"Best" Fuzz Pedal for Bass (AND guitar) ?

BeKindRewind

BeKindRewind

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Looking for a Fuzz pedal that works awesome with bass and also sounds great for guitar..

I get a great fuzz tone out of the stock "Pedal" plugin in Ableton. So far it's the best I've heard, it sounds incredible, also the Boss model on my Katana sounds great. but I want to try a dedicated pedal, for one thing it might sound better than my plugin, and it'd be nice to have a portable brick to bring this sound to jam sessions and maybe give me more options.

What I *really* want to be honest is probaly the new Boss Waza Fuzz, but it's way expensive for something I don't really *need*. and although the sound quality seems to be excellent, it looks to be lacking in control features..

So on that note, I seriously like the looks of the EH Big Muff Bass Deluxe. Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi | Fuzz / Distortion / Sustainer - Electro-Harmonix (ehx.com)
Has lots of controls to sculpt a bigger multitude of tones I would think. I really like the idea of having the Crossover button. I want to get into having my Fuzz be footswitchable and then having the crossover button is also gonna give me another option I can grab with my feet.

They have Guitar version and Bass version - would they even be much different? I wonder which one I am better off with. i don't want to have to buy both, but then again you can have both for the price of the Boss Waza pedal:dunno:. I just want a nice sculptable fuzzy I can take to jam sessions. The Ableton fuzz i mentioned earlier sounds equally amazing with guitar and bass (the Katana model seems to, also), so I'm thinking I'll probably be happy with either one, just wondering your experiences and thoughts. Cheers! :D
 
Securb said:
Don't have one but I am a huge fan of the Duncan Super La Rica

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Wow thanks, I wasn't aware this thing existed and it's exactly what I asked for. Sounds great for guitar&bass!
From this demo, it seems a bit more on the psychedelic side than the doom metal side but the difference is probably just settings. It's a shame they didn't do any doom metal kinda slow riffs so you could really hear how it sustains. No Long and Mcquades this side of canada are carrying one, but I bet there's a demo out there somewhere of it though.
Thanks for putting this thing on my radar :bigthumb:
 
Wren and Cuff Pickle Pie B. A little on the expensive side, but it absolutely kills for bass. It's based on a Russian Big Muff (and generally sounds like one), with a few EQ tweaks, a far wider usable range on the sustain (Saturation in this case) knob, and a clean blend. It also sounds great on guitar with the blend 100% wet, though I prefer the tighter and more aggressive tone of my Dream Box (tweaked IC Muff) for that.
 
BeKindRewind said:
Looking for a Fuzz pedal that works awesome with bass and also sounds great for guitar..

I get a great fuzz tone out of the stock "Pedal" plugin in Ableton. So far it's the best I've heard, it sounds incredible, also the Boss model on my Katana sounds great. but I want to try a dedicated pedal, for one thing it might sound better than my plugin, and it'd be nice to have a portable brick to bring this sound to jam sessions and maybe give me more options.

What I *really* want to be honest is probaly the new Boss Waza Fuzz, but it's way expensive for something I don't really *need*. and although the sound quality seems to be excellent, it looks to be lacking in control features..

So on that note, I seriously like the looks of the EH Big Muff Bass Deluxe. Deluxe Bass Big Muff Pi | Fuzz / Distortion / Sustainer - Electro-Harmonix (ehx.com)
Has lots of controls to sculpt a bigger multitude of tones I would think. I really like the idea of having the Crossover button. I want to get into having my Fuzz be footswitchable and then having the crossover button is also gonna give me another option I can grab with my feet.

They have Guitar version and Bass version - would they even be much different? I wonder which one I am better off with. i don't want to have to buy both, but then again you can have both for the price of the Boss Waza pedal:dunno:. I just want a nice sculptable fuzzy I can take to jam sessions. The Ableton fuzz i mentioned earlier sounds equally amazing with guitar and bass (the Katana model seems to, also), so I'm thinking I'll probably be happy with either one, just wondering your experiences and thoughts. Cheers! :D
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That high pass filter control sounds great.
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So, I went into the local music store and the only one they had was the pricy Boss Waza Fuzz. That was the one I originally wanted anyway , so I grabbed it. the store was super busy for black friday sales so I didn't try it out in store.

I'm honestly not too sure about it. It's good, but dunno about 300$ good. I can see that boss is trying to appeal to the boutique crowd with these (which isn't me) but I just wanted a high quality fuzz pedal.. it's that, but it doesn't really sound much better than any of my fuzz plugins especially plugging into my Frontend (sounds really nice in front of a real amp though).

Thing is a main thing I *did* want it for was for bringing around and jammign with friends and having my fuzz tone in a box, but for less than half the price you can have a EH Big Muff Pi which has the same 3 controls and probably sounds almost as good. strongly considering returning this pedal, as good as it is..
 
BeKindRewind said:
They have Guitar version and Bass version - would they even be much different? I wonder which one I am better off with. i don't want to have to buy both, but then again you can have both for the price of the Boss Waza pedal:dunno:. I just want a nice sculptable fuzzy I can take to jam sessions.
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Bass fuzzes typically have a mix or blend where you let some of the original bass signal through, because fuzz really removes all those frequencies that make a bass a bass in the mix. The bass version of the EHX also has a 0db/-10db input switch for passive vs active pickups to keep the fuzz effect responding correctly. Plus the high pass, which further helps separate the original bass signal from the part that's getting fuzzed. Basically those three things together are just studio tricks baked into the pedal. It would work find for guitar also, just keep the mix at 100% fuzz, and you don't need the high pass filter.

The guitar version has a parametric EQ to dial the spike of the fuzz.

Either version would work just fine for guitar. The guitar version I do not believe would not work well for bass, however. If you never need to run a bass through it, you might want the guitar version. But if you a copying some recordings where they used blend to get the guitar sound, then I'd get the bass version.
 
The green russian big muff reissue sounds absolutely fantastic on bass or guitar. I have a Stomp Under Foot Civil War and a Narwhal Pineapple that cover my fuzz needs pretty well, but I don't go wild with fuzz
 
I don't know about the hardware counterpart but the Teemah! model (based on Paul Cochrane Timmy Overdrive) on my Line 6 HX Effects is the one I use for bass.
 
I forgot to mention that I also did get the EHX Big Muff Bass. And it is sublime :approve: . Love playing with that. I don't find it all that useful for guitar after all, but the Boss WZ1 has me covered there. It's so, so good for bass though.
 
Has anyone tried the jhs muffaletta? It's supposed to be 6 muff variants. Just wondering if it sounds good and how much variety is there across the modes?
 
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