Caveman Audio BP1 HONEST REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Join Nick and Carson as they check out the Caveman Audio BP1 and compare it to other titans, like a 1073 clone and Noble Preamp.
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Your reviews, they always sounds honest and useful. Most of big gear channels are simply doing advertisement. Here it is like getting the unbiased opinion of musicians that actually benchmarked the gear. keep going
Thank you!
I've owned this for a year now. Its the hub for my pedalboard and I love the tone so much that I sold my bass head, purchased a nice loud transparent power amp and let the BP1 act as the only preamp in my chain. I figured if I have a preamp this good in pedal form, I don't need one in the head as well. It has a crazy amount of headroom, and I use an Empress ParaEQ pedal to shape the tone as I don't have those controls on a head anymore. I've been gigging regularly for about 15 years now and my live rig has never sounded better! The DI sounds awesome through the house system as well, and of course in the studio.
Nice! That sounds like a good combo
I own the BP1 Compact, and I run a few pedals and a Sansamp BDDI before it. I love having the BP1 Compact as my DI, it seems like it takes everything I put into it and makes it pristine and subby in a nice way. I like the EQ that the Sansamp gives me and I think it's a great combination.
Very nice!
I've tried a lot of Bass DI, both tube and Solid state. The Noble is king. The only other ones that can compete (that I've tried) are the Teegarden Fat Boy (great tone but no EQ), and the Shaw Audio (great box). I love plugging straight into a real Neve 10 series too. But going Noble into a Neve 1073, 1064, etc is the best. Thanks for your totally honest review with no bias!
@borismill thanks Boris! We hope you stick around the channel.
Sounds decent enough and Im digging the simplicity of it but I like the Noble demo better. Love that BB2000 (I think thats what it is with Reverse P)......I also grill my own burgers
I feel that! And it’s a great bass. I’m parting ways with it but it sounds insane
It’s a lovely sound & clearly very sturdily built. I love the simplicity of the design. That’s really appealing, but the price is ridiculous. Frankly, who can afford this right now? Most musicians will never get a chance to play through one of these, let alone own one. Frankly, I cannot be convinced that the components, fabrication, promotion etc etc. warrants such a prohibitive cost.
I agree!
Man, it’s sounds SO good. Love these things
Glad you like it!
Cool video, thanks for honesty and good comparison clips! IMO you could probably get close with a GAP Preq-73 unit, have better metering, some nice 2 band EQ options, transformer balanced output and save yourself thousands.... ;)
Totally agree. Like at what point do you just buy a 500 series lunchbox or a rack?
@@bassedthechannelI’m gonna say this point! Here’s an idea tho..how about a 500 series setup that is also footswitch able.. easy to swap fx pedal orders, simple PSU etc..imagine a 500 series OC2 module and an api preamp all in one box!
I tried to initially build a hybrid rack with footswitches but it was too complex for me
@@bassedthechannel great minds!
Great sounding BP1 aside, that Yamaha BB sounds cleannn
Right???
They're both very good pieces of gear and each have their own thing going for them but gun to my head I'm going Noble all day.
What night be interesting for people to see is a comparison between these and stuff like the empress compressor and a good old sansamp bddi or like a diamond compressor and an mxr. Friends of mine that are fellow musicians but not gear heads usually struggle to wrap their heads around the price tags of some of these pieces of gear, especially in comparison to stuff that is super established. Just some food for thought! Great video!
True good idea!
Great review guys and welcome to the rest of the world. I live at the arse end of the planet, Australia, so I’m used to importing all the cool shit for bass. Any who, I own the smaller BP1 Compact and love it. The effects loop is a treat. Although I’ve never had the chance to play with a Noble. Maybe some day.
What I like about the sound, is the directness it gives and it seems very focused. From what I can gather the Noble can give you a more 3D airy tone. Well, that’s tubes for you.
Keep up the great work guys. Love your videos and podcast. 🇦🇺🦘
Thank you so much! If you haven’t tried the RNDI, it’s in the same tonal league as the Noble but more of a transformer flavor. I love them both. I think there actually is a noble Australia’s dealer that did some RUclips demos?
@@bassedthechannel I should check it out I think the price is well over $2K, maybe hitting $3k for a Noble. I’ve actually got the Caveman Audio BC1 compressor coming. Now that should be interesting. Have you seen the videos about that? It designed to sit at the end of your signal chain. Really look forward to getting it.
@@Campo007I’d love to try one! But at this point I can’t shell out my own money to do it. They don’t seem to send demo units.
The Noble has a eq…so, keeping the eq on the Noble flat, whats the difference in sound then?
Flat is all the way to the left. We have a quick sound example in our "playing only" video.
Like all gear, the Noble has a baked in sound. It's had to describe but to me it feels a bit bigger and tucks in a mix nicer. Just like this caveman boosts low mids as the gain knob goes up.
Incredible
Thank you!
Great video, gents!
Thanks David!
Look every time I see "I love" right away I know it's bulls**t. I love my wife, I love my kids, I love this piece of music, etc.. .. anything along those lines. Comments along the lines of "I love some piece of equipment" is simply not part of the musicians vocabulary. Never once in my career have I heard a bassist, drummer, singer say " Oh I LOVE my tubes, pedal, etc.." without being stoned or totally out of it. Pet peeve of mine.
Thanks for watching!
Grants Pass Oregon, has an In and Out. Grants pass highschool Cavemen forever. Cowinkadink?
This is primarily for studio use no one would appreciate it in a live setting
All the routing and philosophy is definitely for live use but I agree the subtlety of the tone would be appreciated in the studio.
Absolutely false. The BP1 has been the single biggest upgrade to my live sound, huge improvement in clarity of tone that was immediately apparent to the entire 10-piece band, FOH and monitor tech. Far easier to get a good IEM mix, and the gain knob adds saturation that I previously thought was only possible from tubes. A little bit heavy/muddy at times in the low-mid range, but this is easily addressed with EQ. These videos never do justice to the live in-the-room effect. I am typically a huge skeptic of the branding/hype/snake oil involved in selling gear (preamp makers being some of the worst offenders), but the BP1 is unequivocally the real deal
@@StricklandRichard when I meant no one, I meant no one in the audience. If you like sounding great for your band more power to you..
@@OlandoMcCall I suppose the average audience isn't going to be able to specifically identify anything about the tonal quality of the bass, but you can make the same argument for other instrument (can the average audience member hear how good a $4000 drum kit/$3000 tube amp/$3000 guitar etc etc sounds in the mix vs their inferior counterparts? Doubtful...). But if the FOH tech is hearing a noticeable improvement in tone with this BP!, I'm guessing it's adding something for the audience that they're maybe not able to articulate, the same way any high quality piece of gear does