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What are the best pedals or multi-effects units for producing a bass guitar sound on guitar?

Suggestions?

ta

Micro Pog's pretty good at that.

BearBoy wrote:Micro Pog's pretty good at that.

Yeah it is. I tried a bunch and ended up using the morpheus drop tune. It works well. I think the owner of the company died and you can't upgrade anymore. I don't know anyone else that uses one except Gary Clark jr. I don't like his music but he uses one also. My friend laid some scratch bass tracks with a pog and it was unreal. At times it sounds like a organ bass. Very cool. I would get the epitome pedal though. That one has the micro pog and a flanger and something else...oh the holy grail. It's sorta a multi efx by ehx. Very nice. I'm getting one..

a really well tracking octave pedal. pog is good for that i hear

It depends on budget really. Octave pedals aren't cheap sadly. A micro pog probably has the best tracking for bass sounds, but on a budget I've heard a great things about the Behringer Harmonist.

Gabriel wrote:It depends on budget really. Octave pedals aren't cheap sadly. A micro pog probably has the best tracking for bass sounds, but on a budget I've heard a great things about the Behringer Harmonist.

Thanks for suggestions so far.

Yeah, sorry, I don't wanna pay the kinda money a POG is.

I was thinking of possibly of the said Behringer pedal, or the Mooer Pure Octave.

Or how about the 'bass octaver' (?) mode (or any other mode) on the LIne 6 M5 / M9 multi-fx units?

Gabriel wrote:It depends on budget really. Octave pedals aren't cheap sadly. A micro pog probably has the best tracking for bass sounds, but on a budget I've heard a great things about the Behringer Harmonist.

The big pog does so much more than that. I have some videos of friends using them live to get these huge organ sounds. It can be used for octave(s) up or down and tracks way better than a whammy pedal to me. Has anyone else used the morpheus drop tune? It moves the signal down in half step increments but it doesn't do all the up or added octaves or fifths or whatever you want the pog to do. I got one years ago and i never hear about them. I use mine occasionally. i got a bass so it sits now.

Ro S wrote:

Gabriel wrote:It depends on budget really. Octave pedals aren't cheap sadly. A micro pog probably has the best tracking for bass sounds, but on a budget I've heard a great things about the Behringer Harmonist.

Thanks for suggestions so far.

Yeah, sorry, I don't wanna pay the kinda money a POG is.

I was thinking of possibly of the said Behringer pedal, or the Mooer Pure Octave.

Or how about the 'bass octaver' (?) mode (or any other mode) on the LIne 6 M5 / M9 multi-fx units?

I'd very much recommend the Behringer for octave down. It tracks really well (almost as good as the MicroPOG, imo) and sounds pretty natural to me (as opposed to the MicroPOG). Sounds very good after a drive pedal too.

Here's a video comparing the Boss PS-5, the Behringer, and the Droptune.

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I really, REALLY recommend the Behringer. It has impressed me that much that I have to recommend it as a go-to budget pitch shifter. The Mooer Pure Octave sounds like warbly shit, and so does the Mooer Pitch Box (which doesn't even have a mix control), and it costs much more than the Behringer.

TL;DR Behringer pitch shifter UBER ALLES (other low price pitch shifters like Boss or Mooer, if you can afford a POG, HOG, or Eventide pitch shifter, do it)

I love the Micro POG for down octave stuff, simply because it tracks so well. The "metallic clang" you get from a digital device is to be expected, but at least I know that chords will ring out fairy clear if I have to play them.

If polyphony isn't necessary and you want a warmer, more "round" tone, an old Boss OC-2 can sound really nice when set well (neck pickup, OC-2 followed by an EQ to tidy things up). Being 100% analog, on single notes it's much fatter and juicier sounding than digital pedals and can sound synthy if you add a fuzz pedal after.

just throwing it out there but the tracking on the fender mustang amps pitch shifter is utterly fantastic fwiw

Thanks for responses.

I think the Behringer US600 is looking likely for me at present.

Can anyone tell please: What's the 'sub octave' mode like on the Line 6 M5/M9 ?

Ta

You're probably referring to the 'Sub Octave Fuzz' (based on the PAiA Roctave Divider); phat-sounding stuff but none of the octave effects the M9 puts out track quite as good as an Micro POG; the best are on a par with the Boss PS-5 or Behringer US600.

Here's a little comparison I did of the Micro POG and the Smart Harmony mode, using 2 iterations of the effect; one set an octave up, the other an octave down:

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@ Doog - or I may have meant 'bass octaver'

thansk for video link

Aha, the Bass Octaver model is based on the EBS Octaver (I've had one of these too); way phatter sounding than all the other options but it doesn't reliably track anything other than single notes and sometimes powerchords.

Doog wrote:Aha, the Bass Octaver model is based on the EBS Octaver (I've had one of these too); way phatter sounding than all the other options but it doesn't reliably track anything other than single notes and sometimes powerchords.

That's fine. I only want to play single notes when trying to emulate a bass guitar sound.

Maybe if you go back to threads that ended 3 years ago, maybe you'll find something?

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