
Romeo2
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z.vex's fat fuzz factory is gated, works with active basses (although seems to work 'better' for lack of better description of what it does when paired with passive ones) - but is one hell of a crazy fuzz; some say no facility to blend in the dry signal is no good for low end, definition, etc., but I love it for how unhinged and noisy it can get - or unhinged but quiet as the gate is really, really good.
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G&L L2000 tribute.
Ticks every box. Monster bass.
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Ditto - unbeatable price/quality instrument. -
A bit extreme but you could try EHX Freeze.
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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I love my [color=#000000]Ibanez ES2 Echo Shifter - beautiful delay plus tons of crazy sounds you can get out of its oscillation, modulation, and whatever it is that it does. Size-wise it might not be the most pedalboard friendly delay unit out there but it looks very retro cool. Highly recommended![/color][/font][/size]
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I switch between playing a G&L L-2000 Tribute with Elixirs on, maple neck, and a Jazz with flats on, rosewood neck, through the Octamizer and I guess my comment is just to agree with the above - the cleaner and more 'carefully played' signal you give it the cleaner octa-beast sounds it produces. Definitely a smoother, 'synthier' sound from the Jazz with flats and a more aggressive, sort of even distorted growl from G&L with rounds.
You can do some tinkering with the balance of levels of octa and clean, and the filters - you can find a very sweet spot for any bass you play through it.
The tracking is not great as it is analogue but that is exactly why I LOVE it, how it seems a bit unstable, like an irritated, hungry bear. -
I can recommend the ProCo's Turbo Rat - can go from very subtle to stupidly loud and distrorted but very nicely compressed, and on subtler settings is very responsive to how hard you play, or how much volume/gain you set on your bass (like OCD I suppose).
ps. Turbo Rat ate my odb-3 for breakfast so got rid of it, and am sensing that yellow boss box is not getting much love round here, not surprised at all -
I have been scanning through various topics on basschat for some time now and it has recently become my go-to webpage to learn about different gear, read up expert opinions, and part-take in all the gear porn drooling - glad to see I am not alone
Time to make it official.
I've been playing bass for I reckon maybe last 15 years in various projects with friends - mostly jamming our troubled souls into an abyss of freak noise, psychedelia, and punk-funk bluesy nonsense. Keeps us sane I suppose.
I do not have any unique instruments or extravagant, hard to come by pedals but I will certainly share some thoughts on what I have (with pics, obviously!) later on in the relevant sections of the forum.
Stay cool!
Romeo2
PS. I shall explain later on the origin of my nick for this forum ...
what is this bass? (Warning : Mike Watt content!)
in Bass Guitars
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http://youtu.be/5kChM9O868U?t=51m26s
not sure if the link is going to start at the time I want it to for you all but there's a pretty good view of it at 51:26, or couple of seconds on from that. can't work out what bass that is ...