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Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 2:10 pm
by insightfool25
I had a pedal similar to this, but it had the added phase switch and its knobs were WET, DRY, and DRY GAIN, So rather than just a ratio of 20/80 or 50/50 wet/dry, you actually had a bit more versatility and could crank wet and dry simultaneously, which sounds like it'd do the same thing, but trust me, it's more betterer.
It wasn't bad, but it took up too much space on my board, and I found that with the right pedals, you can pretty much avoid getting a blend pedal altogether.
For dirt, I use a Barber Small Fry Overdrive, which has excellent low-end retention (as do many of their pedals, the Trifecta Fuzz is SORELY UNDERRATED) and I also use the El Oso by Heavy Electronics, which has its own dry blend. Also have a custom fuzz from Devi waiting on my doorstep, but I can't attest to it yet.
Also, I run a Micro POG near the front of my chain, and I think what I'm going to ultimately do, is run two amps, and run a second line from the Micro POG's Dry Out to it.
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Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:51 pm
by greeny23
azrael wrote:needs more goop!
story of my life.
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:08 pm
by one bad monkey
Aside from the separate clean and wet channels, I don't see what benefit there would be over something like the Xotic X-Blender?
http://www.xotic.us/effects/x_blender/index.html
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:35 pm
by MEC
I'm betting the ToyRoom FX version will be smaller, look better and cost less than the Xotic.

Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:08 pm
by one bad monkey
MEC wrote:I'm betting the ToyRoom FX version will be smaller, look better and cost less than the Xotic.

So nothing in terms of usability?
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:18 pm
by Mudfuzz
one bad monkey wrote:MEC wrote:I'm betting the ToyRoom FX version will be smaller, look better and cost less than the Xotic.

So nothing in terms of usability?
Xotic has EQ and other things too..
Hmm I don't know... I have a Barge blender and don't like it very much, and have used a few pedals with blends built in and I don't like it as well as pedals I use and have used that have separate Dry and a Effect volumes.. just say'n
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:19 pm
by greeny23
the main difference is that i'm selling mine for under $70.
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:34 pm
by MSUsousaphone
That's pretty sweet. And that's a HUGE difference. MAAAAAAAAAAAN, though....if it had two parallel loops....I would be so sold. It wouldn't be $70, then.....

Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:41 pm
by coldbrightsunlight
greeny23 wrote:the main difference is that i'm selling mine for under $70.
Well now I'm intrigued. Deetz?
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:22 am
by Bassus Sanguinis
bigchiefbc wrote:I'm the wrong bassist to ask, as I hate clean blend. But this could interest a lot of guys on Talkbass if it had the right features on it.
Well the clean blend is the best when it's got a separate boost that can be §cranked sparkling hot, or a separate out put for it so there can be put a tad lighter overdrive. Or a Super Fuzz

Anyway the idea is taht there's parallel signal chaings for a tad different dirts/fuzzes/clean-ish.
In other cases, I just put a that Super Fuzz in front of everything so it's on the clean channel, and the fuzz channel gets loaded!

Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:24 am
by Bassus Sanguinis
greeny23 wrote:the main difference is that i'm selling mine for under $70.
OKAY - dude, that's my kinda price range since I'm on more or less (but usually more) broke.
Re: Yo Bass Players, need your opinion!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:05 am
by excane
greeny23 wrote:the main difference is that i'm selling mine for under $70.
That sucks
I wanted it to be like $250
