sadowsky & sansamp preamps w/MM's

[Tajue17]

okay finally I have a stock Pickup on the way along with a new original jack for my 93 Ray.

and now I'm on that "find the best sound" tangent again and I'm starting to wonder about running everything on my B4R flat and pre-amping through a DI out like a Sadowsky or Sansamp.

the biggest thing with the DI out is I'm hoping I can use it with my Ripper bass which has a thin sound and sounds so much different from the Rays I wanted to bring it up a few levels sonicly so it wouldn't sound like an old log when I plugged it in.

I'm finding that me and my bandmates have gotting used to the active ray sound and automaticly people think my Ripper sounds like crap when truthfully it sounds like a ripper and shouldn't be compared to Active basses with decent pre-amps.

I ask here about the pre-amp because I'm curious about the Muscimans and if they can sound better with the DI Boxs?

and basicly has anyone tried them--> I'm a Pick player most of the time if that means anything. thanks Taj

 

[dlloyd]

okay finally I have a stock Pickup on the way along with a new original jack for my 93 Ray.

and now I'm on that "find the best sound" tangent again and I'm starting to wonder about running everything on my B4R flat and pre-amping through a DI out like a Sadowsky or Sansamp.

the biggest thing with the DI out is I'm hoping I can use it with my Ripper bass which has a thin sound and sounds so much different from the Rays I wanted to bring it up a few levels sonicly so it wouldn't sound like an old log when I plugged it in.

I'm finding that me and my bandmates have gotting used to the active ray sound and automaticly people think my Ripper sounds like crap when truthfully it sounds like a ripper and shouldn't be compared to Active basses with decent pre-amps.

I ask here about the pre-amp because I'm curious about the Muscimans and if they can sound better with the DI Boxs?

and basicly has anyone tried them--> I'm a Pick player most of the time if that means anything. thanks Taj

I have a Sansamp BDDI. I use it as a DI and it usually has the blend way down so the signal from the bass is hardly coloured by it. With a passive bass I turn it up.

 

[strummer]

I used to have a ripper, and I gutted it, put in an Aguilar OBP-1 (same as Sadowsky, more or less) and never looked back. Since you have the rotary PU selector, all you really want is volume and treble/bass boost. And the OBP-1 gives you that.
Or, if you are concerned with "vintage", get an outboard, sadowsky or other. I do not like the sansamp, but why not try it as well?

 

[Tajue17]

this edition Ripper does not have the rotary switch in it only has 3 knobs Volume/Volume/ Tone I was told it was a bicentennial edition in 1976 and it has "1776-1976" with an american flag stamped on the back of the head stock. it has two huge humbucker looking pickups so maybe if it was a normal ripper it would sound different I don't know, I guess I'll get the sadowsky pre-amp for it cause its versitile enough to use with any bass.