Pedals

[edwin]

Hey Edwin, that is s serious rack set-up you have there. What type of gigs were you using that rack for?

Everything, but mostly funk and fusion stuff.

[hammer]

For me, pedals are the kind that go round and round as I ride my bikes.   

[slawie]

Series I fretless through blue box power supply.
I use bridge pickup through a POG octaver then one side of stereo into a Delay/Looper
the neck pickup goes straight through to the other half of the Delay/Looper
Heaps of fun

Slawie

[rv_bass]

This was just announced by Barefaced Audio...

https://barefacedaudio.com/products/machinist

[StephenR]

Was just checking in here to let everyone know about the new Barefaced pedal but Rob beat me to it. I am not a pedal guy but based on the quality, and amount of R&D that went into their cabinets I have a feeling this is a great pedal.

[lbpesq]

Look similar to the Mutron Boostron III

https://www.mu-tron.com/mu-fx-boostron-3/

Bill, tgo

[Matches]

I use a sf-2 and the only pedal that really works believe it or not is the Zoom B3 multi effects pedal with the dual comp effect.
Thee are a few songs that our band does where I use an envelope filter but it does not work through the Superfilter.

[jazzyvee]

Up to this point in my bass playing career I have never used pedals. I did try an octave pedal in a shop once and whilst the effect was cool, I didn't like how much of my bass sound was compromised when the pedal was turned off. If I was to use one I'd always want it to be like the SF-2 where I can keep the clean bass signal and add the effect to that.

[hieronymous]

This was just announced by Barefaced Audio...

https://barefacedaudio.com/products/machinist

Wow - that looks really cool. I still haven't found the ideal overdrive pedal - my old workhorse, the Fulltone Bass Drive, loses too much bottom end. The H.B.E. Hematoma is just too dark, there's like zero treble. The Foxpedal Killface looked so cool but sounded terrible to my ears. My current one, the SolidGoldFX Beta Germanium, sounds good but has TOO MUCH of a bass boost! I'm looking at a different pedal that has a dedicated bass knob, but this Barefaced pedal addresses the issue differently, with the clean signal with low-pass filter. I've imagined a pedal like this - ElectroHarmonix has one that comes close - but this looks like it does what I would expect. I'm not as interested in the fuzz - I love fuzz with resonant filter, but haven't been doing that so much lately.

Was just checking in here to let everyone know about the new Barefaced pedal but Rob beat me to it. I am not a pedal guy but based on the quality, and amount of R&D that went into their cabinets I have a feeling this is a great pedal.

Don't encourage me!

Up to this point in my bass playing career I have never used pedals. I did try an octave pedal in a shop once and whilst the effect was cool, I didn't like how much of my bass sound was compromised when the pedal was turned off. If I was to use one I'd always want it to be like the SF-2 where I can keep the clean bass signal and add the effect to that.

I wonder what octave you tried? Pedal makers have gotten better at allowing the true, original sound through when the pedal is off - some of the old ones can be pretty bad! You can always use a switchable effects loop to take the pedal out of the signal when you don't want it, but I've never gone that far. I'm not going to encourage you either, pedals can be a rabbit hole, though certainly cheaper than amps or basses! Actually, did you use pedals much as a guitarist?

[hankster]

I used to use a bunch, mostly flangers/phasers and compression, but over the years mostly abandoned those and noss was just use a QTron, or nothing. The QTron is great.

[wyrtti]

Depending on the band, but at least with Fuzzifer I use a ton of effects such as multiple fuzzes, ring modulator, delay, octaver, flanger and synthy stuff. The Alembic gives a very nice signal to all and is fun to mangle even though I love its clean sound too.


For softer stuff a slight touch of overdrive or chorus now and then.

[rv_bass]

Hieronymous,  Earth Dive by Sarno Music Solutions is pretty nice. 

Hankster, I had a QTron, but couldn't figure out how to get it to make any sound, so I gave it away yesterday.

For classic fuzz I like my old Ross distortion pedal that I bought new in the 70s and it still works great

For Wha I like the Boss envelope filter from the 80s. (I have a Mini Mutron but don’t like it as much, has a high pitched quack that I can’t get rid of, and I prefer the warmer wha of the Boss)

I use an Older Boss octave pedal, I think it’s the same model that Tony Levin used on Peter Gabriel’s Big Time for reference.

I use these pedals mostly for guitar, but once in a while for bass.

[jazzyvee]

Up to this point in my bass playing career I have never used pedals. I did try an octave pedal in a shop once and whilst the effect was cool, I didn't like how much of my bass sound was compromised when the pedal was turned off. If I was to use one I'd always want it to be like the SF-2 where I can keep the clean bass signal and add the effect to that.

I wonder what octave you tried? Pedal makers have gotten better at allowing the true, original sound through when the pedal is off - some of the old ones can be pretty bad! You can always use a switchable effects loop to take the pedal out of the signal when you don't want it, but I've never gone that far. I'm not going to encourage you either, pedals can be a rabbit hole, though certainly cheaper than amps or basses! Actually, did you use pedals much as a guitarist?


As a guitarist I also didn't want to use many and for many years it was just a wah pedal and the distortion from my fender twin. However when I was touring the states in 92 I didn't take any effects and the band leader wanted me to use some so he sold me a zoom effects unit that fitted onto the strap of my guitar and the controller was double side taped to the guitar and I used that for the first one. However I stopped for most of the second tour because whilst the sound was good through headphones it was too thin and noisy on a big stage when turned up loud. So I bought the ProCo Rat from a music shop in San Diego and requested a Fender Twin valve amp for my stage rig and that worked great.


Moving on many years later when I was touring with an indian/reggae fusion artiste he again wanted lots of effects so I bought a multi effects line6 XP Pro Live which I eventually hated for it's tone sucking abilities but the band loved the sounds so I loved with it but bought a LS-2 to bypass it when I didn't need any effects from it.
I also took my Roland midi controller and pickup for UK dates for the Indian sound effects like sitar tabla and voice. I haven't used that Line 6 unit thing since about  2007.
These days my guitar gigging days are few but I still have an analogue effects board and I use a boss LS-2 to keep a clean output until I need effects. But saying that, most of my time I use just a clean sound, wah and,  Radial Trimode pedal if I'm using an alembic guitar or ProCo Rat for passive guitars.

[mario_farufyno]

LS-2, the bassist best friend!

I bought mine for this tone preserving purpose since my former Wha was a real tone sucker but since I've changed the Dunlop Bass Wha for a Snarling Dog Bootsy Wha, I use it kind as a mixer to get effects (fuzz and octave down) in parallel to my clean tone. A great way to add effects keeping your raw tone intact.

[jazzyvee]

Here's a question. If you decided to use mono effects effects on one pickup on a series bass, or guitar for that matter, and keep the other pickup clean. Is there any difference tonally if you have the outputs of each pickup going to two different cabs compared to combining the signals for example using stereo preamp like an F-2B, then going mono into a cab, or putting the bass into mono and having the effect work on a both pickups as mono signal?.