What guitar pedals do you use for bass?

[CAMAKAZII]

Hey guys and gals,

I understand that guitar pedals can cut out your lows (aside from delays, envelopes and such). But what I want to know is what guitar based pedals do you use for your bass rigs? I am looking to deck out my pedal board for as cheap as I can, without sacrificing too much quality and lets face it most of the time guitar pedals are cheaper. So if you know any you think aren't too bad on the lows post it

Thanks,
Camakazii.

 

[N.F.A.]

Chandler tube driver, Ada flanger from the 700. Also an Mxr Stereo Chorus pedal. Oh yeah a Jordan boss tone clone.

 

[zontar]

I have a Boss AW-3 that I use for guitar & bass--and prefer it for bass, but it does have a bass input & a guitar input--so it is made for both.

Other than that--I've tried my other guitar pedals with my bass, but I'm not sold on any of them.

 

[crapusername]

Boss hm2- great fuzz
Mxr black label chorus
Hardwire cm2- great natural valvey drive with great eq
Ehx glove- awesome drive pedal.
Ibanez weeping demon wah- superb wah with a low eq, amongst other adjustments
Many and various delay pedals, not forgetting the oc2 and dod octoplus

In short- keep trying guitar pedals. You may just find something you'll fall in love with

 

[Wito]

Way Huge Pork Loin (overdive) & Swollen Pickle (fuzz).
You may not like their sound, but they do more than OK in the low end department

 

[FretNoMore]

Some also like to blend the effects signal with a bit of dry bass signal to keep more lows, using for instance a Boss LS-2 pedal. Just another thought.

 

[JensCambre]

Boss tr2 tremolo, tc electronic alter ego delay and corona chorus, cry baby 535q wah

 

[mapleglo]

MXR phase 90 works well for both.

 

[bigmoosepi]

all of my pedals are so called guitar pedals.


If a pedal doesn't work for both guitar or bass then I either modify it to do so or it doesn't go on the board.

 

[bassmusic17]

I think it would be easier to tell you witch pedals I have that are specifically designed for bass. Most of my pedals are not bass specific and work great on many instruments.

 

[Dave W]

I think it would be easier to tell you witch pedals I have that are specifically designed for bass.

+1. Out of the 50ish pedals that I own only a small handful are bass specific.

 

[crapusername]

I forgot my evh phase 90, boss ce5, and I have been known to use a boss df2 and fb2 feedbackers. Fun!!!!

 

[Adamixoye]

Empress Compressor
Empress Multidrive
Empress Heavy
Eventide Pitchfactor
Eventide Modfactor
Line6 M5

All of the above are not specific to either, but some are arguably guitar-centric.

 

[newmusicmichael]

EHX Electric Mistress. You get a flanger AND a chorus in one pedal. I'm pretty happy with the reverb/delay of the Earthquake Devices Dispatch Master too. Though I seem to recall that was a bit more than some of my other pedals.

 

[El Raro]

Greedtone OD and Earthbound Audio Supercollider are my primary "guitar" effects. IMO, they both come to life on bass than on guitar but in saying that, with the right axe and rig, these pedals are devastating on guitar.

I would include my Boss BF-3 flanger but it has a separate input for bass so I don't think it applies to this topic.

 

[smo]

Greedtone OD and Earthbound Audio Supercollider are my primary "guitar" effects. IMO, they both come to life on bass more than on guitar but in saying that, with the right axe and rig, these pedals are devastating on guitar.

I'll back you up there, they're both fantastic on either IMO.

IME, most *guitar* pedals that are low-end suckers can be easily modded by increasing the input/output & coupling caps to let more low end though. There has been few pedals I've had to do this to outside of dirt pedals though.
Dirt pedals are a balancing act I find, some dirt boxes are fantastic on bass that sound a bit too woofy on guitar > one of the reasons us bassists like the Green Russian Muff but quite a few guitarists hate them.

 

[sneakyblueberry]

I recently switched to bass from guitar and use pretty much all guitar pedals for bass, for better or worse. Vox Wah > Digitech Whammy V > Boss AW2 > Guyatone OD2 (my favourite pedal ever) > Modded Boss SD1 or MT2 > EHX Holy Stain > Boss DD3. Sometimes with the Aphex Xciter. I really need to get some bass pedals or mods on these, immediate drop in low end when I click on overdrive and wah, but its not the kind of sound I use for a prolonged period so it works out fine. Whammy set to 2+ Octaves and lots of wet reverb on the Stain means I can pretty much be a guitarist in a post rock band

 

[AndyLES]

I use an MXR Micro Chorus. Sounds fine.

 

[4StringAxe]

MXR Carbon copy
Hardwire DL-8 and RV-7
All sound great

 

[MCS4]

Currently Iron Ether Polytope, Fuzzrocious Grey Stache, Fuzzrocious Demon, Blackeye Effect Palmetto Boost, and EQD Dispatch Master. All great on both guitar and bass.