Love for the EHX Mole

[SBassman]

Gotta offer up a recommendation for the EHX Mole.
I took a chance on ordering one a few weeks ago, and I'm just getting to trying it out.

Wow. For 39 bucks, that's a whole lotta tone in that box. Not a million different tones, but if you want to really fatten up a bass, this is an easy, inexpensive ticket.

Love this thing.

 

[Mark Olson]

Cool thanks for the info! I don't know that anyone here has posted about trying one of those.

 

[scubaduba]

What exactly does it do? Muddy?

 

[SBassman]

Not muddy. Adds a fuller bass tone without muddying it up.
For the price - it's a great little adder.

 

[osd]

Ha, I thought I was the only one here who dug the Mole. Does fatten up the low end nicely. Use it a lot with pedals that tend to suck out the bottom frequencies.

 

[The Lurker]

Very happy with mine too.

 

[Fishbrain]

I got play in a covers band, just pop sort of stuff. I use a warwick corvette jazzman and even though i love the tone the mid growl was a bit too much and was getting in the way of the keys a little bit. The mole pretty much takes away everything I love about the warwick tone and replaces it with a nice big fat bottom end that blends perfectly into the mix. Not for useful in my originals band but I use it all the time with my covers band.

 

[g_familia]

i really like the mole in contexts i didn't expect... for nice quiet warm gentle heartfelt songs. i was expecting to use for big fat in your face songs, so was quite surprised when i realised it's best purpose - to fatten up your tone on the quiet ones. if you put in a mole after your fuzz or distortion, it just about completely eliminates the fuzz/dist because it cuts the high frequencies out. be really careful with it -- if you put it up past 10 o'clock, it gets really loud really fast and can be way too much in the soundboard and maybe even your cabinet. but a great pedal, overall.

 

[Hutzbordello]

so would this pedal work to add bass to my fuzz factory tone like osd said? or would it take away the fuzz like g familia said?

 

[Mingus Addict]

so would this pedal work to add bass to my fuzz factory tone like osd said? or would it take away the fuzz like g familia said?

If you put it after the Fuzz Factory, the fuzz would probably sound muffled, but if you put it before I think it would work pretty well.

 

[Hutzbordello]

lol thanks man, i already ordered a blend pedal, but ill keep this in mind

 

[Mingus Addict]

I just got one of these for christmas and I dig it so far, although I haven't used it with the band yet. Some might think it sounds "muffled", but I think it's got a cool dubby thing going on.

I put it in a bypass loop with a volume pedal today so I could crank it to exaggerate the eq curve even more while maintaining unity volume. It worked pretty well so I think I might mod it by putting a passive volume knob on the output.

If any of you other guys have a mole and a volume pedal I recommend testing this out for yourself.

 

[Mingus Addict]

lol thanks man, i already ordered a blend pedal, but ill keep this in mind

The blend pedal is probably better anyway because you won't have to deal with stomping two pedals at once.

 

[RNV]

UPS has my Mole on its truck and on the way to my house. I have to bring my son (4yrs) to practice tonight, so I won't have much time to mess with it. We'll see how it is in drop C.

 

[RNV]

Holy Mole-Y! That little box just slings low end like mad. I found that anything past 10-10:30 was just too much and got muddy. There are several passages where I can't use it, due to it cutting the high mids and highs. If you like your growl, stay away from this. If you want to shake the place down to it's foundations..... this is for you. I didn't get a chance to adjust my EQ or my VT settings, nor did I get a chance to try different placements in my small pedal chain. I am glad to have gotten it. It will be useful to me and I know that after a few minutes of tweaking it on Friday I will be even more happy with it.