Talk me into a bass effect

Eruera · Post by **Eruera** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:19 pm

So I've had a rather flush day on tardme and I have room for 1 boss size on my bass board. Never really been into effects for bass, in contrast to guitar, so what should I look at?

My current rig is Pitchblack->SFT->MultiComp->Phil Jones Super Flightcase

I play bass for a Latin/Jazz/Funk group and a 60s/70s/80s covers band.

Also, does anyone know of a multiband compressor pedal with dry blend?

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:46 pm

Graphic EQ? You can get a lot of different tones.

Kev77 · Post by **Kev77** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:06 am

Snitchez is the man to talk to abut bass fx.

sirvill · Post by **sirvill** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:36 am

Bass Synth or Auto-Wah

TmcB · Post by **TmcB** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:14 am

3 Leaf Proton for your Squelchy funk, octave pedal for more fun times.

hamo · Post by **hamo** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:06 am

Digitech just released a bad Whammy.

Scooter13 · Post by **Scooter13** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:12 am

hamo wrote:Digitech just released a bad Whammy.

Yeah, they've also just released a bass whammy too. It's probably bad as well.

aliasceiza · Post by **aliasceiza** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:35 am

Can you even get a multi band compressor in a pedal?

My last band's bass player had phlange and chorus on his bass and unless the settings were extreme, they never really showed up in the mix so pretty much a waste of time!

Eruera · Post by **Eruera** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:40 am

Yeah my multicomp can do 2 band and ashdown have one as well.

I'm thinking envelope might be the way to go

hamo · Post by **hamo** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:20 pm

Scooter13 wrote:
hamo wrote:Digitech just released a bad Whammy.
Yeah, they've also just released a bass whammy too. It's probably bad as well.

Stoopid phone.

jimi · Post by **jimi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:12 pm

How about a tuner? That's all I have on my bass pedalboard. Maybe a Catalinbread SFT if your amp is a bit sterile.

TmcB · Post by **TmcB** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:29 pm

jimi wrote:How about a tuner? That's all I have on my bass pedalboard. Maybe a Catalinbread SFT if your amp is a bit sterile.

Methinks he's already wise to your ways there.

Don't get how people get on with the SFT on bass, it was a magical fart box for me but others seem to make it sound nice.

jimi · Post by **jimi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:39 pm

TmcB wrote: Don't get how people get on with the SFT on bass, it was a magical fart box for me but others seem to make it sound nice.

Well it was meant to be a bass pedal right? To be honest I've only ever used mine on guitar, but my amp already does that SVT thing, so its redundant. I've kept it just incase I ever have to play through someone else's rig in which case I'll see if I can get that SVT sound out of it.

Eruera · Post by **Eruera** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:29 pm

I really like my SFT for bass, never tried on guitar, I'm using it for more of a B15 (my dream amp) vibe than SVT. The PJ amps are pretty hifi which might help, I could see the STF being puze through an amp that already has a lot of character.

snitchez · Post by **snitchez** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:35 pm

Grab a filter (the 3leaf ones are awesome) or/and an octave pedal

Mojohand analogue filter 443 is a nice basic filter which sounds good
Any of the 3 leaf stuff

The mxr bass octave and oc2 are easy to get hold, and easy to sell off as well.

Music planet may have the Aguilar gear, yet to try the filter. But the octamizer has some really nice sounds

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