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12-02-2012, 06:17 PM
|  | Everybody Wang Chung Tonight | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Houston Tx | | | I have two pedals that I don't think I could make it through a gig without. One is a modded Digitech Bad Monkey the other is a Way Huge Green Rhino. I use the Bad Monkey for a subtle overdrive, it rarely gets turned off unless I'm playing a country song where I want alot of clean head room. I use the Green Rhino on alot in the chorus and during guitar solos to dirty up my sound and give me a more full bass sound.
I would say that Bad Monkey was the best $30 investment I have ever made. I swapped out a couple of caps, which took all of 10 minutes. Its been so long ago, I don't remember which caps I swapped out with what. I got the information on the internet, it was called the badder monkey mod. Its now my favorite pedal.
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12-02-2012, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | Cheeky monkey ! will investigate  |
12-02-2012, 09:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: portland | | | It's expensive but the eh hog has been my favorite thing for a long time. I do not regret shelling out the bucks. Sounds great on bass and tracks really well. Pog 2 is a cheaper option but not even close to the coolness and options of the hog.
I have built a bunch of clones and kits too, a cheaper option if you like getting you're hands dirty (or slightly burned....) Some of the favorites include woolly mammoth(gated and meaty fuzz), torn's peaker(crusty and intense fuzz), and devi ever dark boost. I built a feedback looper yesterday out of cannibalized parts. Not really an answer to your question but I feel like pedals are more satisfying when you wired them yourself. I've also had a green Russian big muff in my effects chain since '96. Wouldn't leave the house without it. Happy hunting.
Also, don't judge us pedal board slobs. Pedals may get used to cover up ****** playing but some of us use them appropriately. Nothing wrong with a full palate of colors. |
12-02-2012, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tastychoice  I've also had a green Russian big muff in my effects chain since '96. Wouldn't leave the house without it. Happy hunting.
Also, don't judge us pedal board slobs. Pedals may get used to cover up ****** playing but some of us use them appropriately. Nothing wrong with a full palate of colors. | I would never judge man, I love it all, it was just person choice for that period in my playing, straight ahead fusion and jazz/funk... I'm sure an elvelope follower would have spiced things up... plus over here in the early 90's us Bass players were nuts about effects... pedals boards, you name it ! I used to go and see a band that was two bass players and a drummer, and they were all about the effects  
edit: I even made a 12AX7 tube distortion box, as I started playing grunge in 92'... trying to find it as we speak.. it was really fuzzy
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12-03-2012, 01:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Well, I just wanted to add i just pulled a Joe Meek VC6 out of my studio rack and I'm gonna start using in my signal path as a permenant Compressor and input stage to the Trace Elliot... They really work well together (wish I had thought to do that years ago...) and I'm sure anything coming before it will probably bennefit from a little or lot compression... can't wait to check out these effect you guys have mentioned... thanks again ! |
12-03-2012, 08:11 AM
| | | | SansAmp Tech 21 Bass Driver - or some other unit that also has a DI. So very useful I sometimes don't even take a rig to a show that has a decent PA. Plug and play baby!
Plus it makes any effects placed before it sound just a bit meaner. At least the way I've got mine set up.
MXR M80 is really nice, kinda like the sans, but with a built in dirt channel. There's a bunch of DI pedals I'd start with. |
12-03-2012, 08:18 AM
| | | | Try out some envelope filters other than the BassBalls. The Q-Tron plus does some cool stuff. EH Bass Micro-Synth might be a good additions to your rig, but it is pricey! |
12-03-2012, 08:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: vanvouver, bc | | Quote:
Originally Posted by wmheilma EH Bass Micro-Synth might be a good additions to your rig, but it is pricey! | I've had one for about three years and while it is pretty cool it's about as far from "must have" as any pedal I've ever used.
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12-03-2012, 08:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: San Diego | | | Besides my fingers, I use a VT Bass at times but I wish it had less noise overhead.
The one pedal that is always on though is the BBE Sonic Stomp pedal, it doesn't change the sound so much as it takes the wet blanket off of it. |
12-03-2012, 08:50 AM
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12-03-2012, 09:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bettendorf, Ia | | | I got two that I really like, my Sonic Research Tuner and my Markbass Compressore. These go two every gig I play....
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