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Other Musical Equipment => General Discussion => Topic started by: Walt-Dogg on June 10, 2010, 09:22:01 pm
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Anyone have any suggestions for a good bass distortion? Something similar to a Concert Leads distortion? Distort + Boost, something when the gain is rolled back it will sound like just the boost and when cranked it will sound like Distort + Boost? Get what I'm saying?
"But wait, Walt-Dogg, you have a Concert Lead"
Yeah well I use the Lead for guitar when my bass player using my Concert Bass. And we want the same crunch that a Concert Lead gives when used as a bass head.
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Hi there,I really like the Fulltone Bass Drive,haven't used the newer one with the mosfet option,but I found it easy to dial up a lot of really usable distortions,with both a 4 and 5 string bass,Mel.
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Looked it up. I might already be sold. Gotta check it out the next time I get a chance to see it for myself. I would like something a little more compact though. But I guess the sound comes with the size? Haha...
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Hi,
I like the xotic Bass BB Preamp (see www.xoticeffects.com), you should give it a try. You can use it as a booster and overdrive to distortion. I use it for app. half a year and it works great.
Greetings
Oli
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Oli, do you think you could record a demo of the pedal for me?
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Maybe a Tech21 VT Bass pedal? I used one the other day, and you can get it to sound pretty close to the amp your using, then engage it for a boost. It also has the drive knob, which can get some pretty ridiculous disto+fuzz tones.
Personally, for bass, I just use a Fuzz Face :mrgreen:
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Looked into it. Couldn't find a good demo video all Jazz Basses and super high levels of distortion, that's the problem with this, just gotta go out and test it all myself bring my bass and my head to a Guitar Center or a Sam Ash and hopefully they have the pedals I wanna check out.
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I've said it before but the EHX Bass Big Muff is amazing with my Sonaro bass head.
I don't know if it would be similar for bass but in the bass boost mode with the tone roll-back at 11:00, I get just the growl with not much fizzy fuzz, sounds more like an overdrive even with the sustain at max and you still have the blend mode to mix your clean and the dirtier side and can also feed 2 amps...
and with the LPB-1 in front, you get the boost+distorsion...
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Oli, do you think you could record a demo of the pedal for me?
Shure, it's now in the rehersal room but i did some experiments with my daw before (just the padal into the AD). Though I hope you don't mind the awful playing, I was more into the tunring the kobs this very evening.... :-D. I'll send it within the next days...
Greetings
Oli
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Cool thanks!
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sounds to me like you could use a Tech 21 VT Bass Pedal and Electro-Harmonix LPB-1. You could probably get by with the VT Bass Alone even but the LPB-1 is like $20 and can be used, quite effectively I might add as a boost pedal.
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Messing with my Concert Bass today I managed to get a somewhat decent growl out of it, but I REALLY need to take it in and get what ever the heck is wrong with it fixed.
A pedal will be in order though soon enough.
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what are you thinking, that its a cap?
my concert bass sounds great sometimes
then it'll sound funny every once in a while as well.
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Well my tech said some caps are going bad, but I don't think that's what's making it do what it's doing. Somethings wrong with the transistors, they aren't matched I believe.
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Oli, do you think you could record a demo of the pedal for me?
Shure, it's now in the rehersal room but i did some experiments with my daw before (just the padal into the AD). Though I hope you don't mind the awful playing, I was more into the tunring the kobs this very evening.... :-D. I'll send it within the next days...
Greetings
Oli
Hi,
here is the mp3er, I did send it to your personal mailbox aswell. It was just a loosy test when I bought it in San Rafaels, a 2008 P-bass into the AD then into the daw with my fav. sound.
Sorry for delay but I managed to kill my V4 B last weekend :x :x :x :x and heave not managed to repair my 350B yet, so I have a stockpile of broken amps right now. :-P
Greetings
Oli
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my coming dirt pedal for bass/guitar...
Catalinbread SFT! go see the youtubes specially with heavy doom riff(bass), it's a kick ass pedal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGPV4SBeF2k
http://www.catalinbread.com/SFT.html
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I willing to bet that when your SFT arrives you'll be so smitten with it that you might just leave it on all the time. That's the case for most people that I know who own the SFT. It's an awesome pedal, to say the least.
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haha I guess I will! I'm actually planning on doing intro's and quieter part with it and when I want to go up a notch I add the 2 other amps on the SCOD! that will be godly! I hope! :-D
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...have a look at this:
Raven Dirty Chorus Played By Paul Raven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-WIQZve54&feature=channel
Ill try it out as soon as possible.
R.I.P. Paul Raven!
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I like the Tronographic Rusty Box, which is based off of the preamp section of a Traynor TS-50B, so you can use it either as a boost/distortion pedal or as a preamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TNtuJnJ9Zg
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I like the Tronographic Rusty Box, which is based off of the preamp section of a Traynor TS-50B, so you can use it either as a boost/distortion pedal or as a preamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TNtuJnJ9Zg
sounds great, right now I would prefer these boost boxes, they are easy to handle...
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I just test drive my new SFT and found out the Sonaro bass head sound much better in the 2000 2x15 with it!
this cab as a bigger volume and new Big Bens so it can push out a lot more bottom with more definition.
this SFT blows away the Bass Big Muff big time! totally worth every penny.
sounds like having a real gain channel on my Sonaro now! amazing!
will post some clips...I'm stoked! :-o
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I told you that SFT would rock your world!!! The voicing on that pedal is amazing, and is perfect for Sunn amps.
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Look, let's talk bass distortion
There are all sorts of different approaches you can take here.
You could go for the cheesy digital approach, and spend 80 dollars on a pedal that will sound, well, like an 80 dollar pedal. For instance, the go to bass distortion is the Boss Bass Overdrive. Not the worst thing out there, but certainly not the best. EHX makes wonderful fuzz pedals and what not, if you get a Sovtek Muff (the black one) you'll find it has a higher register than the typical Big Muff.
I like to go a different route.
Try the Megalith Fuzz pedal. OR if you want to search for this guy, try getting your hands on the Sanford and Sonny BLUE BEARD FUZZ. This fuzz pedal sounds like "Cliff Burton playing through a Model T that has just burst into flames"