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I've got he VT Bass Deluxe but really want one of my presets to sound like an overdriven BDDI. I'm sure somewhere on the character knob it has the voicing of the BDDI. Anyone have any tips?

I'm a rock player primarily and I'm about to play my first ever country gig. Been rehearsing with a band for awhile and haven't really felt confident in my tone. It's traditional country so mostly finger style with a lot of 1 and 5 doop/dops. In my rock band I'm kind of known for having a...

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To start off I play heavy rock. I use the Sansamp VT Bass Deluxe as my primary tone shaper and use 4 of the available six presets. I use a lot of distortion. My primary distortion is the Swollen Pickle which is located before the VT Bass Deluxe in my chain. For reference here is my signal chain...

Trying to learn by ear but can't quite nail it.

This is all good advice, actually the only one not on wireless is the guitarist. The drummer has recorded our warmups so he can hit play on his drums and stand in the crowd during soundcheck (before doors), vocalist and I are on wireless. We do not use IEMS but each have a wedge. The RTA and...

The guitarist who owns the PA seems to have some idea what he's doing. I honestly don't know much about what he's doing on the ipad. He uses the driverack and an RTA mic to reduce feedback and "tune the room" as he calls it. I've done sound engineering a few times but not regularly. I have a...

I just joined a cover band doing 3 sets at a local sports bar. The band just purchased a PA (JBL tops and subs, X18Air, DBX Drive Rack) and everyone is running directly into the PA, electronic drums, guitarist with an amp emulator, bass (me) running on a sansamp and one vocal. I'm the new guy...

I use the VT Bass Deluxe on my pedalboard for various stages of dirt in my sound. My most recent cover band band doesn't use cabs but runs everything through their PA so I left my cab at home and ran straight off my VT Bass Deluxe and I found that my tone was lacking in low end through the PA...

It really depends on the application. For anything with effects or distortion/fuzz I like to get a dry DI sound off the bass for low end, I'll usually low pass this for reinforcement and uniformity. I also like to do a wet DI post effects and use either a sansamp or the bass head DI if it has...

I saw a video about ten years ago on YouTube when I was first getting started where the engineer was discussing microphone techniques. He stated that he always laid bass cabs on their backs to record. The reason being that the speakers move much more symmetrically and quickly with gravity...

But if you only turn the drive knob then the character knob will not be affected regardless of it's current position.

I've had this thing a few months and I love it. I am not sure about one aspect of it after watching a vid the other day and I don't want to test it out of fear of messing up my settings. If I have a setting I really like and I want to turn let's say the drive up just a little bit. I just go to...

My engineer is playing drums on our record. It's DIY with some rented/borrowed gear and space that we have limited access to. We will be recording as a band with cabs isolated. I suppose I could A/B the two cabs on my interface and DAW. I will be running a DI from my VT Bass Deluxe in addition...

Going into the studio in a month and need to pick out a cab to record with. I have access to a Fender bassman 410 neo, and own an Ampeg SVT 210. I'm trying to decide which one to put on the recording. I was pretty much set on the Ampeg until I remembered I have my buddy's Bassman Neo for awhile...