Hi,
Just a short sharing of how I use the Harkte Bass Attack VXL Tone Shaper Pre Amp cum DI(Direct Input) if you have no time to read the manual.
1. Plug in your bass to the input and adjust the "Bass" and "Treble". 5 is neutral. My "Bass" is 3 and "Treble" is 6.
2. Step on the "ON/OFF" switch and adjust the "Harmonics", "Mix" and "Brite". " My "Harmonics" is at 4, "Mix" at 1 O'clock(not too dry) and "Brite" at 3.
3. Step on the "SHAPE" switch and adjust the "Shape" knob. I set mine at 850Hz frequency.
For "Shape", it can affect your slapping tone.
For this setting, it depend what sound you want and how you adjust your output's EQ. It also depend how you adjust your bass's preamp(if any). You can get the pure sound of the bass attack by connecting to the effect loop of your amp.
If your bass has a built in preamp, adjust the sound you like first before setting the "Harmonics", "Mix" and "Brite".
Take some time to explore and experiment.
A typical set up propose by the manual is, your bass to input of Bass Attack,the XLR output or line output to mixer and parallel output to amp.
For me, instead of using the parallel output to amp, I used the line output and set the amp as my monitor.
Harkte Bass Attack is designed and engineered in the US by Samson Technologies. Made in China :)
Rugged Aluminium Chassis. You can use a 9V battery or DC adaptor.
Cheers
2 comments:
Do note that the parallel output is a bypassed signal from the pedal. Running it through the effects loop does not guarantee the full tone of the bass pedal. You need to blend in the pedal @ 100%. However, Effects Loop is mostly used for Time Based Effects.
My last set up was bass attack output -> mixer and use the bass amp as my monitor.
Enjoy the shape button for slap stuff
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