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(More customer reviews)After using many different preamps, I needed to get one that had a built in crossover. My previous one that had this feature was an F1X, but I already have an F2B and an SMS Classic, the latter being the pinnacle of that particular design, so I wanted to try something different. The Navigator is a great addition to my collection and does a lot of really different tones and integrates really well with the other pres, so I can use the tonal shaping I'm used to and love on the SMS with the advanced features and more surgical EQ of the Navigator. I like the enhance knob, but like all the other controls, a little bit goes a long way. Some might find the extremes of the range of controls useful, but I doubt I'll be doing much more than a few notches in either direction.
Overall, the tone is very clear and clean. It seems to allow the sound of the bass come through without imprinting too much of its personality like some amps and pres do. While that can be a good thing, it can lock you into a certain tone. For instance, the Ampeg tone is a great classic sound, but it does one thing really well and can make other sounds hard to create. The Navigator can do warm and wooly, but it can also do a lot of other sounds as well. I also like the fact that it gives a great stage sound that translates really well to a recording. Having the various outputs also makes it easy to get the signal where it needs to go, and it seems to be quite noise free.
The build quality is not as solid feeling as some other products, but seems like with decent care it should last quite some time. I haven't popped the lid yet, but Eden has a reputation that has been getting better over the last few years after some reliability issues. My musical endeavors involve traveling, so I expect my gear to be able to withstand rattling around in trailers, the occasional airplane flight and daily loading in and out of venues with crews who may or may not treat things delicately. I don't foresee any problems.
Overall, I'd recommend this pre for everyone except those looking for the most thick, distorted tones. Of course, stomp boxes would probably get you there with the Navigator. If it were lost or stolen, I'd get another.
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The exciting Eden WP-100 Navigator Bass Preamp features a tube input stage, compressor with variable threshold and rate controls, tube character control, enhance control, and Eden's famous semi-parametric EQ. The WP-100 Bass Preamp also features D.I. output control on the front of the unit, a mono pre-EQ loop, stereo post-EQ, side-chain loop with front panel blend pot, variable crossover, stereo LED ouptut meters, tuner out, stereo and mono XLR ouptuts, and a defeatable limiter. Eden duplicates front-panel controls for compressor defeat, enhance, mute-to-tune, and turbo boost on a footswitch with lighted indicators that you connect to the WP-100 Navigator Bass Preamp via a standard MIDI cable.
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