V-Tone Bass BDI21 : Really useful thing

I bought this because I wanted my own dedicated DI out on my pedal board, as the one on my amp is terrible. It soon became clear that it was a bit more than just that. The tone shaping functions are awesome, allowing my ancient precision bass to do passable impressions of modern active basses if i like, or I can just dial in a bit of tube amp style grit without lugging an ampeg around. It's obviously simulated, but once the rest of the band kick in, even you won't notice, let alone the audience.

It seems fairly robust, but it is only plastic, and repeated stomping on it may eventually knacker the switch, but for what i want it to do, it will suffice.

Get one in your gig bag, even just as a back up in case your amp fails and you need to go straight into the PA. You get your tone control back from the sound guy.