Thinking If I Even Need Another Pedal

[HiEnd Basses]

Pardon the poor lighting:

Is that a brand name Pedalboard?

 

[hintz]

Chorus works well for metal if you have any spacey atmospheric parts.

This x's 100!! For clean parts chorus is beautiful, and I actually prefer chorus with minimal dirt ahead of it, if not total clean tone!!

Another thing is a good high quality compressor with alot of options(attack, release, ratio, etc) would probably be better than any built into a amp!! The Darkglass Symmetry looks mighty tempting but I use the mighty Empress compressor, it enhances my attack and tightens up the lows helping me sit in the mix better!!

And as far as overdrive pedals, I'm sitting on funds for the Darkglass Microtubes 700 Amp which features a foot switchable dirty b3k/vmt channel, though I might get a fuzz again in the future!!??

Really your only limit is your imagination for sounds, but on the other hand you probably won't *need* too much for metal music....but I think overdrive, compression and chorus are great for that style!!

 

[pacojas]

Pardon the poor lighting:

Jimmy? how much are those amps for us regular folk?

 

[kat888]

Bought a Diamond compressor with the idea that it would be an occasional effect, but it sounds so good slamming my valve overdrive I can't turn the bloody thing off. As @blindrabbit said, it sprinkles magic dust over everything.

 

[cdlynch]

I agree with phase, flange, and chorus as seasonings. For dirt, Nerd Knuckle makes cool stuff. I appreciate metal more than play it, but this sounds metal to me:




LOTS of other pedal demos here:
STOMPBOXSONIC2009

 

[blindrabbit]

Bought a Diamond compressor with the idea that it would be an occasional effect, but it sounds so good slamming my valve overdrive I can't turn the bloody thing off. As @blindrabbit said, it sprinkles magic dust over everything.

I can confirm that this is 100% true.

 

[Gaolee]

I don't know if has been said yet, but the correct answer is one more. In mathematical terms, n+1.

 

[JimmyM]

Is that a brand name Pedalboard?

PT Jr.

Jimmy? how much are those amps for us regular folk?

PF-50t is $899, PF-112hlf is $399.

 

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

I will be the contrarian and say don't buy anything at all. If you don't feel the need now, what would a new pedal do other than lower your bank account? I say wait, find a musical situation that speaks to you in loud terms that "you now need X (chorus, delay, reverb, scrutator)" and then go try out "x".

Buying for buyings sake, or taking the advice of a bunch of people on the internet to buy "x" is only a way to go down a rabbit hole it might be hard to get out of. I wish someone had told me to do this. I ended up buying over 20 pedals, and struggle to find real-world uses for more than 3 at any one time.

A lot of people disagree with me here, and that's fine, that using lots of effects on bass takes away from our reason for being. I've never seen any bassist, save for Justin in Tool, that ever used multiple effects effectively. And even he probably never has on more than 3 or 4 at a time.

While that is certainly one way to look it but contrary to what you may think, it is not the right way or the only way. I buy pedals just to see what I can do with them, not because I need them and it is a ton of fun especially with unconventional pedals that you would probably accuse me of destroying music with.

 

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

OP - Like others have said, maybe try a multi or just buy something crazy weird like a CT5 or a Charlie Foxtrot just for ***** and giggles.

 

[theunknowndude]

I play in a metal band and used to lug along my pedalboard full of 7 effects.. Now I've realised what fits in the band and what doesn't the 7 are still there but all I use is pitch shifter ( whammy) for some intro's, Chorus OR very small times delay for 'spacey bridge parts' and overdrive... Did have a Wah pedal but replaced with pitch shifter as Wah just dropped out of the mix. Only other thing I would do is fuzz with a blend to keep a roaring wall of sound but clarity and low notes behind it too... I've tried to use straight fuzz in my band but even with good pedals too much low lost in the mix ( I tend to ride the B string)

For what it's worth I like the dl8 hardwire for delay and the ceb3 boss bass chorus...

 

[Nic.]

@HiEnd Basses

Have you considered an EQ pedal? Especially one with presets. That'll give you the option to have drastically different sounds in different parts of a song.


Anyway, I like the idea of adding more dirt layers too. One more vote for the source audio for flexibility, and also because it has a built in EQ so it kills two birds with one stone. It has two presets. You could also consider the darkglass stuff. The 4 band EQ is pretty good, I find that the lows and highs knobs are good for cleaning up mud or rounding off the sound, and the high mids are in the perfect position for me to boost or cut distortion grind. Combining that with your DI EQ can give you the flexibility I was talking about. Set your DI as your base tone, and the distortion EQ for your special tone.

one last thing, the suggestion of getting an LS2 is pretty good. I find my tone gets more brutal when I mix in the dry signal.

 

[loveandbass]

( I tend to ride the B string)

Aw yeah

 

[Soonerbldr]

Your Welcome.

 

[Jamvan]

Careful. It's a deep hole.

But not impossible to extract yourself.

And you end up back to just having a little dirt and maybe some chorus.

 

[Bloodhammer]

Yeah, don't forget the trusty B:assmaster. It's possibly the most metal vintage style fuzz.

Darkglass B#K plus a B:assmaster or even better, a Shift Line Termofuzz will bring out some serious metal!

 

[Bloodhammer]

If you want to have some serious reverb for doom metal, the EQD Afterneath has been a go-to for that purpose for a spell now. I recommend.

 

[theunknowndude]

Aw yeah

You too like to ride the B string?

Update I'm also going to replace my ibanez pd7 with the source audio OFD... The album we did was recorded with two mics on the one cab with a clean and dirty channel... Despite the love of everyone for BK3 i don't feel it and for pedalboard space love the idea of all the eq / blend / multiple distortions that can save to two channels... My slapping parts with overdrive on is too compressed and doesn't shine enough compared to a blend... Have done the LS2 route before but would rather less cabling / pedalboard real estate

 

[HiEnd Basses]

So, I'm thinking of going with EHX with a Nano Bass Big Muff, Nano Clone, and Nano Mistress to go with my Boss TU-3, MXR Bass Distortion, and Ampeg SCR-DI.
Pedaltrain Metro seems to scrunched, so maybe Pedaltrain Jr.?

 

[nshuman]

So, I'm thinking of going with EHX with a Nano Bass Big Muff, Nano Clone, and Nano Mistress to go with my Boss TU-3, MXR Bass Distortion, and Ampeg SCR-DI.
Pedaltrain Metro seems to scrunched, so maybe Pedaltrain Jr.?

Don't get a recent EHX Muff, they suck on bass. Get one of these:

1- Vick Black Russian(cheapest of the lot)
2- Used Wren & Cuff Tall Font Russian
3- Stomp Under Foot Civil War or Civil Unrest
4- Earthbound Supercollider (regular or 71)
5- Abominable Hail Satan/Hail Satan Deluxe

Now, everybody else on here will give you a thousand other amazing suggestions. Just don't get a new EHX...