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The Vibrothang can go from "woowoowoo" to "wahwahwah" to rich Leslie-like tremolo to subtle vibrato.
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Pedals you keep for that ONE sound
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The Vibrothang can go from "woowoowoo" to "wahwahwah" to rich Leslie-like tremolo to subtle vibrato.
I didn't like mine on bass, I use it mainly with a guitar... but I'll try it with your settings! Thanks!
My old EHX Clone Theory with the RETICON SAD1024 chip
Take your pick, I've got a few but probably the one that I just bought again is the EHX Big Muff pie.
Sounds so awesome on my P bass!
Sounds so awesome on my P bass!
hmmm
I guess the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass compressor is the main "always on" and IN pedal for me (subtle, almost invisible).
Another one that's always on but sometimes OUT is my old Tube Works Blue Tube pedal. I bought it for use with keyboards back in the 80's, but LO! it works great with bass guitar.
I don't get rid of my old gear, I just hoard it until I find a new way to use it
I guess the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass compressor is the main "always on" and IN pedal for me (subtle, almost invisible).
Another one that's always on but sometimes OUT is my old Tube Works Blue Tube pedal. I bought it for use with keyboards back in the 80's, but LO! it works great with bass guitar.
I don't get rid of my old gear, I just hoard it until I find a new way to use it
Boss OS-2 for fizzy Lyube/late Entwistle crunch.
A few fuzzes mainly for kicks, but some Fuzz Face-variants can provide a nice bread-and-butter light overdrive with "fuzz" control and bass volume rolled back a little.
A few fuzzes mainly for kicks, but some Fuzz Face-variants can provide a nice bread-and-butter light overdrive with "fuzz" control and bass volume rolled back a little.
I'm nuts for this thing. I leave it on nearly all the time on my guitar and probably half the time on my bass. I don't use the actual flanger that much but in the "on" mode it has that lo-fi lag like an old reel to reel, that subtle drag when the takeup grabs for a fraction of a second. It's almost like a very subtle envelope filter, almost. It sounds like an old tape. It's a great background effect.
Alpha Omega by DG. I have found the ultimate light dirt and and medium dirt for me (rat and odb2) but this pedal has that great fuzz like heavy distortion that is just incredible in a mix. It is still different than a fuzz though as it doesn't seem to compress like a fuzz does it just keeps getting more hectic. I also have a Walrus Audio Lillian Phaser that is just super cool stacked with fuzz for that awesome swirly madness.
I've been GASsing long-time for this Thang. This just fuels the desire-fire.
However, like Vincent69, I'm currently amped up with the Reticon SAD1024, but in my friend's Electric Mistress that another friend helped me fix...
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I really get a charge out of playing through this thing and am smitten. Just don't tell my other flangers I have a Mistress...
No matter how many times I've rearranged the board of kicks or however many dirt pedals I have waiting in the wings, I now realize my Aguilar Agro has always had a reservation to occupy a spot.
One (two) that I keep coming back to every so often but never actually finding a song to use it for is the Crowther Audio Prunes and Custard, along with its spot on clone the Plums and Cream.
One (two) that I keep coming back to every so often but never actually finding a song to use it for is the Crowther Audio Prunes and Custard, along with its spot on clone the Plums and Cream.
For the longest time it was the MXR Bass Blowtorch, I had one setting that just killed and nothing else sounded the same. I used it in one song prominently for like 8 years and then the band broke up so i sold it!
Digitech BSW. There are a few in there but there's just something about the gated synth fuzz of Setting 4.
Bass Whammy for Tool songs
They should have called it the Digitech Whale Song!
They should have called it the Digitech Whale Song!My Woolly Mammoth clone. Not a lot of variety to the fuzz it can do, but the sound is exactly what I hear in my head when I think of fuzz bass.
Ibanez Soundtank Super Chorus CS5. There's not another sound like it IMO.
For me, it's the EHX Hog2. It's not one sound per-se...it's a range or sounds that it does particularly well. I'd love to kick it off my board because it's a massive paving slab...however...what it does, it does extremely well.
Actually... Just about any pedal in my bass setup can be said to be used for just 1 sound, as they are all dialed in to a fixed setting that I use all the time (or that is every time the given pedal is active), that is except for my Zoom G1Xon, which I, beside the always on subtle plate reverb patch, use for 4 additional reverb patches, the Zoom MS-70CDR that I use with an always on equalizer patch, that has a lush Church Reverb fixed at the end it, which can be kicked on or off as desired (still you could argue that all this, if not exactly being 1 sound, then at least being fixed settings as well), and then my NUX Tape Core Deluxe, which I use the build in tap tempo function of to change the delay time, though I suppose it's still the exact same delay tone, and even the same amount of repeats, really just being the delay time changing.
My entire "amp-less" pedal setup looking like this (except I have swapped out the Valeton Aquaflow Vintage Chorus with a TC Electronic Shaker Mini, loaded with a customized chorus toneprint) :
(the white goo is hot glue used to fix the settings of some of the pedals)
My entire signal chain explained in written form :
(*pedals listed in [ red/bold/underline text ] are "always on" effects*)
4 string 28,6" scale Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket, and strung with gauge .090 - .072 - .054 - .040 D'Addario XL nickle plated roundwound hex steel core strings, tuned in F# standard tuning, 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning) ->>
TC Electronic SpectraComp (always on 3 band parallel compression, adding extra punch, snap and bite, but without really affecting my playing dynamics) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (always on digital polyphonic octaver, used as an 1 octave up effect mixed with clean bass signal, giving an effect similar to that of an 8 string "octave" bass, with pairs of respectively bass and octave strings) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (always on parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Orange Juice (always on low gain overdrive, really primarily used to enhance harmonic content, [Tone] set at about 11 o'clock, [Voice] set to boost a wide curve around a 800Hz center frequency about +3dB pre gain stage, always mixed with clean {bass+octave up} signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->||<- [Loop B Send] ->> (empty effects loop for clean {bass+octave up} signal blend with Orange Juice in effects [Loop A]) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an about 50/50 ratio) }=>> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz (Boss FZ-2/Univox Super Fuzz clone, octave fuzz, always mixed with clean {bass+octave up} signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> Mosky Black Rat (RAT clone, in Turbo RAT, LED diode clipping, mode, quite raunchy, fuzz-esque, high gain distortion, always used mixed with the Metal Zone distortion in parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> Behringer VP1 Vintage Phaser (EHX Small Stone clone, used in the high feedback and deep sweep mode, always used boosted by the Hotone Trem in front of it, and almost always used mixed with flanger in parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> Hotone Trem (Tremolo with rate and depth at 0, always used to boost the Behringer phaser placed behind it and make it a bit brighter, since it's a few dB above unity gain when engaged and got a tone control) ->> [Loop A Return] ->||<- [Loop B Send] ->> Joyo Orange Juice (lower gain overdrive with a somewhat grindy character, always used either stacked into the Metal Zone in front of it, and then mixed with the Rat distortion in parallel effects [Loop A], or as a dirty slight "clean" boost mixed with clean {bass+octave up} signal from parallel effects [Loop A]) ->> Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (distortion, used with a relatively low gain setting, always used with the Orange Juice behind it stacked into it, and always used mixed with the Rat distortion in parallel effects [Loop A]) ->> Monarch MFL-22 (flanger, most often used mixed with phaser in parallel effects [Loop A]) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an about 55/45 ratio) }=>> Behringer UT100 Ultra Tremolo (almost always used staked into the Shaker chorus in front of it) ->> TC Electronic Shaker Mini (vibrato functioning as a chorus, loaded with a Boss CE-1/EHX Small Stone fusion -esque Toneprint, almost always used with the Behringer tremolo staked into it) ->> Artec SE-EQ8 (always on 8 band graphic equalizer, settings as follows: [Freq=100Hz LoShlv[/I] Boost=+1dB ; Freq=170Hz Q=wide Boost=+1dB ; Freq=280Hz Q=narrow Boost=+3dB ; Freq=500Hz Q=narrow Boost=+2dB ; Freq=800Hz Q=narrow Boost=+1dB ; Freq=1.4kHzHz Q=narrow Boost=+2dB ; Freq=2.3kHz Q=wide Boost=+3dB ; Freq=5kHz HiShlv +/- 0dB]) ->> Zoom G1Xon (Always on subtle plate reverb, and additionally used for 4 other reverb patches, which respectively are as follows: Plate Reverb->HD Hall Reverb->Tape Delay, more prominent reverb :-: '63 Spring Reverb->Analog Delay (set to a slapback type delay), lush splashy spring reverb :-: 63 Spring Reverb ->Tape Delay (set to a slapback type delay), brighter sounding lush splashy spring reverb :-: Plate Reverb->HD Hall Reverb->Tape Delay, extremely thick lush reverb, used as a reverb pad effect with volume swells) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (Roland Space Echo tape delay emulation) ->> Zoom MS-70CDR (Always on "160 Comp" (emulating a DBX 160A compressor), set to a quite subtle compression -> always on 2 x 2 band parametric EQ : [Freq=63Hz Q=4 Boost=+1dB ; [I]Freq=250Hz Q=4 Boost=+1dB ; Freq=400Hz Q=4 Boost=+1dB ; Freq=1kHz Q=4 Boost=+1dB] -> always on faux, EQ based, cab sim, consisting of a 2 band parametric EQ set as follows: [Freq=12kHz Q=1 Cut=-18dB ; [I]Freq=20kHz Q=0.5 Cut=-20dB], and additionally used for a lush Church reverb that can be switched on/off, which is often used combined with the other reverb effects of the G1Xon[/I]) ->> Joyo American Sound (always on clean preamp (gain set to ever so slightly break up when digging in the hardest), a Tech 21 Blonde clone, analog emulation of a Fender type amp, with a wide curve around the center frequency of 400Hz boosted about +3dB, and an about +3dB pre gain stage boost to a wide curve around the center frequency of 800Hz)
->> EHX Black Finger (always on tube driven optical compressor, used primarily as a tube preamp stage) ->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp, with HPF fixed @ 40Hz)
// ->> Band rehearsal/jamming/gigging // ->> Home practice // ->> Home recordings // :
// ->> Band rehearsal/jamming/gigging ->> [Effects Return] (poweramp input) of Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W, solid state guitar combo, with the build in 4 Ohm 12" speaker unit disconnected and instead hooked up to a The Box PA 502 PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (full range PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn) // ->> Home practice ->> Behringer Eurorack UB1202 (mixer) ->> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro (headphones) // ->> Home recordings ->> M-Audio Fast Track (sound interface) ->> Reaper (DAW) //
I guess though this really only counts as of currently and as far as my bass setup in this context goes, at other times in other contexts I might very well use some of these pedals differently, and as such not keeping them only for that 1 sound.
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For me there are 2.
1. Sansamp BDDI (currently V2)...Love it or hate it, it has a "baked in tone" that just plain works for me, add in the mid controls on the V2, and it became pretty much perfect for me. IMHO, YMMV etc...
2. Idiotbox Blower Box...There is just something about this distortion pedal that just plain rocks...I've tried a LOT of angry dirt boxes over the years, none bump the BB from my board, and I'm done looking.
1. Sansamp BDDI (currently V2)...Love it or hate it, it has a "baked in tone" that just plain works for me, add in the mid controls on the V2, and it became pretty much perfect for me. IMHO, YMMV etc...
2. Idiotbox Blower Box...There is just something about this distortion pedal that just plain rocks...I've tried a LOT of angry dirt boxes over the years, none bump the BB from my board, and I'm done looking.
