Triple blend fuzz?

There is a fuzz that does this. It's called the Quadrafuzz by Paia, designed by Craig Anderton. Basically it splits your signal into four signals and distorts them seperately. I've never heard one and it would probably need the distortion bands to be retuned for bass. It's a rackmount unit but could probably built into a large pedal enclosure. It's available as a kit only from www.paia.com.

 

the idea of only distorting lows is kinda cool..but im not sure if itd work? might be awesome though. i could sorta experiment with this..i use a messdrive, not a lot of highs at all, but s*^#$loads of lows..if i split my signal into two amps, i could EQ the clean amp to have a lot of high end tweeter volume, and cut the lows. 2nd amp turn off the tweeter and let the messdrive pump the fuzz..

ill give this a try later..unfourtunately i dont have any mics to record it though.

 

I read somewhere that the bass player from the Polyphonic Spree made his own "crossover pedal" to send highs through distortion & keep lows unadulterated. I was intrigued by this concept as well.
This kind of needs to happen in our lifetime.

 

With the pedal I described being merely a frequency crossover you could send the lows through your distortion circuit as desired
(sorry, thought you were me for a second).

 

hmm so something that would split your signal with 3 band filters? then have a distortion tailored for each of these frequencys and you can blend in as much of these as you want with your clean signal? thats gonna end up in one huge enclosure ;p i could have a go at building one of these but it'd take a pretty long time

 

I have a quadrafuzz that I built about 12 years ago for guitar, but I have not tried it on bass. If you are playing guitar you can play more complex chords and have less nasty intermodular distortion. The 4 frequency bands are split up to suit a guitar more than bass and since most bass players are playing single notes it may be needlessly complicated for bass use.
And it is a pretty involved build project. If you play guitar too then it might be worth it.

 

If your box is 10ft x 10ft x 20ft maybe!

 

I'm thinking you want to filter the output of the various fuzzes, "post-distortion", otherwise you'll still get the dirty high end. If they have tone controls.... The input signals EQ some too maybe. But then crushing a fuzz with a very bassy tone has its own appeal.

 

the ashdown drive plus splits the signal in two and I believe that you can get dirty lows with clean highs and vice versa...

 

Oh, that's all you want? Shoot, man, that ought to almost go together by itself.

Is this what the question in the post yer pedalboard thread was about? You gonna try to do this piecemeal and then see if you can put it together? That would be neat.

 

could have a blend for the lows highs etc would end up a lil complicated depending on how much control you'd want over the fuzz aspect of each of them to