The Synthy Bass Fuzz Tone of my Mind's Ears

[Robertron]

I LOVE the fuzz tone on the bass line in this song from 1:01 - 1:30.

My Mastotron can't reproduce this tone. The tone heard probably isn't solely bass, right? Lots of time spent here in Effects but I must admit synthy bass fuzz tones are a fairly cloudy area to me and I don't really know too much about it in regard to effects, other than the popular octave+fuzz+envelopefilter combo.

I know a good gated fuzz should get me there, but does anybody have any recommendations? Chunk Systems? The Mammoth is kind of out of the question since I play actives.
Would it be up to a combination of pedals to get me there?
Gated fuzz + LPF? Or + Detune? Or + Others?
Parallel effects signals?
Volume pedal for swells?


I think this is the closest representation of the synth bass fuzz tone that's been in my head. I MUST FIND ITTT!!!


Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci40a...feature=artist

[BassBrass]

The closest I get to it is a Devi Ever Ruiner in an Xotic blender, about 40% Ruiner, 60% clean. (Ruiner, like most Devi pedals, has a high output, this is with Ruiner volume at 8:30) Then it would depend on the eq-ing of what's reproducing it or the final eq on the track. There's no gate on a Ruiner but unless it's too loud and feeding back, the sound stops when the string is muted.

[NortyFiner]

Fuzz with a filter, I think. I have accidentally gotten some similar sounds while mucking around with my old Bassballs pedal.

[kevteop]

Yeah the Chunk Brown Dog would do it, it's got a clean blend built in, it's fairly gnarly, it does gated. Yes.

[iamdenialNJ]

bit crusher? chorus? octave down? stereo?

[bass.bert]

sounds like any kind of bitcrusher to me…

[oldbassplayergu]

look into fuzzhugger.com AB synth,trippy sounds. And a bass mod option

[Hutzbordello]

also check out the uglyface bass fuzz on youtube, may not be what your looking for but it could do something im not aware of

[tom_ric]

check out the "gated blast bass harmonics" sound sample in here -
http://wmdevices.com/gcsoundsamples.php

[Robertron]

Originally Posted by tom_ric

check out the "gated blast bass harmonics" sound sample in here -
http://wmdevices.com/gcsoundsamples.php

Damn that sounds like it would definitely get me close!

There's a sort of pulsing character to the tone in that song that I don't think one fuzz pedal could do.

[Jimbob Jones]

SYB-5 and a blender will get you pretty close.

Also try muff with the tone set low and sustain set high>GEB-7 with the 800Hz slider maxed.

Just thought I'd throw in a couple of cheaper options

[Plays_For_Dog]

Thanks for sharing that link! I dig all types of music and this dude is awesome at what he's doing. I really enjoyed the non-norm of this.

[Ba55Man1ac]

Originally Posted by Robertron

There's a sort of pulsing character to the tone in that song that I don't think one fuzz pedal could do.

Bongo will come along & explain it better than me but I think what you need is a compressor with a side-chain input. You would run the kick drum into here & set right the compressor would 'pump' the bass signal to the rhythm of the kick drum.

FEA Labs' Opti-FET Compressor is an example of a pedal comp with sidechain loop.

[bassman1185]

I think I could probably get close with my Subdecay Flying Tomato.

[fu22ba55]

Originally Posted by tom_ric

check out the "gated blast bass harmonics" sound sample in here -
http://wmdevices.com/gcsoundsamples.php

Wow, that's a good bit of fun, huh?

[tom_ric]

Originally Posted by Robertron

There's a sort of pulsing character to the tone in that song that I don't think one fuzz pedal could do.

might be a tremolo? or blended tremolo?

[rottenramone]

i use an octavius squeezer and set it with saw wave + fuzz or use their octafuzz preset. add a lowpass filter to taste
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...songID=7177569

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...songID=7177569

[bassman1185]

I just threw together this quick clip (Gated Fuzz-Octave) that I think gets close, give or take some treble. It's the Bass Octave model on my M13 into the aforementioned Subdecay Flying Tomato with a touch of clean blend, through my MXR M-80 DI into Audacity. It was one take, so it's a little sloppy.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...bandID=1103858

[Robertron]

Originally Posted by rottenramone

i use an octavius squeezer and set it with saw wave + fuzz or use their octafuzz preset. add a lowpass filter to taste
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...songID=7177569

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...songID=7177569

Nice tones! The Octavius is far from within my budget, though. I guess an LPF is in order.

Originally Posted by bassman1185

I just threw together this quick clip (Gated Fuzz-Octave) that I think gets close, give or take some treble. It's the Bass Octave model on my M13 into the aforementioned Subdecay Flying Tomato with a touch of clean blend, through my MXR M-80 DI into Audacity. It was one take, so it's a little sloppy.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...bandID=1103858

Very nice. I didn't know the Flying Tomato could reach a tone like that. Very interestingggg.


I guess a hunt for a good gated fuzz and LPF combo is in order.

[rottenramone]

i recommend the subdecay noisebox too. just tweak the frequency down to kill off the envelope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmL4tpBFcA