has anyone bought a bass tubescreamer?

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and do you use it like you would use a guitar version?

[Al Heeley]

I've built a few tubescreamers and fitted a toggle switch to convert them to bass, does that count?

[retrohelix]

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='1287093' date='Jun 29 2011, 10:49 PM']I've built a few tubescreamers and fitted a toggle switch to convert them to bass, does that count?[/quote]



That's amazing!

Edited June 29, 2011 by retrohelix

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That is pretty cool to be fair

[dannybuoy]

Not tried the new Ibanez one, but I have the Xotic BB Preamp which is effectively a tubescreamer tuned for bass. The new Ibanez bass TS does have a blend but I'm not really a fan of blended overdrive. Blended fuzz / distortion however is another matter!

[Al Heeley]

I've moved over to building BB Pre-amp clones as well now!
It has a second op-amp chip to give active bass and treble controls but as danny says its essentially the same circuit as the tubescreamer. Its a lovely pedal but I've not stuck a bass thru it yet, or tried any mods. The active tone circuit gives it the edge over the tubescreamer's tone pot.

[Dosi Y'Anarchy]

I've tried the Bass Tubescreamer as well as the BB9 (Bottom Booster?) - its a pretty cool overdrive, the mix is kinda strange though as it seems that (at least the one I tried) the sound was always driven no matter where the mix was set but it DID provide a bigger variation of tone.

Just as befits a tubescreamer, there it a mid hump. This could be ideal if you need a mid-heavy overdrive to cut through the mix. I was quite impressed and might give it a go this weekend.

The bottom blaster is significantly cheaper and sounds pretty cool on bass, its a light-ish overdrive but despite the name, i worry that its sucking out the lowest of the lows, unfortunately without being able to try either pedal out at volume in a full band setting, I cant really advise how they stand up.