It seems like most bass distortions are too fuzzy for me, I've never quite liked all of the underlying noise, and it seems to get messy too quickly. The only distortions i've really had time to experiment with are the one on my amp, a GK backline 250, which i find to lose too much bottom end and get too fuzzy, a digitech bp50 (copys of a big muff pi, digitech fuzz, ds-1, and guyatone od-1), where they all seem too fizzy other than the guyatone model, a behringer copy of a boss odb-3, way to high endy and peaky for me, and a Randall practice amp.
And I know this sounds weird, but the best distortion I've found is through a Randall 30W combo amp for guitar. I think I'm looking for a more midrangy, cruchy, open distortion with not too much fuzz in the background.
Here is a sound clip of the randall, however the only way I have to record is through a computer mic set next to the combo, so it might not help much:
zSHARE - bass test.wav
anyone have any suggestions for me?
Thanks
