Anyone use effects for bass?

[paulembic]

Boss bass overdrive... I have one and love it.
 
But the real discussion  might need to go deeper...
do you want valve overdrive?
valve gain?
distortion/overdrive?
fuzz?
scooped?
dark/.dirty or buzzy like a mixer line overdrive?
with tonal/filter sweeps?
 
Depending on hwo much noise you like you can end up with several effects.
 
My equally-massive guitar pedal board has a Line 6 distortion modeler (gold, three switch one)and many of its sounds are great on bass, too. To my ears.
 
good luck

[lowlife]

The built-in compressor that is on my Eden WT-800 is bypassed, so the only effect I use is an Eleectro-Harminix Baseballs, for that Bootsy' type sound.  Everything else is me & my fingers.
 
Ellery (Lowlife)

[hodge]

many thanks to paulembic for his input,i shall be ordering the pedal as soon as.

[kimberly]

Kimberly joining in.  
 
As a bass soloist I use the following.
 
Boss RC-50 looper.  
 
Roland GR-20 synth.  (I make pretty good use of the different voices that give me the means of offering a 'variety' of sounds to keep stuff from sounding too much alike and thusly boring.)
 
Lastly, an old school Roland GS-6 for a touch of reverb/delay/chorus.  Very handy when playing a tune 'stand alone' to give the tone more texture/color.  As well, I use the overdrive/distortion on selected tunes when playing a 'unique', or distinctive sounding guitar part, say for example, American Woman.  
 
To date my most 'complex' tune is five separate parts on the looper and four separate voices (I thought it was five but I just counted them and it's four) with the synth.
 
On a War tune I use;
 
The 'standard' bass line (no synth)
A guitar 'type' rhythm (no synth)
Cow bell (synth)
Tamborine (synth)
Conga 'sqeaks' (synth)
All looping away until lastly, a 'full blown' synth voicing for melody and lead.  Fun stuff.  
 
By the way, I do everything instrumentally, (never did like to sing) so it is important to be able to 'use the technology' and be able to provide the variety to keep the crowd 'wowed' and happy.  Crazy huh?  
 
Kimberly  

[wibbersengland]

I use a TC Electronic G-system with Boss line pedal to mix the TC with the 'clean' amp sound, and powr a Boss TU2 TUNER AS i LIKE THIS MORE THAN THE tc TUNER and an Ashdown subharmonic pedal all neatly housed in a smallish flight pedal board.  the tc quality is 'there' (ie. awesome)!

[the_mule]

 
 
(Message edited by the_mule on May 20, 2007)

[the_mule]

My standard rig:
 
Bass -> Alembic SF-2 Superfilter (preamp, mono) -> Glockenklang The Passenger  EBS Dynaverb (effectloop)
 
Wilfred

[muller1007]

My current rig:
 
Series 1
DS-5R
SF-2
EBS Fafner amplifier  
Korg DTR-2000
Furman power conditioner
EBS DynaVerb
EBS UniChorus
EBS OctaBass
 
I'm considering putting in a multi-effects unit.
 
Duncan

[olieoliver]

I recently purchased a Line-6 Bass Pod XT Live and must admit I am having a world of fun with it. In fact after playing through it I got out my old rack and hooked it up.
 
My rack has a Yamaha SPX-90,(one of the first), Alesis 3630 Dual Compressor, and a BBE 362 Sonic Maximizer. All 3 of these processors are around 15 years old but still work and sound good.  
I just added a  F1X to this rack. Getting some cool sounds.
 
Olie

[olieoliver]

Correction for above, my BBE is a 462 not a 362.

[keurosix]

In my rack I have an ancient deltalabs Effectron II that I use for doubling, sometimes a delay or chorus for my fretless bass. IMO,the fretless really needs a touch of chorus to open it up. Besides that, I don't use it for my fretted basses.
Kris

[gare]

About a month ago I picked up a slightly used Bass Pod XT Pro..very handy unit. Since we play a vast variety of songs, it comes in handy to pre program sounds per song. The main modeled sound goes to the FOH and direct to my Mark Bass/Schroeder, also have a BBE unit patched in.
My only complaint with the unit is the octave divider, doesnt track well, so when needed I still use a Boss OC-3. Try the Hiway 200 with some sub octave mixed in..a nice full Cheap Trick'y kind of sound.
A good thing, using the Pod I've eliminated the pedalboard, although I'm also using an FBV Express pedal to change sounds.
Most of the effects are pretty usable,the only problem I have is that you can tweak forever and always find new usable sounds.
And I'll have to go along with Kris, fretless does sound nicer with a touch of chorus.
 
Gare

[dannobasso]

My band recently went from 5 pc to 4 (which I rather enjoy), back to my roots so to speak. I just picked up a Boss ME-50B unit. I want a simple stompbox type of all in one unit to add a few sounds during certain intros and during the guitar solos. I have to fiddle with it but I think it will be ok. It has comp/limit, master section, drive/synth, delay/mod and expression pedal. In the studio I sometimes use the POD XT for demos when an SVT vibe is called for.

[olieoliver]

This thread elaborates more on this topic.

[mario_farufyno]

My rig is running this way:
 
Alembic Rogue (4 string Bass)
 
ZVex Wooly Mamoth (Fuzz)
Boss LS-2 Line Selector (A/B box with individual volume pots)  
*(I used it to keep an Boss Octaver OC-3 and a Dunlop Bass Wha aparted from the main chain)
Eletro Harmonix Q-Tron (envelope filter)
 
Ampeg SVT-III Pro (head)
Epifani UL-210 (cabinet)