sansamp ? or not

[silverman]

I play a bass and I was thinking about getting the sansamp bass distortion driver, can anybody tell me if this is a worth while product? Am i wasting money?

I would appreciate any insight I could get from you all. As allways, you all rock.

joshua

[Slackmaster2K]

The Bass Driver DI? It's got upsides and downsides....

The upside is that it does offer nice realistic sounding bass in a recording.

The downside is that it only seems to sound great in a recording. While you're using it live it sounds rather boring.

I guess the point is that it's very subtle...and only a big bass rig is going to *feel* like a big bass rig. The Bass Driver DI box does a good enough job that it does sound like a big bass rig in a recording. It's 100X better than just plugging in direct.

Some notes:

It sounds better when it's plugged into a preamp of some sort. It sounds best when the battery is fully charged or you're using phantom power. It works very well for a very specific tubey sort of guitar sound, if you run a regular guitar through it. Don't expect miracles...remember: *subtle*.

Slackmaster 2000

[enemyofthesun]

yeah and dont expect it to give you distortion... its not a distortion pedal. for that get a bass overdrive, rat or a big muff

If you have a small rig then get this thing it will give you much more presence and a overall better tone but if you already have a nice full size rig then only expect to use this for recording