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10-15-2009, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Stoke-on-Trent | | | "Crunchy Bass" in a pedal
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Ok, so today my band wrote a new song, & there's a section where the guitar drops out & I'm playing the guitar line. Now both my guitarist & vocalist said that the bass should sound "crunchy"... Now, my pedals can sound "growly" & "RAAAAWWRRRR" (that's an Ashdown Hyperdrive, then the Hyperdrive + a DOD FX52), so I'm looking for another distortion type pedal (or, something that I can run alongside my Hyperdrive) to sound "crunchy". Could anyone suggest something to do this? (I'm hoping to keep it relativly cheap, so Sansamp stuff, although very good, isn't really what I'm looking for, & I'm not a big fan of the Boss OBD-3)
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something similar to this, but with abit more bite to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmEku...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n6oW...eature=related
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I use mostly 4 string active basses, tuned to either Eb, or drop C#
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10-15-2009, 03:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Can you put up some examples (youtube, etc.) of a tone you consider "crunchy?" |
10-15-2009, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: PDX | | | Maybe borrow one (or more) of your guitar player's distortion pedals and see if any cop the sound you're looking for? |
10-15-2009, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | Tech21 XXL or a Turbo RAT... |
10-15-2009, 03:46 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dannybuoy  Tech21 XXL or a Turbo RAT... | Ding.
Barber Dirty Bomb and the Landmine are two others worth considering. |
10-15-2009, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canada eh | | | Marco (Nightwish) uses a Sansamp GT-2 which is actually a guitar pedal.
Sometimes for fun I run a stereo rig using my guitar amp with the lead gain cranked to get a pretty similar fuzzy/crunchy tone.
Try a guitar overdrive as it will boost different frequencies. |
10-15-2009, 06:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Manhattan | | | Yeah, I've had a lot of luck with my RAT clone for crunchy, aggressive bass. |
10-15-2009, 06:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | That tone is easy with a GT-2.
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10-15-2009, 08:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska | | | Get a Sansamp Bassdriver. Great DI and can be absolutely ferocious sounding. Not necessarily distortion but one of the best overdrives I've dealt with. The ParaDriver gets more buzzy. |
10-15-2009, 08:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | SansAmp VT Bass Pedal with the drive turned way up sounds quite a bit like those sound clips. |
10-15-2009, 08:24 PM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | The Dirty Bomb does indeed saturate in a manner very similar to that.
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10-16-2009, 05:37 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Either a SansAmp or the TubeScreamer bass clone of your choice.
Then there's always the old way, boost gain on your amp either with the gain pot or with a booster of sort. |
10-16-2009, 09:27 AM
|  | Filthy Mutric wangol | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dutchess County, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Smurf-o-Deth The Dirty Bomb does indeed saturate in a manner very similar to that. | BigO and Smurf,
Have you guys used the Dirty Bomb on bass?
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10-16-2009, 09:40 AM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Pickles BigO and Smurf,
Have you guys used the Dirty Bomb on bass? | No, I haven't. I've used the other three I listed and am just extrapolating based on grygrx's video. |
10-16-2009, 09:42 AM
| | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | I have, yes. It wasn't what I was looking for (the Box of Metal won hands down for me). What did you want to know?
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10-16-2009, 09:48 AM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | | A vintage/vintage reissue RAT or a RAT clone will get you crunch on your bass every time.
Don't go for a RAT II, as your low end will disappear, unless you want it to.
The RAT is VERY dirty beast. |
10-18-2009, 07:59 AM
| | Filthy Mutric wangol | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dutchess County, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Smurf-o-Deth I have, yes. It wasn't what I was looking for (the Box of Metal won hands down for me). What did you want to know? | I'm a Barber fanboi  just wondering. It wasn't really on my radar anyway...
Ry,
I've never used a RAT or any derivatives on bass. The low end retention is acdeptable on the vintage/reisue?
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10-18-2009, 08:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Stoke-on-Trent | | | Right, so I'll be going to Music Live this year, so I should be able to get some stuff cheaper (gotta love show prices) I'll definatly be keeping an eye out for either Barber or Tech21 (the Dirty Bomb & XXL look/sound VERY tempting). If neither of them are there, then I'll be taking a Ratt out for a spin, thinking about the Ratt, how does the Digitech Bass Driver fair at imitating the Ratt sound (believe it or not, in all three of my local shops, they don't have any bass specific distortion type pedal, apart from the Boss & Behringer clone)
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10-18-2009, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NNJ/NYC | | | For crunchy, I use an Animato (rat based) and a Valvedrive in parallel. loads of crunch, and the VD helps bring my lows back into the picture.
The Dirty Bomb is pretty nice too, but for me it seems like the tonestack is a li'l off... more geared towards guitar. (bear in mind I usually play 5 strings tuned to A Standard tho.)
Another way to go might be an English Muff'n. Load it w/some 12AX7's and it'll crunch like a bowl of grapenuts. |
10-19-2009, 11:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NYC | | | fulltone bassdrive in compcut boost mode gets pretty close to that for me, otherwise the tech 21 xxl will go even further
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