Almost discarded VT pedal..

[SteveMoodie]

Well, I bought a VT pedal about 2 or 3 months ago and was happy with it's clean sound but never happy with the overdrive function and that was the reason why I bought it.
I wanted to get some oldschool bluesy & motowny type vibes using a slight overdrive. I could manage to get the tasty slight overdrive in the highs but the lows would fart out on the same setting. Then if I set the DRIVE lower I could get tasty slightly overdriven lows but the highs would be clean!
(By the way, I always had the character below 12 o'clock to get an "SVT" sound.)

I was on the verge of getting rid of the VT pedal when I tried DannyBuoy's "flat" setting (which is Lows, Mids, & Character slightly past 12 noon, and Trebs at 10 or 11ish). Suddenly, when I turned up the DRIVE the overdrive was much more even across my bass from lows to highs. No more farting out on the lows!

So, for those who are having the same problem as me, I think setting the character knob just past 12 o'clock may help you. It means you have to sacrifice the "SVT" area of the character knob though, which is a bit of bummer. But, the tone I am getting now is worth the sacrifice.
I am not using DannyBuoy's entire "flat" setting but rather just leaving the character at "flat" (just past 12noon) and EQ'ing from there.

Hope that helps others with the same problem!
Steve

(Oh, I'm using a Fender Jazz into an LMII.)

[noahw1]

I use mine mostly for warmth in my clean tone but thanks for the info.
There are so many possibilities with the pedal that hearing other players' stories is helpful. The sounds I get with the pedal are pretty different I find even from bass to bass.

[dannybuoy]

I've been finding the same lately, you can get some decent distortion sounds out of it if you turn up the character control past noon, although since that brings in loads of clank you have to watch the mid and treble controls.

[TheMutt]

More on the topic, I am still loving my VT Bass, but plan to get the Catalinbread SFT to pit against it. Although the SFT doesn't have a mids knob per-se, the mids are set at a static point which can be emphasized by cutting the lows/highs and bringing the volume up to unity, or boosting the lows/highs and lowering the volume to unity will give a scooped sound. Either way, I would like to be able to free up a tiny bit more space on the board possibly.

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by SteveMoodie

Well, I bought a VT pedal about 2 or 3 months ago and was happy with it's clean sound but never happy with the overdrive function and that was the reason why I bought it.
I wanted to get some oldschool bluesy & motowny type vibes using a slight overdrive. I could manage to get the tasty slight overdrive in the highs but the lows would fart out on the same setting. Then if I set the DRIVE lower I could get tasty slightly overdriven lows but the highs would be clean!
(By the way, I always had the character below 12 o'clock to get an "SVT" sound.)

I was on the verge of getting rid of the VT pedal when I tried DannyBuoy's "flat" setting (which is Lows, Mids, & Character slightly past 12 noon, and Trebs at 10 or 11ish). Suddenly, when I turned up the DRIVE the overdrive was much more even across my bass from lows to highs. No more farting out on the lows!

So, for those who are having the same problem as me, I think setting the character knob just past 12 o'clock may help you. It means you have to sacrifice the "SVT" area of the character knob though, which is a bit of bummer. But, the tone I am getting now is worth the sacrifice.
I am not using DannyBuoy's entire "flat" setting but rather just leaving the character at "flat" (just past 12noon) and EQ'ing from there.

Hope that helps others with the same problem!
Steve

(Oh, I'm using a Fender Jazz into an LMII.)

Ya, it worked for me, too. I've settled into backing off the character just a little and boosting the low knob just a scooch, but finding the flat setting made it a heck of a lot easier to work with. WTG Danny!

[bassnyc1]

Posted this earlier today on the "Official Sansamp VT Bass pedal Club" thread but maybe this thread is a more appropriate place? Please forgive the copy & paste.....

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So I got the pedal and have been experimenting for a week or so. I've only had time to play with the suggested settings in the insert plus a few different settings on the 45 second YouTube video. I originally thought that I'd be using the SVT setting all the time but so far I'm really liking the flip top setting, the "Fat Tube" setting (which is almost the same as flip top, IMO) and the setting on the video where the guy plays the Fleetwood Mac riff. In fact when I dial in the suggested SVT sound it's COMPLETELY distorted and unusable. When I first tried it out I was using headphones so I thought it was just because of that but last night at a rehearsal, the room had a Hartke VX head and two 410 cabs and I set the amp flat and when I dialed in the SVT setting, it was still too distorted to be workable. I loved the other settings, BTW. Anyone else have a similar experience?

One more thing: +1 to having the next version be programmable. That would be a lot more workable on stage.

[Blah114]

do you guys leave your LMII EQ flat when using this pedal?

[JimmyM]

I haven't lately. I've been boosting the low end a tad to try to get more midbass out of it. Sort of works but it can get muddy in cabs with low response.

[SteveMoodie]

Yeah I have been leaving my LMII EQ on flat mostly.
I've been EQ'ing from the VT instead. Although sometimes I boost the lows and low mids a little on the LMII in live situations.

But either way, no matter where I put the EQ on either the the VT or the LMII, having the Character knob in the 'SVT' area seems to cause uneven overdrive/distortion/farting when I turn up the Drive.

[TheMutt]

The LMII I just got is left on flat, but that sounds best to me. I use the VT as an easy eq change to cut the highs and mids a bit, or sometimes as an OD depending on what the set calls for.