Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax Bass Demo 

Stank face central lmao I love it!

I love to know that setting

It simple really. Just use the crayon circuit with the gain at 3 ‘o clock(or lower if you don’t want too much gain), set the bass control at 1 ‘o clock, treble control at 11’ o clock, and the blend at noon or lower(depending on how much clean signal you want).

Switching mode power supply is always noisy.

for the price, it beats DG up and down the street and allows you to have three different OD options only using footswitches. great value, great sound.

Yes, I totally agree with you 😀

@@PingPongPix today i have a Battalion Nano, that I use as an OD and it is absolutely GREAT, because it allows you to EQ the OD and the clean separetely. and the CLEAN signal rocks. But I consider seriously getting this one, as well, because of the tone.

@@mario_504 Yes to be honest, we are spoilt for choice with EHX pedals, so many great ones to choose from!!

@@mario_504 If you haven't already bought the Hot Wax, I'd say go ahead. I have the Battalion Nano and the Hot Wax and the latter sounds much better.

I have the Grizzly and it will never leave my pedalboard. Ever.

noisegate!

I like that, call it "tinnitus".

i suppose it does not come from the pedal.

BurnTheMitch same. Almost sounds like a vacuum.

BurnTheMitch yeah I hear it too. Pretty poopy, hopefully just on this unit? Hats off to Will, I think this was your best playing yet.

BurnTheMitch yep the beep is real. Im concern iv really like this pedal.

Just watched a couple other demos just to check, and yeah, it's just this unit. Everything else I've heard sounds great.

I presume that all units will have this "peep". And it is not the fault of the pedal. Simply the bass is PJ. P pickup is humbucking, and J is single coil. There is always a slight hum with a PJ setup. And when you crank the gain or treble, it just gets amplified and we hear the beep. Bass equipped with both humbucking pu's won't have this sort of beep. Cheers

Sounds to clanky, like banging pans.

If you dial the treble control waaaaay back, this pedal truly shines. Because it is a guitar pedal the bass control covers most of the mids we need for a full sound. If you put the bass control past 3 and the treble before 11 this pedal is absolute gold.

This pedal is not a bass specific pedal: it's a guitar pedal.

I use one of these and a Bass Whammy and can attest they are indeed sick together!

Tomislav Simić We used a Big Joe PS-202 Adapter. Same one we always use. It supplies 1700mA and this pedal requires 200mA so the pedal wasn't starved for power.

It was the pedal if I remember correctly; I'd love to get another one to revisit though!

Try watching the video.

Its mainly for guitar, with some bass utility

Yeah dark glass alpha omicron is awesome... But also nearly 2x the cost of the hot wax. And the bigger ones are 3x more. I mean there are only like 2 capacitors and maybe the odd resistor that determines how "bass friendly" a guitar pedal is... It is a bass guitar after all 😉 The fact the wet/dry knob is there opens the pedal for better access for bassists, and tbh there is only the hot wax, the battalion and dark glass stuff that really tickle my personal taste for bass drives.

Guitar pedal.

Guitar pedal. Not bass specific