Lovepedal Les Lius
All the DIY pedal nerds decry the Les Lius for being "just a tweaked Electra distortion circuit". But they haven't played a bass guitar through a Les Lius set to the 5E3 setting with low gain. Especially in the moments after switching the pedal on, comparing it to your un-effected sound, it's like playing with phantom limbs and hearing with someone else's ears. It's a superb aural illusion, and it feels and sounds fantastic: the exact voice of your bass guitar, played through a small tube amp, close miked (super-dry), with fat, but slightly contained bass under extremely tactile, ragged, fizzy very high frequencies.
Fuzzrocious Dark Driving (original version, small case, treble mod)
Weird, fussy controls, but beautiful sounding and very versatile. Ranges from slightly ragged amp-in-a-box overdrive to big, synthetic bass fuzz. But always tactile, dark, fascinating. The most sensuous pedal I happen to have played.
RimRock Effects Mythical Overdrive
Stock, has a woody resonance over just enough bass frequency volume to let this pedal be useful for bass guitar. Discards much of the highest frequencies' volume in the bass guitar range. Very dynamic, responsive. For low gain overdrive, just a clear, vocal, amp-like pedal. In
this thread, I describe my success in swapping different op-amps into the Mythical Overdrive.
Diamond Pedals Memory Lane
By far, the overall best sounding analog delay (maybe any delay) I have heard. Makes me want to play music and I forget that I'm using a processor. Just sounds like music.
Paul Cochrane Tim
As I wrote in
this thread: Freaking fantastic for bass guitar. The 'bass EQ>drive>treble EQ' scheme is brilliant. For me, this pedal excels at very low gain overdrive. The amp-like glow, slight sponginess, and articulate highs (over which there is a lot of control) sounds so musical and believable (not like an effect). I replaced its stock 4559D op-amp with a Burr-Brown OPA2604AP, for complete success: more lows and low mids, more focus overall, more headroom, and generally a sweeter sound. Used for low gain overdrive, it greatly rewards tactile playing, akin to playing with a light touch through a very loud, high headroom bass amp.
the Blower Box, Rams head muff, Static fuzz. I recently got the One Control Hooker Bassmachine which is really awesome. My Fulltone OCD of course. I have some new stuff coming that I think will be favs too, the DG Harmonic Booster, Jext Telez Dizzy fuzz, Manolith clone and a double OCD clone eventually. Great stuff.
