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Must I Buy Another BDDI?


Mike Bear

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A bit of youthful ignorance coming to the surface yet again, how does one use the BDDI with an amp in a live setting. I understand that it can be used to go direct for recording or for going directly into a PA without an amp but it sounds as if many of you use them as a sound shaper for your rigs. Do you plug into it and then into your amp or do you use it in your effect loop or am I totally on the wrong track?
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Broke out one of the newer BDDI's today at work. Not the 3 channel one. Pro-battery change without a screwdriver. Con-the box is lighter and not as thick. I'm sure it's still durrable. Mine seems quite heavy compared though.

Mike Bear

 

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The best thing about the newer (non programmable) BDDI's is that line switch. It gives you a much hotter signal to send to your amp. I think it's a night and day difference from the older models.

 

I wrote to Tech21 and they said the programmable BDDI is all the same as the old one - with the line switch. They have the effected XLR and 1/4", but they did away with the uneffected 1/4" out. No loss in my mind.

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Originally posted by davio:

A bit of youthful ignorance coming to the surface yet again, how does one use the BDDI with an amp in a live setting. I understand that it can be used to go direct for recording or for going directly into a PA without an amp but it sounds as if many of you use them as a sound shaper for your rigs. Do you plug into it and then into your amp or do you use it in your effect loop or am I totally on the wrong track?

I run mine like this:

 

Bass --> Compression --> BDDI --> Amp.

 

Sometimes I use an effect or two between the BDDI and the Amp. I haven't tried it through the effects loop, put I have tried it direct to PA only and also through the Power Amp In on my head unit (bypassing my amps preamp). I have found that setting all the tone knobs at 12:00 on my amp head and running the SVT Settings + a little more drive gives me the sound I want.

 

FYI, I'm using a Peavey Firebass that I bought new in 2003 right around the time the Max 700 came out to replace it (although the "replacement" was just in name and front panel graphics).

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Originally posted by Dave Sisk:

They must be feeling some competition from Radial Tonebone with their two channel deal. Now, if they'd build one stompbox that has this, plus a good chorus compressor, and a true-bypass effects loop, I might have to give it a run against the Digitech BP-8... ;)

 

Dave

Perhaps, but Radial seems to discourage the use of the Tonebone direct into a power amplifier. 'Round these parts, the ability of the BDDI to go directly into a power amp is a pretty big deal.
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Originally posted by NUTT:

The BDDI can be used in conjunction with a power amp as a stand alone preamp. I've done this once or twice as well.

I basically do this all the time. I run from my bass to my Peavey Kosmos to my power amp to my cabinet. It sounds amazing. The 20 db boost will make it a lot easier to get a lot of sound out of my rig. It sounds massive, akin to an old SVT running on all cylinders.
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