What's the deal with effects and pedals? (Also: sound in general)

Probably would avoid it, but I zoomed it and it was clear as day.
I don’t see those written with the line often, sometimes I do my 0 with a line across it, so not to confuse with o. but not so much when typing on the computer or phone or pad or device of what ever nature, it is when Hand writing, and my hand writing is very very very poor quality, so I make sure to make numbers correct, or phone numbers, e-mail accounts, bank accounts, credit cards, whatever, you know when you do not want to make a mistake.

Then I cross my 0’s and cross my 7 and add the top and bottom part to a 1, just to be sure mind you.

Very generous of you to offer to do this, Toby @T_dub . . . :slight_smile:

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to clarify I just saw this but did not actually get this. however, to no one’s surprise, I do have some new toys on the way that I’m pretty excited about.

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JT, I may be coming across as a bit of a Rockboard/Warwick fanboy but I plumped for this:

Similar price to the ones you are looking at but can power up to 15 pedals. I’m putting 13 through mine and there was still plenty of power to spare

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Harley Benton are Thomann’s own in-house brand. But yeah they knock out some pretty good stuff

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yeah that’s cheap gear but the quality/price ratio is excellent. I don’t have a lot of Harley Benton stuff, but the ones I have are really impressive considering their price tag.

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Thanks for the offer! I appreciate the detailed tutorial on how to spot deals and the ins and outs of dealing on Offer Up. When I searched for bass guitars on offer up I mostly found dozens of ads for under $200 new basses. Most of what I clicked on was nonsense. I’ll have to get better at figuring out how to get meaningful search results.

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Offer Up seems to do pretty well when searching for a specific model number. I was also now able to find the X3 listings. Well, I definitely wasted money on Reverb with this one. Next purchase, I’ll try here first.

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In the early years of the modeling technology, Line 6 was the real pioneer. but there has been a challenger : Behringer, like always trying to copy other’s good ideas.

And so, here is the model they made to compete with the original Bass POD : the Bass V-amp. it’s similar to a POD but everything is cheaper. the case is made out of plastic, the models are not as good, and so on. still a pretty cool little preamp, with a few nice details like the LEDs around the pots (like some TC Electronic amps) to show the recorded settings.

I bought the full package, like new, with the original footswitch, original gig bag, original boxes. (all this for 35€ shipped)

it works pretty well, very useable little modeling preamp. but, as expected, the PODs are still a step better.

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Can someone explain to me what the features of this pedal do? I know what a chorus is, but this thing has some added features I don’t understand. What do things like stereo in/out do and what is LFO rate? BTW, the video is guitar, but apparently it works well on bass too.

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Yeah. LFO’s are used to drive changes in other things - think of them as a modulation source that changes other parameters. So, with a chorus, you could use the LFO to control the phase delay of the chorused signal that gives it that chorusing effect, and the rate of the chorusing changes with the LFO rate.

Same with the vibrato. Set the rate high enough on the chorus and it could give you a vibrato-like effect.

You can get chorus and vibrato out of a lot of pedals; what looks different on this one is that the thing has a knob to blend between dry/chorus/vibrato instead of a switch.

I’d stick with the Bass Clone myself. The crossover is way more valuable for bass than anything on that pedal.

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The problem I have with the Bass Clone is lack of a blend control. I read somewhere that the sign of any good bass pedal is a blend control to ensure you don’t lose the fundamentals of the low-end. And from watching oodles of videos, I think I agree with that. However, I also don’t want to spend a lot more money for a Julia/Julianna if the Bass Clone is 95% of what I need. Here’s a bass demo of the Julia (think of it as a light version of the Julianna). I think it sounds really nice.

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That’s what the Crossover does.

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Wait. I just re-read this. Did you say you have 13 PEDALS?!?!? I thought going to 5 was a lot for bass. Unless you mean for guitar. What pedals are they? Can you post a pic of your pedalboard?

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I peaked at 9:

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I sold the Battalion and BDI-21 when I bought the ValveDrive and VT Bass DI :slight_smile:

Now I am down to three, selling two of those. Keeping the tuner.

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So if I’m getting this right, you had:

Chorus
Reverb
2 Distortion Pedals
2 Pre-Amp + Distortion Pedals
Octave
Compressor
Tuner

What do you think the advantage is of having multiple pedals of the same type? Is it so one is always on and one is situational?

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Technically four distortion pedals.

Fuzz (the big muff), Overdrive (the BDI-21), Distortion (the Battalion), Overdrive/Distortion (the Microtubes X) - all very different sounds

Preamp EQ on three pedals (the BDI-21, the Battalion, and the Microtubes X) and limited EQ on two others (Bass Clone, Big Muff) - different tonal characteristics, different places in the chain. EQ on my bass too :slight_smile:

Two compressors (Opto-Comp and Battalion), different places in the chain

All of the pedals of each type sound very distinct. The fuzz on the Big Muff is a completely different style of distortion than the drive on either the BDI or the Microtubes X, etc.

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I just counted, I have 16 pedals and a Zoom B1x-Four.
I have 3 pedals up for sale right now,
the Zoom MB=60B
The TC Electronics Wire Tap (nice, but dont need it anymore)
EHX Bass Preacher compressor. I never used it, it was left in a trade just so I could sell it.

my list is
SanJune compressor
Boss BC-1x Bass Comp
Keeley The Bassist Compressor
Boss noise Gate
Crybaby Bass Mini Wah
TC Electronics Sub-n-up
Plumes Overdrive (earthquaker labs)
EHX Deluxe Bass Big Muff
EHX Bass Clone Chorus
Flamma Reverb
NU>X Loop Core
mxr Envelope Filter
Behringer BDI-21 Bass Driver

I might get another tuner pedal when the Zoom sells, cuz I used it for a tuner mostly, or if it doesn’t sell I will keep it as a tuner. I just don’t like it cuz it takes the 9v-500ma, but I have one on each power supply, so it is not a big deal.

The EHX Bass Clone has a crossover, and it is only like $60. sounds great too, you may want to get that if you are looking for the cross over.

Edit, nvm, I see you have an issue with it