1. Lee is a great bass player, always enjoy listening. 2. Boss pedals are unassuming but always sounds great. The other pedals sound great too and are fun, but there is always something so effective yet clear about most boss pedals.
Currently use the Ampeg SGT-DI and love it aside from the compressor and grit aren't great, but when I played more aggro music I used the Darkglass Alpha/Omega & absolutely loved it. Prior to that I had a $100 used SansAmp BDDI that I used for a lot of years.
I have the SGT-DI as well. The grit may not sound good in solo but in the mix it provides exactkly the growl that can be found in many hit records. Great device.
I use the NUX because it was affordable and sounds not overly extreme with distortion. Basically it is hard to make it sound bad. I think you missed a couple of important features. The NUX has various built in amp models and cab sims (or load your own IRs) you can switch between via app. It has a noise gate, a headphones out and the USB port can even be used as a USB audio interface. Outside of that a great comparison video. Thanks!
I have gigged the Laney Digbeth & NU-X MLD preamp DI pedals...live both sounded very good, great switching options on the MLD...the Digbeth outputs 660ohm XLR DI, low enough to use live, i really liked both the clean FET & Tube sounding channels...the MLD can be used as a re-amp box, drum machine patterns for practice & aux music player input along with headphones in/output, comes with 3 amp ir's Aguliar, Nordstrum Starlift & MLD's own bass amp & 4 cab ir's, For the price i was impressed with the quality of the Digbeth & MLD..the MLD is very good,75ohm, no matter the price it works really well along with the Digbeth...i'll be keeping mine till they give up or i do...well demo'd....ps, the MLD is great for 5 or those weird 6 string players, MLD plays 4, 5, & 6 string bass's, works well with a 4 or 5 string bass's...the tilt control on the Digbeth is handy live..
I am disputing the presence of a tube in DigBeth. The manual refers to the "tube sounding" channel. The power draw is only 100ma. You cannot power a tube at high voltage on that little voltage. It also has no warm up time. I think you need to revisit this topic. It IS a fantastic pre, but I am pretty certain you have this point wrong
...there is no Valve, they don't claim it has one bud but i like the sound of the Tube channel...the Eden Glo-Plug does have a Valve at 15v, obviously not driven like a valve amp but the signal does strangely go through the 12AX7 valve...
@@AudioWonderland ..then there wrong as i opened mine & no "tube" inside, i stated there was no valve in it not they said there was one in it bud..i've known for yrs theres no tube as i stated but the Eden Glo-Plug does use a 15v tube..lol..it works but i don't know how at 15v & about the same 100ma...the signal goes through the tube but also other components that i guess gives it that tube tone, strangely works best when used with Class D bass amps for some reason... they said it had a tube & it did'nt have a tube, i was clarifying there is NO tube in the Laney Digbeth bud....
Like Chris said it doesn’t have value in the pedal. I contacted laney to ask a number of questions. One was if it had a value. It doesn’t. It’s just an amazing tube emulator. Amazing sounding pedal. I was deciding between the nux mld pedal and the laney digbeth. I chose the mld pedal due to the ir’s and high pass filter (I wish you had a option to turn it off). In all honesty as good as the MLD pedal i wish I got the digbeth.
Nice one. I've been using the MXR M81 for a couple months now and am very happy with it. I needed a small DI/XLR out for my pedalboard. In most cases I simply use it with the preamp bypassed, just as a DI Box. I enable it and use the EQ if I need to adjust my sound to the room. It does exactly what I need it to do. The only thing that could be improved is the color :D
Electro Harmonix sounds great and very flexible, to my ears. I’d go with that or the MXR, but bizarrely the EH is cheaper and deeper so, I’d probably get the EH. Cheaper and more flexible with the gate and distortion. Also i kinda think any pedal like this should have an XLR out for the desk, odd that the Boss only has 1/4". When using the compression on the EH, you’d really need to bring up the volume (which is normal for compression). And I’d put that in like 60% wet.
I like the combination of these two presenters. as nice as Cici is, Lee tends to do about 95% of the talking with the usual lineup. More of a balance here, with Lee also going into ocassional Kenneth Williams mode, for some reason.
Help a guitar player understand this guys: Are bass preamp pedals what you use if you have a passive bass, but want to emulate an active bass, so you have the pedal instead of the preamp inside the instrument?
Since bass frequencies takes a lot of power to reproduce, bass amps tend to be high wattage and therefore difficult to overdrive at reasonable volume. Plus, bass players primarily tend to play clean for their base tone. So for these reasons mainly, we get drive sounds from pedals rather than amps. However, distorting the signal of a bass can often have the effect of shrinking it, declarifying it, or making it less solid in the mix. So, it becomes necessary to mitigate that tendency with additional controls such as clean blend, crossover, and EQ. This stuff becomes pretty much necessary to have a great sounding distorted bass in a band, and pedal builders who care about bass will often lump all of this into one device where it used to require several. Compression is often thrown in too since bass normally can benefit quite a bit from some compression. So, while a simple SD-1 or tube screamer will more than suffice for a guitar player, bass players end up needing these complex "preamps" to distort the bass, solve the problems of distorting the bass, compress it and additionally EQ it in whatever way.
Also, these DI preamps are generally at the end of the signal chain, whereas active bass preamps are at the start, so it’s more about final manipulation of the sound before heading to the desk or the backline.
I have the nux mld pedal and it’s decent. I will say that the laney digbeth pedal has an emulator tube section. It doesn’t have an actual value. When I was looking to see which pedal to buy I contacted laney direct to ask about what the mod frequency was and the tube channel. A tad disingenuous saying it has a value when it doesn’t. The laney digbeth amp head has the same emulator (not value) also. Both sound killer but again it’s an emulator not an actual value.
Advice from a humble pro bassplayer: Forget about those fancy budget pedals and SAVE for the REAL DEAL: a TECH21 SansAmp BDDI. No need to thank me later. 👍
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I still swear by the Sansamp bass driver.
While others swear at it
Same here. 20+ years with mine. It's not going anywhere.
Sounds fantastic with Precision and Jazz basses.
Sounds great parallel on drums too
I couldn’t get a sound I liked out of a sansamp sadly. I much prefer the sound of the bass into the amp.
Cicii looks very different without makeup.
She looks taller, but I'm not diggin' it.
1. Lee is a great bass player, always enjoy listening. 2. Boss pedals are unassuming but always sounds great. The other pedals sound great too and are fun, but there is always something so effective yet clear about most boss pedals.
You can’t mess with the detail-obsessiveness of Japanese engineers
Currently use the Ampeg SGT-DI and love it aside from the compressor and grit aren't great, but when I played more aggro music I used the Darkglass Alpha/Omega & absolutely loved it. Prior to that I had a $100 used SansAmp BDDI that I used for a lot of years.
I have the SGT-DI as well. The grit may not sound good in solo but in the mix it provides exactkly the growl that can be found in many hit records. Great device.
Always great to see Lee playing!
I use the NUX because it was affordable and sounds not overly extreme with distortion. Basically it is hard to make it sound bad. I think you missed a couple of important features. The NUX has various built in amp models and cab sims (or load your own IRs) you can switch between via app. It has a noise gate, a headphones out and the USB port can even be used as a USB audio interface. Outside of that a great comparison video. Thanks!
GREAT playing by Lee on this one!
I was surprised by the Boss when I tried it with my Jazz Bass. Its a really nice clean boost, I'm thinking of picking one up.
I have gigged the Laney Digbeth & NU-X MLD preamp DI pedals...live both sounded very good, great switching options on the MLD...the Digbeth outputs 660ohm XLR DI, low enough to use live, i really liked both the clean FET & Tube sounding channels...the MLD can be used as a re-amp box, drum machine patterns for practice & aux music player input along with headphones in/output, comes with 3 amp ir's Aguliar, Nordstrum Starlift & MLD's own bass amp & 4 cab ir's, For the price i was impressed with the quality of the Digbeth & MLD..the MLD is very good,75ohm, no matter the price it works really well along with the Digbeth...i'll be keeping mine till they give up or i do...well demo'd....ps, the MLD is great for 5 or those weird 6 string players, MLD plays 4, 5, & 6 string bass's, works well with a 4 or 5 string bass's...the tilt control on the Digbeth is handy live..
Boss and MXR are a tie, even though they're a bit different with the Laney a close #2.
I am disputing the presence of a tube in DigBeth. The manual refers to the "tube sounding" channel. The power draw is only 100ma. You cannot power a tube at high voltage on that little voltage. It also has no warm up time. I think you need to revisit this topic. It IS a fantastic pre, but I am pretty certain you have this point wrong
...there is no Valve, they don't claim it has one bud but i like the sound of the Tube channel...the Eden Glo-Plug does have a Valve at 15v, obviously not driven like a valve amp but the signal does strangely go through the 12AX7 valve...
. Watch it again. Unless they already edited it out they most certainly did say it. It's around 18:29
@@AudioWonderland ..then there wrong as i opened mine & no "tube" inside, i stated there was no valve in it not they said there was one in it bud..i've known for yrs theres no tube as i stated but the Eden Glo-Plug does use a 15v tube..lol..it works but i don't know how at 15v & about the same 100ma...the signal goes through the tube but also other components that i guess gives it that tube tone, strangely works best when used with Class D bass amps for some reason... they said it had a tube & it did'nt have a tube, i was clarifying there is NO tube in the Laney Digbeth bud....
Like Chris said it doesn’t have value in the pedal. I contacted laney to ask a number of questions. One was if it had a value. It doesn’t. It’s just an amazing tube emulator. Amazing sounding pedal.
I was deciding between the nux mld pedal and the laney digbeth. I chose the mld pedal due to the ir’s and high pass filter (I wish you had a option to turn it off). In all honesty as good as the MLD pedal i wish I got the digbeth.
I gigged with the MLD preamp for a while. I really enjoyed it.
review the sansamp xb driver please and also utilize its effects loop for modulation pedals
Nice one. I've been using the MXR M81 for a couple months now and am very happy with it. I needed a small DI/XLR out for my pedalboard. In most cases I simply use it with the preamp bypassed, just as a DI Box. I enable it and use the EQ if I need to adjust my sound to the room. It does exactly what I need it to do. The only thing that could be improved is the color :D
I use the Digbeth plugin for metal and it's wicked. 😋
Enjoy my Orange Bass Butler very much - but these are cool 👍🏻
New color tone for today is Sparkle,great.
The EG#HX nano-Batallion makes a great noise, with my 5-string Jazz Bass in front.
Where is Cici?
She's just bulked up a bit
Electro Harmonix sounds great and very flexible, to my ears. I’d go with that or the MXR, but bizarrely the EH is cheaper and deeper so, I’d probably get the EH. Cheaper and more flexible with the gate and distortion. Also i kinda think any pedal like this should have an XLR out for the desk, odd that the Boss only has 1/4".
When using the compression on the EH, you’d really need to bring up the volume (which is normal for compression). And I’d put that in like 60% wet.
No Palmer Pocket Amp Bass? I would have thought that would be perfect for this exact thing (and comes well within the set budget)
I may be wrong but don’t think Anderton's stock Palmer, think that's gear4musics / thomanns thing
@claybennett5875 they do stock them. Not all of them are in stock but on the website right now the guitar mkII and Bass are in stock
Shoutout to Joyo American Sound. No DI out, but sounds nice.
We all go Kenneth Williams when excited. Don't worry.
Ya know call me crazy but ... 1) EHX 2)Boss ....IMO (and yeah I own a Sansamp and a Helix stomp)
I like the combination of these two presenters. as nice as Cici is, Lee tends to do about 95% of the talking with the usual lineup. More of a balance here, with Lee also going into ocassional Kenneth Williams mode, for some reason.
Hell yes, bass!
Hello from Minot North Dakota.
I really like the walrus badlands or whatever they call it
Badwater. Haven't used it but it looks like a great DI/preamp. If I were in the market for a new one that would be on the short list
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!
Help a guitar player understand this guys: Are bass preamp pedals what you use if you have a passive bass, but want to emulate an active bass, so you have the pedal instead of the preamp inside the instrument?
Not really, they're basically a bass amp without the power amp and speaker. So just the amplification drive and eq
Since bass frequencies takes a lot of power to reproduce, bass amps tend to be high wattage and therefore difficult to overdrive at reasonable volume. Plus, bass players primarily tend to play clean for their base tone. So for these reasons mainly, we get drive sounds from pedals rather than amps. However, distorting the signal of a bass can often have the effect of shrinking it, declarifying it, or making it less solid in the mix. So, it becomes necessary to mitigate that tendency with additional controls such as clean blend, crossover, and EQ. This stuff becomes pretty much necessary to have a great sounding distorted bass in a band, and pedal builders who care about bass will often lump all of this into one device where it used to require several. Compression is often thrown in too since bass normally can benefit quite a bit from some compression. So, while a simple SD-1 or tube screamer will more than suffice for a guitar player, bass players end up needing these complex "preamps" to distort the bass, solve the problems of distorting the bass, compress it and additionally EQ it in whatever way.
@@NamelessSmileplus a few other features sometimes, like the ones on the pedals in this video, but yeah that's the foundation of it
Thanks for the info!
Also, these DI preamps are generally at the end of the signal chain, whereas active bass preamps are at the start, so it’s more about final manipulation of the sound before heading to the desk or the backline.
I have the nux mld pedal and it’s decent. I will say that the laney digbeth pedal has an emulator tube section. It doesn’t have an actual value. When I was looking to see which pedal to buy I contacted laney direct to ask about what the mod frequency was and the tube channel.
A tad disingenuous saying it has a value when it doesn’t.
The laney digbeth amp head has the same emulator (not value) also. Both sound killer but again it’s an emulator not an actual value.
Raindeer! I didn't know you played behs? - löve Martha
Any pedals pre amp with Pitch Shift ? thanks
lee you ship to canada? if yes is it alot more cost to a buyer??
Shipping to and from Canada is an interesting subject lately.
Where’s Cici ???
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You're welcome.
Advice from a humble pro bassplayer: Forget about those fancy budget pedals and SAVE for the REAL DEAL: a TECH21 SansAmp BDDI.
No need to thank me later. 👍
love the humor cockroaches and the thermo nuclear blast ... keep it positive ... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That Boss is not a "preamp" per se, you can use as one, but I think we all can argue that is more a drive than a pre
As a drive pedal it kinda lacks... drive 😅 for my taste ofc