NPD - (Don't Hate me But...) - Grizzly Bass

That tears it...I hate you!



Heh...glad you found a pedal you can relate to! Finding distortion that you like is a very personal journey, and a pedal you flip over could be one that someone else dislikes intensely and vice versa. My only advice is that when you find one you like, don't flip it in order to buy the next new greatest distortion pedal ever like most of these whackos in here!

 

The Grizzly sounds like a cool little box no doubt.

It's on the list.

 

good for you, the bass whisperer really made this pedal sound sweet, i've been using the bass boost on my new bacchus jazz, because i already have a tube amp, but for ss practice i still use my trusty fuzzrocious dark driving

 

Rat clones generally add a lot of mids to the mix and Muffs generally cut a lot of mids but at different frequencies. Neither is transparent in that regard...but can sound amazing if that's the EQ you like. The MXR Bass distortion is a Rat clone / variant and is a great example of that type of pedal. The Grizzly is a circuit design that I'm not familiar with (although I am aware of it as a product). A swollen Pickle (for instance) is a Muff variant.
One of the reasons some bassists look for transparent overdrives is that our last pedal in our chain is usually a big EQ and we then dial in the EQ to our tastes and not that of a pedal designer. This opens us up to a more versatile OD...and a lot more tonal options / applications. It separates the quality or flavor of a pedal's grit from the baked in EQ.

 

Bravo! For you have found the one w/o trying a boat load of 'em. Some guys never find 'that tone' even when spending thousands-and years (I've read). As for me, I might buy two of them when I find 'thee one'.

 

LOVE the Grizzly.

I'm a huge fan of tonal variety, and love colored ODs such as the SansAmp Bass Driver and the Darkglass products, but when I wanted a transparent OD that worked with my hot active basses as well as my passives, I got the Grizzly and stopped looking. I have no trouble dialing in the gentlest barely-on OD with my hottest actives. On top of that, I can use the hi cut and mid cut controls to give my modern actives a vintage tone -- but only when I want to. The EQ can be set essentially flat to deliver overdrive without altering my tone.

 

I've tried a lot of dirt pedals this year, but I haven't gone Grizzly yet. I want to at some point, but since I found the WH Pork Loin it's dampened my dirt gas. Glad it's working for you OP.