How to cover both bass and guitar tone at the same time?

[thevintagesound]

Hey guys,
I play bass in the praise band at church with my brother-in-law (he plays electric guitar). Recently he is working on getting a full minister of music position at another church so he has not been able to be there most sundays. So right now our sound is really missing the electric guitar tones. We have two other acoustics that play but both like using chorus pedals ALL THE TIME. Thus scooping out the mids where the guitars should sit in the mix. So I have been trying to figure out a way to cover both electric guitar (overdrive/distortion tones) and bass at the same time. So here's what I have come up with as an idea. Let me know what you think.

Play bass as normal but split my clean signal before any of my overdrive/dirt pedals on my bass rig.

Bass signal -> Boss Pitch Shifter (raise either one or two octaves with only effected signal out) -> Boss GT-6 Guitar Processor -> Direct to board (thats how we have always ran it.)

GT-6 Signal Chain
Effected Signal In -> Pitch Shifter (Add a 5th slighty detuned) -> Preamps / distortion channels -> Out to board

I had thought of the possibility of adding a Micro POG in the FX loop of the GT6 for some extra harmonics.

[ryansalmond]

Using an EHX Hog with the +1, +1+5th, and +2 sliders up, and a Line6 M13 on the 'line6 distortion' setting, I can get a tone that sounds indistinguishable from a real guitar (zero 'glitchiness'). It sounds like the guitar in white zombie's "More Human Than Human."

[walker rosewood]

see thread here: Octave + 5th for guitar power chord sim

and other threads linked in that one ^.