new pedal day... mxr bass di

bassicsax · #1 04-06-2011, 06:59 PM

Just got my bass di today and so far I love it... so far I have only played it through my crappy little practice amp but I can already tell that it is very transparent, which is what I wanted... I'm gonna plug it into my big rig (swr sm900) tomorow if I get a chance, right now it is too late being that I am in an apartment. The real test will be sunday , I've got a church gig with in ear monitors. In ear monitors are the main reason I wanted it, so I will see if it helps like I hoped... I will post more as I go...

Grrface · #2 04-06-2011, 07:19 PM

It's an excellent piece of gear, to be sure. I use mine at my church as well, it was a night and day difference than the amp we had been using up there before. Enjoy!

bassicsax · #3 04-07-2011, 06:23 PM

Plugged it in to my "good" amp today and likw the pedal even more... I feel like the preamp brings out the best qualities of my amp and pedal chain. I know feelings on the od are mixed, but so far I like it, I actually like it more than my bas bb preamp. The only thing is a seperate eq ore tone knob for the od chanenel would be nice.... this is my third mxr pedal, I want more... hopefully the bass comp will be next. But the big test is still on Sunday...

TheWoodShed · #4 04-07-2011, 09:33 PM

The MXR is a great peie of gear. I used to love the distortion- it gave me a beautiful Fear Factory style tone.

metalinthenight · #5 04-07-2011, 11:18 PM

I've had my eye on one of these for a while. Can you get distinguishably different tones out of each channel (and have each one sound good?)?

TheWoodShed · #6 04-07-2011, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by metalinthenight

I've had my eye on one of these for a while. Can you get distinguishably different tones out of each channel (and have each one sound good?)?

Well yeah, but as with any effect miles vary depending on your bass, amp set up, etc... The clean and distorted tones sounded "seperate" to my ears, and did a good inpression of the two pre-amp set up that Chrisitan Olde Wolbers used in FF. I used it when we did Securitron.

bassicsax · #7 04-09-2011, 08:07 PM

Used it today at practice with in ears... sounded great, but was kinda noisy even with the ground lifted... I've gotta do some experimenting with it to see what I can do about it. I'm powering it with a one spot adaptor abd a daisy chain out of mystrobostomp, I might look into getting a brick to power it...

voronfly · #8 04-11-2011, 02:42 AM

This is wonderful pedal. I am running this for sort of modern sounding, it enchances and scoops the sound of the amp, gives it very nice precision and fill. I was sceptical about the distortion after reading lots of negative reviews, but in fact i am using it as a main distortion, and it beats Jekyll&Hyde, DigiBassDriver, PD7 and BigMuff. Cant be happier with this pedal.