dannybuoy

My favorite is the Team Awesome Fuzz Machine - older ones aren't great with active basses (sounds thinner and lows disappear) but apparently the newer ones are slightly redesigned to solve this.

If you want cheap, I recommend the Behringer MA-400 for only £18.99: [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Behringer-MA400-Monitor-Headphone-Amplifier/GX7"]http://www.gear4musi...e-Amplifier/GX7[/url] Only drawback is it's designed to accept mic XLR inputs rather than plugging your bass straight in - if you have a DI or Sansamp, or an XLR out on your amp you could go via that. If you have none of those you could team it with a Behringer BDI21 Sansamp clone for around £30 or so, or a plain simple DI box. I had and sold the PX4B as it was very noisy. The Vox Amplug is another option, not the greatest in sound quality but has the advantage of running off a single AA battery and plugging straight into your bass, so you can rehearse anywhere in the house or garden without having to worry about cables.

I think it's supposed to look like a 'blood axe' but in fact looks more like a half eaten strawberry.

I read a similar thread on Talkbass recently where the OP was after something heavier than the Darkglass, and the Digitech Hardwire Metal Distortion was mentioned - might be worth checking out. I have a Monte Allums mod kit ready to go into a Boss ODB-3 also - if that makes it fall into the same ballpark I'll let you know! This soundclip is promising: [url="https://app.box.com/s/gr8kucdgncp4k2vvaay3"]https://app.box.com/s/gr8kucdgncp4k2vvaay3[/url]

Sounds like the same issue as the EHX Bass Big Muff, which made me solder on a separate master volume control to fix it!

$1300 so should be under a grand over here?

I use cables with these jacks, very handy for messing about with different basses and pedals at home, being able to plug/unplug with the amp left on without any nasty buzzing noises.

Any reverb that can filter out the lows to prevent it getting too muddy. E.g. the Nimbus or Strymon Bluesky. The Neunaber looks ace, especially with it's downloadable content to totally reprogram the pedal - the shimmer mode sounds great, maybe they can do a high pass filter mod too in form of an update?

I wouldn't mind trying the fretless version if anyone wants to swap for a fretted, even if temporary. Will have to stick an ad up...

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1375343227' post='2159917'] Waste of time IMO. They don't sound like a ukulele, they aren't tuned like a ukulele and nine times out of ten, they arent played like a ukulele.[/quote] It sounds like a bass, is tuned like a bass and nine times out of ten, is played like a bass. You just listed all of it's plus points!

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1375315060' post='2159799'] Surely with the 21 inch scale length, finding the right notes on a fretless would be a lot harder? I am actually going to build one soon, so I shall report back after [/quote] Violin players can manage it! But at least you can correct the pitch yourself which you can't do on the fretted one when it goes out of tune up the neck.

I would wear suits with velcro seams, then on the last song rip it all off to reveal glamtastic tight leather trousers and bare chests.

Sonuus Wahoo? It doesn't take up much more room than a separate filter and expression pedal and is the most versatile filter there is. Since it has dual filters, you can set it to do the vowel sounds on City Of Delusion controlled by either envelope, pedal, or LFO, or a combination, and even mix in some clean blend and add a bit of drive. They were on sale recently too direct from Sonuus, and there might be one for sale used on here too if it hasn't sold already.

I have one. Great fun to play, I got mine when I was travelling a lot for work so I could play a bit of bass in my hotel room. I also brought it out for one song on a gig once, people were amazed at the deep bass coming from such a tiny thing! Only downsides with it are - it doesn't stay in tune very well, the intonation drifts out past the seventh fret, and the floppy strings don't change pitch much if you play bends. The last two issues could be fixed by going for the fretless version though. Also, I forget the name but there is a similar competing instrument out now, and Bass Direct sell some white strings for our that are supposed to be better than the stock black ones.

I didn't realise the 414 had a slimmer neck - I love the neck on my 415, hope the 1025 I'm looking to get one day is the same dimensions!

Should be able to pick up a used Catalinbread SFT for £100 or under!

I have done once and didn't have a problem, although I was sensible with the volume knob. I have the second cab now that I'm playing with my old band temporarily again until they find a new bassist - hoping to get a chance to use the full rig soon!

I prefer wah into fuzz myself, it's a totally different sound to wah after fuzz, so use whatever sounds best to you. Also, just becuase the wah is the rightmost pedal doesn't mean it has to be first in the signal chain - if you have long enough patch leads you can wire them up however you like! I have George L cables so I can customise the length - my signal chain goes all over the place so that I have my most used pedals in the front row.

Sounds like the issue you're having is when you send a bass heavy signal into the pedal it overloads it, making it sound bad? I had the same issue with the Supercollider and Pickle Pie B in conjunction with my high output BB415. Those pedals would sound great with my Precision but didn't respond well to hot signals, which is one of the major reasons I've stuck with the EHX BBM. I did try the Tall Font Russian as a smaller alternative, it takes hot signals almost as well as the BBM but I hated the blend on it (it's available with a built in blend like the Pickle Pie), it sounded like it was out of phase. The Tarkin has got my attention!

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1374337063' post='2147785']i would always put the octaver first to get as cleaner octave as possible. [/quote] If you put the octave first, your octave is going into the distortion, making it dirty! If you put it after it will stay clean!

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1374323509' post='2147556'] This is madness. Everyone knows it goes octaver, dirt, filter ! simples !! [/quote] My order is the exact reverse! Except I no longer possess the octaver.

Everywhere! Most put octave before fuzz, but I prefer it after so you have a clean sub octave under the fuzz. Many like their filters after dirt, this makes it sound more pronounced and synthy. I prefer filter before dirt as it sounds less like a techno synthesizer and more like a growling guitar wah. Experiment and see what you prefer!

The Moog definitely works well with the Xerograph - it didn't work with the Zoom B2 though!