Recent content by Chris_NR

In my opinion, the Musicman. I play fast melodic punk rock and it was a tough call for me choosing between the P bass and the Musicman but I chose the Musicman and have never looked back. Good luck with your search :)

I've searched for this topic on TB forums and haven’t found anything that really answered my question. I'm from the UK but I'm currently living in San Francisco for the next few months. I'm planning to buy an Ampeg bass head very soon, even with the current terrible exchange rate it’s at...

There was actually a guitar shaped as Betty Boo next to it...

This is a horrible bass I saw in a dodgy guitar shop in San Francisco...

Well, I haven’t had chance to use either of those Sansamp's. In the brief experiment I had with overdrive I didn’t quite get what I wanted, if the SVT can get me close to that sound then that’s close enough for me to take it from there. Thanks

Thanks for the input guys, those links were helpful, but weren’t the sound I'm seeking. This is the sound I'm (ideally) trying to emulate; 1:58 - 2:08 I didn’t realize there were so many pedals on the market, my search has definitely widened.

My budget would be about $200; I have a solid state Ashdown amp at the moment so at the point where the cost of that and pedal would be pretty close to the price of tube amp I would probably consider just trading it in and buying a tube amp.

I'm actually considering buying a new amp. So, in order to get the richest sound; do you think the best thing would be to buy a tube amp and drive it hard as opposed to buying an overdrive pedal?

Thanks guys, I'd never heard fo the Sansamps before now but that will be my first point of call when I go to the music store. In response to TheBigo; Is it possible to generate that amount of overdrive with a tube amp?

I'm currently planning to purchase a bass overdrive pedal. I'm not after a full out distorted sound, more of a slightly overdriven warm bass sound; similar to A Wilhelm Scream and older Rise Against material. Has anyone had much experience with overdrive pedals? What would you recommend from...