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Origin Effects BASSRIG

#281
After a few years with the TH pedal as my benchmark I'm always interested in new vintage-voiced preamps. The TH with the AGS is an always on effect when I'm playing live. I suppose I use it as a tube amp simulator. The gain and mid controls are the key. Definitely the sort of thing that shines with a band and maybe not as much in other circumstances.

I love what I'm hearing from the BASSRIGs. but as others have asked, will it be a notable upgrade from my TH for live work?
 
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pisces_bass said:
After a few years with the TH pedal as my benchmark I'm always interested in new vintage-voiced preamps. The TH with the AGS is an always on effect when I'm playing live. I suppose I use it as a tube amp simulator. The gain and mid controls are the key. Definitely the sort of thing that shines with a band and maybe not as much in other circumstances.

I love what I'm hearing from the BASSRIGs. but as others have asked, will it be a notable upgrade from my TH for live work?
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Only one way to find out . . . . somebody buy one, compare the two, and post sound clips so we can all live vicariously through you! Please and thank you.
 
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pisces_bass said:
After a few years with the TH pedal as my benchmark I'm always interested in new vintage-voiced preamps. The TH with the AGS is an always on effect when I'm playing live. I suppose I use it as a tube amp simulator. The gain and mid controls are the key. Definitely the sort of thing that shines with a band and maybe not as much in other circumstances.

I love what I'm hearing from the BASSRIGs. but as others have asked, will it be a notable upgrade from my TH for live work?
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To me the TH doesn't sound like a specific amp. Whereas the Origin boxes do. I never really heard an Ampeg tone in the TH. It's more an Aguilar tone. If there is any...
 
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#284
dwagner said:
lol, well, I got to test these out at home and in a live situation at a women's conference.

For my purposes, I can dial them both in to sound very similar to the Tone Hammer. It's basically just a different flavor of the same tone. The downfall of the Origin Boxes are the less versatile EQ (at least for my use cases). The origin boxes are very much like an amp's EQ (that's kind of what they are, no surprise there). The Tone Hammer's EQ is very powerful, and the shaping is in the right spots. The bass control is for 40hz. This is really clutch in a live situation where you need to provide the most solid EQ'd tone you can do the sound guy can move on. Mid shaping can be controlled in a multitude of ways. For the origin boxes, the 64's mid control is stuck to one frequency. The Super Vintage's mid control has 3 selectable frequencies.

for me, these boxes aren't the end all be all for live tone. They are great tools in the studio when you have time to obsess over some details, or you are running multiple clean/dirty lines.

Your mileage may vary!
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Thanks for the input! :)
 
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dwagner said:
it's not meant to be switchable during a set.
I'm not really arguing anything about the volume or the switch itself. Not sure why we are even discussing it. All I'm saying is the Tone Hammer AGS is very similar to the amp tones on the Origin Units. I'll even post some sound demos for those ;)
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This could be a dumb question, but I have a Tone Hammer 350 amp, is the tone shaping abilities of it the same as the Tone Hammer DI?
 
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Naack said:
This could be a dumb question, but I have a Tone Hammer 350 amp, is the tone shaping abilities of it the same as the Tone Hammer DI?
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Yep! The EQ is the same.

However, the drive behaves a little differently with the amps (I have the Tone Hammer 500 myself).

on the DI you have to engage AGS and then the gain controls the amount. For the amps it is a mix of the drive knob and the gain knob to get varying degrees of dirt. I think the DI is a little easier to get high gain dirt sounds. The amp gets to be really loud if you want the same dirt tone because of the gain it requires.
 
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#289
SteveC said:
As usual, analysis paralysis for me. I think the 64 is a better fir for me. While a REDDI is sometimes described as a "B-15 in a box" I'm not sure that is true. I don't use a lot of drive or dirt as part of my sound, so I'm thinking if I try one that the '64 Black Panel would be the better choice for me.
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I don't think you'd like the SVT one, knowing your preferences. The Black Panel can get super dirty if you want, but it has the nice clean vintage amp sound too. There's no way you'd get a B15 sound out of the SVT one though. It's too "SVT scooped".
 
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SteveC said:
As usual, analysis paralysis for me. I think the 64 is a better fir for me. While a REDDI is sometimes described as a "B-15 in a box" I'm not sure that is true. I don't use a lot of drive or dirt as part of my sound, so I'm thinking if I try one that the '64 Black Panel would be the better choice for me.
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Those were my thoughts. I have an external drive pedal I really like, so I went with the 64 for "better" cleans, but I'm having second thoughts. The shop I bought mine from still has a SV and I'm considering exchanging to see if I actually made the right choice :roflmao:
 
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Mrblackbeard15 said:
Those were my thoughts. I have an external drive pedal I really like, so I went with the 64 for "better" cleans, but I'm having second thoughts. The shop I bought mine from still has a SV and I'm considering exchanging to see if I actually made the right choice :roflmao:
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I was second guessing myself a bit going the other way, but now that I've heard more demos I'm glad I got the SV. I can appreciate what others like about the 64, but it's not what I'm looking for.
 
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