Whats your favorite bass effect?

[gub]

I have a BOSS ME-50B which the guy i got my amp from chucked in with the deal but have still not used it with the band as am a bit confused by all the knobs !

[Gareth Hughes]

Envelope Filter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AttitudeCastle]

Nuthin' like kicking in some distortion! Though have am very fond of delay, which you don't see on here too much i don't think (Other than those who make trance/dance/atmospheric music on here which there are a few of!)

[73Jazz]

bass/cable/amp ftw
but if you have to use 1 effect or you die, then i would choose a compressor

[pantherairsoft]

Octave, No... Delay, No... Fuzz, No... Wait... Envelope, No... Chorus.

Damn it. I give up!!

[ahpook]

distortion !

[EskimoBassist]

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1244685' date='May 25 2011, 07:46 PM']Octave, No... Delay, No... Fuzz, No... Wait... Envelope, No... Chorus.

Damn it. I give up!![/quote]

Totally agree, it's an impossible decision! Leaning towards Overdrive, Fuzz or Octave though...

[Doddy]

Envelope Filter or Octave....or some dirty synth.

[paul_5]

Filth. I simply won't gig without it (even at church).

[lemmywinks]

I love a good Fuzz and Overdrive, preferably both on at once.

Having said that i use a Zoom MiltiFX for silent practice and i always either revert to a RATM type patch or a really squelchy Envelope Filter.
In fact i've come up with a few ace bass parts just through jaming with those on.

[thisnameistaken]

Still the OC-2.

Although I'm very fond of just a single square wave oscillator. Probably all those years wasted on Nintendos. Actually the OC-2 sound isn't far off, really...

[Dood]

My favourite Bass effect? A guitarist once told me that my bass rig sound 'loosened his bowels' shall we say. Not bad eh!


Ok, joking aside - I too am enjoying a bit more 'dirt' in my sound these days. I'm mixing clean sounds and dirty sounds together, but in a really controlled way - so it sounds tight and smooth. Hard to describe!!

[RhysP]

I'm partial to a nice bit of flange myself.

[ead]

Definitely when I manage to play my fretless in tune throughout a whole song

Other than that I'm torn between a chorus pedal and an octave pedal

[blind pilot]

I love my turbo rat, sounds ace!

But for me it would have to be the part in Lateralus when I kick in the rat and whammy (oct up) just towards the end, I love playing that part and it just sounds sooooo good and fits so well with whats happening!

[burno70]

Its gotta be dirt closely followed by my Oc2 - or maybe both together!

[lucky]

does a compressor really count as it's more above volume control that soudns altering, for me at least. but that's my priority number one

after that i'd go with some kind of thick, punchy, Lemmy-in-a-blender kind of dirty OD

[xgsjx]

Anything weird or synthy for me

[nomis]

MUFF

[JellyKnees]

Octaver for bowel shaking lows

[matski]

[quote name='RhysP' post='1244912' date='May 25 2011, 10:34 PM']I'm partial to a nice bit of flange myself.[/quote]

Wahey!

Phaser for me.

[D-L-B]

Long, slow, sweeping, subby, chocolatey phase sounds.

[Truckstop]

Reverb!

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[cheddatom]

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1246756' date='May 27 2011, 10:22 AM']Reverb!

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Really?!? What do you use that for? I always assuming you were playing really heavy stuff - it's funny what impression you can get from just a little picture!

[Truckstop]

Ha Ha, I get that a lot. I used to play in a death core band (death metal but played by chavs) and all I used was the Master Blaster as a boost for tapping and solo passages. But my new band's very Elbow/Mogwai/EITS kind of stuff so I use reverb effects A LOT! Crank up the decay time and used in conjunction with a volume pedal, you can get some pretty amazing swelling effects.

When I used to have a fretless, a tiny bit of reverb would create a very convincing double bass sound.

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