Dist./Fuzz pedals for drone/doom?

All_¥our_Bass · #1 11-16-2009, 01:06 PM

Got any sugguestions?
Sleep's Dopesmoker and anything by Sunn 0))) are the kinda sounds I'm after.

I'm not interested in buying a new amp since my setup is fine for everything else at the moment.

MAMMOTHvolume · #2 11-16-2009, 01:10 PM

dig in more and get a valve amp for sleep, and get a muff for sunn

Joe Gress · #3 11-16-2009, 01:11 PM

A muff based fuzz for sure. The Eathbound Audio Supercollider seems to get a lot of love around here as a great heavy and doomy fuzz, yet still cuts through due to the mids it can ad back in. The Way Huge Swollen Pickle is another favorite. My favorite is the Wren and Cuff Pickle Pie B. The clean blend does add a good amount of definition.

fishsticks · #4 11-16-2009, 01:12 PM

fuzz and an OD
but seriously all you really need is a cranked tube amp to cop those tones....

dannybuoy · #5 11-16-2009, 02:48 PM

Supercollider for sure - Supercollider Beast, even better:

http://www.box.net/shared/enube1p1f8

Also, I just got the Catalinbread SFT on the strength of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGPV4SBeF2k

You can get that sound with the pedal straight into a DI and it sounds great. I can also get a similar sound but with more low end and bite by running a booster into a VT Bass. I never liked the high gain sounds of the VT Bass, it fizzes and farts out as you turn the gain up... until I discovered how much it likes being fed a volume boost!

Also checkout the Mountainking Megalith:

http://plotkinworks.com/Mountainking/megalithBASS.html
http://plotkinworks.com/Mountainking/MegalithBASS.mov

ReillyReilly · #6 11-16-2009, 06:34 PM

Mod a DS-1 to suit bass and down tune very low...

Mudfuzz · #7 11-16-2009, 06:42 PM

Yeah, Big Muff > Big tube amp.

crapusername · #8 11-16-2009, 06:44 PM

IIRC Jesu (ex Godflesh dude - Justin Broadrick) use an old HM2 on the bass

nad · #9 11-16-2009, 09:46 PM

Sunn O))) are not quite Sunn O))) without a wall full of Sunn O))) really.

Joe Gress · #10 11-16-2009, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nad

Sunn O))) are not quite Sunn O))) without a wall full of Sunn O))) really.

nad · #11 11-16-2009, 09:53 PM

Exactly. Not even a Blue Berry can duplicate that sound. Well, I suppose you could plug one into 10 power amps, but at that point really, just get a ****in' tube head.

Mudfuzz · #12 11-16-2009, 10:16 PM

Very true. But still one will notice

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nad · #13 11-16-2009, 11:13 PM

True. This type of heavy, extreme doom clearly requires short scale.

Joe Gress · #14 11-16-2009, 11:44 PM

:fact: At the Colorado GTG we had earlier this year, the short scale mustang with the 15 year old strings played through the 70's SVT had the ballsiest and best tone out of any of the basses there. :fact:

Mudfuzz · #15 11-17-2009, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by nad

True. This type of heavy, extreme doom clearly requires short scale.

My Rivoli can out sludge just about any bass out there.

nad · #16 11-17-2009, 12:11 AM

I believe it, yo. Big, thumpy, and full of feedback? I love shortscale hollowbodies! Still kicking myself for not buying a '67 Guild Starfire bass for $700 a few years ago.

Chowderboots · #17 11-17-2009, 12:35 AM

Oh man I forgot Attila sang with them. I got to see Mayhem last spring and he was spellbinding. It was incredible to hear him sing the De Mysteriis suff.

Mmh....feedback...