Anyone Switched from BDDI to ParaDriver?

[B String]

I use my Paradriver as a "Swiss Army knife" type of tool. For fly away gigs or questionable backline. The Para has a higher input level than the BDDI, so it works with Piezo pickups much better, like with my upright bass or ABG. It has a switch to go in the front end of an amp or push a power amp, or effects in.

[Road Bull]

Just to make things a bit more complicated, you should keep the PBDDI in mind as well. It costs new and used about the same as the BDDI. Sure it's a big pedal, but useful if thats your thing. If you have figured out that you can have your mids by setting the bass and treble accordingly, then it is nice to have some presets a click away.

But, as said earlier, you really need to go listen to them in order to get a feel for what they do for your sound.

[topo morto]

I think it's a shame that there isn't a PPDDI... as the para driver is the only one that isn't really easy to quickly tweak to a certain setting...

[jaywa]

Originally Posted by Road Bull

Just to make things a bit more complicated, you should keep the PBDDI in mind as well. It costs new and used about the same as the BDDI. Sure it's a big pedal, but useful if thats your thing. If you have figured out that you can have your mids by setting the bass and treble accordingly, then it is nice to have some presets a click away.

Yeah I thought about one of their multiple pre-set models, but I'd kind of like to stick to the small-footprint box for the fact that it fits in my bass case. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[cybersnyder]

I switched from a BDDI to a Paradriver but I've been missing the highs from the BDDI so I bought a BDDI this weekend to A/B and see which one I liked better, the winner stays and the loser gets flipped. I found pros and cons of each and then I noticed the parallel output, remembered the two inputs of my Markbass Tube 800... gears turning... let's see how they run together.

Wired them both up and set the Paradriver for a mostly midrange clean sound and the BDDI for a bit of grind. Whoa. Sounds great. I need to do some more experimentation but I'm really liking the sounds I get.

[dave_bass5]

I too went from a BDDI to a Paradriver, although im not sure why as i liked the BDDI very much.
I dont tend to want a dirty tone so dont use the drive knob much, but i have noticed i dont touch the EQ on my MarBass F1 since getting the PD, the PD tone knobs are very powerful.
Im still trying to figure out where to set the blend knob, but so far ive got so many different tones out of the PD ive sold my P-Retro ad i just dont need on-board EQ on my bass any more.