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Does anyone make a B15 in a pedal format?

#43
BassJuju said:
I too have been in search of this to no avail. Sorry, I can’t help, but I am anxiously watching. One of your previous videos led me to the REDDI and gave me the Jones for a Monique.

Just out of curiosity, the next thing I wanted to try was the Le Bass. Have you tired that?
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Haven’t tried that, but from the clips I’ve heard the overdrive doesn’t seem to be voiced in a similar way.

I’m usually a fan of less knobs, rather than more, as well ;)
 
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Dave W said:
I came in to say the same thing.

I know you're more of a single high quality pedal guy (like me) so it's maybe not exactly what you're looking for but it will certainly do a lot of things. With the tweaking options available I'd be a little surprised if you couldn't get it to work.
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PotsdamBass8 said:
I was going to say the same. Mine is on the way so I haven’t tried it yet, but the amount of tweaking you can do is insane. I’d have to imagine that playing around with the amp, cab, and mic parameters would get you pretty darn close.
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Good suggestion.

I did a print ad for Line 6 a few years back, I’ll have to reach out to them to see if I can get one to demo.
 
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MattZilla said:
I did not know that there was a B-15 sound when I got one. I didn't even know what it was beyond a cool little dual three knob amp made by the SVT company. Fact is, I still don't know what the B-15 sound is. It has a bunch of different great tones that can be selected with the "volume" knob and tweaked all over the place with the "bass" and "treble" knobs. (Shhh- don't tell anyone- It even works as a pretty great guitar amp)

The Z-Vex Mastotron can kinda sorta get that gurgle grit and a fair bit of pre-grit squish of my B's volume set nearly anywhere from 11:45-4:00 and being plugged into the Normal Input.

For the NI V'9:30-10:30 sounds, you're probably going to have to mix a compressor, that linden pedal, and a mild overdrive pedal all together, and maybe a speaker emulator too.

I haven't played a recent Fender emulator amp, but the ones from a few years ago were pretty good, and so they have to have gotten prettier gooder nowadays. They used to do a Multi-Pedal format emulator thing... looked it up- The Mustang multi effects pedal. I wouldn't swear on my grandmother, maybe someone else's, I very much remember seeing "66 flip top" hidden among "whitechapel" and "vulgar display" simulations.
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This post pretty well sums up why I’m after one and am willing to spend a good bit to get a close approximation in a single box: there are a huge amount of sounds in that amp.

A lot of the Queens of the Stone Age guitar tones, some of the coolest around in my opinion, were recorded with one as well.
 
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You wont get that sound with anything but the real thing. But, I do have a tip. Find one of the b15 emulators that gets you the closest, and then run that into a compressor to get more of the feel. I personally use a sansamp oxford into a boss lmb3 to emulate a bit of the overdriven walkabout tone. Maybe as vt bass into the right comp would do it. Running the comp 2nd can give the preamp pedal a more 3d, magnifying glass on your tone sound. It also simulates the tube squish and feel most of us like. If the preamp is dialed in for a mid aggressive sound, the comp lets that through but, tames any of the associated annoying bits.
 
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Dee-man said:
I can't say how much it compares to a B-15, but I second the recommendation for a Shaw Tube Injection Preamp, which may be the same basic preamp as the Shaw B150 (a B-15 modern clone). It will fit on your pedalboard, but will likely take up half of it or more (it's tall). You can get plenty of octal tube breakup with the Shaw (I like that better than 12-series, personally), and it has a great padding feature so you can throw a very hot signal at it to enhance/fine-tune breakup. It's not cheap ($795 new), but they show up from time to time (e.g., here or Reverb, where one sold for a ridiculous $325 within the past year). Good luck, DM
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The one demo I found of the Shaw led me to believe it couldn’t get dirty enough, but everything else about it sounded pretty splendid. I’ll look for more samples of that one, I don’t mind spending the coin if it can actually do what I’m after.
 
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So there just might be something like this being annoucned tomorrow actually in Bass Musician Magazine...

I saw this thread and asked if I could post about this...But the mag has to release this first.

@MDBass check Your PMs
 
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TonyP- said:
So there just might be something like this being annoucned tomorrow actually in Bass Musician Magazine...

I saw this thread and asked if I could post about this...But the mag has to release this first.

@MDBass check Your PMs
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Tony, you’re a mensch.
 
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nshuman said:
The answer here is the P-15. If you need any more than that to maybe achieve full on power tube being pushed to destruction, you can add a pedal for that. Otherwise, the P-15 is it. Lots of naysayers that never tried one and have no actual idea how it is built have opinions that are different, but wrong.
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Any clever ideas on how to actually acquire one?
 
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Try a amp/cab emulator like the Two Notes Torpedo C.A.B. or the Mooer Radar.

I’ve tried both and they get a decent B-15 vibe and you can tweak to your hearts content.

The Mooer is fairly inexpensive too.
 
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57pbass said:
I don’t know if this will be helpful...
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Not at all the same thing, but still very cool and ironically the sound a lot of people naturally think of when they hear “B15”...even though those Motown recordings were all DI ;)
 
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nshuman said:
Email Josh using the email address on his website and get on the waiting list. Sorry, but that and the classifieds are the only way. There are not many that show up in the classifieds because people tend to like them.
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I’ve actually been looking to potentially replace my REDDI with one since the first shootout thread happened, but I never see the sale threads until they’ve already sold.
 
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MDBass said:
Tony, you’re a mensch.
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Thank You Bro...I appreciate that.
I'm a REDDI guy with 350 dates on mine and I use the Basswitch live with several hundred shows on it
I tried the Beta of this pre when I was in California in October and it was comparable.

When I played directly into it right into a digital power into a flat-ish 212 it sounded like a REDDI plugged into a Neve with Mackie 824 monitors.

By the way as per my PM...If this works out for You I don't want a finders fee but we can do a java at NAMM :thumbsup:.
Cheers
-Tony
 
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TonyP- said:
Thank You Bro...I appreciate that.
I'm a REDDI guy with 350 dates on mine and I use the Basswitch live with several hundred shows on it
I tried the Beta of this pre when I was in California in October and it was comparable.

When I played directly into it right into a digital power into a flat-ish 212 it sounded like a REDDI plugged into a Neve with Mackie 824 monitors.

By the way as per my PM...If this works out for You I don't want a finders fee but we can do a java at NAMM :thumbsup:.
Cheers
-Tony
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Dammit dude, now I need another pedal. Thanks. ;-)
 
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