As a guitar player who now plays bass in 2 bands I can wholeheartedly recommend the EQD Palisades. The bandwith knob on that thing is a godsend for bassplayers who don't want to lose any low end, hell, you can even boost it to have more low end than your clean tone.
Unit67 is great as a pre for going straight into a PA with bass: used mine like this quite a bit recently: such a great pedal for loads of things!! Plus Fulltone Fatboost for distortion, Orange Two-Stroke for switching to a low mid scooped tone and a Fulltone 2B with its limiter cranked for a sweet volume lift.
Ahhh- bass stuff! As a now binge- bassist as a long time duffer, this is timely and fantastic stuff. Great bass playing. Back to the woodshed 😁 The C4 fuzzy synth was all Pink Floyd- without keyboards!
PG: We need separate players to demo basses and guitars and all their respective gear. Andy: hold my beer. Proceeds to play bass with the same invisible pick he plays the guitars with.
Who needs a bass when the C4 can turn your guitar into any bass imaginable... C4 replaced five other synth and bass pedals on my board...and goes way beyond with what it can do... SA has been nailing it lately...
How did I miss this one ... Well truth be told I am in the process of building a mini board for my basses. Have to say the Plumes sounds outstanding as well as the Unit 67. I highly suggest anyone out there with a EQD Hoof or Cloven Hoof to try that out, I have the CH and it's a beast with a bass, thx again Andy !
my current favorite pedal which is monstrous for bass is the solidgoldfx lysis, tbh anything solidgoldfx makes is so good im a huge fan of theirs i have the beta dlx and lysis
Plumes sounds cool on bass but it cuts a lot of low end in real life. I love it for guitar but for bass it needs a downstream low end boost in order to be viable. Best way to use it is as a temporary boost before your main overdrive. It also works awesome after fuzz, especially after a B:Assmaster or Diabolik.
I bought a Sansamp back in 2015 and I'm pretty sure that it will stay with in my bass rig for a long time. I love it's tone but the best part of it is that all the sudden your gigging life simplifies. No matter what bass amp you find on the venue ,just plug the Sansamp and send the XLR signal FOH.
If you feel that way there certainly much better pedals out there for bass distortion. If I were going to buy a pedal for this purpose I recommend grabbing one that was designed with the bass in mind. While its true you can use guitar pedals with your bass it would make more sense to invest in a unit that is bass specific because the lower frequencies of bass guitars often take a hit with guitar distortion pedals. Companies like Ampeg and Darkglass will always have better options for bassists because they have been designing products specific to bass players and are the the top two companies that come to most bassists minds when the subject of distortion comes up. That being said I've plugged basses into dual chorus guitar combos and guitar tube combos as well as bass to a Boss Heavy Metal to a 400 watt peavey bass head that had to be made in the 80s. Most of there "experiments" sounded as bad as you would expect and I pissed off a couple of guys that never got over it. Turns out some of those guitar combos I plugged into were expensive and they were not comfortable with me plugging my bass into their $1000 + combos and trying to melt the tubes with my bass. That was in the 90s and those two guys still wont talk to me.
I'd go with the sans amp any day of the week! and for a future potent pairings video do you think you can take on Steely Dan? i wanna see your take on the track Peg
I used the Sansamp RBI rack unit in live and recording situations for many years and now I just started using it again and just wow. I’d forgotten just how good it really is and I have a EHX Big Muff Pi Bass Fuzz Deluxe that is a deadly combination when used in front of the RBI. I don’t usually go for a heavily distorted tone but I get a very good tube emulation with nice harmonic saturation and with the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass comp in the mix I don’t think anyone can tell the difference between the solid state amp and a vintage tube amp.
Pretty cool demo...out of all of these pedals, I like the tech 21 para driver and the source audio c4 the most. on the subject of guitar pedals used on bass, I've always liked the danelectro chorus pedals on bass(particularly the fab chorus and the cool cat cc-1). they're affordable and they sound phenomenal. I also like the t.c electronics modulation pedals on bass too. I own the vortex flanger and the corona chorus and they sound awesome on bass.
Quality as usual. It’s such a treat listening to a bass demo with smooth, clever, and catchy bass lines - as opposed to all these comedy-segue-esque slapping demos I’m hearing everywhere nowadays. Well done. Also, very cool pedals. Listening to that first setting on the C4 felt like drowning in a sea of liquified synthesizers - in a good way.
I'm a big fan of the Zvex Distortron and JHS Muffuletta. Both let all the low end through and in the case with the Muffuletta, adds some nice sub frequencies. I also use the EHX Memory Boy Delay. the blend and drive knobs really help to dial in the perfect delay for bass, plus with it being analog you can really get some wacky sounds.
I wonder how the first and third neuro app preset for C4 is called. The middle one is the Bass & pad in E 3 by Quatschmacher. But what are the other two?
Joyo’s Sweet Baby low gain overdrive, Boss Super Chorus, & Line 6 Verbzilla sound good on bass. You can find used ones in good shape for a decent price too.
Don't know why you would change the Bass guitars. One needs to keep things consistent so that we can hear better the differences that the pedals bring, even though its easily seen, I think it would have been more consistent to keep the same Bass on all of the pedals.
I see your point but this isn't a shootout between 5 choruses. I think it's cool to see them with different dry bass tones. I would've done each pedal individually with both basses, but there's probably a reason I'm not doing reverb demos lol
love my EHX Hot Wax. it has a clean blend, but I think it sounds great even without using that. just leave the Hot Tubes side on with light gain as a preamp, then kick in the Crayon when I want a dirtier tone!
I don't like synthesizers but the c4 sounds GREAT. Also i have an original sansamp and i get frustrated because its so linier and only gives you one or two usable tones that parametric EQ really opens things up I might have to trade up to the Para driver! The compressor was great and compact but for the price I think I would rather have the Dark Glass. If the drybell was like 100 bucks cheaper I would be all over it. I'll have to watch the used market for a deal.
love the review, can't stand when the drive is all the way up on the Sansamp. Any time you add distortion, you lose bottom end, the real low bottom just disappears.
Hey Andy! Check out the Moose Electronics Nomad. It's a bad ass bass fuzz that I really think you'll like. It's also preeeeettttyyy taystay on the guitar too xx
Great info on those pedals you got some impressive sounds out of them I'm sure that last synth bass line will end up in some young garage bands regular lineup lol
Really thinking about the Plumes for a while now, it sounds fantastic...but I actually like the overdrive in my Fender Downtown Express so I don´t really "need" the Plumes. The Athena and the Source Audio C4 though...hard to resist.
I'm a guitarist playing bass out of necessity in my band. Exclusively with a pick. Pick- playing bassists catch a lot of flack. I want to learn fingerstyle as it is just more appropriate and comfortable for many types of music. It's good to be well-rounded 🙂However, if you're playing any kind of driving rock music, you could do a lot worse than play with a pick. I would suggest accuracy will be tighter and your attack will be way more even. You will drive any dirt you've got dialled in hotter and with more tonal consistency. Basically, in my experience at least, you shouldn't really need any kind of compression at all for this scenario, since the playing style will already get you there. If you're playing nice and tight with the drummer, it should sound absolutely badass, with just more urgency and teeth than if you were to play the same part fingerstyle.
You can use a clean paintbrush to remove the dust from in between the knobs of that SansAmp Para driver. This will let you squeeze a few more dollars in resale value if you do this before posting a picture on Reverb.
