Electro-Harmonix Bass Metaphors: The Stompbox With The Ironically Non-Descriptive Name
Shall I compare thee to a channel strip?
Thou art more portable and compact.
Modular pedalboards do clutter the stage at one's feet,
And rackmounted processors hath too high a price tag.
Sometimes too harsh my jazz bass sounds,
'Specially when his volume pots are dim'd;
And times are clean is too clean by far;
S'when I kick your distortion in.
And thou needest not an insert point;
As a compressor integral do you sport.
Thy truest bypass, and housing robust,
Gives me lead to take thee a-touring with.
Dude, that was totally like a sonnet.
RICK CAMIA: My name is Rick Camia. I work for Electro-Harmonix/New Sensor. I'm the pedal demo guy for today and also the product tester at the factory and also the customer service guy.
The Bass Metaphors is basically a channel strip, which means it's a unit that allows you to have EQ in one box as well as distortion and compressor and a volume overall for the whole unit and also a separate volume for the EQ level and also a dry in, dry out so you can actually add as much dry to the signal as you want. It's also great because it's a direct in and out box, so it has 1/4" direct out as well as XLR out. Now you don't need to carry your bass around unless you really want to. Bypass switch. With the EQ kicked in...
[RICK CAMIA AUDITIONING ELECTRO-HARMONIX BASS METAPHORS]
...you can turn up treble and bass. You can dial in as much dry as you want and then you have a distortion that kicks in.
[RICK CAMIA AUDITIONING ELECTRO-HARMONIX BASS METAPHORS WITH DISTORTION]
And then of course, you have a compressor built in...
[RICK CAMIA AUDITIONING ELECTRO-HARMONIX BASS METAPHORS WITH COMPRESSION]
...and an overall volume for the whole unit.
[RICK CAMIA AUDITIONING ELECTRO-HARMONIX BASS METAPHORS, TWEAKING MASTER VOLUME]
So this is a great all-in-one unit. It's great for older amps because when you have older amps a lot of times they don't have a compressor built in. This one has a compressor built in. This one has a compressor built in so you can take this, use it with your old Ampegs or old Fender Precision or anything. It works great.
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