How to make a bass sound only one octave higher?

[Eric!]

Go up 12 frets. Boom.

 

[caeman]

Pardon the derail, but has anyone played w/one of these?

I don't think it is a derail, but rather on-topic to the OP. I haven't actually heard any demos of the pedal. I was hoping the builder of the Cave Passive Pedals would get more samples of his stuff. The idea that the pedal is ONLY an octave up, that the original signal is lost is intriguing. It doesn't get any wetter than that.

 

[guy n. cognito]

Let me explain. I play 6 string bass on a gig in a duo with a percussionist. We play mostly jazz standards and bossa nova (only bass and percussion). I use to play some songs in chord melody on bass, then I may improvise one chorus or play a walking bass line or just play the melody for one part of the song, got it? So it's a multi task job. I would like to get a pedal or any effect that could make my chord melody on BASS sound one octave higher. I'm not a guitar player.
Thank you guys for your answers till now.

The Fishman Fisson bass pedal will do an octave up, and has two separate outputs...one for both the original and the octave up, and one for just the octave up. It should do what your looking for.

 

[RFord04]

So far it sounds like the POG variants or the Pitchfactor might be the best options. You need polyphonic operation and I *think* that everything else mentioned so far only works on single notes.

You should try them out, the artificial quality of the digitally transposed notes may not be to your liking, especially in an acoustic jazz context.

This is really all you need to know, it seems. Most people posting so far have ignored the fact that you are trying to play chords, and most octave effects don't allow for this. Definitely try before you buy, you might hate the results depending on the pedal.

 

[moles]

... Most people posting so far have ignored the fact that you are trying to play chords, and most octave effects don't allow for this....

Good point

 

[caeman]

For tracking chords, don't most pedals fail that task? You seem to need something like the Roland GR-55 and similar which tracks each individual string.

 

[caeman]

Go up 12 frets. Boom.

Capo, even?

 

[Jazz Ad]

Many octave pedals can make the bass sound one or even two octave higher but the original sound (octave) of the the bass is still there

I'd like to know what pedals you've tried so far, because I can't think of a single high octave pedal that doesn't let you remove the original tone of the bass.

 

[fishdreams]

try a Digitech Whammy. I liked the tone better than the POG, for bass. I have no tracking problems.

 

[smeet]

The whammy is a great pedal for over-the top squeals, dive bombs and MONOPHONIC transposition. But it won't do what the OP wants.

 

[RoadRanger]

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[BigMacDaddy]

Go up 12 frets. Boom.

This, or, assuming you are tuned in fourths, go up one string and over 7 frets or even up two and over two. That's how I would handle it.

 

[professor_bills]

What about a double neck?

 

[ZombieSpacebat]

Can't you just play it an octave higher?

 

[madmatt]

You play 12 frets up the neck?

 

[FunkMetalBass]

The chordal aspect of your playing will be the hardest part to get around, as others have mentioned. Have you considered tuning your bass in fifths to give you a larger range?

Another option that I've considered is a custom set of strings to tune: B E A (DG) C F Bb. This would allow you to play the basslines on your BEA strings and the melodic stuff on the higher CFBb strings.