MXR Bass Fuzz Deluxe---I'm digging it

[JimmyM]

If you crank your fuzz up way louder than the preamp you might burn them out at a slightly quicker rate, but if you keep some sort of unity gain with your clean sound to where you're not just slamming the preamp, the effect on pre tubes would be negligible at best. At any rate, whatever it takes to get your sound. Preamp tubes aren't too expensive unless you're buying NOS.

 

[Frenchy-Lefty]

For those interested, my fave setting on the BFD is Dry 12 O'clock, Wet 2 O'clock, Tone 2 O'clock and Fuzz 4 O'clock (almost to the max but not quite). It does better at higher gain settings, you just need to find the right balance Wet Dry to be bass supportive and work on achieving unity gain. Fuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
"My fuzz is better than yours"

 

[Bassmike62]

I got one today, after 3 failed attemps at scoring an El Grande (maybe someone was trying to tell me something...). First impression is good (huge MXR fan), will see how it sits at band practice Thursday...

 

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Here is one of my tunes where I am using the BFD. Settings as in my previous post (scroll up). My simple bass line won't blow you away but that was not my intention.

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[Bassmike62]

... but I like fuzz and wet all the way up, tone and blend anywhere from 10:00 to 2:00.

Jimmy, got mine yesterday and still a bit of tweaking ahead, but I gave your settings a go and the BFD sounds killer

 

[JimmyM]

Jimmy, got mine yesterday and still a bit of tweaking ahead, but I gave your settings a go and the BFD sounds killer

Glad it's working for you, but since then, I've mellowed out a little with diming the fuzz...gets a little hard to control feedback in a live environment with too much fuzz, even with my piddly volume settings

 

[Bassmike62]

That white LED is driving me nuts... somebody got a clue on how to deal with this ?

 

[johnk_10]

i'd just replace it with a colored one, or add a resistor in series with one of it's leads (to dim it).

 

[jonnyJazzBasd]

I really like mine. I use it with an American pbass into an Eden E300T tube head. I overdrive the amp slightly then add the fuzz on top. It works great for the Doom/Sludge Metal band I'm in.

 

[stavros911]

i bought this pedal few weeks ago and the first time i used it in a band situation, the fuzz tone was lost in the mix.
Yesterday was my second use in the studio and things were better after boosting the mids and adjusting the pedal tone at 1-2 o'clock instead of 9-10 i put it the first time. Everyone could hear it in the band.

In my opinion, if you play in a band that plays in C standard and the guitarists use fuzz pedals too and their neck pickups, there is no way for the bass to be heard as a bass. There will be "a wall" of guitar and bass but it's hard to hear each instrument separately. Like almost every stone rock band.