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Thinking If I Even Need Another Pedal

#41
MGR said:
Again, you did not quite get the jist of my original post. Nowhere did I say effects are not useful on bass. I am an active poster here on the effects forum and own close to 40 pedals, so how could I say that? What I said, and I thought very clearly, was that I have a hard time figuring out how to get more than 3-4 at a time to sound musically useful on bass. To me, bass that is awash in delay, reverb, lo-fi bit crushing, ring modulation and the like sounds amateur hour in most cases. My idea of the basses role is as a supporting instrument, and that role is lost when the bassist loads up with too many effects. This is my personal belief that I have a right to express, and it confounds me why people take this so personally. This is why I told the OP that if he cannot find a use for one more pedal, to not buy it until the time comes that he does.
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40 pedals? Which one is your favourite.
 
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Subby, I suggest you think of some sound that would go well with some style of music that's never appealed to you, and that it's never occurred to you to even want to play.

Calypso. Flamenco. German beer hall music.

Spend some time getting your feet wet with that, and it will not fail take you in a new direction and give you a new perspective.

And this will enhance your playing, that being your goal, as stated in your original post.

That said, go buy any pedal that looks like fun. :)
 
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Shift Line Termofuzz distortion fuzz pedal made in Russia | Reverb


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#52
If you're on a tone search, consider a multi-fx pedal to get a variety of effects, then consider flipping it and investing in a dedicated pedal for an effect you like. Try a Zoom box, discover you like flangers, then hunt for your ideal flanger.

Similarly, if you play through DAW plug-ins, consider investing in computer based modeling software with multiple effects built in. You can try modeling a variety of sounds, then figure out how to reproduce the sounds you like with actual pedals.
 
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#54
I love pedals, but late last year I did an enormous house cleaning on my board and took off the pedals that weren't working for me. That meant my envelope filter, chorus, delay, Animato and Bass Fuzz Deluxe were gone. I loved them all for certain things, especially that Carbon Copy delay, which is the coolest delay I've ever used since the Echoplex and Space Echo, but they weren't working in my band, so now I'm left with a JohnK Greedtone OD clone, an MXR Bass Distortion (good call on that one!), a Boss OC-2, an EHX Pitch Fork and Southampton All Things Equal clean boost for my fun pedals. Still got a few business pedals on there, but for sound changing pedals, that's all I need. So my advice is that if two pedals are getting the job done for you and you have to think of a pedal to get, save your money.
 
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blindrabbit said:
Generally speaking on-board amp compression is terrible, so a compressor pedal will do a better job for you, but if you like the results that you are getting, no need to make a change. :)

Never hurts to have a boost, clean and/or dirty. Lots of options to try in that arena.

I wouldn't be so aversive to stacking your dirt pedals, but to each their own, if it doesn't work for you, nothing wrong with that! :)

Finally, there are endless flavours of dirt pedals to try, you can never have enough of those. Again, if you like the ones you have, no need to change, but I feel pretty confident in saying you'd like others even more. ;)
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One can never EVER have too many dirt pedals
 
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#56
JimmyM said:
I love pedals, but late last year I did an enormous house cleaning on my board and took off the pedals that weren't working for me. That meant my envelope filter, chorus, delay, Animato and Bass Fuzz Deluxe were gone. I loved them all for certain things, especially that Carbon Copy delay, which is the coolest delay I've ever used since the Echoplex and Space Echo, but they weren't working in my band, so now I'm left with a JohnK Greedtone OD clone, an MXR Bass Distortion (good call on that one!), a Boss OC-2, an EHX Pitch Fork and Southampton All Things Equal clean boost for my fun pedals. Still got a few business pedals on there, but for sound changing pedals, that's all I need. So my advice is that if two pedals are getting the job done for you and you have to think of a pedal to get, save your money.
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Good advice. Otherwise you end up like me with piles of effects that had I not bought, I could have a 3000$ amp haha
 
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JimmyM said:
I love pedals, but late last year I did an enormous house cleaning on my board and took off the pedals that weren't working for me. That meant my envelope filter, chorus, delay, Animato and Bass Fuzz Deluxe were gone. I loved them all for certain things, especially that Carbon Copy delay, which is the coolest delay I've ever used since the Echoplex and Space Echo, but they weren't working in my band, so now I'm left with a JohnK Greedtone OD clone, an MXR Bass Distortion (good call on that one!), a Boss OC-2, an EHX Pitch Fork and Southampton All Things Equal clean boost for my fun pedals. Still got a few business pedals on there, but for sound changing pedals, that's all I need. So my advice is that if two pedals are getting the job done for you and you have to think of a pedal to get, save your money.
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I'd be interested in seeing a picture of that essential Pedalboard, Jimmy.
 

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