Your favorite pedal?

[THORRR]

I've never used bass effects pedals, but find myself wanting to experiment with Bass Octavers and Envelope Filters.

I'm looking to get that BYOW-BYOW-BYOW sound for several of the tunes my band is doing and I think it's the envelope filter or maybe an automatic Wah that'll give it to me.

Using the Octaver will preserve the bottom end (I hope)

Any advice from you more experienced stomp box users?
What are your favorites, and why?
Thanx -

[Swift713]

Octaver + filter is pretty cool but there are plenty of filters that keep the low end just fine without an octaver. For the most part, low pass filters keep the low end. Band pass filters do well when blended with a clean signal. If you search for "filter" or "envelope filter" you'll get lots to read about them. My favorite so far is the Electro Harmonix Q-tron + but MXR, 3 Leaf, Aguilar, and others make popular models as well. The Q-tron is nice and juicy, pretty flexible and delivers that classic filter sound I crave. It has LP, BP, HP & Mix modes as well as up & down sweeps.

[HolmeBass]

+1 on Q-tron+, been loving mine. But my favorite is still my Haz MuTron III+ clone. Maybe not as freaky as the Q-tron, but just so reliable and gig-usable in all sorts of sonic contexts.

BTW my favorite pedals are all either envelope filters or octavers! Good choices their. The MXR bass octave deluxe with just the low tones, no direct, into a envelope filter = moog invader bass line, look out Jan Hammer! Of course a touch of fizz/overdrive in there can really make the harmonics sparkle, so consider a good dirt pedal. While I can't say I am completely happy with my Fulltone Bass Driver, it does work good with the other pedals, just not so good alone (for me, lot's of people use them though).

I'd get the VTBass by Tech21 as a good all-around 1st dirt pedal, you can even use it "always on", but search for "dirt" on here and you'll get lots of info.

[ilovenofrets]

The Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah gets some pretty mixed reviews here. It's a tad on the "too perfect" side, but that may not be a bad thing, depending on what you want. And it does let you retain the low end of the bass. I also tried out an old Ibanez Sounstank series AW5 Autowah, and it was actually pretty good. Older and not as easy to find, but they usually sell under $50.00. In the land of ocatve pedals, hands down-it's the Boss OC-3 Super Octave. It does all that the OC-2 does, and features a polyphonic mode(chords & double stops track perfectly), and a drive mode which adds a nice, well, drive tone to the octave, killer! Hope this helps. Cheers!!!

[EdwardYSC]

VT Bass

[Chrisk-K]

Source Audio Bass Envelope Filter.

[Swicked]

Catalinbread SCOD or Heliotrope. oh and the Destructo Noctavia

[Edu Fettermann]

I really love my MXR Bass Auto Q, and my next purchase, Onkart Gromt Grombass is one of my favorites too.

[drnknmstr]

The Aguilar is the best at retaining the low end from the ones I've tried. It almost has a small amount of boost.

But as the thread asked, my favorite pedal is the EHX Micro Synth. You can get all those sounds and it's FAT.

[THORRR]

Thanks for your recommendations, all.

I'm checking out them all, and I'm sure I'll pick from your suggestions. There's nothing like the voice of experience to help point you in the right direction.

Thanks for all your help.

[bassbrad]

My all time favorite is the EHX Bass Balls, dual filters and a nasty unique fuzz all in one box.

[the byronic man]

Ibanez UE-300. meant for guitar, but it has a TS9 tube screamer, compressor, and chorus all in one. LOVE it. totally indispensable for me.

[iamdenialNJ]

This is hard as I have three indispensable pedals but I guess I would pick my m9 because it pretty much has everything I would need for an emergency jam session.