Your FAVORITE pedal

[Zooberwerx]

Any decent compressor pedal.

Riis

 

[Mostresticator]

Crybaby.

 

[Spectrum]

the pedal that whenever you click it on you just think "damn, that sounds great."

Darkglass B3k, with my freshly-strung Rickenbacker on one end of it and my Ampeg pf500 on the other, cranked to fairly high volume. That's what makes me think "damn, that sounds great."

 

[JLubinsky-Mast]

My newest pedal, and it is beautiful. Made here in East Vancouver, the Union Sub Buzz. Worth every penny.

http://www.uniontone.com/shop/union-tube-transistor-sub-buzz-bass-pedal

Second would be a tie between the legendary OC-2 and the 3-Leaf Audio Pwnzor

 

[Flat5Bass]

FEA DE-CL.
It just sounds like something's missing when it's not on.

 

[Yawsbass]

I've had the Pigtronix Philosopher Bass compressor for a few months now, it was the compressor I'd wanted since I started looking at compressors (I used a Demeter for a year before I found one at a good price), and it sounds so good I've been playing with just that and nothing else for the past few weeks.

 

[Slade N]

Smoothie

 

[christopea]

For me, my FEA DE-CL, almost always on.

 

[nshuman]

It would be a 7-8 way tie for me Too hard to answer. Maybe I'm just too scared to name a favourite.

 

[kzr750r1]

Right now would be the Abominable Electronics Hail Satan Deluxe for fuzz and JohnK Gamma Drive OD, both always on.

 

[hintz]

B7K, but since that's a preamp the OCD close 2nd and full tone bassdrive a close 3rd!!

 

[Humbled]

As you folks are sharing the brand names/model of your favorite pedals, I sure wish you'd also share what it's specific virtues are and what style of music it enhances.

Thanks.

 

[gjohnson441496]

Wow. Up to this point I think the only pedal that has been mentioned more than once is the OC 2 (which I have never heard of until now).
I've gone through a few pedals and have sold them all back with the exception of the Hartke Bass Attack that I've had for about a month now. I really like what it does for my tone on both my P and J basses. It rounds them out with a slight bit of distortion. I play mostly rock.

 

[Anthonyfranklin9000]

Catalinbread Belle Epoch. Bought it mainly for guitar delay, but since it's modeled after an echoplex it has a preamp built in. Its become an "always" on kind of pedal, warm and full sounding on bass.

 

[devnulljp]

If you're banning preamps, so I can't say my Bassbone, I'd have to say the Cali76.

 

[Spaldo]

OC2. Never leave home without it...

 

[Real Soon]

I'm assuming we aren't supposed to mention multis, but if that's not the case, I'm getting more use out of my BP355 than I ever thought I would in live settings. I've also done a lot of reworking its patch bank into a series of fun effect combos, useful EQ switches, noise FX, etc, so it's basically a custom pedalboard all in one rather than the hundred massively disparate, often illogically configured patch setups.

But if no multi...then hrm. The only other pedal I've used live so far is my preamp. But I have a Q-Tron Plus that I'm just ITCHING to have an excuse to bust out, and am pretty sure that once I nab a compressor (looking at the Empress), that's going to be on all the time.

 

[SamJ]

tied between my Keeley 4 knob compression and Spaceman Saturn V

though i've got a Spaceman Voyager I on it's way that might change all that.

 

[LanEvo]

For the last 20 years, I would have said EHX Q-Tron. Bought the original model (huge steel chassis) in the mid-'90s and I still love it. I've tried pretty much everything else, but keep coming back to the Q-Tron.

But lately, I'm in love with the Invalid Link Removed. It's great for bringing out the mids and adding a touch of hair without losing any of your lows. It retains the fundamental character of your bass and amp, but gives it just a bit more definition/punch/presence or whatever you want to call it.

 

[spanndrew]

Ram the man parts. It does overdrive and fuzz really well.