FUN - We are young - Bass sound

[Jesso]

My band are thinking about playing Fun - We are young as a cover version. It's a huge song here in Ireland (and the UK too I'd say).
We only have one keyboard, which will be doing the piano bits, so it'll be up to me to get that HUUUUUGE bass synth sound.
Thiing is, I don't have any pedals for doing stuff like that at the moment.
I'm thinking an ocatve pedal and a distortion.... or maybe there's a synth pedal that will do it for me. Anyway, just looking for suggestions before I go buying a load of pedals that don't sound right!

Here's the song just incase you haven't heard it before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6dMFF_yts

[Jesso]

Anyone?

[andydye]

On my phone's crappy speaker it sounds like fuzz bass to me, something that has a wet/dry mix knob would be great, and probably an octaver too wouldn't do any harm

[simwells]

Not got the best speakers either here but sounds like some sort of distorted sawtooth synth pad. So you can probably get pretty close with a synthy fuzz, octaver would be nice or if you're happy to spend the money an Octavius Squeezer would get the sound from a single pedal.

[LiamPodmore]

Definately a fuzz i would think, sounds like there's an octaver on in some places to me as well, but i'm not sure if it's on all the way through.

Liam

[fraff]

The Digitech bass synth wah on its (not bad) octave down setting might give you a fair stab at the synth and octave in one pedal - then run it into a fuzz. From my set up I'd plump for my Prunes & Custard as that's a pretty squelchy fuzz.

[craigcapener]

Yep i think the guys before me got it..sounds like just a good bass fuzz, blended with a clean tone. Didn't really pick out any octave effect though.

[Jesso]

Thanks all. Was gunna take a punt on an mxr octave pedal, the delux one with the growl feature.... I also have a big muff somewhere, for extra fuzz should I need it. I'll look into the digitech wah though as well see if I can get one for reasonable money.

[Bigwan]

One of those furry elephant type fuzzes would probably get you close without an octave Jesse

[fraff]

The BSWs come up on here quite regularly and are usually pretty reasonably priced I reckon.

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Thanks all. Was gunna take a punt on an mxr octave pedal, the delux one with the growl feature.... I also have a big muff somewhere, for extra fuzz should I need it. I'll look into the digitech wah though as well see if I can get one for reasonable money.
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[tonyquipment]

I would simply run an octave with some overdrive

Maybe a 60/40 blend to octave.

[pendingrequests]

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One of those furry elephant type fuzzes would probably get you close without an octave Jesse
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The Woolly Mammoth

Very expensive, not worth to part with to be used for one song.

[Bigwan]

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The Woolly Mammoth

Very expensive, not worth to part with to be used for one song.
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...and yet I built one (actually a mastotron) for less than £25...

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...and yet I built one (actually a mastotron) for less than £25...
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And I wouldn't bother with it personally!

The D*A*M Ezekiel 25:17 is what I am after