Solid metal tone!

This machine is incredible! Throw a tuner in front and you have a complete bass rig. The EQ works well to shape your tone, the distortion is the perfect kind of grind, and the Colour switch is a great speaker emulator. I love the gate so my signal is tight. While maybe less useful for jazz, funk, pop, or worship, this pedal is perfect for worshiping Satan!

Great distortion

Other than Darkglass stuff, my favorite distortion for bass. Good to have a preamp in a case.

The best thing to happen to my bass rig so far

As a bassist in my band, I use a borrowed Fender Rumble combo from the early to mid-aughts. I only used that for nearly a year. I don't really like the preamp sound and having only the onboard aux out to go to the front of the house is pretty limiting in an indoor live setting. This handy tool helped to eliminate these issues. I run a cable from my bass to tuner into the Bass DI+. One 1/4" out goes through the front end of the amp. I have the amp EQ bands tuned all the way down. The XLR out goes to the front of the house. With all of that in mind, I still have one more output jack at my disposal.

A bit of everything, and it does it well.

When I was looking for a DI, a few things were important. Of course, you want something that is flexible in case your signal is lacking somewhere. This DI towards the end of my chain keeps everything organized, and I can add whatever may be lacking with the EQ.

The pedal itself is dead simple. You have your DI out, an output, and then a parallel out. Use the left foot switch to turn on the EQ, which has treble, mid, and bass knobs. The volume knob can give you a bit of a boost, and the "color" switch gives you an Ampeg sort of tone.

Use the right one to turn on the Distortion, which has very usable tones and a wide spectrum of gain. Use it for a little overdrive to give a bit more bite to your notes, use it as a volume boost, or get tones not unlike the opening bass line in Muse's "Starlight." The noise gate and blend knobs are nice features as well if you have a bit too much noise in your chain or want just a little bit of distortion blended in.

A really versatile little pedal with a small footprint.

Very good

Used it around 2007-2009 with my band at the time, great tone and great versatility. Comes out a little too "old" when compared with some newer tecnology as Darkglass or CMOS equivalents.

It's a good clean DI

It's okay, distortion channel isn't great but it's a good option for a DI to FOH paired with something else for gain.

MUST-HAVE pedal for any bassist

with a 3 band EQ, gate-able distortion channel, adjustable clean volume with a 'color' switch, can be used as a DI, in-line, or both with a phantom and ground switch... a price of 150$ is MORE than reasonable for this pedal.

This has been in my arsenal for 10 years, and has been the most badass pedal I have ever had. Durable as a tank, and full of features, I always tell bassists they need this pedal.

The basics

For about seven years now this pedal has been the base of my bass sound. Excellent tone, very easy to set, nice equalization, lots of different possibilities and great performanace with any amp. Also to gate and distorted channel are very usefull. Nowadays I use the distorted channel only as a clean boost, since I have a dedicated distortion pedal on my board. Must have for any bassist.

From Gear Setup

Best Preamp+Dist pedal. The blend control is the key

The preamp also has a balanced output and another one that is not affected by the effect, it also allows to include the distorted channel at its right point thanks to the BLEND control.

From Gear Setup

love this pedal.

There is always a fight between which is the best pre, and without detracting from the rest I choose this MXR m 80, warm and versatile, with the additional of a beautiful distortion for your bass.