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  • October 10, 2010 at 11:28 pm #80838
    joeb2880
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    Hi guys, new to EHX forum, have a question and need advice:

    So here’s the situation. Im a guitarist/bassist and I love electronic music – particularly dubstep and drum n bass.

    Im really keen to make some live electronic music using guitar or bass!

    I want to know what EHX pedals (and others!) would be good to produce sounds live, without much knob twiddling at gigs!

    There are so many great and crazy EHX pedals, im sure some will suit the bill :)

    ***Im particularly looking at producing a wobble bass sound*** for bass guitar!
    (its a cut off LFO heavy bass found in dubstep)

    Any ideas/help greatly appreciated.
    Joe

    October 11, 2010 at 2:12 am #111898
    BlueSteel
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    microsynth? pog 2? hog? um flanger hoax? maybe ring thing? idk if those are what youre looking for, but thats all i could think of.

    October 11, 2010 at 2:25 am #111899
    Cryabetes
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    Hey
    I’m a synth player [among other things]
    and to get the wubz soundz I use an envelope triggered phaser [an Alesis FAZE](although you could probably just use an envelope filter) and a bass booster so the EHX equivalents would be the Mole for bass boost and then a Stereo Polyphase [for env controlled phase wubs] or a Qtron/Qtron+ or Enigma [for env controlled filter wubs].
    Only downside [upside?] to this is you have to hit the note multiple times for each ‘wub’- it’s not automated/on a multiplier like the Ableton people’s wubs would be.
    That said, this is pretty similar to how EOTO gets their dubstep sound- Michael Travis installed two drywall screws [one on the side, one on the mod wheel] and a rubber band onto on his Nord.

    If you would want the multiplier wubs, aside from going out and buying a synth or ableton rig, you could get one of the Alesis ModFX modulation boxes [the FAZE, PHLNGR, or PHILTRE] from ebay and mod them so the rate time is controllable via expression pedal while it’s in tap tempo mode [it acts as a multiplier in tap tempo mode]. but that would be kind of knob-twiddly and I’m not sure how well they’d hold up at gigs- plastic cases don’t matter when you’re playing synth and have to use a hand anyway, but i stick to metal for stuff i’m stomping on.

    I don’t really know of many pedals that aren’t delays that have multiplier knobs versus a set ‘rate’ time…

    October 11, 2010 at 10:05 pm #111912
    joeb2880
    Member

    brilliant help! thanks so much :)

    October 11, 2010 at 11:41 pm #111914
    joeb2880
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    Im on a really tight budget and I found this – behringer bsy600 bass synth pedal,
    its only £40 and with an expression pedal you can control the rate of the LFO.
    sounds pretty crap half the time but im sure with some fiddling it can sound good! :D

    see this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVVmnY67nVI around 5:30

    October 12, 2010 at 3:12 am #111915
    Cryabetes
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    iunno man, like I said, plastic…
    i’ve found it’s better to save your dough and buy more expensive pedals than to blow little bits all the time.

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