dannybuoy

My AD200 nails it too with the gain cranked up and bashing my T40 set 'Ric-mode' with a heavy pick!

You don't need a pedal with a blend for that tone, just an amp-like overdrive with plenty of low end. Sansamp BDDI or VT, even the other character pedals will get you there. I think the Hives' bassist plays through a Hiwatt tube amp so perhaps try the Tech21 Leeds. Or get a tube amp!

I've not tried a real Colorsound, but the SFX Micro Fuzz is a clone of the Colorsound Bass Fuzz and has an ungodly amount of bowel-wrenching low end. There was one for sale in the classifieds, might still be there!

Yup, get a separate overdrive pedal instead. Blended fuzz can sound a bit artificial unless you're feeding an already overdriven sound into it.

Another shameless plug, but I have an X&M crossover blender for sale! Standard blenders are great for adding a [i]bit[/i] of low end back in, but if you dial in too much clean it sounds funny with two clearly separate signals going on. I prefer to use this type of blender with fuzz pedals that already have decent lows, but just to add a bit of clarity and dynamics to the heavily compressed signal. Even better if you send a lightly overdriven signal into the blended fuzz, it sounds much more meshed together that way. If it's a lack of low end you're trying to make up for, I'd go for the Xotic X-Blender over the LS-2 or Barge since it has an active EQ built into it. This X&M does it a bit differently though as you can keep the lows totally clean and send everything above that to the distortion pedal and adjust the levels of both channels, mimicking a recording setup where you blend a low-passed DI signal with a mic'ed cab.

Yes, you need one. Our maybe two so you can have one strung with flats and the other with rounds! Squier is probably your best bet, and the Classic Vibe or Vintage Modified series are supposedly the best.

Also you can try fitting 500k pots or changing your tone cap if you want more brightness.

That or the Korg Pitchblack, depends whether you want your tuner to resemble a stealth bomber or an iPod.

Perhaps I should have put the feedback link in my signature as a bigger font? Cheers anyhow!

I've only encountered one person who came to try a bass then decide not to buy it, but I didn't hold it against him. I did feel a bit guilty for wasting someone's time not buying their cab after they drove to my house with it for me to try out though! I guess you were just unlucky to encounter plenty of TIMwasters.

Just bought a Sansamp from this fella, paid up and it was posted first thing next morning by Special Delivery, luvverly jubberly.

I can't beleive you've got these in stock already - I'm sure I read a Line 6 rep on a Talkbass thread only a few days ago confirming the rumour of it's existence but unable to give out any details. Plus it's not even listed on their website yet!

Just got my Proton in from Bass Direct as Spencer and Tone Factor are out of stock. Have a Xerograph Deluxe incoming also! Currently using a Freaker wah into a fuzz which sounds absolutely filthy, the Proton can't really pull off the same trick but it's still a great filter.

Multi-FX are good for some effects but not so great for overdrive/distortion/fuzz in my experience, which are the bread and butter of my effects. You'll see that plenty of gigging bassists in your genre will use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI to add a bit of grit to their sound and to send an amp-like sound to the PA. Kind of an industry standard gigging and recording tool, definitely worth thinking about trying one out, as well as their VT Bass pedal. Any idea what kind of effects you would find a use for? I use a low gain overdrive to boost when the guitars get louder and a Bass Big Muff to add to that when things get really heavy. Then a chorus or phaser is useful for slow passages, and you can also work in filters and octavers if used subtly in the right place.