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This is looking like the winner

Is this heresy?

Hmmm

Heh! Pick a fight in a phone box, me.

They might start hitting on the singer.

Both are lovely, but, but... those horrid anemic fingerboards! Whatever happened to make them turn yellow? 🤢🤮

Not sure the technical name but it's kind of sonic red

What can I say? I have a weakness for red basses. And black basses Quite like sunburst too. And blue. Salmon pink. Gold is a favourite too

I won't be spending a fortune as there's no guarantee the band will go for it. But a decent couple of pedals I could use anyway or move on here will be OK

Yep, I'm after not getting a guitarist. I dream of a band without a bloody guitarist

Wonderful OP. Well done. Some bands I'm in will happily take on any request whether we have a clue or not, we are also quite content to let people sing with us, play drums, or guitar if they fancy it. Others prefer the "we're not a farkin jukebox" approach to public relations. My go to response is "ask the singer, I just play what I'm told" Of course none of this matters if the punter is sufficiently refreshed.

What colour do you prefer with a red p bass? If not white...

That's an interesting idea too, thank you

Thanks folks. I have produced a very passable imitation of what I'm after with the humble Zoom B10n and American Sounds pedals so I suspect that a couple of decent upgrades on those will get me what I want.

Hello bass hive mind, hope the synapses are firing. I would like to produce a couple of notes simultaneously with my bass note. Specifically an octave up and a fifth above that. I've spent a few days with Google and YouTube and understand the mechanics involved What I could use now is real world bass experience. Some cheaper harmoniser pedals seem to produce OK results but with a little latency - could that be a good thing if simulating a rhythm guitar? Providing a small separation from the bass might encourage the illusion of separate instruments. Or would it just make it a nightmare to play and sound horrible? Is it best to go up an octave and then harmonise or use an all in one like the Bass Whammy? Or is there something better? I can't afford the Hog2 by the way. If I could I'd already have it! The Boss harmoniser appears a little fussy for live use, unless it has a more simple functionality I've overlooked. What about vocal harmonisers? Any good for instruments? TC Quintessence looks like a good price, but how good do the notes sound clean? Mild distortion would work but this isn't for punk or metal. If I can pull this off we won't be hiring a rhythm guitarist who we'd then need to pay. More importantly we have a wonderful balance of personalities in the band which is, in my experience, of absolutely paramount importance. Add a stranger to the mix and we risk derailing the entire project. I won't be using this extra musical padding throughout the set, just on certain more stomping tunes and as support during some solos. The band are sceptical, having no experience of this approach. Personally I don't think we need anything additional to the bass, keys drums we have. But they lack my confidence. Hopefully they will be pleasantly surprised.

Following this with interest and excitement.

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Absolutely it does, thank you.

Sorry I realise I was unnecessarily vague! Anything over 3".

Don't want to hijack but anyone recommend a non leather super wide?

This is another reason for going parallel. My octave pedal produces exactly the sound I want but benefits from a small eq tweak and volume boost so I run it in series with a bass graphic eq. Placed in a loop they both get turned on with one switch

Yep and there's the rub. How do you compare two such different systems? The series set up will alter dependant on pedal order, the parallel on mix levels

OK, obviously it's bass so you don't need to be reminded quality headphones or big speakers required! As ever the subtlety is in the deep end. This is literally straightforward side by side. Three pedals OD, American sound and auto wah first parallel then no changes at all just same but in series. I still feel we're in apples and oranges territory because I would change the settings if I was running this set up in series to blend more clean sound. Also the wah was a little quiet in the parallel set up I realise after recording it. However the differences are clear. The distortion is obviously affecting the wah or vice versa. Thing to remember you may say hey but I like these pedals together in seies, well that's cool have two three or four in series but have them in their own parallel loop! My conclusion? Neither is definitively better, subjective innit?! But the parallel is more 'grown up'