First time adding effects to my rig need advice?

[jeffg333]

Hey guys/gals

I'm working on a new project with friends and decided I would like to add effects to some of the songs. I figured I would ask here because there is a lot of experience here.

my sound now is typical warwick heavier compressed DR 4-120 strings low riders. with bright pops from slap work.

I would like 4 pedals: octave, chorus, delay, distortion or overdrive or fuzz..

I play the warwick thumb BO 5

Svt 4pro head and the 8x10 svt cab

is there an all in one board I should look at? or because I will be playing out.. should I stay with 4 pedals for safety if something should go wrong..

I have a boss bass chorus now never used it live. Should I stay with Boss..? I really want something affordable and dependable. Any ideas or advice is appreciated. Thank you. -jeffg

[RickenBoogie]

Since you're sure it'll only be those 4, I'd get individuals, and a very small powered board. My advice would be to search here, ask specific questions about specific pedals, and look for pedals that all take standard 9VDC power supplies. (simplifies everything) There are far too many choices in each catagory, so you really do need to search around, and narrow your choices.

[jeffg333]

thank you.

[SteveMcB]

My suggestions:

#1 Try before you buy, preferably through your own setup, if you possibly can. One man's cheese is another man's mouldy rotten milk.

That said, I would suggest that you try out:
OD - Digitech Bad Monkey - cheap, good, robust, doesn't rob much low-end
Distortion/fuzz - EHX BBM - cheap and fantastic
Chorus - Don't know what to recommend here. I use an old peavey which I like, but I think the Boss bass chorus does a decent job too
Octaver - For synthy analog, Boss OC2 is a good choice, cheap used, robust but doesn't track well lower down. For cheap digital, the Digitech Bass synth wah has a nice octaver (and filters and synth sounds if you want to play with those too) only 1 octave down, no 100% wet setting, but a nice-sounding octaver. For more money, the EHX micropog, which does octave down and up.
Delay - depends what you want. Most delay pedals work well for bass. I enjoy my Ibanez analog delay on bass (AD99, out of production), and it would be difficult to go wrong with an Ibanez AD9 if you want analog. But I would suggest an Akai Headrush E2. It's a great digital delay with a tape-delay emulator for analog-like textures, and a fantastic if simple looper. Looping is addictive. Not cheap, large footprint, great pedal. For other digital delays, the Boss DD series, guyatone MD3 and Digitech digidelay and hardwire delays are hard to go wrong with.

Good luck,
Steve