Radial Tonebone Bassbone

[ricca]

I don't know nothing about pedals and signal chains......but I love my tonebone, lots of features and good sounding, and the DI output sounds good.

 

[Feral Feline]

... Radial has such good sounding DI's I'd use it over almost anything else, except maybe a JDI or something!

I read/heard somewhere that the DIs in the Tonebone/PZed-Pre/PZed-DI are actually cleaner sounding than the JDV, as the JDV is only running off Phantom power whereas the Bone pedals are powered by Radial's 15VDC walwarts. Wouldn't the Bone's DI sound better than a passive JDI?

OP: Given your preferences, I'd run your bass into your
tuner first (doubles as a mute/kill switch),
compressor,
Bassbone and the effects in the Bassbone's loop in the order you normally have them in:
EHX Big Muff
Boss super Octave
Volume/Expression pedal
Ibanez Delay

 

[badstonebass]

don't know how you guys deal with effects loops.

LOOPS! I can't deal with deal with effects. I cannot think of a single reason to use an effect in any song we play....let alone a tremolo

The BEST thing about being a bassist to me is simplicity....bass to cord to amp.

So glad I don't have to drag the effects board around anymore.

 

[T. Alan Smith]

LOOPS! I can't deal with deal with effects. I cannot think of a single reason to use an effect in any song we play....let alone a tremolo

The BEST thing about being a bassist to me is simplicity....bass to cord to amp.

So glad I don't have to drag the effects board around anymore.

That's how I felt going from keys to bass guitar full time.


Then I started putting a synth bass pedal board together.
Xp

 

[Jon Moody]

That's how I felt going from keys to bass guitar full time.

Then I started putting a synth bass pedal board together.
Xp

Same here. Once I started using them, I found all sorts of ways to add them into every day playing.

 

[JimmyM]

i found them at gc on their adapter wall.

 

[chuck3]

I've got the Bone, for the effects loop you've got to buy that stereo cord separately and customize it a little with a knife or razor blade so the wires hang right.

Not much of an effects loop guy myself though, prefer to run an pedalboard as part of the main signal and use an Xotic wet-dry blender as a true bypass and blender.

 

[Lindsay]

My only suggestion is to run all of your effects through the Bone’s effect loop. (Except for the tuner which goes through the “Tuner Out”.)
My rationale is that in case something goes horribly wrong with my effect loop, the effect bypass is my ‘panic button’. The first time I used my BassBone was a big gig and this feature saved my bacon!

Yup. You need an insert cable like this:

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Your Bassbone can be used to bypass your effects loop if necessary and send a dry or effected signal to the mixer via the XLR out. It sounds great.

 

[zeebass]

Need Help, Sorry to post in an old thread. I just got my bassbone, and it is awesome. I use it at gigs where i plug my bass to sound board and with bassbone the tone is amazing. my question is, i have a boss RC3 loop pedal and i am not sure of how to connect it.
If i connect it from bass > RC3 > bassbone (DI out) > sound board then i would not get to boost the sound or use both channels after looping (ie. plan is to loop a riff, and play solo over it after boosting or by selecting a different channel)
The next option I thought of was: bass > bassbone (instrument out) > RC3 > soundboard which means i can't use the DI, and DI being the main reason why i got a bassbone.
So any suggestions? Would i be able to use it in the effects loop?

 

[Bassist30]

I read/heard somewhere that the DIs in the Tonebone/PZed-Pre/PZed-DI are actually cleaner sounding than the JDV, as the JDV is only running off Phantom power whereas the Bone pedals are powered by Radial's 15VDC walwarts. Wouldn't the Bone's DI sound better than a passive JDI?

OP: Given your preferences, I'd run your bass into your
tuner first (doubles as a mute/kill switch),
compressor,
Bassbone and the effects in the Bassbone's loop in the order you normally have them in:
EHX Big Muff
Boss super Octave
Volume/Expression pedal
Ibanez Delay

IM not a electronical expert. But to my ears I don't think the DI out of the tonebone sounds better than my JDI or J48. I still have the bassbone and did use the DI but I really like the JDI a lot. I don't think I was very impressed with the tonebone's DI. Not that it was bad. I no longer use it as I did with the upright bass, but I found a better alternative for me anyway. But the bassbone is a very good unit. I will keep it around as a back up.