Holy Batman This Sounds Incredible!

[Ritter667]

So I just discovered this:

J Bridge Pickup -> Boss LS-2 with a Joyo Oxford Sound in one of its effect loops, set like this Low: 2 o'clock, Mid: noon, High: 11 o'clock, Voice: 1 o'clock, Drive: 3 o'clock, Level: Unity, mixed with clean tone in parallel via the empty effects loop of the LS-2 at an about 50/50 ratio -> your amp/cab or amp/cab emulator/sim of choice.

Holy Batman it is gloriously grindy and snappy, but very clear and extremely punchy at the same time, dare I say absolutely gnarly and growling!

The thing is that the Oxford Sound cuts too much low end to really be viable on bass on it's own, but mixed in parallel with clean signal this actually becomes an advantage because the lowest part of your low end remains clean.

I'll record some samples later and post them here, this is a tone to die for, man I am loving it!

 

[bassbrad]

On my main "live" pedalboard I have most effects in an LS2 set up the same way you describe as I really like to have an equal mix of my original bass tone and effects chain, plus it is an easy escape to clean if there is an issue with some effect in the chain or to set a specific combo or get back to clean after a solo or passage. This way I have only one target to hit in the heat of battle - simple solution for a simple mind. .
I watched a Justin Chancellor tour rig video where he described using an LS2 in much the same fashion.


The loop is all of these pedals with the 3rd dimension, UA and Zoom after the loop for my "always on" sounds. If I update this boardf there is a possibility to move the UA underneath and add the SA Artifakt in that place followed by a Zoom MS. For now having too much fun with the Artifakt on my studio boards.

 

[Barghest]

I think too many bassists get a distortion with a blend knob and think that that's all they need, and they miss out on the experience of actual parallel processing. I take it a step further and run my clean and dirty to separate amps, separate cabs which gives me even more control over the sound from each side, and I find that when the clean and dirty are coming from separate speakers, it brings something extra, clarity or whatever you want to call it, to the overall sound.

It should be noted that my clean isn't particularly clean though, more like a low gain Sansamp sound that I mix with a much more aggressive distortion. In the past I've ran my distortion side into valve and solid state guitar heads to really accent that sound, and the end result was always bone shaking.

 

[FaithNoMan]

So I just discovered this:

J Bridge Pickup -> Boss LS-2 with a Joyo Oxford Sound in one of its effect loops, set like this Low: 2 o'clock, Mid: noon, High: 11 o'clock, Voice: 1 o'clock, Drive: 3 o'clock, Level: Unity, mixed with clean tone in parallel via the empty effects loop of the LS-2 at an about 50/50 ratio -> your amp/cab or amp/cab emulator/sim of choice.

Holy Batman it is gloriously grindy and snappy, but very clear and extremely punchy at the same time, dare I say absolutely gnarly and growling!

The thing is that the Oxford Sound cuts too much low end to really be viable on bass on it's own, but mixed in parallel with clean signal this actually becomes an advantage because the lowest part of your low end remains clean.

I'll record some samples later and post them here, this is a tone to die for, man I am loving it!

I'll never forgive Tech21 for not making an Oxford for bass guitar.(what that is based off of, the Oxford)

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

So I just discovered this:

J Bridge Pickup -> Boss LS-2 with a Joyo Oxford Sound in one of its effect loops, set like this Low: 2 o'clock, Mid: noon, High: 11 o'clock, Voice: 1 o'clock, Drive: 3 o'clock, Level: Unity, mixed with clean tone in parallel via the empty effects loop of the LS-2 at an about 50/50 ratio -> your amp/cab or amp/cab emulator/sim of choice.

Holy Batman it is gloriously grindy and snappy, but very clear and extremely punchy at the same time, dare I say absolutely gnarly and growling!

The thing is that the Oxford Sound cuts too much low end to really be viable on bass on it's own, but mixed in parallel with clean signal this actually becomes an advantage because the lowest part of your low end remains clean.

I'll record some samples later and post them here, this is a tone to die for, man I am loving it!

The Oxford is money w/ my EB Stingray Special. Best $35, I ever spent. Sounds great w/ jazz bass too. It really is an outstanding pedal.

 

[Ritter667]

Ok, so here are a couple of samples of totally random noodling, just to demonstrate the tone, I recorded with said settings, as promised.

Though with a 1 octave up effect blended in, first in the signal chain, and some subtle reverb going into some subtle emulated tape delay before my amp/cab sim (this is just my sound).

But directly recorded from my amp/cab sim, with nothing else done to it.

Mind also that the bass is tuned to a tenor, G# standard, tuning, that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning.

And the bass in question is a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez Mikro Bass, with its stock bridge pickup wired directly to the output jack socket.

I can get more heft, punch and bottom end by also engaging my Mosky XP Booster (Xotic EP Booster V.1 clone), but then it ends up sounding too compressed for my personal liking, so haven't done that on these recordings.

 

[Ritter667]

Ok, so here are a couple of samples of totally random noodling, just to demonstrate the tone, I recorded with said settings, as promised.

Though with a 1 octave up effect blended in, first in the signal chain, and some subtle reverb going into some subtle emulated tape delay before my amp/cab sim (this is just my sound).

But directly recorded from my amp/cab sim, with nothing else done to it.

Mind also that the bass is tuned to a tenor, G# standard, tuning, that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning.

And the bass in question is a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez Mikro Bass, with its stock bridge pickup wired directly to the output jack socket.

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I can get more heft, punch and bottom end by also engaging my Mosky XP Booster (Xotic EP Booster V.1 clone), but then it ends up sounding too compressed for my personal liking, so haven't done that on these recordings.

Ok, so I found out the reason I disliked the tone I got with the Mosky XP Booster (Xotic EP Booster V.1 clone) engaged, was that it ran too hot into my tube preamp at the end of my signal chain, so I turned down the volume, and now it sound even more incredible, still largely thanks to the Oxford Sound though: