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mxr di+ m-80

its basically a bass di with a distortion effect built in as well. there is a stomp for the distortion and another to engage the 'effect' which is basically the eq. there is a color/colour button to 'enhance' the tone as well.

erm, yeah, a DI is not really an effect, but thats always a good place to start...
some people do use it just for the distortion tho. thats never on for me. but thats just me
 
i agree that its a very good and useful pedal. it's the meat and potato of my sound. i put it at the end of my chain with the COLOR button always "on". it gives me a sweet spot of the eq, a mid scooped sound that goes well with my sadowsky which has a lot of mids. i don't use the distortion, i have a bassdrive and a turbo rat for that. but what you can do is, don't turn "on" the COLOR button for your fingerstyle sound. and use the DISTORTION but the BLEND all the way down, it gives you a good slap sound. cos when you press the DISTORTION, it automatically turn "on" the COLOR button.
 
Do any of you know if the DI is active (powered) or not? I'm thinking of getting a Carvin LS1503A cab (active PA cab that Greenboy et al have been using successfully as bass cabs). I'd like to use the M-80 as a DI through the XLR input, but it was suggested that this will only work if the DI is active as well. Anyone know the answer or where I could get it? Also, does anyone have any good settings to share?
 
I'm not sure if it's actually active, but it has phantom power, which I believe means it would be powered from an outside source, through the XLR output. Source could be a powered mixer. It has a switch to engage the phantom power. Hope that helps, I'm not that much of a tech head.