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Atomic Amplifire Bass Box at NAMM

jimfist

jimfist

"Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!"
Mar 28, 2011
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from Studio Devil's Facebook page...and it's ABOUT TIME! (yay)

"Ever wondered what Virtual Bass Amp with some extra dynamics and EQ processing, a selectable drive effect, and an impulse modeler would be like, all packed into a portable stomp box? Well, this is it...

Introducing Bass Box, coming soon from Atomic Amps...and we are bringing units to the NAMM show this week. Going to be a fun time showing it to people and getting some excitement over one of our best selling bass amp modeling effects algorithms, and much more, all inside the box!

If you are going to NAMM, stop by Booth #3749 and check it out!"

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When I owned the original Amplifire 3 button, I beat up on Atomic a little bit for not supplying bassists any love. It's taken about 3 years, but they've finally thrown in with this box. For $299, I almost feel obligated to support the product. They've crammed a lot of features in this box, I can definitely use it in my rig, and enjoy supporting local (USA) companies when I can.
 
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TheLowDown33 said:
I would love to see the full spec on this. If you could use the same PC capabilities, this is a bit of a game changer for me
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My thoughts exactly. Their other stomp pedal - the Amplifire-box - has a PC editor that exposes other effects, features and parameters not shown on the front panel (IR loading, etc.). I'd be shocked if the same weren't true for the Bass Box, too. More info will surely be released during NAMM, so looking forward to those details.

Regardless, this box is currently on top of my GAS list.
 
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Azure Skies said:
It looks nice. Too bad they didn't google the name to see if it was taken.
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To be fair, it took 3 attempts at google searches for me to get one that came up with your pedal on the first page. And when I did get it on a couple searches, it was never at the top of the list.

I think the terms, even when stuck together in that specific order, are just so generic that there's a lot out there that is either named "bass box" or referred to with those terms.

This is not intended to disparage or diminish; I'm just saying, it's a very common combination of words. It's kinda like EHX's new "Mono Bass Synth" pedal...descriptive, but not distinctive.
 
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Well, I thought I was going to sign up for news and updates but, apparently, I'm now on the waiting list, LOL! I read the page, but above the signup portion is something about news and updates. Oh well, I'm still very interested.

The fact that my guitar player has the guitar version and really digs it has me excited! I sold my Helix, returned the HX Stomp I bought, and Kemper was never on my list. From reading the Fractal forum, I'm not sure they could care less about bass, so, I was thinking that I might buy another Helix down the road. Thankfully, I spent 7.4 minutes on TB today and now I have 14 different options to look at! Bless you, TB!
 
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ChubbyJerk said:
To be fair, it took 3 attempts at google searches for me to get one that came up with your pedal on the first page. And when I did get it on a couple searches, it was never at the top of the list.

I think the terms, even when stuck together in that specific order, are just so generic that there's a lot out there that is either named "bass box" or referred to with those terms.

This is not intended to disparage or diminish; I'm just saying, it's a very common combination of words. It's kinda like EHX's new "Mono Bass Synth" pedal...descriptive, but not distinctive.
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Unless you are the owner of Fulltone - in which case you feel you have the rights to the term "Bass Drive" and defend it rigorously. Because, of course, that's such a descriptive and unique name for a drive pedal that is geared specifically toward bass :rollno:

Sorry - back to the real discussion...
 
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