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I was wondering if anyone out there has tried to use their bass guitar with a hog into a guitar amp to get a rhythm guitar power chord sort of tone out of it? any ideas?
There’s a 2-piece from Brooklyn called the The Unstoppable Death Machines. Their bassist uses a POG and a Micro Synth (and some other pitch-shifting pedals) to do exactly that, and it’s incredible. The tracks on their MySpace don’t do them justice.
after I saw this post I tried it with my bass and by HOG, and it sounds cool, but not quite like a rhythm guitar. Sounds more like keyboard power chords. I think that’s because single bass notes have a different attack than strummed guitar notes AND because bass strings have less harmonics than guitar strings, and since the HOG can only add organ harmonics or subtract your original harmonics and can’t add a string’s harmonic series it can’t quite turn a bass into a guitar. (Put a capo on the 12th fret of a bass and try to play it like a 4 string guitar and you’ll see what I mean.) Though maybe an EQ and a compressor before the HOG would help out on that. Short slap back delay could possibly help on the strumming thing.