Spent a day playing a basses.. Discovered the VT pedal too.

[Let It Fall]

I am building my first parts bass, using cheap parts and decided to go around playing a few basses today.

First of all the Sterling By Musicman... Sterling.. I played it at guitar center today in baton rouge, it sounded great, I was really surprised at the setup and all, I prefered the sound to most real sterlings and stingrays I have owned, the tone seemed a little less bright, almost as if it were passive. Ehh anyways I was super surprised.

I played these through a Ampeg SVT-VR MINI stack and a Ampeg 12" combo. Both sounded equally great.. the micro vr needed a little bass boost though.

Went to The Perfect Bass, played a few basses, tried my first lakeland, [indonesian made I believe] P and I really liked it, it had a great FEEL and TONE.

Played their cheap Austin [I believe] P and it had a great TONE too, it didn't have the feel as Lakeland, but tone was great, gave me hope for my soon to be parts P.

Played the Pete Wentz Signature.... Just trying some cheap basses
And it too had a great TONE.

I then picked up a MIM Precision and the tone was like night and day, it was just really bad. Maybe it was just that one, but the Austin and the Squier had a better sound...

I then tried a few pedals. Aguilar Tone Hammer,

I was looking for a pedal to give me this tone I heard from this band I wont mention, [there kinda techo in my opinion] but his p tone was sweet I was a basic bump in the high mids around 500-1k range. I figured the aguilar pedal had the sweepable mids it should be all I need, and it had a built in DI. I could use that... But no, I could not find the tone I was looking for and I didn't like this pedal at all..

Next I tried the VT pedal that I heard rave reviews about, It was beautiful. That is the sound i have been looking for my entire bass playing career. I hear its made to emulate a ampeg svt, Im going to compare my Orange AD200 to a svt in a few days and see which one I like more, so I didn't get the pedal, as Id rather just get the head, but if I find that I don't get that sound in the SVT head, then That pedal is mine!

So summary, Lakelands FEEL AND SOUND GREAT, Sterling by musicman is great, and either cheap basses are great and mims suck or I got a mim dud. Oh and Tone Hammer is not for me, VT pedal ROCKS

[TrooperFarva]

There's no E in Lakland

[Let It Fall]

Originally Posted by TrooperFarva

There's no E in Lakland

my b.

[FromTheBassMent]

+1000 on the Tech21 VT Bass.

I set mine super clean (about 10:00 on the character and no breakup on the drive, tone controls flat) and it makes my wee Markbass CMD121P combo sound like it's 16 feet tall.

I used to own an SVT head and 8x10 cabinet, back when I was young and strong and had bandmates who were young and strong as well! My current 26 lb. rig sounds just as good tonally (of course, gotta DI it through the PA to move as much air as the old stalwart).

[ErnieD]

Just asked AMS online for a lower price on a new unit and they came thru, plus free ship, plus 1 free yr extra warranty, I did not even mention the warranty. Shipped this a.m.

I've always strived for the very clean, undistorted, hi-fi tone in the funk/disco/r&b bands. Prolly comes from playing crappy gear many years ago that distorted and broke up without me wanting it to.

But just got into a trad blues/blues-rock band. Gotta '08 P5 coming this weekend. I use my modded Neopak w/GB Neox112T/Neox212T, or B1500 w/2x212Ts for bigger gigs. I'm hoping this VT pedal will give me some nice SVT style in this context. Otherwise, your gonna see a good deal on a new VT in the classifieds.

[Mark Wilson]

I can't really tell where to leave this...
but i'm gonna move it to effects because it's about the VT pedal... WHICH IS AWESOME. i use mine all the time.