Preferred pedal for soloing

[babaseen]

Thought this would be a good topic to tempt my GAS.

Do you have a favored pedal when you get to solo in a band situation. I realize that most of us don't solo often (except for that select few) but when we do get the chance is there a tone that you prefer that helps the creativity. I figure some like to add an eq change or compression if they plan to slap or tap but I'm more interested in fingerstyle playin' in this case. For myself I typically keep it flat with maybe a slight volume increase but I have favored a wah pedal (Wilson) or distortion (Astro Fuzz) to change it up, especially if I get several opportunities.

[Jared Lash]

Depends on the band. Some pedals I've used in the past for solos:

Distortion (Tech 21 XXLB)
Reverb (Dr. Scientist Radical Red Reverberator)
Octave (Boss OC-2/EBS Octabass/MXR BOD) - my favorite choice
Phaser, with or without fuzz
Wah (way back when I had a Weeping Demon)

[bassman1185]

On the rare occasion that I have a solo-ish part, I'll use delay (SMMH) and/or an octave (Octave Multiplexer) to help fill in the sound a bit.

In the past I have also used a wah. I'm always running dirt, so that hardly warrents mentioning.

[grovest]

I play in bands, and occasionally have a solo, but I've never used an effect in a 'solo with band' setting. But as a hypothetical, I'm going to give in to the dormant 6 stringer in me and say some extra grind with treble boost would be my first choice.

[cheapbasslovin]

For one of my bands songs I drop a +4 octave with a shade of attack delay from my HOG on top of my generic tone.

Usually my solo tone is either my clean tone, or a really wet envelope filter tone.

[Jared Lash]

Yeah, that's one I forgot. An envelope filter for a funky, bubbly solo.

[aledeville]

I love a reverb for a nice slow ballade solo

[Swift713]

Either the Blueberry or the CP9 but in either case it would already be on for the song in question.

[bwv1013]

boss blues driver. works great as a basic boost pedal, i also use it to add some "attitude" and get some nice dirt/overtones. it's turning into an "always on" pedal...

[Getaway Driver]

I use my bass big muff a lot, so when I'm needing to steal some attention for a solo I turn on my overdrive or my bass chorus. The overdrive adds some highs and the chorus is pretty ear-catching. I've got it set pretty extreme (super watery sounding) but with the fuzz going it just adds an airiness to the sound. Just enough to cut around some chunky guitar riffing.

[Kromwarp]

DOD Classic Fuzz and an ODB-3 as an amp booster

[sillyfabe]

EHX BMS into either a way huge swollen pickle and/or EHX QBALLS with Exp pedal for crazy pissed off wah-wah growls!

[warwick.hoy]

Envelope Filter

sometimes:

Octaver

[ZippyButton]

Snarling Dogs Bloo Doo

The newer model with the tone knob lets you dial in the low end, and I'll usually crank to some unwarranted level of fuzz-explosion.

Small Stone with a low rate is good for clean solos. I've used it with the rate maxed out and the SMMH to go for some weird No Quarter keyboard sounding stuff, but by that point, most everyone in the audience is tired of listening to my bass explorations.

[gnasher1993]

For my solos, I usually use:

[cliche]

Fuzz
Wah
Reverb

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More specifically:

Zvex Mastotron
Morley Power Wah
Rocktron Cyborg

Unsurprisingly, that's for shoegaze/drone/ambient stuff.

[All_¥our_Bass]

Either a bright clean sound (maybe with some chorus and verb) or some overdrive/distortion/fuzz.

[BigOldHarry]

I never use fuzz for this - I think bass fuzz sounds just plain BAD.

I use my EBS Bass IQ to give me some FONK - and folks love it...