overdrive / clean di (bassdrive / gt2)

[christoph h.]

Hi Justin!

Can you explain your ideas about getting a good overdrive sound to me? I'm talking mainly about a mild grit, "some dirt" if you will.

I think you mentioned that you love the Tech21 GT2 so I'm assuming this is what you'll use for this kind of sound (if using a pedal).

What I don't really understand is in another post you commented on the Fulltone Bassdrive saying it was loosing too much lows for your taste. But doesn't the GT2 do that too?

Or you always use the clean di blended in to retain some lowend?

Thanks for your help!

-Christoph

PS: Through your forum I've found a lot of new music to listen to! So, thanks for the inspiration!

 

[jmjbassplayer]

I always blend in a clean DI to help out the distortion sound. Cool to be able to EQ them separately. GT2 has way more low end than Fulltone to me. Fulltone had really good overall tone, though.

Glad to have been any help in turning you on to cool music, that's always fun. I'm always more than happy to get turned on to stuff as well!

JMJ