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Overdrive and Flanger, do they sound good together?

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DoomandHeavy

Dec 28, 2008
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Frozen Wastelands of Michigan
#1
Today I was jamming on my buddy's guitar and put on some flanger and distortion. The tone was almost exactly the same as Type O Negative. Now I was wondering, how does overdrive combined with flanger sound on the bass? If your wondering why i didnt say distortion and flanger for bass, im not a huge fan of distortion on a bass.
 
#4
Two great tastes that taste great together.

My only caveat is that I'm a lot pickier about overdrive (or distortion) into flanger on bass.

For instance I like all kinds of dirt into a phaser, and by and large every combination of OD/Dist/fuzz into any given phaser sounds okay to me while some sound great.

But with flanger and dirt, it seems like only certain combinations really do it for me. Just my opinion.
 
#7
Yep use it regularly. Specifically an MXR 80 into Boss flanger. For overdubs while recording recently I put both a Boss HM-2 and a D'Addario Very Metal into the flanger and it sounded awesome, wouldn't do it live as it loses too much low end.
 
#9
DoomandHeavy said:
Today I was jamming on my buddy's guitar and put on some flanger and distortion. The tone was almost exactly the same as Type O Negative. Now I was wondering, how does overdrive combined with flanger sound on the bass? If your wondering why i didnt say distortion and flanger for bass, im not a huge fan of distortion on a bass.
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Just To Let You Know, Peter Steele Of Type O Negative Combines Distortion With Chorus For His Sound. Distortion With Flanger Can Easily Give You An Eddie Van Halen Sound On Bass.
 
#10
Crystalman, please note that only the first letter at the beginning of a sentence, or the first letter of a proper noun (name of a person or place) should be capitalized.

This Looks Really Weird And Cracked-Out Like A Psycho Ransom Note. ;)
 
#11
bongomania said:
Crystalman, please note that only the first letter at the beginning of a sentence, or the first letter of a proper noun (name of a person or place) should be capitalized.

This Looks Really Weird And Cracked-Out Like A Psycho Ransom Note. ;)
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Well His Nick IS Crystalman. I Doubt He's Talking About Wine Glasses ;)
 
#12
I was gonna say, but thought I might be stepping on his toes too much at that point. There was another guy here who was a "colorful" poster, and I made some crack about him smoking crack, and he got pretty upset because he was really trying to kick the crack habit in reality. :eek:
 
#13
bongomania said:
I was gonna say, but thought I might be stepping on his toes too much at that point. There was another guy here who was a "colorful" poster, and I made some crack about him smoking crack, and he got pretty upset because he was really trying to kick the crack habit in reality. :eek:
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HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's great! Most recovering crackheads aren't known for their sense of humor about themselves. Of course, it's usually because they were in jail ;)
 

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