

 

Thank you Greg for a good review 

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Something very similar currently on the FS section