Effects

[HolmeBass]

Envelope filter, baby!

Thank you!! +1000

Which envelope filter is an ontological question, the answering of which is a metaphysical struggle; a conundrum wrapped in a riddle surrounded by a cloud of magic funk dust.

So it turns out all of them, or at least 25 or so. But you must start with one.

 

[TheReceder]

Coolest pedal.... I'd think it would be obvious

 

[Alfonso Alba]

 

[TheReceder]

I've got one of these inbound from Hungary ( I think)... I can only hope. Might be completely non-gigworthy... but I know I'll be bugging the heck out of my wife with it for at least a few weeks.

 

[kleinenenten]

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I see your Freeze, and raise you the old DOD Deep Freeze Bass Chorus!

 

[Nephilymbass]

What's the coolest pedal for a bass?

Overdrive for me. In the music I play it gets used the most by far and is important part of my sound. Really everything besides overdrive is just for extra "seasoning/icing on the cake" for me

 

[HelpImaRock]

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[IronLung1986]

Fuzz rules all. With fuzz you can move the earth. You can conquer and utterly smash the living daylights out of your band, and space launch your audience into the oblivion that surely awaits them. No one will be able to stop you. How could they? With fuzz you can just go ahead and remove the strong force that binds their atoms together, and they'll just drift away as a dissociated gas of sorts. Fuzz is the volcano erupting at the end of Journey to the Center of the Earth. It blasts everyone to new heights of victory they never would have reached otherwise.

 

[shaggy45]

For me at this moment, the grizzly bass.

 

[Matty Koff]

I'd say the Source Audio C4 is the most versatile pedal on my board at the moment, if you own a personal computer, you can layer effects on top of each other and it's almost like the sky is the limit.

My smartphone wasn't very friendly with my SA pedals and I might have been able to fix that. My laptop is easier to use anyway. Frankly all three of my source audio pedals kind of blow most of the pedals I've used out of the water straight out of the box, though there are plenty of pedals out there I haven't use that are likely pretty awesome, but they all easily fill the role of quite a few pedals imo.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

 

[crankypants]

What's the coolest pedal for a bass?

 

[smo]

At the moment, I'm thinking a Line6 Helix....

 

[bbh]

Talker pedal. You need a good imagination and the right tunes though. I think I used mine a lot on some of the jammy Zappa tunes back in the day.

 

[nilorius]

Dunlop cry baby 105q wah.

 

[DoctorZee]

I'll say octave pedals because no one has said it yet. Very versatile tool to have in your arsenal. Use sparingly.

 

[lbbc]

Toss up for me
Shure GLX16 Wireless w/Tuner
Radial Tonebone Bassbone

 

[Laurent]

This one:

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See? Between the bull's legs? Naughty bits! Doesn't get any cooler than bull's balls!

And it's a fabulous clean boost too. I still use mine daily!

 

[el murdoque]

I'm gonna give the lame answer and say
A Headrush. Either the small Gigboard or the large Pedalboard.
Why? Because they do a solid impression of a ton of pedals and allow for mixing them, swapping positions and editing settings basically on the fly.

 

[eaglemachine]

Colon Exploder