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Your favorite "over the top effects"

Tecx

Tecx

Radio Rock Leads To Sterility
Jun 9, 2002
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Halifax, NS, Canada
www.newmusiccanada.com
#1
Now any of you on here that know me, know I have a lot of effects... But I play clean most of the time, but when I use effects I use a lot - I like to go way over the top... Here is my bad medicine:

dod FX-25 (set to not open) + boss oc-2 + Ibanez SB7 (synth 2) + boss bass chorus + EHX Holy Grail = phat nasty synth...

Whats your pedal or combo for over the top sounds?..

Alex

ps. if I had the cash, there would be some Zvex, korg G5, EHX, ect up there but I an poor...
 
#4
I like getting some nasty low end feedback going with my distortion, setting the regeneration really high on my DL4 delay, and then controlling the mess with the DL4's expression pedal. Sounds like a tornado. Sweet.
 
#6
I don't do anything quite as over the top as you tecx, but just because the music I generally play in my main band doesn't require much in the way of wild effects.

Combos I do use:
similarly to tplyons, any heavy distortion / overdrive into wah (in my case a boss vwah pedal). Gives a great 'quacking' sound.

Extreme fuzz into envelope filters - either the fx25, bass iq or mxr auto wah. Also get some interesting sounds with fuzz into the Korg G5, controlling via expression pedal.

Overdrive + chorus - great for a peter hook sound

sorry, none of them are that wild. :o
 
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#7
Well, here's a favorite...

EBS BassIQ > Akai Unibass (w/distortion and 5th) > Digitech XBW set for octave divide > Boss VF-1 for additional distortion and chorusing.

Sometimes I'll substitute an Ibanez SB-7 (set for distorted wah) after the Unibass, instead of the BassIQ.

Believe it or not, this is really helpful in filling out the sound of a small group without being too over-powering. Really, the Unibass is the key here.
 
#8
Ok, ok... here we go:

Sick sick sick distortion:

ZVex Machine into Lovetone Ring Modulator into Basstriaxis (set to heavy distortion). Prepare to be disemboweled.

Synthy madness:

EH Microsynth into RMC3 wah into ZVex Wooly Mammoth into Lovetone ? Flanger (with Boss delay in the loop of that) into Zvex Ooh-wah. This one works especially well if you have a whammy bar on your bass (I do).

The what the hell is going in sound:

Turn 'em all on. All 20.
 
#10
well, my favorite combination is a delay and medium speed phaser, (i set this up on my processor, so they are both ART) the original sound is unaffected, but the delayed sound goes through the phaser so it sounds really cool. I also take a pitchshifter, either a 5th or octave up, wah and distort the whole thing! sounds cool as heck
Charlie
 
#11
hey dude, can we get a sample of the distortion?.. Sounds fun...
in other news I am not doinf that well, go check out my new tread... BAD BAD day...

Alex

Originally posted by basstriaxis
Ok, ok... here we go:

Sick sick sick distortion:

ZVex Machine into Lovetone Ring Modulator into Basstriaxis (set to heavy distortion). Prepare to be disemboweled.

Synthy madness:

EH Microsynth into RMC3 wah into ZVex Wooly Mammoth into Lovetone ? Flanger (with Boss delay in the loop of that) into Zvex Ooh-wah. This one works especially well if you have a whammy bar on your bass (I do).

The what the hell is going in sound:

Turn 'em all on. All 20.
Click to expand...
 
#12
<B>I build my own preamps and fuzzes. Favorite weirdness: Travis Bean fretless,played with brass slide, two fuzzes paralleled, Rocktron Intellifex set on cascading, descending pitch shift, Lexicon Vortex morphed with pedal on detuned chorus, with vocals patched simultaneously through the EFX mixer (Mackie 1202VLZ).</b>
 
#14
the moogerfooger lowpass filter can do some interesting things. setting the resonance too high creates its own tone which you can alter the pitch... run this through delay for some real whackiness.
akai unibass is always odd especially when used with another distortion and delay.
distortion and slow wah sweeps are always fun.

i have been doing a lot of looping and such and one of the most fun things to do is use lots of distortion and maybe some other effects and loop your voice through the pickups... can be quite creepy and confusing to the audience.

certain delays can feedback on themselves which can be used for some interesting sounds.

powerdrills, remote controls, string scraping, and violin bows are also great.

my most used effect that most people find odd (for some reason) is using chorus with delay and fading in and out chords with the volume knob.
 
#17
I like to play around with my Boss ODB-3 pedal, Boss CDB-3 pedal, and Boss RC-3 pedal (I like to keep everything in the same family if at all possible), and can get some mild to crazy effects using them. The effects are just fun to play with, but I'm always looking for new pedals to change the sound and tone of my bass to sound like other instruments for a decent price.
 
#18
Wow this is an old thread. Look at me back in 2003 lugging either the GR77B or the Midibass to almost every gig! Soon after I built a huge pedal board a with an octaver and Akai Deep Impact for extreme tones. I eventually moved on to the VBass in maybe 2006 and then finally agreed that I don't play in bands that need over the top bass sounds. I simplified to only 2 or 3 basic pedals (eq, chorus, distortion) for many years. Now I'm back to a mid size pedalboard w/ a distortion, envelope filter, and octaver for over the top. I still have almost all of that old bass synth gear and it worked great when I put it away. Someday I'll dust them off and vibrate some air.
 
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#19
If high-gained distortion pedals count, I like the digitech hardwire tl-2 metal distortion. I bought this pedal as my high-gained distortion pedal and it sounds totally awesome. at a certain setting(along with a chorus effect), I was able to get a peter steele from type o negative type of sound. also this pedal has a toggle switch for tight and loose mode. personally, I find the loose mode to be useful on bass. it gives my bass a thicker distortion sound with warm lows. also this pedal is a good affordable alternative to the empress heavy.
 
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