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Fuzzrocious Club V.2

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TrevorOfDoom said:
I'm making my living playing country and pop/singer-songwriter stuff.
honestly, the best way to describe what i'm looking for is a second channel for my amp. Same sound, just more drive.
And i've said it before, i'll say it again: i DO NOT need a mid-hump. My dry sound is already mids heavy so i'm present in all circumstances. I need something with flat mids, but apparently it needs to be less aggressive than the RT. :/
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Cool, good for you on living the dream!!! (playing for a living that is)

If you want to stick with Ryan (and who wouldn't), you should definitely check out a Dark Driving. It can be set really mild, or get angry. I don't find it particularly mid heavy either, just a great all around layer to your existing tone. I've used it with a band I've been on again / off again for a while, which I'd describe as acoustic rock / pop, boarding on country/folk at times. Not a band that I'd really ever use effects in, and certainly not overdrive or distortion, but the DD can make it happen, on fretless no less, and under the singers radar ;)

You should check out a Phat Phuk B too. Actually, f that, just buy one. Everyone should have one. The government should just start issuing them to bass players. It would be the single greatest bass pedal ever made, if only it had a volume knob :)
 
#843
behndy said:
i'm a douche, and you're a Lovely Young Gent......... but the Phat Phukah Bee...... has...... a volume knob.

it'd be nice if it had the trimpot on the outside.....
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Yeah yea yeah, I realize I'm saying a boost pedal should have a Volume knob ;) What do you want from me, it's Friday night and I was home in bed by 9:30 with my iPad. What else is there to do but complain on the Internet...

My point being I wish I could volume match the gain tone I can get out of the PPB with my non-pedal tone. Granted, it doesn't stop me from using it, but it would still be nice. I've screwed around with the trims as well, but still end up in the same boat. Like I said though, it doesn't stop me from using the pedal, and lately I've been making up for the volume adjustment by using the PPB to drive the Tube channel on my GB SM 12 (already set to Hi mode).
 
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behndy said:
it might be TOO much of a boost for you, but the Rusty Box has two channels. and the second is a bit grimier.

would you want to go to a DI type setup? there's stuff like the ToneBone (kinda hated it's design and it's overall way quieter than a lot of DI's) and the VT Deluxe that'll give you two or more channels/save spots that you can eq differently or put more gain on.
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i LOVE my Orange TerrorBass and want to keep that sound.
I feel like i'm not asking too much of a pedal but i can't seem to find the one for me... :(
And yeah, in the vein of the VT, i've looked at the SansAmp Oxford (Orange emulator), and the idea of running an amp emulator into the amp it's emulating is... well... too meta. besides, running one amp into another is not the sound i'm going for. seems overkill.

Plays_For_Dog said:
Have you been back to Fuzzrocious.com lately? Ryan just posted a new OD pedal he's wanting to produce. It sounds pretty mild and tonable.
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I saw that, but neither option of mid-hump or mid-scoop are attractive to me in any way, so i'm not really interested.

I've gotta ask: am i the only bassist who EQ's in enough mids from the top? seriously, every OD pedal has a mid-hump or mid-scoop?! so my options are to either have enough mids to kill a cow, or no mids at all?
are flat mids really that hard to design into a pedal?!
Yes, i'm frustrated. sorry for the rant.

(Ryan, that's not directed at you, obviously.)
 
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TrevorOfDoom said:
I need something with flat mids, but apparently it needs to be less aggressive than the RT. :/
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You should try OCD definetly.
I tried custom OCD clone built by local russian guy, and tested A\B with Rat Tail. And OCD is one of the sweetest overdrives I ever heard and it's less agressive than RT. Very musical. But sometimes it can choke your lows :(
That OCD was with "bass mode" switch - for more overdriven mids and bumped low-end or something like that but I still prefer "regular" mode in Low-Pass.

Got some samples, btw.
I can't remember settings for both pedals, but it seems like
1. Clean
2. RT
3. OCD in "bass mode", low-pass
4. OCD in "regular mode", low-pass
5. OCD in "regular mode", hi-pass. Noticed loss of lows.
6. RT again.
Clean and overdrives by Zapadlowsky on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

I still want to try Fuzzrocious Oh See Demon but that damned ecenomic crisis ruins all my dreams :spit:

Sorry for bad playing and mediocre English. Good luck!
 
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TrevorOfDoom said:
I'm making my living playing country and pop/singer-songwriter stuff.
honestly, the best way to describe what i'm looking for is a second channel for my amp. Same sound, just more drive.
And i've said it before, i'll say it again: i DO NOT need a mid-hump. My dry sound is already mids heavy so i'm present in all circumstances. I need something with flat mids, but apparently it needs to be less aggressive than the RT. :/
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A simple boost might be more up your alley. The boost/drive I'm making has lots of tweakability from clean volume boost to a heavier drive. You'll be able to pick your tone pot stack too. We can explore flat mids. I'll work on a specific tone stack with you.
 
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It has my name and everything!

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#858
TrevorOfDoom said:
damn, Ryan, you're making it hard for me to shop for other pedals!!
i'll shoot you an email!
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Hey,

I'm using a p-bass through an ocd into a terror bass.
On my settings it is kind of bumping the high-mids getting into the guitars.... Which is actually what i am using it for. For solos and stuff if there is some space for me. I also have to say, that the ocd has a lot of gain and I do not use more than one third of the range of the gain knob. But a cool thing is, that I can get pretty near my clean p-bass tone with it! but still it is pretty gainy to call it only a boost. at least in my opinion. And it is pretty versatile,too!! Crank the gain and you get into fuzz-territory while at low settings you can get a nice drive sound.
 
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Lars_Vegas said:
Hey,

I'm using a p-bass through an ocd into a terror bass.
On my settings it is kind of bumping the high-mids getting into the guitars.... Which is actually what i am using it for. For solos and stuff if there is some space for me. I also have to say, that the ocd has a lot of gain and I do not use more than one third of the range of the gain knob. But a cool thing is, that I can get pretty near my clean p-bass tone with it! but still it is pretty gainy to call it only a boost. at least in my opinion. And it is pretty versatile,too!! Crank the gain and you get into fuzz-territory while at low settings you can get a nice drive sound.
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You ditched your OSD? Liked the OCD better in the long run?
 
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