Orange Bass Butler

Ben er helemaal weg van! Ik heb er een expressie pedaal erbij gekocht zodat je per nummer de intensiteit van de dirty channel kan ‘instellen’. Het volume blijft, alleen de gain bedien je met het pedaal! Ideaal! De compressor is ook waanzinnig. Meer clarity. Sowieso krijg je met hulp van de dirty channel echt een hele heldere sound. Zelf gebruik ik als eindtrap een noise gate. Ik vind de ruis overigens erg meevallen, maar de noise gate had ik al.
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I have used the bass butler for about a year now, to do at home bass recordings. The clean channel is perfect, compression and balance work great.
My main amp is a terror bass 500 and I absolutely love the distortion on that thing. I use it almost without extra pedals for playing punkrock and even sludge. I was hoping to get a similar quality of distortion from the bass butler, and that is not the case. It sounds okay, definitely good enough for practice and fiddling around. But for the recording part I have stopped using it, as I don't get the sound I want/need out of it. The idea of a 2 channel output sounded great to me, using both clean and distortion, mix them together and boom... but no. I record clean and add the distortion in post by duplicating the track.
Since I bought it for the distortion I think I should have bought something like the sansamp - to have some more clean control.

However, I use this now and found a way to use this in a way that works so all in all I'm happy.

I got this for a recording and practice set-up rather than live playing, and it turned out to be not quite what I needed.

I loved the idea of the two independent XLR output channels for Dirty and Clean, since that’s how I like to record and this pedal would replace a line-splitter-and-dirt-pedal arrangement. I thought the Butler would be just the thing. However there were 2 problems and I’ve sent it back as a result:

1. The Dirt Channel is a guitar amp channel, not really a distorted bass amp channel. Didn’t think I’d care about that but it turns out I do.

2. The XLR outs are line level not mic level, so my interface did not like them and the sound was bad. I had to use XLR to 1/4” for my line inputs, and that right there killed this pedal for my use case.

I’m now using a Palmer Pocket Bass instead, which is cheaper and has a dry Bass Thru output in addition to a mic level XLR out so it’s nearly the same I/O I was looking for from the Butler, and the distortion channels on the Palmer are much nearer the fuzzy bass sound I wanted.

Having said all that, if the guitar/bass bi-amp sound in a live band context is what you’re after I think the Butler will suit you very well. It is, after all, what it was designed to do.

It is built like a tank, and I love the Compressor on the Clean (that’s the thing I’m most sad about losing).