Craziest Pedals you've used for Bass?

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About 35 years ago, the first time I plugged my bass into a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal. It was like Whoa....not using that one in Church....
My First go on a Swollen Pickle and then a Woolley Mammoth. Then I learned the trick with uber dirt...and a volume swell. I haven't looked back since. These days all my subtle and crazy dirt is care of Source Audio, the amazing Aftershock and the stunning Ultrawave. My SA C4 still makes my head boggle a bit...and the range of sounds available through it are mind blowing. I have more patches loaded on my C4 than I do on my primary Eventide H9. My Boss ES-5 blew my mind with it's ability to change the loop order of pedals and it's impressive midi control. That totally changed my pedal board eco-system. These days....if it's not Midi...I'm a bit "Mehhh"....

 

Miku and PLL are both crazy pedals I tried.
Running them together is like another level, it's just nuts .... but a lot of fun.

Here's a silly clip that starts with some cable licking

0:00 Clean tongue
0:04 Tongue into PLL
0:14 Clean bass
0:21 Bass into Miku
1:07 Bass into Miku into PLL

 

That's me in a nutshell.

Not me in the pic, but may as well be ...
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✔︎ Mountainous backroad
✔︎ Willingness to drag DB just about anywhere...


+1 Miku
This was fun to plug into, should've bought it, didn't/still don't have a use for it:

 

What are the KMAs like in terms of built and sound?
I've been toying with the idea of getting a queequeg...

 

+1 for the Dirty Robot. I'd never use it but I regret selling it.

 

Peavey Dirty Dog. A huge, gnarly mutha. JJ Burnel in a box.

 

The Earthquaker Afterneath is the only pedal I own and the only one I really care to own - other than the rainbow machine I guess, maybe the spatial delivery. They're wacky and fun and I like that about music.

 

Probably the Mr. Spunkle Gnomeratron VTF or Digitech Whammy DT.

 

PLLs are crazy. I've built two Schumann clones, an EQD PLL clone and a PLL sub octave with a sequencer and they are all weird, glitchy, tracking is random on bass, but they are great fun.

 

Vox Trike octave Fuzz!
It’s like a micro pog and a big muff had a baby
Actually got rid of my EQD Data Corrupter because it gets the same sound I was after but with easier tracking
I’m still a big fan of the EQD Bit Commander and use that on my guitar board, works really well on bass too. The main difference between this and the Trike is the trike is more Fuzz and not a straight up square wave, which cuts through a little better on bass.

 

Really enjoying the EHX Canyon, just picked it up and it’s been a fun release especially with a fretless...

 

First pedal I bought for guitar was an Ibanez SM7 and it's a fantastic pedal on bass. Definitely not a normal sound.

All the weird pedals I've sold I regret: Malekko Scrutator, EQD Transmisser and The Depths.

Currently waiting for a Pigtronix Mothership 2 to come in the mail. I've found use with all of these pedals from everything from prog rock to church music.

 

Just sold my Dirty Robot. A bit of a one-trick pony for bass and no separate wet/dry volumes.

 

Not designed for bass.... craziest sounding is probably my tech 21 gt2. It’s a guitar sans amp that simulates fender, Marshall, and Mesa guitar amps. But it can be used to dial in some interesting bass sounds. For example with a boss ls2 used as a blend it’s a pretty versatile dirt pedal for bass. By itself you can crank the lows and still use for bass but Im not a huge fan of dirty bass without any clean blended so it’s more of a sound I use for dynamic manipulation. it’s pretty cool for layering in the studio also. For example if you have a song that you feel needs some super low 8 string guitar on one part but your guitarists doesn’t want to play an 8 or a baritone tuned that low you can run bass through it and get some 8 string like sounds. I originally bought it because I saw one on Justin chancellor from tools pedalboard. I honestly think he just uses it to sorta warm up and mask some of the unlikeable artifacts of his old bass whammy. But one of the first things I noticed with it is using the California amp in the gt2 I can get very close to the 8 string guitar sound from Meshuggahs nothing album using just a bass and the gt2 direct. It’s also very useful for songwriting for guitar. I never plan to gig on electric guitar so I don’t want to buy a guitar amp and the gt2 is all analog and sounds pretty good, definitely good enough for demos.

Not as crazy but something I use a lot is the combination of my tc nova repeater and ditto stereo. The nova repeater is a delay I use to get my soloing sound, but also for some big ambient bass swells that are nice to use as filler or intros much like guitarist do in praise and worship music. The ditto is a great practice tool and can be used to create ambient washes for song intros and stuff.

really other than my octave and my main drive everything I use right now was designed for guitar. But really those along with maybe fuzz and compressors are really the only effects I specifically want bass versions of. Never really cared for any bass chorus I’ve tried, I’ve always prefered guitar chorus pedals. And a lot of effects don’t really have anything about them that needs to be bass specific.

 

nice to know. I’ve been eyeing the Cirrus.