Bass multi effects processor

[bass_reaper]

hi guys
I'm looking for a multi effects processor for bass that sounds good and is reliable.
oh and my budget is 150-250$
any suggestions?

thanks

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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Right now on EBay there's a used Pod Bass Pro for $209 and a Pod Bass controller for $100. If you're willing to spend a little more and pull the trigger now, you would be getting a hell of a deal on those even if they're used.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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There's also a Bass Floor Pod for $70 which is also a steal. Great pedal.

 

[bass_reaper]

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I was hoping to buy a new one. (I got ripped off once after buying a second hand pedal)

 

[bass_reaper]

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^what's your opinion about zoom's b2.1u?

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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Haven't tried anything from Zoom. I have experience with Digitech and Line 6. Although the Zoom you are looking at looks just like a Digitech that I've played and just didn't buy cause I ended up with a POD. You might want to go to your nearest guitar store and talk to them about trying out some stuff. Also don't rule out guitar multi effects either. It might but unconventional but you can might get some great sounds that you weren't expecting. I know Dug Pinnick from King's X uses a POD Pro for guitar.

 

[bass_reaper]

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if you don't mind, can you tell me which processor do you use?

 

[jon the art guy]

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a Pod HD has bass-specific effects in it, as well as vocal processing. That of course goes with the tons of guitar stuff in it.

 

[ehdwuld]

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I have a GNX 3000 by digitech
It has bass amp models
Guitar amp models
Drum loops
Effects
Microphone input
XLR an 1/4" in and outs
Midi

And it's in your price range

It's discontinued but you can still find them

*(Sent from my durned phone!)*

 

[Funkfingers]

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Boss ME-50B still sounds good to my ears. I mainly use it for Primus-esque wah > overdrive bass guitar filth and sound-on-sound looping experiments on Chapman Stick.

$250 might be enough to buy a pre-owned TC Electronic BG combo or BH head. http://www.tcelectronic.com/bh500/

 

[uOpt]

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Is there something with at least one tube, like the Vox/Korg Tonelab for guitar?

 

[jon the art guy]

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if it's not running at 120-200 volts, there isn't a huge bonus to having a tube in there.

 

[uOpt]

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if it's not running at 120-200 volts, there isn't a huge bonus to having a tube in there.

Hmmm, can you elaborate? I noticed that my 12Vheadphone amp is kinda lame.

The tonelab isn't, though.

 

[jon the art guy]

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There's a ton of amps and pedals running tubes in the circuit now, but tubes only start behaving badly, AKA like tubes, when you're running them at proper plate voltages. It's all hot and crazy and the saturation/compression/warmth/distortion is all beautiful and harmonic. You can ALSO run a tube a low voltages, known as starved-plate. You can power a 12ax7 tube with 12v, no problem, but the circuit is more or less operating as a slightly off tolerance transistor and not coloring the circuit particularly much. All of the tubeyness comes from saturation of the tube at high voltage.
There's a system that some mic pres use, like ART, which are an array of voltage doubling transistors or diodes that get the tube running nice and hot, but it's seldom used.

 

[jon the art guy]

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It isn't to say that the tube-powered pedals and preamps running starved plate tubes don't sound good; it's just that they don't sound appreciably better than, say, a germanium or a something transistor in it's spot.

I mean, a tube is just a transistor before transistors were invented.

 

[jon the art guy]

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Now, there are actually tubes called space-charge who's optimal voltages are 12v, as they were used in car radios and the like. You can build a BAD-A$$ little head using a space-charge tubes (and some EQ massaging as they're really pristine sounding) and a small tube pair as output tubes, like the 12as or the 6Qwhatevertheyares that popped up in quadraphonic stereos.

 

[Funkfingers]

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Modelling is pretty good these days.

 

[uOpt]

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Wondering what the Tonelab does. The tube really shines in there. In my Korg Triton extreme, too. Made by the same company.

 

[jon the art guy]

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well, it's going to bring a flavor for sure, but not on the level of what makes a Tweed or AC15 sound so pleasing. Also, Vox/Korg is very skilled at modeling without being heralded as such. I'm constantly surprised by the turd AD15V I play through.

Think of it less like a tube and more like a germanium transistor that's friggin huge and hard to fit in a box and costs a lot of fit in the circuit.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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if you don't mind, can you tell me which processor do you use?

I've got a POD HD 500. I might upgrade to the 500x in the future but right now I get great sounds from the bass on the POD and even better sounds on guitar.