I've loved my BBBOD for years now, but have started to become paranoid about gigging it becuase, well, if I could get another one, it would really cost me. So I've started searching for a new OD that I can take out to the festivals and dive bars without worry. I'm looking for an always on, tube like mild to mid-overdrive, which again, the BBBOD does better than any I've found. Based on reading here on TB one of the pedals that caught my attention was the Barbershop, so i recently picked one up to see if it could fill the big shoes of the Blueberry.
My first impressions of the Barbershop is that is extremely transparent and dry. The Blueberry seems to add some overtones which create a little sustain and even feedback at times. I find this to be very pleasing to the ears, and also to the feel of the bass; i.e. bending notes, nursing feedback, etc. The Barbershop adds only some grit, otherwise what comes out is what went in, which is not a bad thing. There is no loss of lows and the tone of the bass is faithfully reproduced.
The Blueberry adds some color, particularly in the mids, and you have to turn the tone down to keep the lows. But, is is oh so creamy, smooth and fat. With the Barbershop, I can always hear the "teeth of the saw blade"; it cant get as smooth and full. Both pedals are sensitive to touch, although the Blueberry is a little more so. You can go from virtually clean to od with right hand pressure with either.
I made a quick YouTube vid, but please excuse my lack of production. I'm playing my Fbass BN5 through a GK MB 112 II combo with an 112 powered extension cab. What you see and hear is from my iphone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZFfvUy-_A&feature=youtu.be
Here is the Blueberry in a track with a 70 P bass through the DI of a SWR Bass 750 into a Korg D16.
My first impressions of the Barbershop is that is extremely transparent and dry. The Blueberry seems to add some overtones which create a little sustain and even feedback at times. I find this to be very pleasing to the ears, and also to the feel of the bass; i.e. bending notes, nursing feedback, etc. The Barbershop adds only some grit, otherwise what comes out is what went in, which is not a bad thing. There is no loss of lows and the tone of the bass is faithfully reproduced.
The Blueberry adds some color, particularly in the mids, and you have to turn the tone down to keep the lows. But, is is oh so creamy, smooth and fat. With the Barbershop, I can always hear the "teeth of the saw blade"; it cant get as smooth and full. Both pedals are sensitive to touch, although the Blueberry is a little more so. You can go from virtually clean to od with right hand pressure with either.
I made a quick YouTube vid, but please excuse my lack of production. I'm playing my Fbass BN5 through a GK MB 112 II combo with an 112 powered extension cab. What you see and hear is from my iphone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZFfvUy-_A&feature=youtu.be
Here is the Blueberry in a track with a 70 P bass through the DI of a SWR Bass 750 into a Korg D16.
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