GK Bass Pedal?

Sifl · #1 10-03-2010, 05:01 PM

Is there a pedal out there that can emulate the GK sound? Like the VT pedal does for Ampeg, but for GK?

tigerbass · #2 10-03-2010, 05:13 PM

Bongomania has a GK Diesel Dog for sale in the classifieds. Perhaps you could ask him about it. That's the only one I'm aware of that might.

René_Julien · #3 10-03-2010, 05:21 PM

I remember Devi Ever has a pedal that's supposed to emulate the GK sound ("growl").

I never tried it, heard sound samples, or read reviews, but might be worth looking into.

edit: nevermind, appearantly it's a fuzz?
(sorry it's late here)

bongomania · #4 10-03-2010, 05:39 PM

The GK Diesel Dawg is exactly the clipping section from a GK amp. Now, if you want something that sounds like a GK amp but without any distortion, then it gets a little trickier, harder to pin down exactly what tone you have in your mind. But if you want the dirty driven GK sound, the Diesel Dawg is the ticket.

Crystalman85 · #5 10-04-2010, 12:04 AM

a tone-shaping pedal would be a good choice for duplicating a gallien-krueger sound. if that doesn't help, an amp modeler that has a scooped amp model would be able to get you the sound you want.

Chronicle · #6 10-04-2010, 12:20 AM

Yeah, not so much scooped though but tuning to the very low frequencies... You can definitely get mids out of a GK..

Crystalman85 · #7 10-04-2010, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Chronicle

Yeah, not so much scooped though but tuning to the very low frequencies... You can definitely get mids out of a GK..

That's true. even though gallien-krueger is famous for their scooped sounds. their also great amps for playing metal. I would know because I've been using gallien-krueger amps for a long time.

Chronicle · #8 10-04-2010, 09:34 PM

I wouldn't call it scooping though. It's just really low frequencies that the mids are contoured to.

bongomania · #9 10-04-2010, 11:03 PM

Can you explain what you mean by "contoured" then?

Sifl · #10 10-04-2010, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by bongomania

The GK Diesel Dawg is exactly the clipping section from a GK amp. Now, if you want something that sounds like a GK amp but without any distortion, then it gets a little trickier, harder to pin down exactly what tone you have in your mind. But if you want the dirty driven GK sound, the Diesel Dawg is the ticket.

I like this tone. I think he's using an 800rb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ4LApYH4P8

jelwood · #11 10-04-2010, 11:23 PM

The GK distortion channel in the 2000rb/2001 models aren't channels that just clip the signal. If you look in to it, it's a sound that Bob has been developing his whole amp building career. Just read any GK manual.

There is a video of a guy demo-ing the diesel dawg on youtube, shouldn't be hard to find. IMHO it doesn't sound very good, but then again he has a REALLY weird clean tone to begin with. Also, the sound that the pedal gets seems to be a bit more wild than the high gain on my 2000rb head.

Sifl · #12 10-04-2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jelwood

The GK distortion channel in the 2000rb/2001 models aren't channels that just clip the signal. If you look in to it, it's a sound that Bob has been developing his whole amp building career. Just read any GK manual.

There is a video of a guy demo-ing the diesel dawg on youtube, shouldn't be hard to find. IMHO it doesn't sound very good, but then again he has a REALLY weird clean tone to begin with. Also, the sound that the pedal gets seems to be a bit more wild than the high gain on my 2000rb head.

I saw that video and I didn't like any of his tones.

Chronicle · #13 10-05-2010, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by bongomania

Can you explain what you mean by "contoured" then?

Whether you call it scooped or not. Whatever floats your boat.

bongomania · #14 10-05-2010, 11:29 PM

It's not like I'm dead-set on using the word "scooped". You said you wouldn't call it scooped, but contoured instead. I was just wondering what it meant to you.