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04-20-2009, 01:51 PM
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I've seen this in other forums (desert island bass, desert island CD, desert island scale etc.) but I couldn't find anything in the Effects Forum. Someone let me know if I've missed it though...
Anyway, if you were going to a desert island and were only allowed to take a bass, an amp and 1 (yes one!) effect pedal, which 1 (yes one!) would you take?
To answer the inevitable sarcastic questions...  - Yes, there are 2 plug sockets on the island (one for your amp, one for your pedal)
- No, there isn't a shop that sells batteries.
- Yes, you're allowed a power supply.
- No, multi-effects do not count.
I think that's everything. I would take my Ashdown Hyperdrive, don't ask why, I just would 
So, what would you take?
EDIT: Of course you can get firmware updates for your Octavius Squeezer...!
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04-20-2009, 01:53 PM
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04-20-2009, 01:54 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Probably an Octavius Squeezer. With all that time to figure it out I'd probably finally come up with some awesome patches.
Outside of that, probably a looper. |
04-20-2009, 01:59 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | Tuner isn't a pedal 
My vote is for a Big Muff. |
04-20-2009, 01:59 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Carbon Copy.
I could 1. Make a hellacious amount of noise in order to attract attention. And 2. Use the blinding led to signal for SOS. |
04-20-2009, 02:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Orange County, CA | | | Does the RC-50 count as a multi effects pedal? I could definitely use the loop time.
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04-20-2009, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wakefield, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound Tuner isn't a pedal | Anyway why would you need to be exactly in tune at concert pitch if no-one could hear you?! Not many people have perfect pitch but most can tune in 4ths so the bass is in tune with itself so-to-speak. Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings Carbon Copy.
I could 1. Make a hellacious amount of noise in order to attract attention. And 2. Use the blinding led to signal for SOS. | Good idea with the LED....but....why would you want to go anywhere when you could make as much noise as you wanted without family screaming at you?!
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04-20-2009, 02:26 PM
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04-20-2009, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mississippi | | | Prolly some type of muff based fuzz
or the new Battering Ram if it sounds good |
04-20-2009, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oakland, California, USA | | Considering what my amp is capable of... I'd take my EHX Stereo Electric Mistress to keep me company. 
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04-20-2009, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | Some kind of fuzz pedal. Maybe a Geiger Counter, or something from Devi Ever.
Or I'd bring a looper, since I could still make music with that.
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04-20-2009, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | | | bassdrive to accompany my 400. |
04-20-2009, 03:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | ehx bms |
04-20-2009, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn | | | I really don't know what kind of pedal I'd take for bass.
Strange thing is the search hasn't really ended for me yet - but as of now it would be a
Fuzz of some sort.
But guitar - that's simple
I'd grab a jerry jones neptune single cut
Build a Weber 6A14HP
and grab a Big Muff
I'd play until oblivion.
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04-20-2009, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCollins ehx bms | I'd be really tempted to take a BMS.
If my desert island could receive firmware updates from Chunk Systems I'd take my Octavius Squeezer, but as things stand I think I'd have the BMS.
Actually no I'm taking the Octavius Squeezer just because it's a lot more of a time sink than the BMS, and time is something I'd need to find a use for. |
04-20-2009, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego | | | RC-50. |
04-20-2009, 04:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BassJunkie730 I really don't know what kind of pedal I'd take for bass.
Strange thing is the search hasn't really ended for me yet - but as of now it would be a
Fuzz of some sort.
| after that part, I stopped listening |
04-20-2009, 04:32 PM
|  | What a difference a little difference will make | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California | | | memory man with the haz |
04-20-2009, 05:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | If I'm stuck on a desert island, I'd want a pedal that can do nine million things and I'd never get sick of. Assuming you'd classify my xp-1000 as a multi-effect, I guess the next most versatile pedal I have is probably the flanger hoax. The BMS is definitely up there, too. |
04-20-2009, 06:34 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | how about a 13'x5' distortion pedal made of wood that can float and has a keeley modified compass and map built-in? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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