AFKT Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I'm playing a stingray, with a seymour duncan p/up through a hartke and a loud 410. I'm happy with my basic tone [i]but[/i] i find it a little tooo smooth for my liking in my rock band and would like to add a bit of grit in there somewhere. I'v got a pd7 for the crazy moments, i just need this for the bits between. A DHA would probably be perfect except i'm on a [u]very[/u] tight budget at the moment. I was thinking of giving the old two-parrallel-diodes-pointing-in-opposite-directions trick but I was less than impressed with the (lack of) effect it had on my (passive) project bass. Anyone tried it with an active bass? any other ideas? Cheers! JP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerboy Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 When I want a bit of gravel I reach for a sansamp. Then turn up the drive and add some treble. Lovely. Couldn't live without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 [quote name='dangerboy' post='1012' date='May 17 2007, 11:54 PM']When I want a bit of gravel I reach for a sansamp. Then turn up the drive and add some treble. Lovely. Couldn't live without it.[/quote] A tight budget is the difficult part. If you could get together £100 I'd say get a second hand fulltone fatboost or a DHA flavour to suit. What budget are we talking exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFKT Posted May 25, 2007 Author Share Posted May 25, 2007 [quote name='Toasted' post='3498' date='May 21 2007, 11:29 AM']What budget are we talking exactly?[/quote] At the moment two diodes and a bit of solder type budget Sounds like it might be worth waiting though, am looking for a new job at the moment. although.. that behringer sansamp-a-like looks tempting, despite the absoloute carp that behringer invaribly is, it might be worth a try as a tempory thing till I can afford the real thing?? cheers for the replies JP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 JP, assuming yer' hartke is hybrid, I think probably the cheapest and easiest thing you could do is to bung a new valve in there, something higher gain. A lovely chap called Chris made up this list: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42[/url] I had a groovetubes 12ax7 in mine and if you cranked the tube side of the pre a little and dug in it gave a nice bit of grit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFKT Posted May 25, 2007 Author Share Posted May 25, 2007 [quote name='ped' post='6857' date='May 25 2007, 10:17 PM']JP, assuming yer' hartke is hybrid, I think probably the cheapest and easiest thing you could do is to bung a new valve in there, something higher gain. A lovely chap called Chris made up this list: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42[/url] I had a groovetubes 12ax7 in mine and if you cranked the tube side of the pre a little and dug in it gave a nice bit of grit.[/quote] Yup, bought my cab of him and had a bit of a chat about valves etc. I'v got a groovetubes in there at the moment, never thought to try and crank that a bit I'll give it a bash JP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 I'd avoid the hartke bass attack pedal. YMMV. How did the valve swap work out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alun Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Have you tried the PD7 at low drive levels in overdrive mode? I've also got some nice clanky Rickenbacker tones by putting it in clean mode but using the Attack switch. Cheers, Alun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateTelevision Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Digitech Bad Monkey - you can pick one up for £20 on Ebay and it's absolutely awesome on bass. Does just what you want - adds a bit of grit. It's for light overdrive only and won't do all-out distortion. It outperforms its price tag by a MASSIVE margin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 [quote name='ChocolateTelevision' post='14873' date='Jun 10 2007, 12:35 AM']Digitech Bad Monkey - you can pick one up for £20 on Ebay and it's absolutely awesome on bass. Does just what you want - adds a bit of grit. It's for light overdrive only and won't do all-out distortion. It outperforms its price tag by a MASSIVE margin![/quote] That is the common consensus. There's a few companies that mod them to better specs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) I read a mod'd BadderMonkey sounds awsome, it's not true bypass and can suck a bit of tone. I'm using a Boss ODB-3 through my Trace rig, not bad for grit, gravel, dirt and can even get a bit muddy if you like. THrough a P-bass ;-b Edited June 11, 2007 by mav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 [quote name='mav' post='15402' date='Jun 11 2007, 05:49 AM']I read a mod'd BadderMonkey sounds awsome, it's not true bypass and can suck a bit of tone.[/quote] What mods are they, is it just swapping the footswitch out for a true bypass one or have some components been changed? Anyone any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) Components mod. You can pick the Badder Monkey up off ebay. Edited June 11, 2007 by mav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 [quote name='mav' post='15495' date='Jun 11 2007, 11:18 AM']Components mod. You can pick the Badder Monkey up off ebay.[/quote] just won a standard bad monkey of ebay, for £21 (inc £10 postage!!!), got some details for a mod.... i'm (hopefully) in business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 [quote name='steve' post='15847' date='Jun 11 2007, 07:55 PM']just won a standard bad monkey of ebay, for £21 (inc £10 postage!!!), got some details for a mod.... i'm (hopefully) in business[/quote] Great deal. Where did you find the details for the mod incidentally? I might have a crack at this myself at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) [quote name='Musky' post='15919' date='Jun 11 2007, 09:46 PM']Great deal. Where did you find the details for the mod incidentally? I might have a crack at this myself at some point.[/quote] the website is [url="http://www.indyguitarist.com/"]here[/url]. Sign up to the newsletter and then the (large) ebook about modding costs around £7 to download (i am not affiliated to the website, just glad I found it) and yeah, I was pleased with the deal, £10 shipping tho - outrageous! Edited June 11, 2007 by steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentyhertz Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 (edited) Do the bad monkeys suffer from the same ridiculously high current draw as other Digitech pedals? My guitarist has a digitech synth-wah and it draws something insane like 400mA if I remember right. Edited June 14, 2007 by twentyhertz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 [quote name='twentyhertz' post='17458' date='Jun 14 2007, 11:16 AM']Do the bad monkeys suffer from the same ridiculouly high current draw as other Digitech pedals? My guitarist has a digitech synth-wah and it draws something insane like 400mA if I remember right.[/quote] I read somewhere (harmony-central review IIRC) that they are pretty bad for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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