What's your favourite examples of: Wah, Envelope Filter and Synth pedal sounds on Bass?

[Marky L]

On 10/02/2020 at 16:50, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Love a bit of bass balls (or mooer bass sweeper these days)

 

 

Had to get me a Bassballs when I found out what made this glorious sound! As is, I still can't get it right, close but no cigar

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

19 minutes ago, Marky L said:

Had to get me a Bassballs when I found out what made this glorious sound! As is, I still can't get it right, close but no cigar

You'd probably need to open it up and mess about with the trimpots to get it sounding this filthy, and of course David J was playing his usual Fretless precsion. The bass sweeper is a pretty good clone of the bass balls and brings the extra controls to the top for a wider variation in sound. I used to own an original 70s bass balls so I recognised the sound on this track as soon as I heard it. I still have the record but I have no idea what happened to the bass balls.

[Bo0tsy]

Two of my favourites (Artists and Envelope Filters) new and old:

New: Thundercat using a Moog MF-101 LPF...

Old: Bootsy with a trusty Mu-Tron III

 

[BrunoBass]

Sir Psycho Sexy gets the nod for being the squelchy tone on BSSM (as previously noted) but check out The Power of Equality too, from the 1.59 mark 

 

[BrunoBass]

Shedloads of squelchy, synthy shenanigans here... 

 

[MacDaddy]

The Legend that is Larry Graham

 

[Dood]

Oh BassChat you are full of loveliness, but how do I whittle it down to just a few examples!!!! I wonder if I can mention them all??

[acidbass]

On 11/02/2020 at 22:38, Woodinblack said:

Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler

Yep I think CW's Channel 3 runs through one of these with the autowah effect, Channel 2 through a Deep Impact.

[daveybass]

Still quite fond of Guy Pratts sound on One Slip (2:37)

 

[christhammer666]

cannot post video as im in work (HA)

for me gotta be Cliff Burton anaethesia (pulling teeth) from metallicas Kill em all

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, daveybass said:

Still quite fond of Guy Pratts sound on One Slip (2:37)

Oh that's not good for me, I guess that is what you get for using a bass to do a sticks job!

I was at that gig (or tour anyway, no idea where that was from).

On the other hand:

 

[Dood]

I think I'm going to make up a Youtube playlist out of these all when I get a moment - but for now, I have submitted all of the songs up until this am as part of a column in BGM. I'm sorry I cant name everyone who has offered such great examples as I was already nearly 80 words over my word count and had to trim a bit off my column text to fit it all in!

THANK YOU! There's some new songs in there that I hadn't heard before and that's what makes BC great.

[paul_5]

On 10/02/2020 at 19:03, gt4ever said:

I believe he got his tone through a DOD FX25b envelope filter.

I seem to remember that this particular track (sirpsychosexy)was a Mutron with a dying battery, that’s what gave the baseline the dirty filter sound. The entire album (Blood sugar sex magik) was played on a Wal. 
 

Earlier songs on the album are almost definitely a DOD fx25 though.

 

As a result of this thread I’ve been playing a lot of Flea lines, and the Chunk FX Agent 00 Funk gets really close, as it has a ‘clean’ knob that can be backed off to introduce some dirty, squelchy fun.

[Chiliwailer]

Nice synth bass on this

 

[Chiliwailer]

 

[Marky L]

On 12/02/2020 at 11:38, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

You'd probably need to open it up and mess about with the trimpots to get it sounding this filthy, and of course David J was playing his usual Fretless precsion. The bass sweeper is a pretty good clone of the bass balls and brings the extra controls to the top for a wider variation in sound. I used to own an original 70s bass balls so I recognised the sound on this track as soon as I heard it. I still have the record but I have no idea what happened to the bass balls.

I'm using my fretless and a sansamp but not quite right. The bass sweeper might be fun, is that the Mooer?

You didn't happen to sell your Bass balls on here did you? I'm sure I got mine (a big old Russian one) from on here a few years back. 😃

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Yes, I have the mooer bass sweeper now & its fantastic for such an inexpensive pedal. My bassballs was the original 70s USA one. I can't remember when I last saw it, but it would have been many years before basschat existed.