Favorite Fuzz into overdrive combinations

[Bassmike62]

What a co-inkidink...

Not 30 minutes ago, I kicked on a BBM accidentally while the SansAmp was in overdrive mode. Didn't hate the sound at all, although I have no use for it in my current projects. From what I got, the SansAmp softened the edges of the BBM, but the gnarl of the BBM still came out.

And now, I find this thread...

 

[metalmariachi]

I seem to remember a thread on here that said the Sonic Titan was less-than-desirable on bass?

Do you have clips of yours?

It depends on the Sonic Titan.
My friend and I A/Bd his with mine and asked on the D*A*M forum.

The early white ones are great with guitar but lack the low end for bass.
The last Black Cherry ones were slightly changed and retain the low end.
I haven’t checked the silver sparkle ones so can’t comment on those.

MM

 

[tomhanzo]

The real trick is to keep the OD at a low gain setting, which produces a fairly unique dirty sound in my experience.

O how right you are .

I have a Hot Tubes > TS-9 > Tube Zipper.

I have the Zipper set up as a tube amp that has a little break up. My TS-9 is a typical tubescreamer sound with a personal mod to add bass . I have the Hot Tubes set up as a fuzz.

 

[crapusername]

BBM into ashdown lomenzo...... wow - good hysteria type sound!

 

[alirazz]

I'm a bigger fan of OD --> Fuzz. Mine is a jacques tube blower into a BBM in dry mode

 

[takfar]

I do very occasionally step on the OD when I have my fuzz on, but yes, mostly as a boost to cut through. Specifically, there's a couple songs in which the Bass Big Muff works nicely during the normal verses, but gets drowned out when both guitarists step on their distortions for the chorus. At that point, I activate the VT Bass to ramp up the mids and add general volume. It works quite well in the mix, even if it's not too pretty a tone to listen to if playing on my own with these two activated, tho (very compressed, as someone said), at least in the settings I use em.

 

[El Raro]

Currently running my Bass Big Muff into my MXR M-80 and it sounds monstrous...although, a little TOO monstrous I think. The distortion channel on the M-80 is very abrasive even with the mix blended "tastefully". I can try to emulate a warm, tube overdrive but its not the same. I'm looking into buying a standalone overdrive pedal to run my BBM into (or vice versa) to get that tone without the harshness of the M-80. Been eyeing the Way Huge Green Rhino lately...any thoughts on it?

 

[spaz21387]

I used to run a black russian big muff into a tech 21 sansamp. It sounded great. When I got my green russian I stopped using the sansamp.

 

[WinstonNilesRum]

Fuzz into OD:
Oxide --> Sansamp Blonde
Fender Sub-Lime --> Sansamp Blonde

I use the Blonde as a preamp/eq more than a drive but it does add a vintage high-middy grind to everything I put infront of it.

OD into Fuzz:
Way Huge Green Rhino --> Oxide
And although it is technically a boost, the Wren and Cuff Phat Phuk B in front of anything ups the gain and adds some serious low end balls

 

[bassballs_dk]

Gibson Bass with flatwounds > danelectro cool cat fuzz > tech 21 VT bass deluxe, killer sound!

 

[Derek Balonek]

I run a mastotron into a marshall jackhammer. The jackhammer does OD and distortion, so I've got options. I've found the OD allows more of the mastotron's 'ripping velcro' sound through. Into distortion it's much smoother but still synthy. It also seems to nullify the mastotron's volume knob past a point, which makes sense, but it's still weird.

 

[N.F.A.]

It depends on the Sonic Titan.
My friend and I A/Bd his with mine and asked on the D*A*M forum.

The early white ones are great with guitar but lack the low end for bass.
The last Black Cherry ones were slightly changed and retain the low end.
I haven’t checked the silver sparkle ones so can’t comment on those.

MM

I sold mine back when I got laid off my part time job a couple years ago. I had the hammertite grey version. It sounded killer on bass or guitar. Retained the low end fine.

 

[FrigginChris]

Fulltone OCD -> Swollen Pickle is a really nice combo.

Used to do this all the time when I had a Swollen pickle. In general I feel the OCD works really well stacked with a variety of dirt pedals. I can really see why Brian Cook does so often, bringing me to my next point: fulltone OCD into a Verellen meat smoke's OD channel is amazing.

 

[Toastfuzz]

Thanks for this thread, I always considered the de-facto standard to be OD -> Fuzz, and now see that is not the case! And its getting me brainstorming and realizing it may be just what the doctor ordered for my setup.

My toys are currently an Ibanez PD7 OD, Fuzzrocious Grey Stache (muff clone), and VT Bass. Ibby passive P bass on one side and Ampeg SVT3Pro on the other. Have always run PD7 -> Grey Stache -> VT Bass, with the OD and Fuzz at low gain levels. Both OD and Fuzz are used for traditional purposes, but the OD has a 2-band EQ that would be really handy after the fuzz for those cases when you kick on fuzz and can't "feel" the bass anymore. The OD colors my tone less than the Fuzz too, so I'm thinking sending a heavily-colored signal into a more transparent processor would bring out the best of both.

And the VT Bass will always be on and at the end to soak it all up and pump it into my amp with some additional tubey flare

 

[Chamber]

MXR El Grande -> SansAmp Programmable BDDI. I love it

 

[alec]

Pretty much all my dirt pedals can be given a serious kick by my VT Deluxe in a clean setting, but I guess that's an EQ issue.

 

[Duke21]

I use Onkart Grombass into Sansamp PBDDI. The Grombass can do everything between distortion and fuzz. I also have a Bad Monkey in the chain if I want more crunch out of the Sansamp.