Seriously, the OCD is great on bass

[superheavyfunk]

I don’t have much to say here, honestly. I just wanted to make another post about how much I love this drive on the bass guitar.

I think many of us think too much about tiny details in tone that don’t really translate well - or, at least, they’re not apparent to anybody other than ourselves as bassists.

I discovered this pedal like 8 years ago because I was on a mini tour and I decided I needed a new drive pedal. It was priced well (~$70 CAD) and sounded good enough for what I had in mind, so I bought it. I’ve been using it ever since and its become my favourite drive pedal for this application.

There’s no blend, no EQ to speak of beyond than the HP/LP switch and tone knob... It just does the thing and does it well. Despite whatever politics and stuff, it’s just a great pedal and I won’t part with it until the time comes for me to stop playing music - a time which, I hope, won’t be for a good long while.

So yeah. That’s it, I guess. Happy Friday!

 

[DaveParker39]

Seems reasonable. I always liked it on guitar with a Lab Series L5, and I like a tubescreamer on bass.

 

[GMC]

For overdrive into fuzz I like the OCD alot. I used a clone pedal for a long while. I really like the fact that due to the way the circuit is designed, the grit control can bring the tone from fully transparent through light break up, into over drive into rotten OD fuzz. Basically you don't need a mix knob.
Depending on which variant of OCD you have typifies the grit structure. The OCD had a lot of op amp swap out in it's production history, some are well suited for bass more than other variants.
I built my own clone of the OCD a few years back bassed on a particular circuit / op amp combo ( i can't remember which one..soz) and I liked it a lot.
Latterly I bought a Source Audio Aftershock, which is one of the finest digital dirt modeller pedals and made specifically for bassists. I far preferred the bass overdrive model on the Aftershock. It's one of the best sounding bass OD's in existance (IMHO) and it responds so well. On the Aftershock, there's also a great OCD model that sounded so close to my OCD clone...it made it redundant and relegated it to my unused / reference dirt pedal box.
Another trick with the Aftershock is the 4 band EQ under the hood. So you can take say a Tube screemer model and dial out the 1.2Khz EQ spike and the massive bass cut and have it behave fairly neutrally. Or you can take a copy of the EQ controls and apply them to any other model and get a custom screamer sound...trying it on a Rat is even more tuberscreamer-sounding!

 

[NKBassman]

I don’t have much to say here, honestly. I just wanted to make another post about how much I love this drive on the bass guitar.

I think many of us think too much about tiny details in tone that don’t really translate well - or, at least, they’re not apparent to anybody other than ourselves as bassists.

I discovered this pedal like 8 years ago because I was on a mini tour and I decided I needed a new drive pedal. It was priced well (~$70 CAD) and sounded good enough for what I had in mind, so I bought it. I’ve been using it ever since and its become my favourite drive pedal for this application.

There’s no blend, no EQ to speak of beyond than the HP/LP switch and tone knob... It just does the thing and does it well. Despite whatever politics and stuff, it’s just a great pedal and I won’t part with it until the time comes for me to stop playing music - a time which, I hope, won’t be for a good long while.

So yeah. That’s it, I guess. Happy Friday!

Yep, I agree. I've tried a few different OCD circuits over the years: Fuzzrocious Demon, Joyo Ultimate Drive, and now Fuzzrocious Lil Fella. All excellent, but the extra tweakability on the Lil Fella is great!