Sansamp Bass Driver V2

Descripción

The new BDDI v2 looks almost identical to the original, but there are few differences – and pretty significant ones we might add.

First of all there a MID knob has been added. And rather than having toggle switches to select output, phantom and ground, you now have push buttons like you do on the VT Bass pedal from Tech 21.

Also new, is the option to switch the target frequency for both the MID and the BASS knob. The MID can be set to either 500 Hz or 1 kHz, and the BASS can be set to 40 Hz or 80 Hz.

Apart from that, the rest is more or less the same as it has always been. You get a LEVEL knob that is basically the master volume on the output, a BLEND knob that controls how much of the stube simulation you want to dial in, a TREBLE button, PRESENCE and DRIVE.

The most important thing to decipher from the layout – which was also the case with the v1 of this pedal – is that the PRESENCE and DRIVE knobs are locked in with the BLEND function. This means that if you have set the BLEND knob all the way down, the dRIVE and PRESENCE knobs will have absolutely no effect on your tone. The TREBLE, MID and BASS, however, are global EQ knobs that will tweak your tone regardless of how the BLEND knob is set. The reason why this may confuse at first is that it is not indicated very clearly and the knobs that are ‘connected’ in the BLEND scenario are separated from the BLEND knob itself. But hey, once you know this and get used to it, it just works!