That’s an Eastwood EEB, modeled off the old Ampeg version that the guy from Cream used.

Look under basses at:

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/

I’ve got the fretless version, that I strung with D’Addario black beauties to make the blackest bass ever.

It’s a really nice player, actually.

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:

I don’t have the Small Clone, but the XO Clone Theory has a real gain increase, I imagine the Small Clone would be similar.

Fortunately, I keep mine on all the time, so I just adjust the amp volume to taste.

Let us know how the effects loop worked!

Well, the LPB2ube being stereo means you can gang the channels and put effects in between. I’d put the dist first, like:

22cal–2ubeChan2–modulation–2ubeChan1–dist–guitar

This way, you can use the gain from channel 1 to hit your modulation effects, then use channel 2 as a master volume to bring the signal level up to where the power amp wants it.

I assume everyone’s seen this, but relevant:

http://xkcd.com/810/

Hey bill, any chance we could do this with the Flanger Hoax? I’ve got one, and I’m sure I’m not getting everything I can out of it.

It’s not the most plug-n-play piece of gear, I find.

I always put mine first, right after the tuner, so it has the most stable signal to track.

That, however, may not be interesting…

That’s impressive that in can track the Noise Box. I mean, the Noise Box can’t even track itself.