try the bass synth by boss.. SYB-5 i think is the name of the model, for the chancge in the wobbles tempo (which if i remember dubstep happens alot) can be achieved with the expression pedal… check our the youtube demo and i think that you’ll be covered

i hope this helped

I didn’t know the SYB-5 can do that.

Whenever I’ve made dubstep style modulating synths on computers, the cutoff has almost always been the thing modulated to provide the changing sound, but as guitarists and bassists we don’t really have that feature as we make our sounds in a different method.

I’ve thought about it though and I reckon that the best method would be probably to link up a few pedals together, maybe a fuzz for some grit and some kind of phaser/flanger? something that would modulate the sound. As for changing rates, its kinda hard unless you find an expression pedal or have many of the same pedal.

Also the thing is that the sounds dubstep artists make are often made up of many different oscillators providing lots of different frequencies, thus making the massive sounds, it’d be kinda hard to accurately replicate that on guitar or bass without some very complicated equipment.

Try things out though, ask at a guitar shop or something, they might be able to help.

Hope that helped mate.

I know this is a spambot but reading that, I just cracked the hell up.

I’m really close to get the Synth Sound I’ve been trying to achieve since I first started playing bass! Fuzzed bass sure sounds synth, but the best comes with modulation. I use a Stereo Pulsar for quick flashes of volume and add a Stereo Electric Mistress for space in a slow, lush swooshing. I prefer using my Little Big Muff with the Tone & Sustain all the way down because I think it sounds more synthetic than my Bass Big Muff (used for a more guitarresque distortion).
Also, I’m getting a Micro POG this New Year for the extra SubBass. I do believe this combination will get me the sound I have in my head. Another (much cheaper :doh:) way of getting a synth sound could be to get a Bass MicroSynth and add an extra modulation? I hope I don’t need an Envelope Filter since I don’t really like the Funky tones…

PS: Sorry if I sound a little hyper on this, but I haven’t slept since Christmas morning :worried:

The best way to get a wobble bass is octave pedal (dry signal zero, 1 octave down maxed) -> fuzz -> lowpass filter with envelope function, John Davis from Nerve sounds incredible with his OC-2 -> Wooly Mammoth -> Moogerfooger MF-101.

I haven’t tried it yet but I guess EHX Q Balls should do the same thing as the Moogerfooger.

But I discovered another cool way with my guitar rig. Octave pedal->Octave fuzz->Wah->Ring Thing in factory patch 7 (an octave tuned down).
With bass there’s no need for an octave pedal in front. Regular fuzz is fine too but octave fuzz works better. You have to do the wobbling with the wah.
It works because the Ring Thing acts sort of an lowpass filter with the Wah which brings in the higher frequencies by pressing down to get the whole filter wobble thing going on.
Instead of Ring Thing some sort of an pitch shifter which does a natural (not synthetic like Boss octave pedal) sounding octave pitch down and is tracking well should work too. Some sort of EQ pedal would be helpful too as the Ring Thing makes the sound darker when you tune the pitch down with it.