Always-on pedals for your tone...

[Matt Dean]

Since I got the SFT, I've been using it increasingly as a tone shaper and have it on 40-70% depending on who I'm playing with. I'm using a mesa M-Pulse 600, so I also get a great clean tube tone, but, I've grown to really like the ampegy B15 tone I get wih SFT.

So, I'm curious about what other pedals have become "nearly always on" for TBFXers.

[AndrewTaran]

SansAmp VT-Bass !
I use it as a toneshaper too, even when I have a good amp on stage. When it's turned on I know that I'll get my sound! I owned couple other pedals, pods, but this thing is my best purchase so far! :-)

[dkhp124]

2 things:
Tech21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI.
EBS MultiComp

I'm planning on getting a VT Bass too and I'm gonna have to see if it's going to be my BDDI that becomes my OD pedal with the VT Bass always on as a preamp, or the other way around.

[pdubya]

aphex aural exciter for bass
deeper than linda lovelace

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[Silent Fly]

Aphex Exciter
EBS compressor
[sfx] Blue Dragon

[snitten]

Sansamp BDDI (fat tube setting) and Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter

Works like a charm..:-)

[EskimoBassist]

EBS MultiComp
MXR M-80

[rratajski]

Demeter Compulator - always on, no matter what.
GGG-tuned BMP in Wounded Paw Blender - low, heavy, but controlled by the cleans

[BassBrass]

VT bass (last footpedal), in amp's efffect line: Aphex Acoustic Exciter (green one works better for me than the black one) and Alesis micro limiter. I use the VT more as a tone shaper & for a higher line level for recording, plug into low amp input. Years ago I always used a Boss CH2 into a seperate small chorus amp, but that was the 80s-90s before things got serious.

[bigchiefbc]

ElectroniX Submarine - 100% on
DHA VT-1 Bass - 50-70% on

[ItsMichaelYeah]

Aguilar tone hammer
MXR supercomp
EHX knockout

[bassman1185]

SansAmp VT Bass, and BOSS NS-2 for me.

[RobertPaulson]

Electronix Submarine is on all the time, used a bass xciter before I got that.

[RickenBoogie]

Trex Squeezer and Barber Linden. On all the time, every time.

[coronado3]

aphex opto stomp compressor... Very smooth

[Matt Dean]

Originally Posted by RobertPaulson

Electronix Submarine is on all the time, used a bass xciter before I got that.

A couple of you use the Electronix Submarine in always-on mode... what is it about the Sub that helps you create the tone you want all the time?

[papasound]

Radial Tonebone
FEA Dual Band Comp/Limiter

[wetzelman1]

ibanez tuner -> BBM -> Aphex Bass Xciter -> Harte VXL Attack

all on all the time.
Run it into an ampeg B2R, run for pretty much only power, eq adjustments for different stages/rooms.

just picked up a Korg AX5b to experiment with some delays/chorus's/synths but will probably never gig with it.

[FunkMetalBass]

I must have gotten a bum Bass Xciter. The thing only works half the time and the other half I don't even get a signal (regardless of whether or not it's on or off).

[MarkAndHisBass]

EHX Knockout