Tech 21, the Company
Tech 21 was formed by a guitarist possessing the unusual combination of a trained ear and
electronics expertise. In 1989, B. Andrew Barta incorporated Tech 21 and made his unique
invention commercially available to players and studios around the world. His highly-acclaimed
SansAmp® pioneered Tube Amplifier Emulation in professional applications for recording
direct and performing live, and created an entirely new category of signal processing. While
there have since been many entries into this niche, SansAmp continues to maintain its reputa-
tion as the industry standard.
Each Tech 21 product is thoughtfully and respectfully designed by Andrew himself with the
player in mind. Our goal is to provide you with flexible, versatile tools to cultivate, control,
refine and redefine your own individual sound. Tech 21 takes great pride in delivering consistent
professional quality sound, studio to studio, club to club, arena to arena.
SansAmp XB Driver, an Overview
The SansAmp XB Driver integrates key elements from Tech 21’s most popular bass products
into one single, multi-faceted, sleek machine:
SansAmp Bass Driver DI
SansAmp Para Driver DI
Q\Strip
dUg Pinnick Ultra Bass 1000
And just like that, you can go from traditional to diabolical.
The 100% analog, dual-channel SansAmp XB Driver is a sophisticated dual-amp, bi-amp, DI
toolbox with 15 knobs and 3 switches. Intuitively arranged, like familiar amplifier controls, you
can easily craft a broad range of bass tones without a PhD. The Clean and Drive channels are
full-frequency, fully independent channels that can be used individually or blended together via
the Mix footswitch. In Mix mode, you can engage the Crossover switch to activate the sweep-
able LPF & HPF filters, which enables you to even further carve out your own tone footprint.
The dual Clean and Drive channels have individual 3-band active EQ with sweepable semi-para-
metric mid-range, and Level controls. The Clean channel includes a compressor, while the
Drive channel has its own overdrive control to emulate hard-pushed amps, a Bite switch to
accentuate high-end harmonics, a Pre/Post SansAmp semi-parametric mid-range switch, and the
above mentioned Crossover switch to merge high-end distortion with clean low-end bass. A
Master volume completes the package.
While inspired predominantly by dUg Pinnick, the SansAmp XB Driver also gives a nod to
other bass tone innovators such as Geddy Lee, John Entwistle, Tom Petersson, Jeff Ament, and
Chris Squire. All were notorious for running entirely separate, complicated bass amp systems
together in a way that defied common logic yet yielded magical results.
As is the case with all Tech 21 SansAmps, the SansAmp XB Driver offers tons of flexibility and
versatility for many different styles so you can create your own magic.
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