Just picked it up today, there doesn't seem to be alot of accounts of them used on bass, and I know 5sg is getting ansty waiting for his to materialse, so I thought I'd put up a very mini review.
Some shaky camera phone pics:
In short, it's good. It's very good. No low end loss, no that I'd expect any from a volume effect. It clips slightly if you really attack a note, but I have a 9v active with a very hot output. I imagine the internal gain trimpot could do something about that, but I haven't bothered fiddling with it as it was pretty much perfect already.
I can coax some very nice sounds of it, the standard trem sounds good, but obviously this pedal is all about the sequencer, which can give you some very cool sounds, you can get volume swells, reverse volume swells (slow gear anybody?), you can set up nice pretty sounding sequences, weird random choppy patterns, or set it just right to accentaute certain parts of arrpegios or runs. Pair it with a delay and it sounds beautiful. I'll get some clips up when I've had a chance to have a proper fiddle.
Major complaint thus far is the construction, it's solid and well put together and everything, but there's nothing holding the PCB in, the pots just stick through the drilled holes, so the PCB is basically held in by the back plate. which wouldn't be a probelm, a few pedals just have the board floatign free, but this one is very very loose. When i took it off to get the gutshot, the PCB pretty much fell straight out. Not something I'd expect from a pedal that's $300 new, and with an internal trimpot.
Something I can't help but wonder about, is the lack of a tap tempo. It couldn't be impossible to add one, and it would benefit infinitely from it. It's quite hard to sync the spd knob to what you're playing, and it only leaves you one hand to play, and you have to bend down to do it.
A slight annoyance too, is the knobs go from right to left (less > more). Apparently there is a reason for this (not sure what). And although it seems like an easy thing to remember, i found myself a few times setting a pattern, wondering why it sounded weird, then relaising i'd set the knobs wrong. left > right has been engrainged into my head for nigh on 20 years, it's quite difficult to ignore.
But yes, overall very very pleased, she shall be staying for the immediate future, until something else shiny pops along.
I'll try and get soundclips up tonight, but e3 is calling me.
