Overdrive Pedal Not Working

What type of cables are you using?

 

Couple more questions:

1) Are the livelier cables mono or TRS (do they have one or two bands on the connector part)?

2) what type of power supply are you using and is that power supply powering other pedals in your chain?

 

is the volume turned all the way up on ur bass to get the most sound signal to ur pedals? if you have a ton of gain but the insturment is turned down very quiet then youll literally have a clean tone probably sounding a little muffled or something of the sort

 

Have you tried just bass->pedal->amp?
What power supply are you using?
Are you running it before the amp or in the effects loop?
Are you plugged in with input on the right, output on the left?

 

overdrive isn't for everyone. you may have missed the memo.

good luck resolving your issue(s)!

 

Bring your bass to GC and try it through their od pedals. You may (probably) have a weak pickup or a bad solder joint in there.

 

We've all been there one way or another

 

I've use those cables once. crapped out on me within a few months. I have since then sticked with plant waves cables and mogami cables. they worked so much better for my set-up.

 

It happens to all of us.

 

How about those moments when you're on stage, ready to rock and no sound comes out? You go through your pedals and end up going straight to amp, just to notice either your amp wasn't on or you had your volume off on your bass.
Or you are furiously tuning your E string, just to notice it was in fact the tuning peg of A string you were tugging. Yeah, I'm an idiot as well!

 

The only thing I had close to that, was a patch cord that got SLIGHTLY pulled out, but I managed to find it before the chorus.

 

anytime, main leading reason i know this is from this same thing happening to me when setting up my pedal bored settings. i thought my overdrive wasnt working all the sudden

 

A cable being slightly unplugged.
Amp off.
DI set to pre eq so your knob turning does nothing.
Going to the same place but all of a sudden having some crazy intermittent squeal you've never heard before that you blame on everything else till you hit that ground lift button and all is well.
Having your IEMs unplugged or pack off.

All these have raised the blood pressure. Have only had a bad cord or two that actually had to be replaced instead of just double checked. But I almost always carry around a second bass, and a bag full of tools, cords, batteries, and other essentials.