Electro Harmonix Tube Zipper on Bass?

GrooveWarrior · #1 02-19-2009, 01:59 PM

Does anyone have any experience (positive or negative) with the Electro Harmonix Tube Zipper while using it with a bass? It seems like a great idea for a pedal, but I don't hear (or read) too much about it being used with bass.

markjazzbassist · #2 02-19-2009, 02:19 PM

yeah i owned one. i thought it was cool, had some cool concepts and ideas, but like a lot of ehx pedals, had too much noise. which made me sell it.

the vintage zipper (NOT tube) is a great pedal though. they can be had for cheap and are a great mutronish sounding filter.

RCCollins · #3 02-19-2009, 02:26 PM

Th frequency range of the tube zipper is adjustable, so it is very definitely useable on bass. Maybe there are fewer useable settings than you'd find on guitar.

I didn't find it any noisier than other tube stompboxes I have used, less noisy than plenty of ehx stuff in fact! I sold mine because of the wall wart and the large size.

But I would say it is an AMAZING pedal. It is capable of some VERY strange, distinctive, wobbly-wet filter tones. There's really nothing else to compare it to. it can also make noise on its own and is VERY well suited to experimental music. You noise freaks would be WAY better off investing in a used tube zipper than in a bizarre fliter device by some fly-by-night boutique slacker. It is a solid tube preamp (admittedly without a real EQ) along the lines of the Hot Tubes, and it is capable of VERY cool tube-driven envelope following filter tones, as well as a bunch of crazy sounds when no instrument is even plugged in.

Terrorstorm · #4 02-19-2009, 02:45 PM

+++1

exactly what I would say.

This is the only pedal that hasn't left my board since 3 years, because it is again and again new and inspiring to me.

Wonderful oscillation noises and driven filter sounds.

This shouldn't be seen just as filter + distortion, because it does MUCH more.

Highly recommended and underrated imo.

DonnyDanger · #5 07-27-2009, 05:47 AM

Does any of you owners might have a clip to share?
It's quite an investment and i'd love to hear it.

maybe · #6 08-26-2009, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by DonnyDanger

Does any of you owners might have a clip to share?
It's quite an investment and i'd love to hear it.

tomhanzo · #7 08-27-2009, 03:06 PM

i dont have any clips, but i can say it works on bass. works as well as a bassballs. I use it as a fuzz, as sad as that is. Its a waste, but it sounds soooo good. Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club uses one a lot. Their first album is a good example of the fuzz bass it gives you.