IdiotBox Effects - Blower Box Deluxe, demo and review on BC Rich Bass
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- New IditotBox Effects Blower Box Deluxe
www.idiotboxeffects.com
The Blower Box Deluxe is all the awesomeness of the original Blower Box but with a tighter more mids focused sound and also a parallel mixable clean signal with low pass filter control!
Use at 9, 12 or 18VDC depending on your headroom preference.
DIR is the direct signal volume, PASS is the direct signal low pass filter control (150Hz-10kHz), High is the distortion high tone frequency cut/boost control, LOW is the distortion low tone frequency cut/boost control, DIST is the distortion intensity control and VOL is the distortion volume.
If that extra clean low end is what you dig, then the Blower Box Deluxe is your bag, baby!
Gear used and signal chain:
B.C. Rich Mockingbird Heritage Classic neck thru bass with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder pickup in the bridge, and Steve Harris pickup in the neck
MXR M87 Bass Compressor
IdiotBox Effects Blower Box Deluxe
Ampeg SVT 5 Pro (clean channel)
Ampeg 8x10" cab
Shure SM57
Intro music by Heartworm
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Killer tone 😎🤘🏻🎸 that distortion sounds incredibly heavy and versatile. I would totally purchase that or the land Phil for heavy distortion tones. Also that’s a pretty cool looking bass. My friend has the same bass along with some warlock basses.
I really like that pedal, but I LOVE that shirt!
Heavy!
Nice!
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The last band I was in they wouldn't let me use distortion on the bass . Then when the guys formed a new band their bassist was using it all the time hahaha guess I was right .
Sometimes just a little bit of overdrive or distortion on the bass can really make the entire mix with the guitars fuller and stand out more. I wouldn't use it for every single band, but any kind of rock or metal bands would probably be ok. With only distortion, sometimes it loses some dynamics and loses some of the low end too. The really cool thing about this pedal is that you can blend your direct signal (without the distortion) back in. It helps separate the notes and strings more and keeps the low end there.
Can you demo a ola englund chug pedal on bass it has a separate gain for low frequencies and i think it would sound awesome with the low frequency gain turned down
That's a good idea, and if I had the Chug, I definitely would try it! Come on Ola, I still need to try a Solar guitar too, lol. I have had a little experience with the Chug on guitar though. It was quiet tight actually and sounded just about as good as any tube amp when ran into the FX loop/power amp in. I would think having control over the Low Frequency and High Frequency gain should help even more on bass. Have you tried the VFE Pedals Triumvirate pedal? Peter makes some amazing pedals and on that one you can control the distortion on the lows, mids, and highs! There is also the killer frequency splitter pedal VFE makes called the Klein Bottle. Or even the EHX Tri Parallel Mixer is cool. Or go with the old school Boss LS-2 Line Mixer pedal. They all will let you add overdrives, distortions, or any other pedals or gear just to certain channels or frequencies you want and them blend them back together with the original sound and tone you have. At my studio I run my Ampeg SVT 5 Pro though an Ampeg 8x10", a Carvin 15", and then run the effects loop out of the SVT 5 into a distortion or overdrive pedal, that goes into the Power Amp in of a guitar tube amplifier into a 4x12" cab for my distorted tones. Sounds huge!