Reed Mathis and his bass whammy.

Hello everyone

I am a really big fan of Jacob Fred Jazz, i love Reeds use of effects. His octave induced bass work stands out tremendously and is the part of the whole reason i love the band (besides the fact that brain is absolutly insane on a piano) I got to see them no charge at a venue down in madison and had a great discussion with the guys about music. But i reget never approaching Reed about his wonderful octave induced bass stuff. So i was wondering for all you JFJo fans and, or whammy pedal owners. Is it possible for a bass to achieve the same time of octave up as reed does on the red whammy or do i need to find a bass whammy. I by no means plan to cop Mr. Mathis' style but there has been music in my head that this effect would certainly help get out.

Thanks
-GP

 

yea, they were all very approachable people. The venue was small as hell, they would just walk off stage, so I would chase em down. At the end of the show I went outside to have a cig, there were a whole group of people just sitting around after the show and Reed was just standing alone having a cig, so i joined him. It was very exciting and very motivational (ever sense meeting les claypool and him i try to practice bass for atleast 4 hours a day) Although i am a bassist and i really did enjoy talking to Reed, I was 3 feet away from Brian and he just blew me away i could not stop telling him how crazy good he was after the show. His fingers just fly.

I was maybe 2 feet away from the stage, i had a perfect view of Reed's pedalboard, it was deffinatly a bass whammy.

 

yea i was aware of that, i beleive he uses the Snarling Dogs mold spore wah or one of the snarling dogs wahs, He also does a wonderful job of using his volume pedal in adjacent with his wah and whammy. Cheap effects are the way to go, they provide a rawness and tone easily captured through your own playability, but i guess that goes for any sort of effect, expensive or inexpensive. just my opinion.

I guess I just have to try a red whammy out and see if it matches the same sounds in my head. If not maybe it could do something i had not intended it to do. I'm a long time Robert Fripp fan and was planning on buying a fernandes Sustainer guitar, but after seeing Reed play.....well you can guess what my intesions were after that.

 

he mostly used his line 6 dl-4 but could have used different things prior to the show i saw.