fx to replace a guitar player :)

Get your guitarist to learn to sing and play at the same time, problem solved

 

go for a chorus pedal or something like that give a more volumetric sound

 

The effect you want is gonna come from you playing more drivey lines and the drummer doing allot of cymbol work. No effect will help you

 

akai unibass
there was one in the classifieds for cheap.
otherwise a you might be able to achieve the same effect with a digitech whammy and a seperate distortion combo

 

Learn how to play a 12 string (4 & octaves) and add some mild overdrive or distortion.

Maybe try a POG with bass. This:

 

If you can afford it, POG all the way.

 

You might want to check out the Unibass, but personally, I didn't like its distortion sound much, I thought it sounded a bit cheesy. Using another distortion pedal together with the Unibass may probably fix this, though.

 

I get some guitar sounds with an octave up on my synth. as mentioned, the pog is great, but you could tweak synth to sound pretty close. I have done this on both micro bass and the the digitech bass synth (green). Only works if the parts call for a bit o fuzz.

 

If the basslines aren't too complex and your drummer isn't thrown by playing to a prerecorded bassline, you could try getting something like a Boss Loop Station or Lexicon Jam-Man and layering some lines on top of each other.

Then again, the guitarist could do the same thing and you wouldn't have to spend any money.

 

+1 on the unibass

-jimbo

 

Sadly, in a situation like that, you just gotta play more.

We had 2 guitarists for a while, I was stuck playing root notes and simple lines. When we went down to one guitarist, it left lots of room for more complicated lines and chords.

 

I often use my Akai Unibass when playing with my little band(Bass/Drums/Guitar).
This box has been made to drop one guitar..
If you can get one for cheap, go ahead.

 

To fill up the sound during solos I've been using a big muff with high tone and sustain settings so that all of the bottom drops out and I'm left with a very guitaristic sound, I then mix it with my clean signal with a boss ls2 pedal. Works like magic for me.

 

Effects, two amps, and lots of fills

 

octive pedal, and do lots of runs.

lowsound

 

the me-50b also does an octave up and has a distortion that affects only the octave up keeping your low note clean......check out the demo video for a demonstration, i don't own the unit, but thought you might be interested

 

Yes - this is very similar to the "UniBOSS method". The LS-2 and a distortion pedal would take the place of the extra distortion-channel guitar amp that's mentioned in my example here:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190134&highlight=uniboss

The advantage of adding the CEB-3 is that you get a little pitch-shift that very-much makes it sound like a seperate instrument (I know what you said about chorusing, but it really doesn't sound like chorus when used this way), AND you have the low-cut function to knock-out the lowest octave or-so. It works very well.

Joe

 

But the tough part is finding an effect that suddenly starts playing in another key and claims "we've always done it that way." Or an effect that forgets when its solo comes in and steps all over the vocals. And of course, this effect's volume knob has a ratcheting mechanism so that it can only be turned UP.

Until then, there is no replacement for the guitarist.