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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- What's new for 2021?
The Bass Fly Rig v2 retains the same 100% analog SansAmp heart and cool effects, and now offers:
• A choice of SansAmp Character modes:
SansAmp Bass Driver DI for a variety of classic bass tube amp tones, or
VT Bass DI with a more specific focus on Ampeg-style tones.
• Channel switching for two different Drive and Level settings. Go from
clean to dirty, not-so-clean to not-so-dirty, very dirty to downright nasty,
or any variation in between.
• Effect loop to facilitate incorporating additional outboard effects.
The first Tech 21 Fly Rig® was introduced in 2014. It was a true game-changer for players in all categories, from touring pros to bedroom hobbyists. Each Fly Rig in the series is less than 13” long and weighs just over 20 oz.
Each sleek, compact unit embodies an entire rig. At each core, is the all-analog SansAmp, which makes it possible to go direct to a PA or studio mixers and computer interfaces. For effects, you have the essentials and the ability to add some fun stuff, too. What you don’t have are crackling patch cables, dying batteries or ground loops. No stinkin’ van, heavy flight cases, cable spaghetti, and no dead weight. No stressing over what to pack and agonizing over what to leave behind. No dreading cheesy backline loaners and overheating at the mere thought of your touring rig going down.
With a Tech 21 Fly Rig, you can relax. For fly gigs across the globe, jamming at the local hang, and last minute recording sessions, you’ll be the first one ready to go. Just pop your Fly Rig into your guitar case or backpack and head for the door.
Check out Sample Setting Snippets here:
• Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig v...
And for more details, go here:
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I can tell you, I have bought a bunch of units and multieffects and this one cuts through the mix like no other unit. The preamps are very close to tubes. You can get real sweet or rough sounding tones out of it. So don’t let you irritate of the solo sounds without band or backing track. This one is exactly made for playing in live situations. But tweaking and testing before, what the controls do and how they interact with each other is a must. Great gear!
I love Tech 21! They are so ahead of the game! Great demo/review!
The grittier Bass Driver was really the only thing I wanted from my original Bass Fly Rig that it didn't offer. The VT was nice but for more modern stuff, it was a little lacking compared to other options.
I am absolutely buying this new V.2.
I'd have liked a bit more control and options with the compressor, but I get you only have so much room in the blue case. Great piece of gear.
Love the upgrades on the Bass Fly Rig V2 Tech 21 NYC hitting it out of the park yet again ... Great demo as usual Tim. 👍
I'm going to have to upgrade to one of these have been using the programable sansamp pedal for a few years and this looks like a logical replacement/upgrade :)
Very cool and awesome to see an update after valeton cloned the fly rig under the name bass dapper. I might have to trade that one in for the fly rig 2.0...
So glad I dragged my feet. I’ll be grabbing this one. Cheers Tim
Had this come out a few months ago I probably would have bought this instead of the HX Stomp. If that thing ever fails, I'm definitely buying this.
Great news - I was expecting a Bass Fly Rigs V2 for a while. I love the two Gain/Master settings, kind of like the SH-1 pedal. Also it is great that you can switch between VT Bass DI or Bass Driver DI tones. What I don't get, I miss the Character knob that I really appreciate at all the VT Bass pedals so far. How can I get all the tones without that knob? We will see ... looking forward to get it :-) !
Yeah.. Quite a miss on this without Character knob.
I just asked about the missing character knob. And they said the mid knob acts like the character knob in VT Bass mode. That makes sense as the character knob really just controls the mids pre-gain.
I've been comparing BFR2 with its predecessor and it seems that by default the character amount is set to 2 o'clock. The only way I found to reduce it is to cut hiqh frequencies with bass guitar pre-eq (and it works great for me!). Boosting mid post-eq knob helps with recreating higher character settings. However, in this case getting pretty close settings to BFR1 requires much fiddling with EQ (low and high knobs) since it doesn't give the possiblity to control the amount of mids around 1KHz. To sum up, IMO BFR2 (though with some affort) in VT bass DI mode can cover almost the entire pallete of BFR1 sounds. Great stuff! Thanks Tech21 guys :)
@@JTroskaTV Interesting! I haven't seen this anywhere in any of the many articles or videos I've seen and it's not in the manual! If this is true, they should definitely be shouting this as the lack of a "character" knob is one of the most common complaints I see. I've been googling as much as I could find about it before ordering one but just did it.
I just got one and it's pretty neat! Only thing I find missing is the actual "character" knob that the VT bass DI has. In fact that enough is reason for me to keep my VTbass. That character knob alone with out any other EQ is enough for me to dial in some of the gnarliest tones out of my Rickenbacker then possible elsewhere, and I feel like the V2 flyrig would have been the perfect unit with that knob on board.
I think the same, the character knob is one of the best thing on the FlyRig V1.
And would be nice to find excatly the same set up on the V2 as on the v1, but without the charcter knob must find a different way to do that.
But what the character knob really does? Dealing with the mids, or more than that?
After this comment I read that the mid knob on the V2does the same as the charactr on th V1 when it switchd to VT mode.
YES!!! Been waiting for this video forever.
Awesome! Just what I've been wishing for!
What we need is this BUT take out the EFX section. Have a 1 knob noise gate, and make the CHAR and BITE dials instead of buttons. Please keep the FX loop.
Instantly becomes a smaller foot print and more tweakable. We have other pedals if we want efx
so cool! i need that now!
Awsome!!!
Great creative people's!!!🙏🙏🙏❤
Between Aguilar Spector and Tech 21 MTD it’s like everything excellent with bass cones from New York these days lol
Looks great! I would have loved to see a headphone out along with a line in for silent practice.
I bought the Bass Fly Rig v2. I love the pedal (the preamp part), but not the FX part of it. I don't need that.
But I have a problem, I want to buy separate effects/pedals (tuner, compressor, SansAmp, drive, etc.) and I really like my SansAmp tone! I love it!
I use the compressor level at 12, comp at 9.
The SansAmp: Char in (activated) without Bite (no Bite push), Drive 1 at 9, Drive 2 at 10, Low at 3, Mid at 1.5, High at 1.5, Level 1 at 10, Level 2 at 10 (only a little more drive - and volume from the drive - between channel 1 and 2). No cab sim, I use the cab sim from my Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra.
I want to buy the PolyTune 3 Mini, Empress Bass Compressor Blue SPK, (and here is my problem) SansAmp BDDI v2 or the Character VT DI !!!, and I have the Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra for nu-metal/djent style distorsion (now I use the Bass Fly Rig v2 with the Darkglass, I want to go for individual pedals for better control).
I love my settings and tone of the SansAmp preamp on my Fly Rig v2, I want the same sound/character, BDDI v2 or VT DI? Because on my Fly Rig v2 I have the Char in, and that is the sound what I love, I presume that the BDDI v2 is the closest, no?
Indeed, you do presume correctly! And many thanks for choosing our gear 👍
@@Tech21nyc thanks! I love you, guys!
PLEASE, create a RACK version of the Fly Rig V2 and the PSA 2.0!!
Most Tech 21 Rack versions are way too limited in tone/functionality compared to these versatile pedals.
Rack versions are very important for professional studio/touring use.
Appreciate you for taking the time and your suggestion!
Was hoping for a filter for the funky stuff. I'm still buying this tho👊
Hi Tim. Great video, and I love your bass playing. Question on this device... I've learned over the years that fuzz/distortion/overdrive pedals sound great in my game room through a 50w amp, but when I get on stage and play through my 400w gig rig, or a big PA, when the distortion goes on, the bottom drops out! (I'm not really good at understanding the technical stuff, but I THINK that's because distortion compresses the signal.) I'm really thinking of getting this to use as a DI box, and leave my back-breaking cabinets at home. --- Thus the question... If I use this, instead of my bass rig, and run right out from it into the house PA, when I bring that nice fuzzy distortion up, does my bottom end hols up in the mix? Thanks in advance for the reply!
I use a SansAmp direct to FOH every show and there is no loss of bottom at all. That's part of the SansAmp magic.
Tim, I purchased one of these and I absolutely love it. I used it on stage and all I needed was ample bass in my wedge monitor and I was good to go. Happy to leave those heavy cabinets at home!
Just one question. I'm a little confused as to exactly what the speaker emulation button does, and how it is supposed to be used. Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you.
Cool stuff.
Nice, but I'd like to see a "FX only" version of it without the amp simulation, DI etc.. It would be great if you already have a Tech 21 preamp, amp etc. Just chorus, octaver, maybe some delay and a 2-band compressor like the old Trace Elliot SMX Dual Compressor, which is a one of my "secret weapons".
But then it wouldn't be a Fly Rig :-) However, duly noted. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@Tech21nyc Maybe just a "Jump Rig". The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tells us: "There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." :-)
@@nachbelichtet Ha! That's great!
I would wish for the opposite: Just compression, thanks. I think the octave/filter sections was the only weakness of V1. That chorus does sound good though.
Would be nice if you could use both the BDDI and VT channels together as a bi-amp setup
You might want to check out the about-to-be-released SansAmp XB Driver 😀: www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp/xb-driver/
Nice!
Has anyone found button toppers that will fit these footswitches? I've tried a bunch and none fit. These footswitches are shallower and the top wider than most standard foot switches, Thanks!
I just bought one of these and I’m having so much fun with it! Just I don’t understand how the speaker simulation circuit works, if you could explain it to me in simple words pls it would be awesome!
The easiest way to understand it is to try the switch both ways and pick the sound that "you" prefer. There is no right or wrong setting. It is an option like everything else. We prefer the switch engaged.
I was, right now, just going through my bass gear thinking, I wish I had something like the SH1 with switchable gains and a tuner but with the VT Bass sound. And then TH-cam put this video on my feed. 😮
Does anybody know what the ratio of the compressor is? And I don’t see a Character knob for the VT Bass side. Anybody know how they set/voiced it?
The compressor ratio changes as the control is advanced. It was designed for ease of use and is meant to be set by ear while playing. When the Character switch is set to the VT Bass setting, the mid knob works like the Character control on the older VT Bass pedals.
@@Tech21nyc awesome! I had assumed the compression knob would be for threshold. And that the mid knob would be post-gain. But the way you did it, with ratio and pre-gain mid (character) is more useful. Thanks. 👍
@@Tech21nyc Important info, thanks! Maybe you should make this more prominent in your feature list. I have seen a lot of people wondering about this.
Nice! Will this allow me to simulate the DuG Pinnik pedal ? Would be great to have that, plus many more voicing options. Love mu dUg pedal, but voicing options are numerous. thanks
The dUg DP-3X is a unique beast. It is essentially a "bi-amp" pedal with low pass and high pass filters. The BFRv2 is a full frequency pedal with effects, and would be an excellent addition to any setup.
Why would the speaker emulation always be on for the DI? Usually the DI comes out of the PA... which are speakers
Because the PA is a full range system. The speakers in guitar amps roll off high end around 3-5kHz. The speaker sim in our products does the same. Without this high end roll off any high gain distortion sounds will be extremely fizzy sounding.
So I don’t need my DI BASS DRIVER V 2 anymore w/this?
“Need” is a relative term. 😁 It honestly depends on what your needs actually are, so we really can’t answer that. They are similar in some respects, but 2 different animals.
Already ordered at my local store! Can you say if the quality/sound of the effects is improved or the same as the first version. For example, does the octave section track lower frequencies better than the first version?
The Octafilter in v2 has had a minor adjustment. You might find it helpful to check out our latest "Studio 21 Tech Tip Tidbits with Tim" episode to get a better understanding of how it works: th-cam.com/video/DxsHDiJivsI/w-d-xo.html
@@Tech21nyc so helpful! Thank you! Got the call today that it's ready for pick up. Im excited to play with the V2. (The v1 will stay in the collection though)
Is the fuzz circuit the same as v1?
Yes it is.
How do you turn off? Ru just supposed to unplug? Lights stay on all the time
There is no on off button. You must disconnect the power to the unit. Be sure to also turn off your amp or mute the channel of your mixer/interface beforehand.
@@Tech21nyc Thanks! Rig sounds amazing
Just when I told the wife that I don't need any more music gear.........😟
Same here with me :'(
Most famous last words ever.
Haha it never is the last one
@@Cake_Doge Oh, it's definitely the last one.....until the next one. 😉
@@Metalbass1979 my whole lego journey went on like that when I was little, I had the same though when gathering equipment which would go a long way when starting, they are going for good but still there is that one thing which would give you that sound you want
I Just got this but I'm wondering how should I plug it into my usb interface for home recording? through the XLR or through the 1/4" out? My interface is a Presonus Audiobox 96, thanks in advance :)
Either input should work. Just make sure that you set the input trim on the Presonus properly. The information will be in the Audiobox manual.
What is the best way to connect the Fly Rig Bass v2 and the Power Engine Deuce Deluxe? by XLR with the speaker simulation active or by jack? Thanks
Either way works. Just note that the speaker sim defeat only affects the 1/4-inch output. It stays on thru the XLR. With the Deuce Deluxe, since it doesn't color the sound like a traditional amp, best results will be with the speaker sim engaged. Thanks for asking!
Might have to grab this. Does it have headphone capabilities like the dug flyrig?
No, we replaced it with the speaker sim defeat switch.
@@Tech21nyc would love to have that feauture added in a future revision. Love having the headphones out on the dug
Is there a Version 3 coming soon ?
We're working on a bunch of new things, but that's not on the list. What would you want to have in a v3?
Is the XLR output always affected by the speaker simulator?
Yes it is.
I wish the channel footswitch would let me change between the two character settings.
hello, it can be used the bass ig witch Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-2AC Pro Modular?
Yes you can use that power supply. We recommend avoiding the 9/18 volt taps. Many people will use the 18 volt tap by mistake and that will cause the pedal to shut down.
@@Tech21nyc thank
Where do you engage the speaker simulation ?
There's a push-switch located in the EFX section with a speaker icon above it: www.tech21nyc.com/products/flyrig/bass-fly-rig-v2/
@@Tech21nyc thanks this peace of gear is really amazing it’s like a dream it has so much quality features!!
Hello, is it possible to use phantom alim throw XLR ?
Thanks for asking. Phantom power, as it is supplied on mixing boards, is very low current power designed only for simple microphones. There is too much circuitry in the Bass Fly Rig to operate properly on such a weak power supply.
@@Tech21nyc thanks for response
When can I buy this in the UK?
Should be very soon. You can contact our local distributor for details: ROCKY ROAD Tel: + 44 (0) 1494 535333. E-mail: sales@rocky-rd.com. Website: www.rocky-rd.com
In tuner mode, is it muted?
Indeed it is.
Love it, but you need a lower 3rd name of yourself brothah!
DAM IT MAN, Stop demoing cool shit that tell myself that I need to Buy, every time I say well, now I'm Done with my Board, you throw something out that I want......Will It Ever END!
Only when we're all buried. :-)