Akai Unibass vs. Boss PS-3

[Shroom]

Which do you prefer and why? I wanna get one and run a distortion after it to simulate rhythm guitar. But who knows? I might start experimenting and using it for all kinds of madness.

Anyway, from what I've heard, the built-in distortion sucks in the Unibass, so that's not a factor. However, the delay and detune abilities of the PS-3 seem like a nifty added bonus.

What are you thoughts?

[Jared Lash]

Unibass hands down.

I have a PS-3 on my board and I use it for a number of things, but the pitch shifting sounds highly digital, especially as you go higher. The octave up sounds completely metallic and processed. The Whammy IV will work better than the PS-3 in this regard and still has some additional features, but for doubling your bass the Akai is the better choice by far.

[KarateKid25]

I own all three (PS3, Unibass and Whammy IV) and agree with TheBigO.

Having said that, the PS-3 is all about experimentation and madness. You may like it

[Shroom]

I heard a sound sample of the PS-3 on guitar and I understand what you guys mean by it sounding digital, but I figured that would get hidden by any distortion I lined up after it.

I forgot to mention, I plan on splitting my signal to run a clean bass channel and a totally wet "guitar" power chord channel; i.e. an octave up + a fifth above that, with distortion after it and none of the original bass signal. Might not use the fifth for certain situations, but either way

[tomhanzo]

the distortion wont cover up the PS-3's digital sound. i have it and have tried covering it up with different dirties but have had no success.

I recommend the PS-3 for its craziness though. Mad little pedal.

[roflol]

i recomend running an octave down into a fuzz and playing an octave higher sounds way fatter

[bassbrad]

If you can actually get a UniBass, grab it nothing else does what it does. I can get a broad range of tones out of mine and even find use for the onboard distortion from time to time.

[Shroom]

Cool! Unibass it is. Thanks guys

[newbold]

Does Unibass do an octave down or is it just the 4th?

Is $175 Canadian as good a deal as I think?

I almost really want to get this...but I have a Pigtronix Disnortion coming.

The Unibass can be clean - which will probably be really useful somehow...

I would be jumping at this really quickly if it had octave down too...

Somebody give me some awesome news.

[5stringwonder]

The Unibass doesn't do an octave down. $175 is a pretty good deal for the pedal.

[bassbrad]

The UniBass does an octave up and can add a 4th below the octave up or a 5th above the octave up plus it has an overdrive and a tone control for the sounds and a level control to get the right balance with your bass tone. The tracking is fast and accurate and it sounds pleasingly in tune. $175 Can sounds like a good deal!

[Shroom]

Oh! I almost forgot! The Unibass can do the octave up and whatnot WITHOUT the original signal, right? Not sure if I said it, but I want to split my signal to have clean bass and octave up sounds on separate channels, and I don't want the bass doubled on the 2nd channel.

[5stringwonder]

Yes, there is an effect only output.

[Shroom]

Originally Posted by 5stringwonder

Yes, there is an effect only output.

Cool! Thanks again