Recent content by laurel

Hi, I've got an EBS valve drive pedal which I really love, but find myself wishing it had a 'clean blend' knob on it, as I do find that although the sound is amazing on it's own, it can get a bit lost in the mix when I kick it in in a full band situation. Would be good to retain a bit of...

I think you're confusing the issue a bit. Surely you mean - "why spend the money on an expensive amp/preamp when Guitar Rig/Pandora will do it for me". This I can understand to an extent. There's some great settings for bass on Guitar Rig, and for recording at home it can be a god send...

The best 'overdrive' pedal I've heard is the EBS valve drive. I own one of these and a Sansamp Bass driver DI. I must say in my opinion the BDDI as a distortion/overdrive pedal is really bad and synthetic sounding. What it is great at is making your DI signal to the PA a bit tastier than your...

I'm not familiar with the sound you mention, but pretty much the only pedal I've tried that doesn't A) sound synthetic and plasticy (Boss ODB-3 for example) or B) totally deplete the low end of your signal is the EBS Valve Drive. I've tried loads of pedals recently (including the EBS multi...