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Well, apparently NAMM has yet another meaning. For years it has stood for "not available, maybe March", and now it is "not available, maybe May". Still better than the two year wait for the MiniMega.
Hmm. G-K is supposed to be shipping the Plex preamp pedal in June. May have to wait until I can compare the two...
I'm so looking forward to one of these. I've been going back and forth between a large pedal board and the minimal board on gigs for the last couple of years. The Bass Fly Rig has everything I NEED for my gigs.
Future plan is to have the Fly Rig as my "meat and potatoes" sounds for gigs and put a board together to go along with the Fly Rig for when I want to annoy my neighbors at home.
Future plan is to have the Fly Rig as my "meat and potatoes" sounds for gigs and put a board together to go along with the Fly Rig for when I want to annoy my neighbors at home.
If that thing is as good as advertised, they might call it the pedalboard killer.
That is the most tidy, well thought multi i ever laid eyes on.
You get the Sansamp, the Tuner with mute, the comp and the boost as a standard utility setup and a little stuff to go nuts at the left hand side.
If i had any say in that thing, i'd have wished for an inbuilt power thingy so you don't have to use a wallwart. Those flimsy cables that are so easily stepped on don't last as long as a solid powercable.
And a FS for drive. The way i see it, you can use the boost to get the tube amp into saturation if you have one - and you can use your clean tone as your tone and the sansamp as overdrive.
Having the drive on a footswitch would be more useful for me than a boost.
That is the most tidy, well thought multi i ever laid eyes on.
You get the Sansamp, the Tuner with mute, the comp and the boost as a standard utility setup and a little stuff to go nuts at the left hand side.
If i had any say in that thing, i'd have wished for an inbuilt power thingy so you don't have to use a wallwart. Those flimsy cables that are so easily stepped on don't last as long as a solid powercable.
And a FS for drive. The way i see it, you can use the boost to get the tube amp into saturation if you have one - and you can use your clean tone as your tone and the sansamp as overdrive.
Having the drive on a footswitch would be more useful for me than a boost.
Wait, the SA is on one of the footswitches (comp/boost/SA/octafilter/chorus), so you can dial the SA in to be a bit of OD and then use the boost for higher gain OD by choosing the before-SA routing option. or did you mean use the SA *as* your cleaner tone and then another switch specifically for its drive? I always used the SABDDI just as an OD pedal, myself, so maybe it makes different sense to me.
I meant exactly that. SA as the clean tone preamp plus an option for more drive. I'm thinking about playing directly into the FOH or plugging into the FX return of the bassrig on stage - that way, you could have tone shaping options. The SA does your sound. Stomp on the Drive for overdrive sound. Stomp in the Fuzz for mayhem.
Depends on what the Boost does, or rather how the level pot on the SA works.
If the boost set to pre SA just pushes it into deeper saturation while the level pot on the SA reigns in the higher output, everything is just fine.
The VT-Bass also doesn't have a blend, and still i believe it;s pretty popular, but yes - I agree a blend on OD is often useful.
I have the VT, it's great. But I also use a FF2B for crystal-clean tones that the VT can't achieve. Was hoping a blend would allow for both options.
What happens to the sansamps if you set the drive to 0? Does this mean 0-gain (i.e. no sound), or is it just zero-grit?
Ah - I believe that boost set to Pre does just push more saturation (which will make it a little louder I imagine, but not like the Post setting), whereas boost set to Post would just be a level bump.
Well, in that case i do fear for the day i wander into the music shop of my choice after the 5th of may (which seems to be the release in Germany) has passed.
This might just be exactly the thing i don't need one bit but nontheless will buy because it does what my small pedalboard does, only so much more handy.
The SansAmp circuit emulates a vintage tube amp. Vintage tube amps don't have a blend control. You don't have to set the SansAmp circuit to distort, it can be set clean or just turn it off if you only want to hear the sound of your pickups. The SansAmp circuit isn't "supposed" to be an ovderdrive pedal (though many use it that way) it's meant to sound like an amp.
Set to 0 you won't get anything. The Drive control sets the input gain. The pedal can be set clean with lower drive settings.
The original rollout date for the bass fly rig was mid-April, then moved to May.
Is there a schedule available for the rollout?
There are now 4 different available dates on 4 different music sites,
everywhere from June through September.
Just trying to understand the process.
Thanks,
Kate
Is there a schedule available for the rollout?
There are now 4 different available dates on 4 different music sites,
everywhere from June through September.
Just trying to understand the process.
Thanks,
Kate
