Bass Guitar / Synth Bass

[Hefty]

I'm interested in replicating the heavy sustained synthesized bass that is sometimes heard in electronic music on my bass guitar.

http://soundcloud.com/search?q[fulltext]=dubstep

check the above link and listen to the first dubstep mix for an idea of what I'm talking about

Any suggestions?

[AverageWhiteBassist]

You might think I'm crazy, but I used to chase effects like it was going out of style. Micro Bass synth, fuzzes like the Brown Dog and many combinations there of. My favorite and only synth pedal I have left is the Boss ME-8B multi effect. It has great synth patches and it was used on early Jamoriqui stuff. Of course there is the Akai Deep Impact, I tried one 9ish years ago and wasn't a fan, but there are so many elements that I was clueless of at the time. Best of all, you can get an 8B for about $100 in the classifieds or the 'bay.

[RickenBoogie]

A keyboard synth is the obvious choice here, but among all the bass synth pedals available, the Boss SYB-5 is not a bad choice, along with the EV-5 expression pedal. There are a few different wave shapes available, and the filter has fairy good range of tweakability, but no matter how it's set, it sounds like the same voice, mostly. Not bad, just nowhere near as good as a keyboard.