Fulltone Bassdrive Bass Drive sample

OK, there is a thread these days where someone is wondering how subtle the Bassdrive is, so I sat down and made this sample. I'm starting a new thread since it makes it easier to appear in future searches for others who might have the same question.

Sample goes this way: First of all, it's all in FM mode (Flat Mids). AFAIK, most TBers use it on this mode, as it retains the mids and helps you cut through. I start on the first channel, Tone at 10, Overdrive 0. Then I increase Overdrive by 1/4. Short pause, then I introduce the second channel (Boost). Overdrive stays at 10, and Boost goes from 0 to 10 with 1/4 increases. Then I do it all over, with Tone at 0.
So, we've got:

Channel 1
T 10, OD 0
T 10, OD 2.5
T 10, OD 5
T 10, OD 7.5
T 10, OD 10
Channel 2
T 10, OD 10, B 0
T 10, OD 10, B 2.5
T 10, OD 10, B 5
T 10, OD 10, B 7.5
T 10, OD 10, B 10
Channel 1
T 0, OD 0
T 0, OD 2.5
T 0, OD 5
T 0, OD 7.5
T 0, OD 10
Channel 2
T 0, OD 10, B 0
T 0, OD 10, B 2.5
T 0, OD 10, B 5
T 0, OD 10, B 7.5
T 0, OD 10, B 10

Keep in mind that the effect depends very much on the output of your bass. If you've got a quiet bass, it might be more subtle, with a hot signal it will probably get fuzzier. Hope this helps!

Click here to watch Fulltone-Bass-Drive-FM

 

BTW, it's not the new MOSFET version, it's the one before that. IIRC it was made on March 2006. Edit: just checked, it was made on June 06. The mosfet version is supposed to be a little warmer, but no extreme differences. I have not tried one though, so take this with a grain of salt.

 

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Yes
It's still with Barts, which I honestly dislike, will be replaced by Dingwall FD-3s sometime soon. It also has a bart preamp, but I had it on passive and run it through a DB-924 - so what you're hearing is the dingwall with barts and an aguilar obp-1 preamp, through a cheapo Tapco mixer into an EMU 0404 soundcard. But it will sound much better IMO with FD-3 (I've A/Bed dingwalls with barts, fd-3s and villex pickups and thought that the barts were clearly a level below - muffled, muddy and with not much hi-mids - highs).