Modulation effect with light swooshing sound?

[Inconnu]

Hi there!

I’m trying to identify the type of modulation pedal I always wanted and, well, your help would be appreciated!

What I’m looking for is an effect that does some kind of swoosh that is not metallic sounding like most flangers, but not affecting the whole tone like a phaser. In addition, the pedal would produce a doubling effect, like a chorus, but not too deep and with the bottom left clean and focused (so, pretty much an effect affecting the high frequencies).

So far… I have an EHX Bass Clone. It sounds great, but it doesn’t do what I described… I tried the Ampeg Liquifier and almost got there. Unfortunately, it was too noisy for me. I get close to that swoosh with an old Ibanez Soundtank Bass Chorus by setting the delay time of the chorus somewhere near the flanging point, but the rest of the sound gets too thick and undefined.

I’m guessing maybe some sort of dual chorus with a delay time control and crossover would work, if it exists… but I’m not even sure.

Any ideas what I should check?

 

[rratajski]

It's a bit hard to decipher exactly what you want. Can you please share a video/clip of the sound you want us to diagnose?

 

[GMC]

I find with Modulation that my needs and wants are constantly changing / evolving. So I go for a modulation pedal that offers maximum versatility.
A slow movement Chorus will sound more like a Flanger. A chorus that uses a delay line (like the Boss DC2-w) give a chorus sound with out much movement (speed). A Source Audio Ventris delay has a great patch for this and Source Audio Gemini / Luna / Mercury have similar patches that get into that particular ball park.

 

[cheapbasslovin]

Catalinbread zero point?

It is a flanger, but it's manually controlled. So it just barely does anything when engaged, but then you adjust the intensity by pushing and releasing the footswitch. Not exactly sure if that's what you want, but it's different enough from the norm that I thought I'd throw it out.

 

[NoiseNinja]

Mooer E-Lady perhaps?

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

It is very hard to understand what you want without listening to a sample but the MXR bass chorus has a crossover that leaves anything below 150Hz (if I recall correctly) clean, and it can be very subtle.

 

[Inconnu]

Sorry about not having a sound sample. It’s close to the bass solo on Rush’s Vital signs (there’s actually a thread about that right now), but not quite. It’s just something in my head, not a mimic of an existing sound I’ve heard.

 

[BasementWarrior]

I’m going to say go grab yourself a TC corona chorus. They have toneprints you can load into the pedal but you can also create your own toneprints using their software which will give you control over delay time and crossover.

 

[dagrev]

It seems that some of what you are wanting can possibly be had with a TCE Helix phaser. It's crazy adjustable and has the tone print ability mentioned above. It's kind of like three phasers at a time in one box. More actually with the tone print phone app. One thing that might fit your needs is that you can blend in how much of the wet signal you want and how much unaffected tone you still want to hear. Another great advantage--it doesn't cost much over $100, less used. There are others that may do more and other things and even possibly better, but you will pay much more for that. Does this phaser replace my old '82 MXR Phase 90 that I love? No, nothing will, but it's a nice phaser and won't cost you like many phasers. I like phasers with bass because they don't disappear like choruses can in a live setting.