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Tech 21 VT Bass
- Thread starter Bob Moulton
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Ya, decent
Should have told us it sucked, bro. We'd have believed you. I think a lot of people on here got it on your word. I did. But I think you have enough clandestine stuff going on...gotta throw the common man a bone once in a while. Good for the karma...then you're not all uptight like those guitar players with their "my gear's a secret" business
Justin, that was some pretty sick tone you were getting in that clip. I'm playing a Jazz through my VT, and the tone I'm getting is in that same ballpark. Mine's a little less distorted from the VT, but I've got a Homebrew Hematoma that I use for my higher gain sounds, run through the VT.
Either way, very cool playing, very cool tone.
Either way, very cool playing, very cool tone.
Amazing tone. It's one of those sounds that is pretty damn cool by itself, and absolutely SICK in the mix, and Justin's mix is better than most 
Nearly straight up the middle on most everything. In the interest of full disclosure, there is a Sans Amp PSA1.1 involved, but it is very vanilla, and sounds like a regular old bass preamp with tone controls set flat and no added gain. In other words, it's not contributing much to the sound, it's really that VT you're hearing for the most part.
JMJ
JMJ
a seeminlgy stupid question.
When i first had my VT i put it at the end of my Chain straight into the effects return to using it as a pre amp. Then i put it into the input of my amp to take advantage of the mute facility on the amp. I read the manual and moved it ino tthe middle of my chain as per the instructions so the Compression and od were before and flanger and Delay after it.
My question is can i still use it as a pre in this position? I tried it in the effect return and it worked albeit that i had to increase the level a bit to get similair output when it was on the end of my chain.
If i use it as my pre does it have to go at the end?
Thanks in advance
When i first had my VT i put it at the end of my Chain straight into the effects return to using it as a pre amp. Then i put it into the input of my amp to take advantage of the mute facility on the amp. I read the manual and moved it ino tthe middle of my chain as per the instructions so the Compression and od were before and flanger and Delay after it.
My question is can i still use it as a pre in this position? I tried it in the effect return and it worked albeit that i had to increase the level a bit to get similair output when it was on the end of my chain.
If i use it as my pre does it have to go at the end?
Thanks in advance
It depends on your amp really. If your fx loop runs at line level, then you need quite a hot signal going into it. If you boost the volume on the VT too much, it will distort the pedals coming after it. However, some amps seem to work fine with an instrument level signal going into the FX return (I've used a few Trace Elliots at practice rooms in this way no problem). Your other option is to add an extra clean boost pedal at the end of your chain to drive your signal up to line level. I went down this route at first, but then decided to just get a new amp that has a flat uncoloured tone so I could just feed it a regular signal yet still have the amp's EQ available if I needed it. First had an iAmp 350 combo, but am now using a Markbass CMD121P which I'm very happy with!
The video of jmjbassplayer really gave me a good idea of what the vt could do. I found another clip that is pretty good as well. I don't know if it has been posted or not, but check it out.
I think now would be a good time to say this again since the thread is about to be closed in the next 6 months
VT...pedal of the future!
VT...pedal of the future!
I wrote a review on a VT-Bass in Russian here : Invalid Link Removed
I understand that only feew people on this forum can read in Russian, but meybe it would be helpful for someone
I understand that only feew people on this forum can read in Russian, but meybe it would be helpful for someone
i think if i use it as a pre i'll just re arrange my signal chain and put it on the end. Luckily my Shuttle is really quite hifi and has a mute i like to use, so same as you i feed it into the input. It was just a what if question
Found out tonight that I like the sound of the good ol' P-bass with flats through this pedal too. You can still get a little growl (or should I say distortion) with a pick and of course the finger tones are clean and warm. Now I can't decide; rounds or flats. I guess most of you play rounds. 
I spent a few months playing flats, but went back to rounds recently. Still do flats on occasion, though. I like it equally on both.
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