Behringer V-Tone Bass BDI21

When I ordered it, I didn't expect it, but this thing really brings my bass to life. It adds fatness, presence, volume and a wide variety of tones.
It's plastic, yes, but for a home user I don't think that's a big deal. Mine stays on a desk. But if you're planning to gig with it, get two just in case, as another reviewer suggested.
At first, the drive knob didn't seem to do much, but I think the volume on my bass was too low or something, because at some point I started to hear it. What it does is it adds a bit to moderate distortion just to make it sound fat and dirty. And, as I mentioned, you can really dial in a multitude of tones.
I love seeing Behringer stepping up their game in the recent years. I was pleasantly surprised by them lately on more than one occasion.
I would definitely recommend this!

Got this little thing as I needed a way to plug in straight to front of house during live shows. The sound and tones you can get out of it are amazing. Construction although feels like a toy (being made from all plastic) is actually very solid. The Balanced output sounds good in any application ( be it a live show or just plugging in to a interface for tracking). Compact and lightweight means you can just throw this in your gig bag and go! Deffinately a must buy for any begginer or even experienced bass player out there!

The pedal is actually much better than expected if you need a good drive tone. If you bump the drive all the way up, it get almost into overdrive/fuzz. All the pots work great (no painted arrow, so it gets hard to see the level of the pot, but you can paint over it). The push button feels really cheap and it gives the impression that it will break under your foot. All that said, if you can remember to have a light touch on this pedal, it should be a great replica preamp.

I wasn't sure about this pedal when I first plugged it in, but over the next few days it started to dawn on me what a little gem this thing is.

I bought it originally as just an overdrive pedal and sure it does that perfectly as long as you don't go past 2 o'clock on the drive dial. You can achieve a good driven sound with plenty of guts but if you go too far it just sounds like a broken amp with ripped speakers!

The tone controls work like a dream and if you are having trouble getting your bass to come through amongst other instruments, trust me you will find a tone in there that will bring you through easily. The presence control just brings the whole thing alive and has the ability to change the the overall punch or smoothness and works with the tone controls to enhance them further, it also adds a little warmth to the signal which I love. The blend so far I tend to leave around mid-way as I don't want to eliminate the original sound of my bass's completely but rest assured it works as it should and might be a nice option for someone else. The level control can be used as a signal boost or just to engage the effect at the same level and works perfectly. and on top of all this, although not tested yet, it has a DI output!

True, it won't make your bass sound like it's being played through a valve amp but it gets the sound most of the way there and I think it sounds fantastic. This pedal will bring a bass alive for most genres of music from funk right through to vintage rock. If you are looking to smoothen your sound or give it a bit more punch or sparkle, this will absolutely do it and then some!

Although plastic, it doesn't look cheap and it feels weighty, it actually feels really solid. The footswitch, controls and jack sockets all work perfectly well so I have no concerns whatsoever of it breaking in the near (or far) future.

Like I said earlier, I bought it just an overdrive pedal and after the first use I wasn't sure, but now after a few days of farting about with it, I am having trouble turning the thing off, it just brings so much to the party. I would be happy with this pedal..... even if I never used the drive section I bought it for!

Unbelievably cost under 23 euros.....110% recommended!!! :)