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  • March 7, 2011 at 3:07 pm #81433
    Bullit
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    Cheers everybody !
    I’m from germany and new to the forum, but I’m excited about the following:

    Would you recommend any EHX Guitar-Pedals for playing Bass Guitar ?

    By now I play a Bassball plus a Big Muff Pi when I play the Bass. And I love it. I experiment a lot with my sound and would love to upgrade it with different types of sound. Maybe something more “electric”, funky or “futuristic”. Don’t know how to explain right. I recently bought a Memory Boy (for guitar) and just plugged it in the bass and the sound fits Bass really good and gives my a new dimension. So I thought, maybe here I can get some input on guitar-pedals from EHX (or other stuff), that makes sense or can be usefull for Bass as well.

    Thoughts ?

    Thanks for replies.

    March 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm #114569
    TenSecondTed
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrmrA0LwEUk

    March 8, 2011 at 2:42 pm #114575
    Bullit
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    Quote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrmrA0LwEUk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze4flWZENMA

    Thanks for posting man !

    But, the first one is the Enigma. An envelope filter (like Riddle Q) build for bass guitar.

    And the second one, is especially made for bass too … and I already knew both of them. The vids are on the EHX site, too. But thanks for mentioning.

    I’m looking more for tips if there are usefull e-guitar pedals from EHX for bass-guitar … but thanks buddy.

    March 9, 2011 at 2:12 am #114582
    SanquiFlerb
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    From what you are saying the Small Stone would fit nicely with the delay. (either that or that i’m listening to hole in my life :lol:)

    March 9, 2011 at 4:23 am #114588
    fantomenos
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    For my bass playing I use the:
    nano Small Stone
    XO Clone Theory (on all the time)
    Micro-POG
    Metal Muff (has to be the big one with the mid knob, otherwise you’ll get lost in the mix)
    Bass-Balls
    LPB-1
    LPB2ube

    Any delays/reverbs/tremolos etc are time-based, so the bass frequencies won’t be a problem at all.

    March 9, 2011 at 3:04 pm #114593
    Bullit
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    Quote:
    From what you are saying the Small Stone would fit nicely with the delay. (either that or that i’m listening to hole in my life :lol:)

    :thumb: I had the Small Stone on my radar, too ! Thanks for answering.

    I’ve listened to the demos here on EHX. But, I wasn’t sure about it … You use the Small Stone alone or in line with other effects ?

    March 9, 2011 at 3:11 pm #114594
    Bullit
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    Quote:
    For my bass playing I use the:
    nano Small Stone
    XO Clone Theory (on all the time)
    Micro-POG
    Metal Muff (has to be the big one with the mid knob, otherwise you’ll get lost in the mix)
    Bass-Balls
    LPB-1
    LPB2ube

    Any delays/reverbs/tremolos etc are time-based, so the bass frequencies won’t be a problem at all.

    Thanks for posting ! :metal:

    Like I said above. I thought about a Small Stone, too. And I already use a Bassball. Too bad my old Bassball doesn’t work anymore. But I’m highly interested in the Micro-POG and XO Clone Theory. Is the micro-POG enough or would you rather go with POG2 ? And, can you tell me a bit more about the XO Clone Theory ? Thanks in advance.

    March 10, 2011 at 9:57 pm #114614
    fantomenos
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    No problem, I’m always happy to talk gear and brag about my signal chain. ;)

    In order then:

    a) I love the Small Stone, I didn’t need a phaser with a bunch of bells and whistles. Typically, I put it after fuzz (I use a Bluebeard, but obviously any flavor Muff will work) for slow, sludgey bridge parts.

    2) The Micro-POG is enough for me, I typically blend in some sub-octave for a thicker sound, or sometimes I use the octave up to get a twangy 8-string sound. In one of my projects I do upper-octave only into a metal muff to do the guitar solo on “Paranoid”. People who know music flip out, since they have no idea how I’m doing the solo with a bass (fretless even!). The POG2 has a lot more features, but 2-octaves down isn’t really usable on bass. I do wish Micro-POG had presets, but what can you do…

    3) The Clone Theory is a polarizing pedal, either you love it or hate it. The downside? It’s pretty noisy, and adds a noticeable bit of volume. Live, I just have it on all the time, and the noise is negligible compared to the noisy club. For recording you basically have to put a noise-gate on it. It doesn’t sound like other chorus pedals I’ve ever heard, it’s really distinctive. To see if it’s a sound you’ll like, you might listen to some of Peter Hook’s work with Joy Division and early New Order, Clone Theory is a fundamental part of his sound.

    Putting all these together? bass->Micro-POG->fuzz->Small Stone->Clone Theory->Sunn Amp gives me a brutally thick sound that turns heads. Best of luck putting together your sound. Let us know how it goes! :rawk:

    March 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm #114625
    Bullit
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    Thanks fantomenos ! Really, THANK you. It’s a pleasure to read some quality input.

    It’s a lot to check out for. Though … I can already say, I’m a huge Chorus fan. So the Clone theory with it’s many possibilities is highly likely to be added to my equipment (thought about nano Clone for a while), if my money let’s me. Right now I sometimes work with the Memory Man on bass. Gives me great opportunity to play more on dark-mysterious atmosphere on very slow and calm parts, with my 5 String Warwick. And I love that. But it is getting pretty noisy, too. And it’s nothing you just let in all the time. Also I don’t like the sound come slapping parts. So I’ll maybe first try to find a Dealer were I can play it for short …

    The Small Stone sounds like a Must-Have. And I don’t have it 😥 I love to add new dimensions to my bass play and don’t only want to play “classic”-bass-sounds-only either. I don’t need that bunch of bells and whisteling too … so the Small Stone looks like a wise addition. And it’s not even that expensive.

    The POG2 or MicroPog is something I’m really not sure about. Though I’d like to your “Paranoid”-Solo on bass :clap: :rawk: I’m not sure yet, of how much of a use I would have of it. I liked the more features on the POG2, but two octaves seems useless for my play. So, I think I’ll save my money on that one. The MircoPog though still stays on my list and remains interesting to me, but I’ll possibly give the the both two above a try first …

    Btw: I use a Riddle-Q-Balls on my electric Guitar. Still trying to find something nice for bass on that one

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