Does anyone here have one of these? I'm thinking of getting one to record here without using an amp. I've heard they are really good.

I have the rack mount version and it has served me very well. In addition to recording DI bass, it has been useful for spicing up kick drums and synth tracks. I dont know if that interests you, but it's been fun to play with.

I have also used the pedal version. It isnt quite as flexible, but is also very good and useful.

I would get one.

i highly recommend these.

they are nice.

they make basses sound great and guitars sound evil.

Yes. Get one.

I've never used the rack mounted one but can only imagine.

It's not exactly a Swiss Army pedal, but like a Jackknife pedal. If you're looking for an "original" tone you won't get it, but it will get the job done and you'll use it every day. Before you buy one though, A/B it with an MXR Bass DI+. It has a noise gate and a scoop switch as well as all the other features of a SansAmp and a very similar tone. Think it's a bit less $$ too. Definitely A/B it though so you get the sound you want. Good luck

Never used one on bass, but when I was doing a series of battery-powered gigs, I rented one ($5!) to use as the preamp for guitar and uke, going into the laptop. I spent some time in the store demoing the different Sansamps, and while I found the guitar Sansamp to be a tone-sucker, the bass Sansamp sounded really, really good. Very nice. I'd say listen to it first yourself to make sure, but I know I liked it a lot. (I ended up putting out the recording of one of the rehearsals which went through the Sansamp.)

absolutly fantastic, i love mine!

i own a svt4pro and a 810e and the sansamp does a very convincing job of recreating the same/similar tone that i get from my peg! ive herd it with jazz basses and musicmans tho and it doesnt really seem to help that much, but its great on my p basses!

fakiekid wrote:absolutly fantastic, i love mine!

i own a svt4pro and a 810e and the sansamp does a very convincing job of recreating the same/similar tone that i get from my peg! ive herd it with jazz basses and musicmans tho and it doesnt really seem to help that much, but its great on my p basses!

Yeah much better on P than J. Not so responsive on low muted non-gritty notes and the P has a grittier tone.

Yes, I wouldn't want to play without mine. My basic signal chain is a '79 P-bass --> Sans Amp Bass DI --> Traynor YBA-3. I think it sounds kind of awesome.

It is noisey though, as you'll see if you read other threads about it. I still have never been able to completely get rid of the noise. For recording, I have used it successfully as a DI, to reamp lifeless bass tracks and it does some kind of cool things to an electric guitar and even vocals. Mostly it stays in my live rig though.

That MXR pedal looks interesting though. Looks very similar, but seems like it doesn't have the same noise problems...I may be checking that out shortly.

ebeam wrote:That MXR pedal looks interesting though. Looks very similar, but seems like it doesn't have the same noise problems...I may be checking that out shortly.

I've got the MXR and haven't had noise problems. The distortion channel seems to pick up a mixed bag of harmonics, a little dirtier than more high end distortions. There's a noise gate though so you don't have to suck on shitty hum all day.