It's always good to see reasonable quality out of inexpensive pedals. If nothing else, it makes it less painful to try new sounds. How was the build quality on the pedals? That tends to be the one drawback to the less expensive pedals.
I love all your early darkglass demos and come back to your channel to hear them every now and again, as well as watch new videos, because you genuinely have one of the best OD tones I've ever heard. However, I have to say the delay tone/riff you did in this video, may be one of your absolute best parts you've ever come up with. BRAVO.
I use the Echo Square for my guitar. It's a great delay pedal & I use it often. Great value for the price. Combo that with the Holy Wars distortion pedal for some serious shredding.
I notice one thing with all of these bass fly rigs. They all do a fair representation of the Sansamp BDDI, which is great. They always have a comp that is working too hard to be all that useful, but the Sansamp copy is worth it.
Wish I had all these budget options when I first started. Outside of the Donner stuff NUX and Valeton make some quality budget gear. I have the Valeton Dapper Bass and used a NUX tuner and delay along with it, was a great budget rig. Just upgraded to the Darkglass ADAM though lol.
I'm surprised that it handles a 5 string bass going down as low as F# on the B just fine. I paid $25 for mine in 2020 and it has nearly doubled in price since. I'm guessing it's a keeper.
The Alpha Bass has been essential on my 'budget board'! It has a Balanced XLR out to boot! I have to switch the Compressor off when using the Chorus due to some weird hum, but maybe that's just my signal... The DT-1 Tuner lights up like a Christmas tree. I use a Dark Mouse (Rat clone) for my fuzz, and my board is powered by a DP-Z power supply. Overall, great video, Patrick!
Awesome demo, Patrick. 😎🤘🏻🎸I personally liked the alpha bass, the delay, and the fuzz seeker. I’m honestly amazed on how incredible the drive sounded on the alpha bass. And the chorus effect on the alpha bass sounds sweet. As for the fuzz seeker, it sounds killer. I personally like fuzzes that’s sounds like a high-gained distortion. Overall, cool setup.
It is awesome the options a begginer have to start playing. Awesome pedals and bass (ok...guitars also :)) at a budget price. Once I made a pedal board with 75 euros max. Great video and it is great you keep showing more price friendly articles! Keep up the good work
I know you are checking out Donner stuff at the moment, but a cheap pedal that is a blast is the Sonicake Crybot. Fun autowah for funk that would go great on that board! I love mine!
Great showcase video Patrick however............ If you were smart you could go and get a multi effects board lets say like a Zoom G5n (approx $340) which will spank any budget DIY board and you'll even have enough change to buy a set of Rotosounds! Personally I use a vintage Boss GT3 which despite being about 25 years old would still beat 'budget pedals'.
I dunno about this, Zoom B3n is gonna get you more options, comparable (or better) sound at a lesser price, especially buying used. Or get a Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig V2 for 300 bucks that's gonna last you a lifetime.
Totally agree I was thinking about the whole final price and I figured that maybe in the used market are better options..but to be honest, back in the day, when I was a begginer, I didn't have that variety of budget friendly choices.y first bass pedal was a Zoom 506.
@@esposoman yeah today's equivalent is the B1X Four, 100 bucks. Yes you're gonna be menu diving all the time, but it'll allow for way more variety and experimentation than the Donner board. As a noob the B1X will give you a way to find your sound and when the time is right one can get decent quality pedals for your sound. 400 bucks Donner board is half assed, 400 bucks is not "afford-a-board" anymore and it ain't Darkglass either.
@@krmr When someone asks me about getting pedals I always suggest getting a cheap multifx for the same reason you say.You can find an used Boss ME50B for around 150 bucks and it has all you need to get started on FX, and it sounds good to be used in a pro environment .Once you know what FX you may want/need you can save money for better quality pedals. After several years using single pedals I got a Boss GT1000 core. If I'm honest it's cheaper than all my whole pedal collection..(I got some Sansamp and Darkglass stuff and some Boss, TC Electronic and Zoom pedals)
all works great for me except the drive+compressor - that sounds pretty weak compared to all the other sounds! but hey - 365 bucks!!!! (and I'm sure it could be ballanced to sound as good as the other sounds!!!)
No. Not with this power supply. The pedals are OK, the PS is total crap. Outs are not isolated and currents not per spec. The worst part is that currents aren't stable. Couldn't drive digital pedals. Had it and got it replaced with a TrueTone.
Donne has some really good stuff for so the money! I have their Alpha Cruncher (delay, chorus, distortion) which sounds damn good on bass. The chorus is very subtle even when maxed out, but all the effects together sound amazing! I also have their Circle Looper which is very useful! Great drums sounds and metronomes in multiple genres and time signatures, but I must admit the disco drums are the worst in my opinion. I wanted to get their Alpha Bass but it seems to be discontinued and last I checked, no restocking in the works. Great sounding board for a fraction of the total of my huge ass Pedaltrain Classic Pro with 12 mostly EHX pedals!
