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Bassballs = Neat
- Thread starter Cyber Soda
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The Bassballs is like marmite. You either love it or hate it! Personally my fave settings is the response knob at the max and distortion off.
I love my bassballs, but the best thing you can do for it, is to buy a Boss LS-2 pedal.
I run the BassBalls in one loop of the LS-2 (with a Bass Blogger in front of it - you always wondered what the bass blogger was good for, didn't you?), and in the other loop I have an OC-3 with a Bass Big Muff after it.
On a lot of tunes, I'll run just the BassBalls with the distortion on in one loop, and nothing in the other, and blend them so I have a strong clean signal as well, and it kills.
For the full-on facemelter synth tunes, I turn them all on, and it is sick!!!
I'll post some youtube links later.
Until then, [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] is an mp3 with the synth sound before I added the Bass Big Muff. This is a recording of our rehearsal when we put this tune together. My bandmates would kill me if they knew this was flying around in cyberspace, considering this was like the second time we played it.
I run the BassBalls in one loop of the LS-2 (with a Bass Blogger in front of it - you always wondered what the bass blogger was good for, didn't you?), and in the other loop I have an OC-3 with a Bass Big Muff after it.
On a lot of tunes, I'll run just the BassBalls with the distortion on in one loop, and nothing in the other, and blend them so I have a strong clean signal as well, and it kills.
For the full-on facemelter synth tunes, I turn them all on, and it is sick!!!
I'll post some youtube links later.
Until then, [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] is an mp3 with the synth sound before I added the Bass Big Muff. This is a recording of our rehearsal when we put this tune together. My bandmates would kill me if they knew this was flying around in cyberspace, considering this was like the second time we played it.
TBH there are a ton of pedals on bass that can stand being in one side of an LS-2. With the Bassballs I have it in one channel immediately after my BMS, which is after my O.S., and in the other side (much like yourself) I have an OC-2.
Frankly it's just nice to be able to mix in whatever you want on the "gnarly" side of the mix and be sure you can still get grunt out of the other side, saves endless pissing about getting filters set just-so and means you can stop worrying about how your fuzz might cope or whatever.
One thing I dislike about the Bassballs is the varied volume levels. The thing goes from quiet to insanely loud easily. I suppose that's where you're getting a ton of use out of your LS-2.
I've never found it to be a problem, oddly enough.
The LS-2 doesn't have a limiter, just return volume controls. So if you adjust the Bassballs (with the dirt switch on, making the sensitivity knob a gain knob) you'd have to adjust the LS-2 to compensate.
No, to be honest. I use the LS-2 to blend my higher filter-messy sounds with either clean bass or my OC-2. That's about it. I never adjust its mix knobs, I've got them exactly where I want them (slight boost on the clean/OC-2 channel, that's it).
