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Best Way to Emulate a Guitar?

Snakeman1066

Snakeman1066

Sep 17, 2007
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#1
So one of the guitards quit....and we have decided not to replace him.....so to carry the rhythm....which pedal do you think...in combination with overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz...would best help me emulate a guitar? Octave up?

all suggestions welcome
 
#3
Or ignore the muso elitists and ham up the techinque to cover the sonic holes that the missing second guitarist created. Bass doesn't have to be all "thump thump thump" all the time.

Just play out a little more during the basslines - it doesn't have to be all effects.
 
#8
Play one of these ...

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#10
gee thanks guys your a lot of help....

seriously i already run a stereo set up one cab dirty the other clean....

i want to try and emulate a guitar during the solo's

and I'm already rewriting bass lines to cover sonic space....

now back to the topic at hand....
 
#16
My new Akai Unibass came in last week and it sounds pretty sweet. I wouldn't use it for recording rhythm guitar parts, but I imagine once I get a good distortion behind it it should plenty good enough for live situations. The cruddy distortion built into it almost sounds good enough already.

But anyways, it can do octave up, octave up and a 5th above that, octave up and a 4th below that (which would be a 5th above you bass signal, i guess), and it can do all this with or without your original bass signal coming through.
 
#17
Febs said:
While you're doing that, who is going to emulate the bass?
Click to expand...

That's the question right there. Honestly, we bass players have enough to do in a band, if you need 2 guitarists, find another to replace the one you lost. Even an octave up is still an octave below a standard guitar. Play some chords, use some modulation, but don't try to do something that can't really be done.
 
#19
not trying to be a tool, but apparently people don't read posts...lol

I'm already running a stereo rig....a 4x10 which gets run very dirty and a single 15" than gets run clean

I'm already pumping an OD into a BBM into and RPM and then into the 4x10 it gets close but doesn't quite sound like a guitar

the 15 signal is basically Bass - RBI - 15"

so i'm looking for an effect to anf a bit more high end to the 4x10 maybe a distrotion like the C-pig, or running an octave up between the OD and the BBM

looking at the angry Fuzz by visual sound
and the GZ by Devi Ever which i have tried/heard a pretty much like...

any other suggestions?
 
#20
what are you attempting to do?
1 cover the sonic of a 2nd guitar in a band?,
2 do solos that sound like guitar solos? OR
3 record the guitar part with your bass?

the 1st one is not really hard IME, just turn up a bit of mids with fresh nickel plated rounds and consider playing with a pick and a bit of gain in the amp, you`ll get a powerfull pop punk tone that fills all sonic space a band needs

2nd one there are many options, try and octaver pedal with a overdrive using only bridge pickup to get that trebly distortion, i know there is people with better suggestions here
 

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