hamfist Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 RIght, I'll come straight out with it, I love Precisions, and love how my Wounded Paw Black Sheep sounds with P's. IMO, the Black Sheep's OD is just perfect for a P bass. Pretty damn good with a Jazz, both pickups, too. However, when I play my new Ibanez ATK310 (Stingray-type thing) the Black Sheep sounds extremely mediocre. Whatever I do with it, however I EQ the amp (and with my RH450 I have and almost infinite amount of EQ options), I cannot get a sound I like. So I have this lovely Ibanez which sounds absolutely gorgeous clean but I can't make even a half decent driven tone with it, using the equipment at my disposal. Has anyone noticed how some OD's sound incredible with one type of bass and yet are pants with another. Lastly, I would like some suggestions for an OD which gels beautifully with MM Stingray-type basses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyquipment Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Yeah. I have a P bass and OD just didn't work with it. Always seemed to scream and feedback. So I've opted for synthetic noise OD + octave. Sounds good to me no more screaming or squealing from amps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazWills Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 my xotic BB bass preamp sounds very good with both my stingray and my precision, so would be my recommendation. prior to that I had an old, pre-MOSFET fulltone bassdrive which also sounded great with both. neither pedal sounded great with my jazz bass though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Yup. My Status loves The Sheehan EBS and the B3K The Marleaux HATES drive of any kind. The P loves the B3K and the Marshall Jackhammer. I have about 20 drive pedals. Clearly I need 20 basses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 Now that I have a new style of bass, I clearly need to go back and try out all the drive pedals I have played and rejected in the past on P's and J's (maybe 30 drive pedals !) with this new bass. This is harder than I thought. Hope I'm lucky early on in my search ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime_BASS Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 BB is very good. im not familiar with the wounded paw but I think any drive with a decent on board EQ should be useful for any bass. Although now I am clean blending both my drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 [quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1367526780' post='2066578'] im not familiar with the wounded paw but I think any drive with a decent on board EQ should be useful for any bass. [/quote] THe Wounded Paw actually has superb EQ control, as it's a multi-band overdrive, with control of the drive in 3 different EQ bands. It also has a variable clean blend, so it's actually a hugely versatile pedal. I'm just not "feeling it" with the ATK though. It's the tonal quality of the OD that just doesn't seem to do it for me with the ATK bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Depends what the OD is doing - if it's boosting midrange frequencies then the P bass is doing that simply by being a P bass. Jazz basses have a natural dip in mid frequencies, so that might explain why this happens. I reckon the only way to go is Fretmeister's approach: 1 bass per pedal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1367460317' post='2066007'] Yup. My Status loves The Sheehan EBS and the B3K The Marleaux HATES drive of any kind. The P loves the B3K and the Marshall Jackhammer. I have about 20 drive pedals. Clearly I need 20 basses! [/quote] My Vigier is a complete fx dodger. I think it's the low (600 Ohm) output impedance.. Best all rounder I've found is my Ampeg SVP pro. Lots of tube niceness.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 I have been Warwick only for a few years now, but i remember selling at least one drive pedal whenever i bought a new bass. Certainly the pedals i have owned have been very sensitive to what is going into them. I bought a Mesa Boogie Bottle Rock recently which i adored with my Stingray, however playing with my Warwicks now it just wasn't the pedal i remembered it being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime_BASS Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Wounded paw sounds like a drive I should have haha. Personally I blame the bass. Not owned at ATK but the local has a few, while built very and have the same punch and harmonic content is expect from a bass with a pickup in the sweet spot, the sound was ever so dead and lack luster. Also I feel that musicman and similar basses when driven with an OD can seem thin as there isn't a lot of inherent low end, just loads midrange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamfist Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 [quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1367645812' post='2067854'] Personally I blame the bass. Not owned at ATK but the local has a few, while built very and have the same punch and harmonic content is expect from a bass with a pickup in the sweet spot, the sound was ever so dead and lack luster. [/quote] I've never played another ATK, but this 310 is a cracker. The clean tone (the real test) is just superb. Don't know how it compares with all the other ATK models but it has a different pickup switching arrangement and options than the current ATK models I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillento Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) I think it depends on the type of PU material used. Usually Fender (type) instruments have AlNiCo based PUs whereas a lot of more modern sounding basses have ceramic based PUs. The ceramic based PUs have, IMHO at least, a "hi-mid gank" whicj makes them sound "sterile" and nasal sonding with OD pedals. There is another factor I don't like with ceramic PU equipped basses. When you play higher up the neck, with AlNiCo PUs, the sound just gets fatter (muddier even, if not eq-ed properly). With ceramic PUs this isn't the case..... I prefer the former:) Edited May 8, 2013 by gillento Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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