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The Great Bass Preamp/DI Comparison

Board is seeing some new additions and restructuring. Just added the RNDI and my Cali76 will be here tomorrow. Will stay this way for a few weeks until my Noble gets built and then we will re-evaluate again.
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My holy grail of tone is the old school Ampeg tone. To me, that IS bass. Nothing wrong with any other tone, I just prefer the old school stuff.

For me it was a Fender Bassman blackface tube amp into a Sunn 115RH folded cab for vintage (bars/etc), or later on a Markbass Compressore and Super Booster (di) direct to FOH for clean (church)
 
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Was wondering that myself... @scubaduba the manual for the ALiX mentions “headphone out” but that may be a misprint from the FELiX... does a headphone work with any of the outputs?

Not really. If you connect headphones to the Amp Out you get audio in one ear. Same with the Tuner Out.
 
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I should say that I am really impressed with the NUX Melvin Davis bass preamp. For the $$ it is an impressive piece of kit. It sounds really good and better than many of the more expensive devices on my list. For $179 USD you get sweepable mid control, IR (and you can load your own) cab sim, XLR out with ground lift and more. Plus it is small.

Oh and the gain control with OD sounds really good. Especially with the blend control. From just a hint of hair to all out distortion. It’s all there.

I picked up a NuX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp last month and love it. It sounds great and didn't shred my wallet. Great pedal. :thumbsup:
 
Well, the Arkham Oracle is hooked up. It’s good ya’ll. Just have to play with it some more. There is some goodness in that “Range” knob. I have not found a liking with any of the switches. They are all off. But Gain at 3:00, Bass at 1:00, and Treble at 11:00 is squarely in my tonal ballpark. The range control sweeps the shelf point of the bass and treble controls and that is very cool!


She’s a big girl though.

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