The Bassist's Effects Line Up

[rylche]

I think it sounds interesting because I have very limited knowledge in the field of effects.


On a serious note, the Fish N Chips is more than adequate and customising my tone as I do not boost my lows as they are sufficient as they are and I use it to precisely control my mids and highs, which brings out my beloved string attack of my P-Bass.

I think a likely way I would re-order my set would be :

P-Bass> Big Muff > Fish N Chips > Bass Attack > LM-2B > Chorus > Amp .


Any suggestions regarding the revised order?

 

[AvonRellets]

No right or wrong la whatever sounds good to you!

But if it were up to me ...

The Hartke Bass DI is great for tone shaping. I would leave it on all the time after tweaking. Don't bother with the "drive" section. Horrible plastic sounding thing.

If you find yourself needing to slap once in a while, perhaps you can engage the EQ as your "slap channel instead: cut the mids and boost the highs abit.

The LM-2B is not too bad a compressor. You can try putting it right in the front to even out your playing.

So anyway ... try this

Bass -> Limiter -> Hartke Bass DI -> EQ -> Fuzz -> Chorus

 

[rylche]

A picture of my "pedalboard"



Amp <-------------------------------------------- Bass

 

[Paperback]

rylch, maybe an envelope filter? lets u experiment with a whole new world of sounds!! 8)

 

[rylche]

Yeah. I wanna get Bootsy's Mutron!

 

[marcoweeo]

hi guys! i'm lookin for a clean boost overdrive for bass.... is there such a pedal? the ODB-3 is a gain overdrive boost ya? lastly, if there is, any reccomendations? Thx alot! Wink

 

[visa]

tobias bro your compressor goes before all your other effects; because it needs to work on your raw signal

 

[iverson763]

no hard and fast rule la. you can try putting the compressor after your dirt or maybe even filter pedals.

 

[someone]

i put my compressor after my preamp and drive pedals.
because i want my drive pedals to get as dynamic an input as possible. then squash with compressor to control levels

 

[rylche]

I find it works best after drive. My Big Muff needs some compression or it goes out of hand and needs a good spanking :twisted:

 

[rottenramone]

...

my R2D2 moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZFkSiAuLY

 

[5stringwonder]

wow...that's really cool...

 

[marcoweeo]

hi guys! i'm lookin for a clean boost overdrive for bass.... is there such a pedal? the ODB-3 is a gain overdrive boost ya? lastly, if there is, any reccomendations

umm.... is there a mistake in my qsn? or does nobody wanna reply?

 

[someone]

You can try looking for something like the catlinbread Picaso.

other than that, try any clean boost type pedal that is made for guitar... its essentially the same thing

 

[reyrey]

clean boost overdrive? overdrive makes your sound distorted,which is not clean in the first place...hmmm.... :lol:

 

[marcoweeo]

hmmm.... kk, but i dun wan a distorted sound... am lookin for a clean boost... so is there anything like dat?

 

[someone]

just try any clean boost pedal designed for guitar.
EQ pedal can also acts a clean boost

 

[marcoweeo]

is the muff overdrive considered a clean boost? coz, i didnt see a drive knob on it.....

 

[litford]

the muff is a fuzz. check out the RC Booster by Xotic, i think they came up with a range for bass too so you don't need to get the guitar ones.

why do you need a clean boost anyhow? a pre-amp or EQ should let you add more bass or treble where necessary, and offer some volume parameters as well.

 

[platypus]

ibanez pd7 has three modes, clean/OD/Dist . Clean can be used as a clean boost, OD gives overdriven sound, Dist give heavy distortion. The pedal got a 2 band eq.