looking for a bass overdrive...

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:11 pm

So, looking for a pedal to dirty up my sound a bit, of all my spare pedals the one's that do the best job are the Eno rat copy and the danelectro cool cat distortion (this is my favourite of the two as it has high and low tone controls... Not looking for all out mayhem just a bit o grit, opinions?

I rather like the distorted bass in this:
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Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:54 pm

I'm partial to the EHX Bass Soul Food right now, and plan to get one myself. The blend feature, to blend in your clean signal is kinda essential for good bass distortion, but I've been using pedals without for years; primarily guitar pedals. My current pedal is a Fulltone DP-1 and it does fairly well, but doesn't get quite low enough gain for what I want; I'd be hard pressed to get what's in that Mogwai song. I think the Soul Food would do it fine though.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:42 am

I effing love the bass sound in that tune. Dominic Aitchison's playing is one of the reasons why I took up bass in the first place. A blend control is super-useful but if you want to go down the guitar pedal route, an OD-3 is a good bet. Most low-to-medium gain distortions and ODs copy the TS idea of boosting the mids, but that one gives a nicely compressed sound while keeping the bottom end.

RATs are more midrangey, but I got a cool stoner rock type sound ages ago by running my a RAT in an LS-2's loop to get a wet/dry blend, then putting it straight into my mixer via a Sansamp. It sounded huge.

71Smallbox · Post by **71Smallbox** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:45 pm

I know it might be hard to believe, but a Boss HM-2 works so good for bass. It has plenty of low end on tap and sounds amazing with bass. Behringer makes a copy that's cheap as chips.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:43 pm

Love the Box Of Rock for bass, far closer to 'overdriven amp' than anything I've ever used.

Mike tweaked my Box Of Mike to have the boost stage before the OD stage (massive footswitchable gain boost) and tweaked the EQ a bit, but the stock clone he leant me was just as useful.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:24 pm

I really enjoy catalinbread's sft. great bass pedal. It saves my life at gigs playing not my amp...

[edit] sounds really like an old ampeg svt amp [/edit]

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:16 pm

71Smallbox wrote:I know it might be hard to believe, but a Boss HM-2 works so good for bass. It has plenty of low end on tap and sounds amazing with bass. Behringer makes a copy that's cheap as chips.

I have an HM-2 but it's been the mainstay of my guitar rig for years, might give it a try and get another if I like it... Can't hurt to have more HM-2...

Also liking the sound of the bass soulfood...

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:43 am

Dug out more of my pedals and found another contender... Sovtek (black) Big muff, does a nice job. The HM-2 and the big muff are very similar in sound on the bass so no extra HM-2's, only problem with the sovtek is powering it as it's centre positive so my power block is no use.

[edit] done a bit of internet snooping and found the pedal that Dominic Aitchison uses is the ODB-3, ordered a Harley Benton copy + a delay for half the going rate for the Boss, I have a GLX (Harley Benton) BF-2 copy which is identical in sound to the Boss, so fingers crossed this is the same quality...

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:31 am

Love the boss ODB-3. It does loads of great bass sounds and is really versatile, plus it sounds mega on guitar for the heavies. Lovely detailed overdrive sound.

And Behringer do a copy. So buy that.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:16 pm

Anyone tried the new EHX Deluxe bass muff yet?

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:29 pm

Bacchus wrote:Love the boss ODB-3. It does loads of great bass sounds and is really versatile, plus it sounds mega on guitar for the heavies. Lovely detailed overdrive sound.

And Behringer do a copy. So buy that.

Bought the Harley Benton (I like metal pedal's behringers plastic ones make me nervous) + a delay for Â£37 delivered. Good the get a SS positive review as the reviews on line are a bit mixed, but I came to the conclusion that the bad ones were just the anti boss Boutique pedal snobs.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:08 pm

If you don't like it I'll feel awful. Why did you listen to me? Don't do this again.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:10 pm

Bacchus wrote:If you don't like it I'll feel awful. Why did you listen to me? Don't do this again.

Under pressure... (bassline related humour)

Post by **Doog** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:36 pm

dezb1 wrote:
Bacchus wrote:If you don't like it I'll feel awful. Why did you listen to me? Don't do this again.
Under pressure... (bassline related humour)

lols all round

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:24 pm

This is a fuzz, but it's really very nice. I've bought a bunch of Fuzz Shack pedals before and I love them all. I'm probably going to be buying this one, too. Equally good on bass or guitar.

http://www.thefuzzshack.com/#/shop/4561 ... zz/8766042

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:00 pm

Your old pal Aen makes bass friendly distortions overdrives and fuzzes of all flavors.

but the best is probably Hair of the Dog.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:29 pm

Get an OCD or a copy of one. Sounds two thumbs up.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:19 pm

Got the BOD-1, had my first shot of it this morning and it sounds like THUNDER just the ticket a bit noisy if you max the hi tone pot but why would you do that on a bass... Am very happy (not sure how much happiness the neighbours got from it).

Same can't be said for the delay t'is gubbed, it doesn't switch off pressing the foot switch only dims the light a bit and makes the pedal emit a sort of sucking noise... Thomann have been great apparently a replacement has already been posted, strangely they don't want the broken one back.