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YOUR TOP 3 BASS PEDALS...GO!
- Thread starter LittleBassChops
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- Jan 18, 2006
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Man, how things have changed! None of those are on my board right now, and I don't even own the DOD anymore! Not for lack of trying, though! Here's what I've got in the top 3 now:
B3K
GK Rails Pedal (My "fuzz")
Source Audio Bass Envelope Filter
Runners up include the JohnK Gamma Bass OD and Pharaoh Fuzz, but I just can't find a consistent use worth putting them on my board permanently. I keep trying, but no dice!
I'll play.
While I still have and use the Darkglass B3K, I swapped the BEF pro for the Manta a while back. Neither of those would still be in my go to group though.
Currently my top 3 are:
3Leaf Audio Enabler: serves as a DI, with headphone out to practice through my board
JohnK F2B: got this back in February and it has been on most of the time since.
Verellen Meatsmoke: (does this count as a pedal) it is the pedal version and it is always on.
I've got a lot of others that I use all the time, but these three have become the foundation of my sound.
While I still have and use the Darkglass B3K, I swapped the BEF pro for the Manta a while back. Neither of those would still be in my go to group though.
Currently my top 3 are:
3Leaf Audio Enabler: serves as a DI, with headphone out to practice through my board
JohnK F2B: got this back in February and it has been on most of the time since.
Verellen Meatsmoke: (does this count as a pedal) it is the pedal version and it is always on.
I've got a lot of others that I use all the time, but these three have become the foundation of my sound.
Tru Tron 3x
Chunk Octavius Squeezer
Emma Discumbobulator or maybe EHX Enigma Q Balls
....Will change my mind again tomorrow
Chunk Octavius Squeezer
Emma Discumbobulator or maybe EHX Enigma Q Balls
....Will change my mind again tomorrow
Black Finger, no doubt, although it's subtle what it do, it does add the last piece of the punch to my sound that just knocks the dot off the i, and it's my always on pedal
The next one would be my phaser Small Stone Nano, since I love the the oriental kind of wobbled sweeps it adds to the sound.
The third one is harder, cause I sort of need the Boss LS-2 to blend in the phaser in order for it not to take the sound completely over and sweep away my low end, but I sort of like my dists too, MT-2 for making noise and the fuzz in the my Tube Zipper, although that would be blended with some clean too.
I guess it would be my LS-2 I would chose after all, to keep my phaser sound.
I could easely do with out my volume pedal Boss FV-50H.
The next one would be my phaser Small Stone Nano, since I love the the oriental kind of wobbled sweeps it adds to the sound.
The third one is harder, cause I sort of need the Boss LS-2 to blend in the phaser in order for it not to take the sound completely over and sweep away my low end, but I sort of like my dists too, MT-2 for making noise and the fuzz in the my Tube Zipper, although that would be blended with some clean too.
I guess it would be my LS-2 I would chose after all, to keep my phaser sound.
I could easely do with out my volume pedal Boss FV-50H.
My needs/goal is really simple emulate and or enhance a natural tube sound. Broken down to three elements using three pedals.
Tube compression, EBS Multicomp
Tube bloom, B.K. Butler Blue Tube
Tube overdrive, Roger Mayer Voodoo Bass
Tube compression, EBS Multicomp
Tube bloom, B.K. Butler Blue Tube
Tube overdrive, Roger Mayer Voodoo Bass
A year and many new pedals later, and these are still my top three. The first two are always on.Fairfield Barbershop Overdrive
MXR M-87 Compressor
Boss TU-3 Tuner
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Now that I have had an opportunity to spend some time with the Eventide H9 (currently finishing up a review), I absolutely have to add this to my top 3. In fact, if I could have only one pedal to use for all future gigs, I would pick the H9, hands down. This thing is amazing, and it can do almost anything that all of my other pedals (collectively) bring to the table.
I am currently loving my Accountant - I never knew the joys of overdriving-compression before! Just a little gritty, very nice.
My other two right now would be:
- my BBE Soul-Vibe - just a little 'chewier' than a phaser and warmer than a chorus
- and my MXR BEF
I also have fuzz, but I am always undecided about fuzzes.
My other two right now would be:
- my BBE Soul-Vibe - just a little 'chewier' than a phaser and warmer than a chorus
- and my MXR BEF
I also have fuzz, but I am always undecided about fuzzes.
1) Original Sovtek Big Muff (Tall Font)
2) Ross Chorus (modded by me - with blend and single mode)
3) Boss LM-2B Limiter
2) Ross Chorus (modded by me - with blend and single mode)
3) Boss LM-2B Limiter
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I have a number of overdrives and one compressor, no other FX.
Ashdown LoMenzo Hyperdrive for my always-on light-to-medium OD, because it affects a (sweepable) band of midrange
Darkglass B7K for crunchy modern rock OD. (Honorable mention to the Darkglass Vintage Deluxe)
Empress Compressor - I don't use compression as an effect or for tone shaping. I want it to be transparent, and the Empress gives me that
Ashdown LoMenzo Hyperdrive for my always-on light-to-medium OD, because it affects a (sweepable) band of midrange
Darkglass B7K for crunchy modern rock OD. (Honorable mention to the Darkglass Vintage Deluxe)
Empress Compressor - I don't use compression as an effect or for tone shaping. I want it to be transparent, and the Empress gives me that
