Got to be my Joyo Orange Juice (seriously sized down clone of the now discontinued Tech 21 Oxford, which is an analog emulation of an Orange amp type preamp/drive, with simplified EQ controls compared to the original to accommodate it's miniature size) for all from low gain, somewhat grindy, tube like grid, to medium gain, really clanky and grinding, distortion, perfect for that JJ Burnel tone.
Currently I use it for the former, a low gain overdrive, contributing with some Orange-esque grind and tube like grid, mixed in parallel, and in about equal amounts, via one of my Boss LS-2 pedal form effect loops switch/mixer, with a Behringer BEQ700 Bass Graphic Equalizer (clone of Boss GEB-7), dialed in with some quite subtle EQ adjustments (basically just boosting the 120Hz, 400Hz and 800Hz band something like +2dB or so), for my main always on basic "clean" tone, which I guess could possibly, as one way to described it, be categorized as a somewhat more polite and polished/Hi-Fi take on JJ Burnel's tone.
And for high gain distortion it got to be my Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone.
Love that really raunchy fuzz-esque high gain distortion tones that you can get from Rat based pedals, and not just for bass, sounds awesome for guitar as well.
Currently I use the Black Rat in "Vintage", classic Rat, silicon, I think (or might be germanium), diode clipping mode, dialed in to a relatively high gain setting and a relatively dark tone, and mixed in parallel, via my other Boss LS-2, with another Orange Juice, set to a lower medium gain overdrive, stacked into a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, dialed in with a relatively low gain setting, the Orange Juice together with the relatively low gain setting preventing the Metal Zone getting into the fizzy territory that is infamous for, and giving it a slightly more crunchy/grindy character, together providing more top end to my high gain distortion tone, and with it's lower gain at the same time bringing more articulation and definition to it, though I plan to soon replace the Boss LS-2 for an EHX Switchblade Pro Deluxe to be able to blend in a slight bit of clean signal as well, to improve articulation and definition further.
Also planing on soon acquiring a Joyo Extreme Metal (EHX Metal Muff clone) to give it a shot to see if it can possibly replace the Orange Juice+Metal Zone combo side of my high gain distortion setup, even if I am actually really satisfied with my current high gain distortion tone, which if I should do an attempt at describing it would be something like: massively heavy, monstrously ballsy and sludgy, with a really raunchy character and a quite fuzz-esque and fairly gnarly quality.
For fuzz it's my Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz (Boss FZ-2 clone, which again is a take on the legendary Univox Super Fuzz octave fuzz circuit), used in the mids heavy "Mode 1" and mixed with clean signal via the same Boss LS-2 that I use for my high gain distortion.
But while I think the Behringer Super Fuzz actually is a truly great sounding fuzz for bass, and not just for the ridiculously little money it goes for, I do ponder on weather at some point possibly replacing it for an Orange Fur Coat, which in my opinion sounds no short of amazing, and awesomely gnarly, for bass, and which is an octave fuzz as well, though unlike the Behringer (and the Boss it is a clone of), which as said is a modified take on the Univox Super Fuzz circuit, rather is a modified take on the Foxx Tone Machine, with an added level control for the fuzzy analog octave up signal, which turned down makes the Fur Coat sound even more gnarly than it already is and less synth-ish than the Behringer Super Fuzz, which produce more of a somewhat synth-ish and spluttering-ish, really crispy kind of fuzz tone.
The dirt itself is very organic, warm and full.
