You have to spend £300 on effects pedals for tonight's gig…

[max_overdrive]

The band's beat-up rusty old van is parked right in front of the popular bar in which you're gigging in one hour. You've been excited about this gig for months.
You thought you brought all your gear, but after unloading your bass guitar and amp you realize that you left ALL effects pedals at home... and you just so happen to be the effects-loving type of bass player. 
ARGH, talent scouts are going to be in the audience, this is your one shot, your chance to blow, the opportunity that comes once in a lifetime.

You're about to throw up mom's spaghetti when you realize that, much like a desert oasis, there's a massive music store right across the road, it's open, and it stocks all effects pedals known to mankind.

Thankfully, the other members of the band give you the go-ahead to spend £300 from the band's kitty.
What do you get?

[Doctor J]

Drunk

[SamIAm]

Zoom B2 Four.

 

Why S'manth!?

 

In budget.

Loads of f/x (you did say an f/x loving bassist).

Patches can be configured on the unit itself.

Reviews seem favourable.

Have had good personal experience with the B1Four.

 

S'manth x

Edited November 6, 2023 by Smanth

[LowB_FTW]

An Ampeg SCR-DI might be nice.
 

 

Mark

[SteveXFR]

A top quality preamp is my essential pedal. At the moment I use a Two Note Le Bass but that's been discontinued so I'll take the Two Notes Revolt and invest the £1 change in a second had copy of Viz

[tauzero]

17 minutes ago, max_overdrive said:

The band's beat-up rusty old van is parked right in front of the popular bar in which you're gigging in one hour. You've been excited about this gig for months.
You thought you brought all your gear, but after unloading your bass guitar and amp you realize that you left ALL effects pedals at home... and you just so happen to be the effects-loving type of bass player. 
ARGH, talent scouts are going to be in the audience, this is your one shot, your chance to blow, the opportunity that comes once in a lifetime.

You're about to throw up mom's spaghetti when you realize that, much like a desert oasis, there's a massive music store right across the road, it's open, and it stocks all effects pedals known to mankind.

Thankfully, the other members of the band give you the go-ahead to spend £300 from the band's kitty.
What do you get?

 

Well, the rusty old van was a Jag estate and there weren't any talent scouts, and there wasn't a massive music store across the road. But I did forget my pedalboard, and hadn't bothered bringing my little bag with an MS-60B and Lekato wireless, so I just had to plug the bass into the amp...

[Lozz196]

Sansamp Bass Driver v2

[Dad3353]

What are these 'effects pedals' of which you speak..? 

 

...

 

 

[Ed_S]

A tuner and a wireless kit.

 

Ok, so I'm not an effects-loving bassist, but if the gig was that important then being in tune and free to move around on stage would best allow me to do my bit towards getting signed.

[BigRedX]

Helix Native and run it on the computer that is our drummer.

[Franticsmurf]

It would be tempting to replace like for, well if not like then at least similar. But, the gig is in an hour and I need to set the effects up to my liking. So it would be a Zoom B1Four or a Zoom MS60B so that I would have a representation of everything at my feet with a minimum of fiddling. I am familiar with both (the MS60B sits on my board anyway and the B1Four is my back-up/practice pedal) but I guess any simple multi FX unit would do. I'd hand the balance back to the band kitty with my thanks.

 

But, if the shop wasn't a Zoom stockist (in this scenario, the salesman laughs at my suggestion of cheap multi-fx of any kind, implying that no serious bassist would be seen with such an abomination), it would be a reliable tuner, a Laney Digbeth pre-amp and an EHX bass clone and that would probably do it. Not an exact like for like replacement but all pedals I own and have used and close enough for a one off gig. 

[MichaelDean]

Ok, I'll need a drive, a fuzz, delay, reverb, and a tuner. My prices are from PMT. 

 

I'll take a Laney Black Heath distortion (£99) that I can run as an always on thing. A Russian Big Muff (£85). A Zoom B1 Four (£79) can do the delay and reverb and tuner. And I've got a bit left over, so I'll take a boost (£29) to run into the drive should I need it. 

 

That's £292, so the remaining £8 can go towards some patch leads. 

[Little Dragon]

I would want drive, fuzz and chorus. Going by GuitarGuitar prices, Ampeg Scrambler or Bass Soul Food Big Muff and Bass Clone, should do it. Enough left for patch cables but hope you already have a tuner.

[Al Krow]

2 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Drunk

 

A used Zoom B1-4, and then you've still got £250 left to get decently drunk...

 

Mine's been a a very decent standalone "pedalboard" for many, many gigs (pubs and function work).

[ahpook]

A Mad Professor Blueberry Overdrive and the rest to FedEx me a soldering iron and a handful of components to mod it to sound like mine

 

[chriswareham]

Six Boss DS-1 distortion pedals in series.

[mr4stringz]

These days I’m in a bass drums two piece so (for the first time in a band) I’m lost without pedals. I’ll take

 

Bright Onion Isolated ABY

TC SubnUp (the Mini will do to save a few quid)

EHX Green Russian Muff

 

I think I’ll just about have enough left over for a Mooer phaser. Unless I’m panicky, then it’d be a cheapo tuner.

Edited November 6, 2023 by mr4stringz

[MacDaddy]

 

 

[tauzero]

So, rather than my real life situation, in this fantasy world I'd opt for a Lekato wireless and an MS-60B, the same as I have in my little bag, as I've got less than an hour and I've got to knock up a suitable patch without the benefit of ToneLib on the PC.

[Jackroadkill]

If there was three hundred quid lurking in our band's kitty, the drummer would drink it.

[Baloney Balderdash]

HoTone MP-80 Ampero One - 219£ (digital multi effect with IR loader and up to 9 effects simultaneously)    

Electro Harmonix Nano Overlord Overdrive  - 79£ (extremely versatile OD/Dist, with clean blend)

 

 

 

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[fretmeister]

Boss BC-1X Compressor. (About £180)

Caline Wine Cellar (BDDI clone) (£25)

Tuner.

One Spot daisy chain power supply.

[Newfoundfreedom]

Tuner £10

 

£290 for beer. 

 

Excellent! 

[Muzz]

Well, I'd be looking for a S/H Helix in the store, if not, an ME-50B, because I know how they work...I doubt I'd like to be sitting around with the manual for anything else reading 'Congratulations on purchasing your XXXX Digital Multi-Effects, please turn to page 223 to get started' while all hell broke loose around me...

 

Failing that, as above, a tuner and a DI box (I wouldn't have brought an amp)....

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

12 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

A bass player in a friends band used one of these in his originals band . I must say, that he used this in spectacular fashion, more or less changing effec5s for each song . Probabky the best sound from a bass player in a pub band I've seen . . Playing in an almost empty venue may have helped ..