First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

[Phantasmagoria]

Bought my first bass guitar ever last year. I don't have a bass amp or preamp/pedal of any sort and just go direct into my DAW which I suspect leaves a lot to be desired tone wise. So I was sort of keeping an eye out for something cheap I could run my bass (Ibby/SR 370E) through to hopefully make things sound a bit livelier/ballsier.

The truth is I hav'nt really got any idea of what tones I should even be aiming for since I don't really know (and have never really cared) about bass tones. Al lI do know is that plugging straight into my DAW does'nt really make the cut

Hotone has a little bass 'Nano series' amp I had my eye on ...but then I came across one of these ..& they're dirt cheap, so I picked one up..

Plugged it in last night &..HUGE difference! This thing really shakes stuff up..lots of fat growl..lows are LOW..& it cuts through like a knife. I'm thinking this might just be the only thing I will ever feel the need to plug my bass into ever ..killer pedal :bigthumb:


No clips 'cuz my bass playing is atrocious :lmao:

 

[Aceman]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

I heard/read/saw a ton of good things about those when I was looking for a Bass Preamp. Reportedly a poor-mans Tech21 Sansamp Bass driver.

Maybe not a on-the-road amp, but for what you are doing, cool.

 

[Artie]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

Very cool. I'm a novice/newbie bass player myself. And don't forget, we have a dedicated bass forum that needs more participation.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

I don't have a bass amp or preamp/pedal of any sort and just go direct into my DAW which I suspect leaves a lot to be desired tone wise.

I have a recipe for passable DI bass sound:
- Apply a high pass filter at 40 Hz
- Apply a low pass filter at 6kHz
- reduce 200-400 Hz range by 2 dB
- apply light compression 2:1 or 3:1
- Duplicate the track and on the second track apply 100% wet reverb effect of your choice
- On the reverb track apply a high pass filter at about 600 Hz
- Reduce the reverb track volume until it's barely noticeable


Dunno if that's a reasonable approach or not, but it's working for me.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

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[Rex_Rocker]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

Is that a clone of the SanAmp? The SansAmp rules.

Run a compressor in front, and it'll sound even better. It's going to sound like you're hitting your strings with a brick instead of a pick (or your fingers, however you're playing). I REALLY like what the Electro Harmonix Black Finger does for bass, but any simple compressor can get the job done to some extent.

I don't know what style of music you play, but if it's metal, I find some further compressing within your DAW sounds even better. EQ the mud in the low mids out too, and voila!

I personally find bass requires some work to fit into a mix. There's a lot of stuff you can do to it, but that can get you started. Compression is key.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

I plug straight into my interface and use amp plugins in Logic. I have a Johnson J-Station amp sim but the plugins sound better in most cases.

Or I do like they do on thousands of recordings and just go direct with lots of compression. [emoji1]

Here’s an example of a dirty amp plugin. All the guitar sounds are also plugins.

https://soundcloud.com/jezo-and-the-element/cherry

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[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

Here’s a clean bass tone. All plugins.

https://soundcloud.com/davidravenmoon/supercollider


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[Phantasmagoria]

Re: First and perhaps last pedal I will ever buy for bass...

Up until a year ago, I did'nt even record on my comp/use a DAW. I guess I'm old-school (and old) and just prefer a physical pedal/amp/console or whatever..

I will try the compressor in front that Rex Rocker suggested (I've got a CS-3 ..hope it works with bass..) Would'nt have minded trying what GuitarSTV suggested either, but now that I have the pedal, I'm going to use it :laugh2:

Yeah it's a Sansamp clone..someone did a comparison on youtube and it compared very favorably to that one to my ears..