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Boss Me-50 on bass

zokiux5

zokiux5

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#1
Hello,
So if anyone used Boss me-50 (guitar multi effects) please tell your opinion :) I'm looking for it and I really don't know how it works with bass :)
I saw Jared Followill (Kings Of Leon bassist) using this and sounds amazing. But before buying I wanna ask you guys, what do you think :)
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#4
Well,one day I could try,however my opinion is that isn't too much differences in frequences among a guitar/bass pedals,only they differ in preferences of pedals.

BTW,this processor have many good sounds,and very good expressive pedals like wah,whammy etc.,many reasons for playing with it.
 
#5
It'll probably have a bit less bass response with the guitar version, and the octaver may not track as well. I was a bit unimpressed by the ME50B when I tried it. Sounded alright but not worth the $400 it goes for here in Aus. I was much happier with the sound of the BP355 I ended up getting.
 
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we use an ME-70, poweramp and 412 guitar-cab for bass recording .. depending on what we´re looking for

be sure to record the DI as well, at least for the low end!
(i used a 4ch headphone amp for signal splitting: bass => headphone amp => interface + ME70)
 
#10
Depends on how you use it. It doesn't diminish the bass response per sé, if at all.
The drive effects, yeah... they muddy up your bass response, but so does the ME-50B.

I had one (sold already), I preferred it over the bass version.
The reason why I went with the ME-50 for a while because I found the modulation effects and delay effects very good for bass use. While the bass version was less oriented on this layout.
Not that the drive effects were totally useless, some grit on your signal could be achieved. Hard overdrive and hard distortion I didn't liked at all. The fuzz was cool, but rather harsh and not that suitable in a band setting.

I sold the ME-50 to go the seperate pedal route again. (I am a gear whore :D)

The ME-50 is a decent unit, easy to use and it's the quality of a BOSS unit.
Workhorse, but not anything exotic.

It get's a big plus one from me.

But if you want a drive effect also get a seperate pedal for that.
 
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René_Julien;12905052 said:
Depends on how you use it. It doesn't diminish the bass response per sé, if at all.
The drive effects, yeah... they muddy up your bass response, but so does the ME-50B.

I had one (sold already), I preferred it over the bass version.
The reason why I went with the ME-50 for a while because I found the modulation effects and delay effects very good for bass use. While the bass version was less oriented on this layout.
Not that the drive effects were totally useless, some grit on your signal could be achieved. Hard overdrive and hard distortion I didn't liked at all. The fuzz was cool, but rather harsh and not that suitable in a band setting.

I sold the ME-50 to go the seperate pedal route again. (I am a gear whore :D)

The ME-50 is a decent unit, easy to use and it's the quality of a BOSS unit.
Workhorse, but not anything exotic.

It get's a big plus one from me.

But if you want a drive effect also get a seperate pedal for that.
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Thank you man ! I don't know what happened but you totally opened my eyes !
I really don't use many modulation effects. Sometimes some chorus and reverb (who installled in my amp). I already own Boss ODB-3 and I think I'm going to buy two more pedals (Boss GEB-7 and LMB-3). Later I will buy more and more :D
 
#12
zokiux5 said:
Thank you man ! I don't know what happened but you totally opened my eyes !
I really don't use many modulation effects. Sometimes some chorus and reverb (who installled in my amp). I already own Boss ODB-3 and I think I'm going to buy two more pedals (Boss GEB-7 and LMB-3). Later I will buy more and more :D
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Yeah, but I assume you are not going to use your little amp forever. :) Most (bass)amps don't have these effects built in.

The LMB-3 is a decent compressor/limiter for it's price. But there are even greater compressor pedals at that price point.

I see from your profile that you are still fairly new at bass, so especially new at gear.
Can you take some advice from someone who wasted a lot of money on gear? (Namely me ;))

While the GEB-7 is a quality graphic equalizer in pedal form and it has great uses on bigger pedal boards... don't get one right now.
Sorry to be frank, but right now you have a little practice amp. I go out on a ledge and advice that you don't need it now.

Equalizers, especially graphic equalizers are one of the most misused toneshapers out there.
When I was 18, after a year of playing, I bought a Trace Elliot amp with 12-band equalizer.
Big mistake giving me all those sliders back then. I didn't knew anything about sound and created disasters at rehearsals and gigs. (Oh, the horrors when I think about it.)

Why do you think you need the GEB-7?


And on effects my advice is to buy a cheap used multi-effect. Zoom is nice. Not for the quality and performance of it, but so you can explore what effects you like and what you want to search for in a seperate pedal. (Also search for soundclips on what different types of effect can do.)

I know all the choices in effects, multi and seperate pedals, can get you carried away.
Think everything through before you buy something.

Take this from someone who has about 50 to 60 pedals lying around and only uses about 7 pedals (most of which which aren't effects).

:) good luck
 
#13
I love the ME-50B, and use it for both guitar and bass.

I saw your question yesterday, and decided to get out and compare the 50 and 50B side by side, to see if I could quantify why I went with one and not the other.

And the answer was... the 50B has a larger variety of envelopes (up/down wah, slow gear), , a larger EQ section (including parametric mid frequency), more compressor varieties, usable bass synths, sound hold on the expression pedal (which, if you're using fourths and fifths, will work for more than one note), and so on.

It's flexible, covers a lot of distortion sounds decently, and it even works great as an acoustic guitar simulator without the typical noise of the smaller pedals of that sort. I get questions about what kind of bridge pickup I'm using in my dual-humbucker guitar to get that great acoustic sound, but it's just the two pickups.

That same "acoustic" tone flexibility means I can well emulate an upright when using my fretless Cort Curbow.

The only place it's really lacking is in having separate delay and reverb options from the modulation, and it's no problem with slapping an inexpensive delay and reverb pedal after it. (I used to use the Behringer Echo Machine and Reverb Machine, but I'm now using the Muza FD300 M Ambience pedal, which has both, for my compact rig.)

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Regarding Jared Followill and the sounds he gets from his rig, keep in mind that he's not just using that ME-50.

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What sounds specifically are you looking for?

I like the ME-50B because I can do so much with it, but I'm actually doing a lot with it, and have two with different patches for different purposes. If you're not going to do more than a slightly Muffed/distorted tone, the ME-50 might be overkill.
 

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