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05-11-2008, 07:49 PM
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The Tech 21 Sansamp Programmable Bass Driver Direct In is both quite a mouthful and the perhaps the most popular pedal-format product in the bass world today.
Even then, this can't mean (I hope) that are no good alternatives to it. What do you guys think you'd buy if the BDDI didn't exist? Why? And who out there sports an alternative? Like to give a little review and/or comparison for us?
FWIW- I know this has mostly likely been discussed before. Thanks for not mentioning it.
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05-11-2008, 07:57 PM
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05-11-2008, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canada! | | | In terms of features, the MXR M-80 is awfully close to the BDDI, so I'd guess that MXR might own that market.
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05-11-2008, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by arbitrary  That Hartke one looks similar. | Doesn't sound like it though.  I got one as soon as it came out a long time ago when I was getting into bass seriously (started PA-supported gigs and needed a DI) and it is simply nothing special.
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05-11-2008, 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by grace & groove The Tech 21 Sansamp Programmable Bass Driver Direct In is both quite a mouthful and the perhaps the most hyped pedal-format product in the bass world today. | Fixed it for ya!
I owned one, I loved it, but once I was rich enough to buy decent basses, I started to dislike it. Eventually I hated it, then I didn't own it any more and I lived happily ever after.
The End.
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Originally Posted by grace & groove FWIW- I know this has mostly likely been discussed before. Thanks for not mentioning it. | No worries, I won't mention 'it' - but I will say    
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05-11-2008, 11:32 PM
| | | | I still like having one, even though i never really use it and certainly don't need it. I keep selling them and then buying another just to have one around. Sometimes you just want the sound that this pedal is known for.
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05-12-2008, 12:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | | Yep. Basically Hartke Bass attack and The MXR.
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05-12-2008, 01:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | Also Tronographic Rusty Box, Tech21 VT Bass, EBS Microbass, Aguilar Tone Hammer. Oh, and the Behringer Sansamp clone! Also the Zoom B2 does a pretty fine Ampeg simulation for the price too. |
05-12-2008, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by dannybuoy Also Tronographic Rusty Box, Tech21 VT Bass, EBS Microbass, Aguilar Tone Hammer. Oh, and the Behringer Sansamp clone! Also the Zoom B2 does a pretty fine Ampeg simulation for the price too. | well, if the Sansamp didn't exist, then the Behringer one probably wouldn't exist either, since there would have been naught for Behringer to clone....
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05-12-2008, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by The Lurker well, if the Sansamp didn't exist, then the Behringer one probably wouldn't exist either, since there would have been naught for Behringer to clone.... | Ouch.
Naw, it would have been an MXR-inger.
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05-12-2008, 01:30 PM
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05-12-2008, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by arbitrary That ebs one does look kinda sexy | Gets me going! 
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