You can adjust the capacitor in a tone control to roll off more high frequencies. The trade off might be that you loose perceived volume as you roll off more and more high end signal content. However, a dub sound typically involves a huge bass boost as well as the high end attenuation.
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Low pass wah
- Thread starter Happynoj
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You guy's got my thinking... Maybe... **** tone and volume knobs on your bass. Wire it through your jack and through to the pedal but I mean a special type of cable for this and then have it all at your feet the volume and the tone using your pickups doing the same thing as it would on the bass just now you can use it at your feet? Is it possible?
A lot of preamp manufacturers offer their preamps in pedal form - Sadowsky, Audere, Seymour Duncan, etc.... although they're typically not intended for what you're wishing to do, they will work fine for it.
Not only is it possible, but it's already been done. The bassist for Kyuss / early Queens of the Stone Age albums (Nick Oliveri) wired his P-pickup straight to the jack. But in his case, he didn't use a floor pedal as a preamp - he just went straight to his head, IIRC.
Oooooooh, yah got us.
C'mon though, cut us some slack -- a few of us are 30% the way thru another 60 hour week slaving for the man -- so when we're trying to rest our brains for a few mins, we can't be expected to see every little detail now can we?
Anyway, to the OP: you don't need to fool with your instrument's wiring to add another tone pot to your signal path -- you could easily wire it inline in an enclosure. Just look at a wiring diagram for any bass and you'll figure it out.
Years ago when I was a younger lad and looking for a "dubbier" tone with no money, I just kept upping the tone cap value until I had a really large value in there - and it rolled off any kind of string noise/treble that was present.
But as was pointed out, it kinda kills the volume and life of the signal. But it would be easy to cook up something DIY -- maybe with a sewing machine pedal (I been wanting to try a project in one...) Maybe with some accompanying boost you could find something usable on the cheep.
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I really think that the "tone control" method is off-base, here. I think the OP wants a fat, resonant, low-pass, and the tone-control isn't going to get there even with a volume boost.
What is your budget, happynoj? There's a Moog in the classifieds for 175. The Peavey can be had all day for that price, and I bet the FM-4 will cost you significantly less.
What is your budget, happynoj? There's a Moog in the classifieds for 175. The Peavey can be had all day for that price, and I bet the FM-4 will cost you significantly less.
Right. Most DIY solutions are, and they almost always fall short of what yer shootin' fer.
So just buy a Moog and expression pedal and be done with it.
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The Dunlop does this(sort of)but you do have to engage the pedal a bit. I do use it exactly for that purpose. I engage it slightly right at the breakdown and then slowly pedal it up while playing a repeating passage. Very Massive Attack. A programmable wah where you could turn it on and set the start freq would be great.
Also, two wah pedals can be very cool but are cumbersome to say the least.
Also, two wah pedals can be very cool but are cumbersome to say the least.
EBS WahOne does exactly this. It has this 'lowpass' switch which transforms the filter from bandpass (normal wah) into lowpass. And it's a great all around wah too.
...has been mentioned previously in this thread. I just wanted to mention that while the "LO" knob is supposed to gradually turn the effect into a lowpass filter (according to the symbols on the knob, and also according to to ibby marketing), this isn't really the case. To my ears it is simply a bass boost, which is not the same thing.
I think "resonant" is the word where the magic is - low pass filter without some resonance doesn´t sound dubby..
