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The pedal that started it all....
- Thread starter Malpractice
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A good friend of mine was switching to a multi-effect system, so he gave me a Boss SYB-3
and a roland volume pedal. Having just been new to bass ( 22 years old at the time) I couldn't see much use for the volume pedal. But I remember messin around with the synth pedal....tryin to find the closest sound to distortion
. Fast forward to a few years later when I had the funds and the time to play more, and voila, I am an official junkie now. The good news is I use the synth as a synth and volume swells sound ever so cool with a little delay and distortion!!!
and a roland volume pedal. Having just been new to bass ( 22 years old at the time) I couldn't see much use for the volume pedal. But I remember messin around with the synth pedal....tryin to find the closest sound to distortion. Fast forward to a few years later when I had the funds and the time to play more, and voila, I am an official junkie now. The good news is I use the synth as a synth and volume swells sound ever so cool with a little delay and distortion!!!although i've been playin for 16 years now (geez!), only a couple of years ago I used my first pedal: A Behringer BOD100, as a birthday gift from my woman. Thet I went and bought a compressor, a delay and a fuzz, all Behringer. Then my dad gave me a very interesting multi designed for electro-acoustic guitar, a Korg G2, telling me it has some nice chorus sound (not plural, just one) and a built in tuner. Been using it all the time in my house, mostly to jazz out a bit, fool around with some delay (wich is impossible to tweek, you only have "short, medium and long delay" options). Then I tried a crapload of boxes: dynacomp, RAT, DOD envelope filter, boss RV5, boss ds-1, English Muffin (almost stole it form the guitard), Big Muff NYC, Russian Muff, Ibanez Delay/Echo... today My only, one and only pedal is a DIY Tubescreamer (TS9), and really, I don't need any more. I'm starting to save for an SG Bass to make the marriage of the massive humbucker on that bass with my creamy TS9. Gotta love it!
i had to think about it for a while, but the first pedal i ever owned was a crybaby..this was before i was playing bass (i hate saying that..)
anyway, i loved the pedal..and eventually sold it to my brother because it was non-bass friendly. i dont recall what the first bass-oriented pedal was that i bought, but im thinking it was either a boss ceb-3 (ended up selling on ebay) or a OC-2 (still have, use, and love)
anyway, i loved the pedal..and eventually sold it to my brother because it was non-bass friendly. i dont recall what the first bass-oriented pedal was that i bought, but im thinking it was either a boss ceb-3 (ended up selling on ebay) or a OC-2 (still have, use, and love)
A guitar playing friend of mine bought a Fuzz factory. After hearing it I really wanted one, but not knowing anything about effects, I thought I couldn't use it because it was a guitar pedal. I went on the search for a gated bass fuzz, which lead me to save up for a Woolly Mammoth (this took me months due to being about 15 with just a newspaper round). So while I was waiting for the Mammoth, I bought a Behringer Bass overdrive, I then found this place while looking for alternatives, and here I am 2 years (and about 30 pedals) later...
First one I bought was an ODB-3, then I had a Zoom 607, then a Boss ME-50B in 5 years, then a Micro Qtron. It was the Qtron that sent me over the edge. I loved it, but I wanted it to be in between all of my effect on my ME-50B. I've since loaded up on about 10 more and been to the music store a bunch of times trying out everything I can get my hands on.
I like gassing for effects better than gassing for amps, cabs, or basses. It's usually cheaper with more options for tones.
I like gassing for effects better than gassing for amps, cabs, or basses. It's usually cheaper with more options for tones.
i had a danelectro pastrami overdrive that would pick up radio stations when i'd turn it on.
but i got rid of it, and years later had a Korg multi-effects thing. i only used the delay setting for one song, but whenever i used it live i kept hearing that it would drop volume and suck tone whenever i turned it on. so i sold it, bought a DD-3, and it's been all downhill since then.
but i got rid of it, and years later had a Korg multi-effects thing. i only used the delay setting for one song, but whenever i used it live i kept hearing that it would drop volume and suck tone whenever i turned it on. so i sold it, bought a DD-3, and it's been all downhill since then.
I started out with a Boss BE5B Bass Multi-Effects (Delay/Chorus/Flanger, 10-Band EQ, Overdrive/Distortion & Limiter), Rockman Bass Ace (great for pre-PC based/Tascam CD-BT-type isolated track learning and practicing and surprising great at getting an easy-to-record sound on some of my first band's demo sessions), and Korg BT-2 Bass Tuner (wonderful for a heavy rock band that would tune down to Eb with its "Flat" setting, multiple LED colors in addition to a needle mechanism! and 15+ years old and still working wonderfully and my backup tuner) around '91 for a few years...
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...until I moved away from that and to individual Boss Pedals (the BE5B was such a tone-suck that I went to their stand-alones - that should say a good deal about it... ) like their Compressor, Bass EQ, Chorus, Flanger, and my brother's Metal Zone and a DigiTech Bass Whammy. Aside from the Whammy (easily my longest-owned effect) I moved away from effects for a few years until like many others, hooked up with a Zoom 506 and Expression Pedal around 1997 and spent several years with all of my own banks and patches programmed for individualized basses and different genres of music, as I was doing studio/backing artist work at the time...and like others, I still have it and pull it out from time-to-time - even today it has some very useable Synth Bass patches, and I managed to get extremely close to Peter Steele of Type O Negative's "Über-Distortion" Bass tone from it. From there I was able to purchase my Dream Pre, the SWR Mini Mo' preamp with it's inboard studio-quality effects as well as running a number of high-quality FOP (Front Of Preamp ) effects (multiple overdrives/distortions, Micro POG, Delay, JamMan looper, etc) on my Secondary Pedalboard that the Mo' doesn't have as well as a setup for times my preamp isn't needed.
In retrospect it may have taken a good amount of gear, time, and money, but I can say now I have exactly the tone I've been looking for since I picked up my first bass at 14.
and 15+ years old and still working wonderfully and my backup tuner) around '91 for a few years...Invalid Link Removed
...until I moved away from that and to individual Boss Pedals (the BE5B was such a tone-suck that I went to their stand-alones - that should say a good deal about it...
) like their Compressor, Bass EQ, Chorus, Flanger, and my brother's Metal Zone and a DigiTech Bass Whammy. Aside from the Whammy (easily my longest-owned effect) I moved away from effects for a few years until like many others, hooked up with a Zoom 506 and Expression Pedal around 1997 and spent several years with all of my own banks and patches programmed for individualized basses and different genres of music, as I was doing studio/backing artist work at the time...and like others, I still have it and pull it out from time-to-time - even today it has some very useable Synth Bass patches, and I managed to get extremely close to Peter Steele of Type O Negative's "Über-Distortion" Bass tone from it. From there I was able to purchase my Dream Pre, the SWR Mini Mo' preamp with it's inboard studio-quality effects as well as running a number of high-quality FOP (Front Of Preamp ) effects (multiple overdrives/distortions, Micro POG, Delay, JamMan looper, etc) on my Secondary Pedalboard that the Mo' doesn't have as well as a setup for times my preamp isn't needed.In retrospect it may have taken a good amount of gear, time, and money, but I can say now I have exactly the tone I've been looking for since I picked up my first bass at 14.
Well, my first pedal was a Danelectro Fab Tone, but my brother had a wide array of wacky effects that were more up my alley. It was his Russian Muff, though, that did it. I've been trying to find one that sounds quite like it, and I can't. I might have to go green to do it (something I very much would like to avoid, as green Russian Big Muffs cost a lot of money).
