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Post your VT Bass pedal settings please!

#23
Blah114 said:
I just bought this pedal.. did not get it yet.. I am wanting a slight funkier, ballsier sound with the MarkBass setup I have.. a tube sound.. this pedal sounds subtle... which is what I like.. meaning it sounds like I can have it be as subtle or as aggressive as I want.. I have a sansamp RBI.. but I am selling it.. I wanted something smaller.. this is hopefully it..

I wish there were more threads on settings, but I am hoping flat settings are best.. with a slight boost in low.. I always like a slight low boost.. and I generally turn down highs as well..

If I want a tone like Rage Against the Machine, suggestions:

If I want a Geddy Lee tone from Moving Pictures, suggestions:

If I want a Flea tone from Suck my kiss, suggestions?:

If I want a motown sound, I think we've already covered this..

do you guys usually flatten your head EQs.. when using this pedal.. or just leave those the same and adjust the pedal until it coincides with your amp's settings?
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IMO this VTBASS pedal can DEFINATAELY 'warm up' 'tube-ify' a mark bass amp- I use mine for EXACTLY this reason & find it superb. Check the link attachment above in this thread which opens up a page with a few users settings.
As stated already- the manual's settings(while not great as they ARE) are a good STARTING point for sounds... I generally found my own fave settings, but are bassically same as others listed previously. level-unity, mid -around 11-12 o'clock, 11-oclock, Drive-11.30,low-12, high- 11. :hyper: works well for me.
 
#24
JimmyM said:
That's a good question. I've found that Dannybuoy's flat setting mirrors channel two in both the B-15N and the SVT. The two different B-15 settings I posted a while back were for both my 64 B-15N and my 77 B-15N (the 77 has a lot less high end and subdued upper mids and a big low mid). Haven't tried to match it in a while, though. Once I got what I wanted out of the matching, I discovered it's much better to just get a sound you like out of it and not worry about matching. But I'd be willing to bet that my old settings are still pretty accurate, which I believe for the 64 was mid at 1:00, character at 11:00, bass at 12:00 and treble at 10:00. Can't remember what the 77 was.
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Ooch...a bit if misinfo just came back and bit me on the ass! Turns out what I thought were flat channels on the SVT and B-15 were actually bright channels...discovered this through a little ABing. Also, my old settings weren't accurate ;) Here's what I do now to cop that tone...

Mid flat, character just slightly below flat, bass on about 12:15, treble on 10:00.
 
#26
rcubed said:
I was wondering why some of you had the character knob so high but now I've realized that you're using flats.
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I'm not ;) I put the character that high because it's where it's gauged to be near-flat response. I back it off slightly from that, though. It's really just an upper mid control until you get past 12:00.
 
#27
I set bass/mid/character to a tiny bit past noon, treble to 10 o'clock, gain between 11 and 1 depending on how much overdrive I want. I don't put the character any lower than noon usually because it kills the mids. It's cool sometimes though, if you want a soft pillow of low end like an SVT with the Ultral Lo switched on, i.e. you want to be felt rather than heard.
 
#28
dannybuoy said:
I set bass/mid/character to a tiny bit past noon, treble to 10 o'clock, gain between 11 and 1 depending on how much overdrive I want. I don't put the character any lower than noon usually because it kills the mids. It's cool sometimes though, if you want a soft pillow of low end like an SVT with the Ultral Lo switched on, i.e. you want to be felt rather than heard.
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Nobody wants that. Even reggae guys call that ultra-lo sound muddy ;)
 
#33
I basically copy Josh Homme's bass sound from the first QOTSA album (he played bass on most of it as well as guitar). He was playing through either a cranked vintage SVT IIRC, but there's a slight chance it could've been a V4. Can't remember too well.

This setting only works with my Spector Euro LX, with EQ flat, both pickups cranked. Sounds quite different with my T-Bird.

Level - Where ever.
Bass - 12:00
Mid - 11:30
High - 12:00
Character - 10:30
Drive - 12:00

If I place EQ between my Tbird and VT, to make it sound more like my Spector, then I find I still need to crank the drive above 12:00. As you'd expect, when I first got the pedal, playing with the Spector it almost had the sound I was after straight out of the box. Was one of my finest moments of pedal buying :)

EDIT: Forgot also to mention, that's with Ernie Ball regular slinkys (roundwounds), with the VT running straight into the power amp of my Ashdown ABM and a 410 ABM cab w/horn off.
 
#36
My settings are pretty much spot on for the "Fat Tube" in the supplied settings (posted just above).
I use an Xotic BB Preamp, just before the VT in the chain for distortion.

I have noticed that when switching from DI/IEM's to using my poweramp/cab I tend to change the EQ. DI'd it's like the settings above. In the amp/cab's I roll off some of the lows and boost the mids and highs slightly. This is to compensate for the 'bassyness' in my bass cabinets contrasted with the full range of the PA.
 
#38
Hydromantic said:
Any other ideas regarding these samples?

Thank you very much
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I have a tone that sound close to the samples you have posted but without the VT. Lately, I use the VT through its own channel to get a more "pillow" or "wool" sound (my settings on the VT are close to the SVT Style example included in the package). This way mixed with other tones, I have something that emulate close enough IMO the bass tone on early albums from Yes. I use a 4 strings bass with active pick ups and roundwound medium gauge. Settings on the bass are flat except for the high knob cranked a little. Settings are so subjective to our own perception, the type of strings, pick ups, amps, preamps we use so this is just my two cents. Experiment!
 

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