martindupras

I have five distortions on my pedalboard. Here are my personal recommendations. 1) Gallien Krueger Diesel Dawg. I couldn't live without it. It's discontinued, enormous, heavy and very difficult to find. I've been trying to track down a spare for a while. If you find one, buy it. If it's not for you, sell it to me. 2) SansAmp Bass Driver and DI. In my view you can use this one either as a "colouring pedal" that will give a sort of SVT-ish tone to your sound, or as an overdrive. I particularly like the GK Diesel Dawg into the BDDI. 3) Digitech Bass Driver Overdrive/Distortion. Your mileage will vary with this one, but I like it as a sort of darker-sounding, more rounded alternative to the GKDD. 4) Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff. It's a big muff, but it doesn't steal your low-end. Good for what a big muff does. 5) Boss Bass Overdrive. I don't really like it, the range of tones is very limited and most settings sound like a bee in a jar. With very little drive and more gain and a good tweak of the EQ it is usable sparingly. Here are some that have been on the pedalboard on and off: Boss Turbo-Distortion (DS-2?): robs too much low-end. Boss HM-2: love it on guitar, just about usable on bass with serious tweaking of the EQ. Good in a high-passed effects loop. Boss OD-20: It's a modelling pedal, some of the models might appeal to you. Love it on guitar but on bass: meh. DOD gonkulator. Discontinued, and rare as horse sh*t. If you want to make really horrible noises, this is it. It will make everything messy and out of tune. Probably not what you want. Hope that will be of help to someone. - martin