The perfect bass FX toolkit..

[Jigster]

Was watching re-run of Jools and spotted the bass player's pedal board from Bloc Party - which made me think, if you were putting together a kit of essential effects for a bass player, what would you include? Of course everyone's different, and some don't use any effects, but curious to hear what's in people's armoury...and various makes and models

Edited October 29, 2012 by Jigster

[bartelby]

Phaser, overdrive, fuzz, distortion, envelope filter and line select...

Even though I have seperate pedals for those I tend to just use my Zoom B3 these days.

[paul_5]

Overdrive, fuzz, filter, octave should do it. Of course, there's always room for more fuzz...

[paul torch]

pre-amp/compressor, line select, flanger/chorus, overdrive, bass synth (with expression pedal), delay

[Leen2112]

I'm really not a tech sort of guy but I do love effects. I have a line 6 live board which covers more than i could use, i also have an old....and i mean old boss board which i really use just when i change basses live. It also has a patch i created which the line 6 doesnt do. Also i use sparingly a custom taurus style bass pedal. But for all of that I stick to pretty much the same sounds, I like a bit of chorus on one and a smidge of distort on another patch and some kind of flange too. I might somertimes go for a digital delay for some nice harmonic chords....its not that much.

[TimR]

If you have to go from clean to FX then a graphic is a must.

[redstriper]

I keep thinking I'd like to try some FX but I want to wait until I can play well enough without them.




It's been 35 years so far...

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Must be my Aguilar amp and cab. Then a tiny bit of octaver, reverb, phaser and delay.
Previously playing live, most was with no effects. One or two gigs had a smidgen of chorus.
The last band I was in , I as using a zoom b2 1 u . Can't remember the setup on it tho. And it was only for 2 or 3 songs.

[RichF]

this is my essentials board (obviously could be scaled up) - tuner>comp>OD>fuzz>chorus. I have recently removed filter and octave, which could easily be part of a bigger "essentials" board.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

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this is my essentials board (obviously could be scaled up) - tuner>comp>OD>fuzz>chorus. I have recently removed filter and octave, which could easily be part of a bigger "essentials" board.


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Me likely

[RichF]

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Me likely
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you likely what?

[gelfin]

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[BassTractor]

Essential: overdrive, fuzz, chorus.
Then: compressor, octaver
Then: a distortion if needed, and maybe a phaser or flanger, but I personally have used them for way too long, and am bored with them
Then: a power supply for this!

YMMV etc. etc.

best,
bert

[BigRedX]

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I keep thinking I'd like to try some FX but I want to wait until I can play well enough without them.
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FX make no difference to your ability (or not) to play.

For me anything programable with tap tempo and MIDI synchronisation of time-based effects will do.

[Blademan_98]

I play straight into the amp.

One day I may play with effects

[xilddx]

This is all I use.

[LiamPodmore]

My essentials board will be Line6 Wireless, Polytune Mini, SansAmp VT Bass Deluxe, and a Mooer Octave. So for me, it would be Wireless, Tuner, Preamp (with Overdrive and DI) and an Octaver. Maybe add some compression and chorus as well, but not essentials.

Liam

[thisnameistaken]

I suppose the essentials would be an analogue octaver, a ring modulator and a low-pass filter. I'd also like a gated fuzz, phaser, pitch shifter and a 2-channel mixer if we're allowed more.

[allihts]

I get away with a OBD-3 a DS-1 and a tuner, I do have a wah wah and a synth pedal that I keep at home though... silly noises galore!

[redstriper]

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FX make no difference to your ability (or not) to play.
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They do in my case cos they distract me and I don't get into the groove.

[Kongo]

If I had to throw some effects together?
Compression and Reverb for sure. A touch of compression evens out the extreme dynamic range a bass seems to have when amplified and again, just a touch of reverb to make the sound less in your face.
Delay for those ambient chord moments in my main band...and that's about it. Do volume pedals count? X-D
Distortion a no-no for me. Fingers dig in enough to create a touch of grit but I hate induced distortion on bass unless you have dual output then it becomes interesting.
We are saying graphic EQ is on the amp? If not then I want a graphic also.

Pretty much a plug in a play kinda guy, never needed many effects, I've sold most of them on here. They just made me make funny noises and that was it.
Of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using them. :-)

Edited October 30, 2012 by Kongo

[dudewheresmybass]

Essentials for me are a tuner, gritty low gain drive and chorus
In reality I use these plus another drive and/ or fuzz dependant on the situation, wah, filter, delay, synth and eq to compensate for differing basses

[Doddy]

Essentials? Tuner,Volume,DI.

Non essential but useful? Octave,Envelope,Delay,Flanger,Distortion/Overdrive,Synth,Chorus,Phaser,Compressor,Wah.........

[WHUFC BASS]

Nothing whatsoever.

Go in clean and eq on amp. Just some new zingy DR strings and whack up the gain on the amp.

[tauzero]

When I'm using effects, a Zoom B3 (mainly for chorus, also for phaser, slow attack, octave up, octave down, and very very rarely a little bit of distortion).