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Tech 21 at NAMM

#321
gibsualdo said:
Which ever preset channel you're using, just stomp on the appropriate footswitch, the respective LED goes off (none of the channels will be active) and you have your bypass. Basically, it's as if every preset switch controls a seperate VT Bass (that's if it works the same as the PBBDI, I'd be surprised if it didn't).
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Yeah Jimmy, what he said ^^
 
#323
so its certain am gonna buy one of these! but what will i do with the one i already have? after and during every single gig, jam, practice, recording i think about my vt and how awesome it makes me and my squier bass sound! i dont think i can sell it.
do i already doubt that all the super electronics in the deluxe version might fail on me!? or i'd have to sell the good old vt to generate money for the deluxe, its a quest!
 
#325
Good to see.

I love my BDDI though. I double in a theatre setting, so having 3 sounds for bass guitar and 3 (if I need them) for double bass is awesome.

I haven't played a VT bass yet, but I'm curious. Might be a good thing for my electric only theatre dates or rock shows.

I already have: RPM, RBI, BDDI, and I want a PSA.
 
#337
takeout said:
Would it be ridiculously difficult to mod this to add the Mid-Freq and Blend knobs? Assuming there's enough real estate in the box?

If they were going for a true SVT, they should've at least included the 3-position mid-freq switch...
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bah...no matter what you're looking for out of an svt or b-15tone, you can get it with the vt, and the mid switch would only complicate things. besides, they weren't going for a true svt. they were going for a small box that replicates them. whole different technology, whole different way of thinking, but any sound you can get with an svt, you can get with the vt. and before you ask, yes, i've tried.

as for blend knobs, i still get a kick out of what lloyd told someone who complained about it...i think it was posted in this thread, too..."it's supposed to imitate the sounds of an svt, and svt's don't have blend knobs."

you guys are too spoiled. you expect every effect now to be all things to everyone.
 
#340
JimmyM said:
as for blend knobs, i still get a kick out of what lloyd told someone who complained about it...i think it was posted in this thread, too..."it's supposed to imitate the sounds of an svt, and svt's don't have blend knobs."

you guys are too spoiled. you expect every effect now to be all things to everyone.
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But many recordings and live sound situations are done by blending a little bit of clean DI channel with a mic'ed up SVT, for the same reasons I use a blend pedal (i.e. to preserve low end punch), so it would have been a nice addition. I don't think we're spoiled, we just know what we want and if we state it on here enough times the manufacturers may take notice! Many bass pedals are coming with blend features as standard these days so I don't think it's too much to ask...

By the way, not sure if this demo was posted before, it demos all of the new Tech 21 pedals at NAMM...

 

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