dannybuoy

Nice, never heard it isolated! Want another roto sim even more now though!

Are you having a laugh. No!

I would probably say the other way around, which goes to show you probably shouldn't listen to anyone! Mojo for the darker more midrange focussed bass (e.g. a Precision), and B3K for the brighter/scooped bass (e.g. a Jazz). I am using the Mojomojo with a Precision or Sandberg Basic (essentially a Stingray with the pup nudged up a couple of mm towards Precisionville), both strung with flats, going for something extremely touch sensitive, with bottomless lows, fat creamy low mids, and clarity without harshness up top. Sounds a lot like the drive I get from the Tonehammer but with more thump.

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I'll recommend the TC Mojomojo again - £40 new, about as different to a B3K as it's possible to get. Roars from down under like a big V-Twin when you dig in rather than blending in some grindy upper mids. It's found a home on my board, beating several boutique pedals costing way more than that.

Many years ago I even bought an expensive rotary speaker sim pedal just to cover this track, it was kind of a halfway house between a phaser and tremolo, and I could get pretty close with a Small Stone phaser too. Either would work I reckon! I was just giving the Mojomojo a run through with this riff earlier, sounded great. Might have to pick up another rotary sim!

That'll be perfick!

If you're trying to make it sound like the original, I would lean more towards an overdrive than fuzz... and some kind of modulation pedal - I think it was a leslie speaker on the recording? What's on the board already? This would get my vote - https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/TC-Electronic-MojoMojo-Overdrive/EY9 The Joyo Moonbase bass overdrive looks interesting too but not tried it nor seen any real world reviews. Little bit more expensive, but also tiny and perhaps worth a punt: https://www.joyoeffectpedals.co.uk/joyo-jf-332-moonbase-bass-guitar-effect-pedal-overdrive-jazz-blues?language=en&currency=GBP I'm also selling a Joyo Orange Juice for your magic number of £35 posted too if that's of any interest! If it is definitely more of a fuzz you are after, Chowny Fuzzster perhaps?

I won’t pretend to know much about or even be able to hear the differences between some of the fancy DIs mentioned here. But if you’re looking for an overdrive preamp pedal (which it sounds like if you are interested in the Darkglass Vintage) that sounds delicious with a P and flats, I would opt for a Tonehammer over the Vintage.

Just bought a pedal from Sid and it arrived next day looking brand new. Cheers!

If you've not tried the Darkglass stuff and have a recording interface setup at home, give the Darkglass plugins a whirl (I believe they have a free trial) to see how you get on! There is also a Pike Vulcan XL for sale in the classifieds which is very similar.

https://reddit.app.link/IPahA3gTqN

http://ozbassforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=18636

What kind of stuff will you be playing, and with which bass? If I were in your position, and of going after more vintage sounds I would probably be looking at a REDDI. The Tonehammer is also great, and a fraction of the price.

Actually I just tried this at high gain again and it sounds pretty good there too! Not a million miles away from my TAFM (Team Awesome Fuzz Machine). Closest I could recommend would be a Bass BB Preamp, or perhaps a Rodenberg 808B (I’ve yet to try one but it’s definitely in that ballpark). Or if you really liked the higher gain tones from it, maybe it’s a fuzz you’re after!

Picked up a Mojomojo from the classifieds this week (well I had to buy at least one new toy to replace all the ones I’ve sold!) and very impressed with it. I’m surprised TC don’t market it as suitable for bass use! The top end is a bit muffled and it sounds best at low gain, but the low end is amazingly good, better than most ‘bass’ pedals. Just read from the TC blurb that the internal voltage is ramped up which undoubtedly helps with headroom, letting the full heft of your note attack through. If you want a mellow, warm sounding drive that sounds great for classic rock, blues, R&B, etc, I reckon this is one of the best options going regardless of price, and the best thing is it only costs £40 new!

The bass version compromises by combining attack and release into one knob, but adds an ace up its sleeve in the form of the HPF. This lets you filter out the low end from the part of the circuit that detects the peaks, and with it dialled in you can negate the issue that many single band compressors have where if you hit a low note hard, it makes the compressor clamp down so hard that it audibly impacts your overall volume until it recovers and swells back up again (depending on how fast your attack/release is set).

That is a Metro 24! The Agro does a great low gain OD, it sounds a bit like a Marshall guitar amp in some ways. Like the dUg, I find it great as an always-on pedal, but not so much as something to stomp on mid-song. I don't think it has much actual low end loss, but it certainly doesn't boost/fatten the lows as much as some other pedals, and if stepping on something to make the track heavier for a specific section I do prefer something with an actual low end boost to it.

It's still a great pedal, there just wasn't room for it on there! It would go on the board above if I didn't have all the octave up toys on there. The Joyo on that board is purely there as a guitar amp sim for the octave up signal, although it does sound good on regular bass too!

I was just answering the question on which filters I decided to hang onto, not the general thread question! And @Breadbin, do tell everyone how amazing the big box Q-Tron is so that they can buy mine. Unless you need a spare?

+ MXR BEF & Discumbobulator!

I can cheat and list two, since I have two boards! Tech21 DP-3X - studio hard rock sound in a box Mr Black FwonkBeta - funk in a box

I do wonder if some Spectracomps hiss more than others - I saw in a current thread on the pedal on Talkbass someone said they returned a hissy one then got a quiet one. Or perhaps they had different Toneprints on them! I'm very picky about noise though as I play through a PJB Bighead headphone amp that it otherwise silent so it's really obvious when a pedal is noisy, and my Spectracomp doesn't hiss. Which I was suprised about really, as I was expecting it to after reading conflicting reports!