I'm going to be prototyping and venturing into the Bass Drive pedal market soon, as I'll be building myself a pedal for the new band. I've got a few schematics and also a few ideas kicking around.
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:34 pm
by vivadeluxxe
Mike wrote:I'm going to be prototyping and venturing into the Bass Drive pedal market soon, as I'll be building myself a pedal for the new band. I've got a few schematics and also a few ideas kicking around.
Good stuff... I'd be well interested to see what you come up with...
I've always struggled to find an overdriven bass sound that I like...
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:58 pm
by Mike
The secret (I believe) is clean blend. I will be building a clean-blend board to merge whatever dirt I come up with with the original signal.
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:01 pm
by NBarnes21
The Fulltone Bass Drive sounds great, not sure if you could find a schematic though.
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:02 pm
by Mike
It's just a FullDrive 2 with some cap swaps. Really lazy engineering, and suonds farty as hell on the samples I've heard. Not impressed.
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 10:28 pm
by James
This reminds me, I've been considering doing a bass dirt demo. I have a nice bass amp and a few dirt pedals. I take it a quick comparison would be worthwhile? I have....
Fuzz Factory clone
Wooly Mammoth clone
Red Llama clone
Dano French Toast (my favourite, though in non-octave mode)
MXR Blue Box
Fulltone OCD
Nobles Distortion
Catalinbread Teaser Stallion
.. and a Salt Boost to push them all with.
My track record for wanting to and not actually doing demos is a little embarrassing, so no promises, but I'd like to do this one sometime.
What are a couple of worth using for a demo riffs?
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:32 am
by Mike
Breed?
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 10:23 am
by vivadeluxxe
James wrote:This reminds me, I've been considering doing a bass dirt demo. I have a nice bass amp and a few dirt pedals. I take it a quick comparison would be worthwhile? I have....
Fuzz Factory clone
Wooly Mammoth clone
Red Llama clone
Dano French Toast (my favourite, though in non-octave mode)
MXR Blue Box
Fulltone OCD
Nobles Distortion
Catalinbread Teaser Stallion
.. and a Salt Boost to push them all with.
My track record for wanting to and not actually doing demos is a little embarrassing, so no promises, but I'd like to do this one sometime.
What are a couple of worth using for a demo riffs?
I'd love to hear those pedals demo'd with a bass..
Not sure what riffs to suggest.. anything by Cliff Burton or the opening riff to NIB by Sabbath maybe... hmmm metal...
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:05 pm
by ekwatts
I've been using my Wasabi Distortion for basstortion. It works surprisingly well.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:12 pm
by aen
Mike wrote:The secret (I believe) is clean blend. I will be building a clean-blend board to merge whatever dirt I come up with with the original signal.
In my (admittedly) brief tenure as First Bassist, I never used the clean blend on Hair Of The Dog.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 4:17 pm
by Sloan
chisa wrote:big muff
seconded. i had a russian big muff that i only liked when a bass was kickin it.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:56 pm
by Empires
My pedal is still on its way...
It's in the tinkering stage.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:39 pm
by aen
Sloan wrote:
chisa wrote:big muff
seconded. i had a russian big muff that i only liked when a bass was kickin it.
me 2. hence:
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:47 pm
by Mike
aen wrote:
Mike wrote:The secret (I believe) is clean blend. I will be building a clean-blend board to merge whatever dirt I come up with with the original signal.
In my (admittedly) brief tenure as First Bassist, I never used the clean blend on Hair Of The Dog.
It depends what you're after. I want gentle grindy Ampeg SVT style dirt.
Add 1 x mediocre 90's Scottish Football Personality.
It doesn't sound good without Alan Mahood!
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:10 pm
by Zack
Empires wrote:It doesn't sound good without Alan Mahood!
ahaha, classy.
The font for the controls and inputs looks really nice, the excess vero is making me a bit uneasy but it looks way promising. Alica Keyz Demoz?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:12 pm
by Mike
FLOATY VERO ACTION.
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:29 pm
by Empires
Mike wrote:FLOATY VERO ACTION.
Indeed... that's what makes it sound good. Honest, guv.
It's sturdy, most of the wire is that really stiff solid core stuff... not going anywhere soon.
I'll need to get some of those adhesive standoffs that I've seen in the MBM pedals for future efforts. Musikding?
It's hugely disorganised inside in a lot of ways. Outside, I'll definitely be using 'brush on' clearcoat next time.
Football stickers are here to stay.
Demo at some point in the future, possibly.
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:31 pm
by Mike
Empires wrote:
Mike wrote:FLOATY VERO ACTION.
Indeed... that's what makes it sound good. Honest, guv.
It's sturdy, most of the wire is that really stiff solid core stuff... not going anywhere soon.
I'll need to get some of those adhesive standoffs that I've seen in the MBM pedals for future efforts. Musikding?
It's hugely disorganised inside in a lot of ways. Outside, I'll definitely be using 'brush on' clearcoat next time.
