How to get started with pedals on bass 

Dude, this is such a well put together video. Amazing! I guess I'm at level 3, but LOVE that DI module. Keep the content coming mate 😍

I'm at level one. I got an overdrive and a a chorus and they both fit in my gig bag.

And the secret to me being bankrupt, too.

thanks for the advice bass player Jesus, i have a friend who plays guitar on a church and ask him how to set up pedals and all he taught was the obvious cable-to-pedal explanation and i always wanted to know how would u power it up without some sort of power supply which he didnt explained to me, not even the batteries. he plays for a couple of years i guess but i think he doesn't actually understand how the gear works and maybe they have someone who actually sets their gear up unlike me who just learnt an instrument at home and watching lessons and hoping for the best, lot of thanks!

Nice introduction to pedals. Finding the content of this channel really great!

Thank you! Great video, as always. I'm newer to the game and looking to get some pedals in the near future and am totally overwhelmed by it all. This is so helpful!

Entertaining and instructive video. Good job! 🍻

Nice intro to pedalboards. I started with a Zoom B1Four to test out various effects. It’s a great place to start to see what you like. My current pedal is an all in one Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig 2.

thank you for this!

amazing video!

Pedalboard Planner helps out immensely too!

Super helpful thanks a lot

I will be doing that thrift suitcase idea for sure

Cool video!!!

I'm like level 1.5 with level 2.5 ambition. I've got 6 pedals on the board, including line selector and tuner. I've got a cheap clone of the Boss compressor limiter into the deluxe big muff, which has a clean out, so that goes to my EBS octave, which I blend in parallel at the end of the chain with the boss LS2. Out of the big muff, it's a Boss bass EQ. As there's room for one more power supply, out from the LS-2, I'll occasionally add something outboard; I usually carry a little pocket sized Mooer phaser or reverb. It all fits in a tiny flight case pedal board that's like 14" wide. For my level of playing, this is already waaaay more than sufficient, but that hasn't stopped me mentally designing my level 3.5; a full palette board built around either the EHX tri parallel mixer or the KMA Tyler Deluxe.

I'm using a BOSS waza craft Blues Driver as a bass overdrive. It's great, too great to let guitarists keep it for themselves, hehe. Also have the bass overdrive. It's great, too.

I'm somewhere between level 1 and 3. I had 2 pedals for a while (An earlier model Sansamp from before they added the mid control and a Boss SYB-5 synth), but just bought a reverb pedal (Earthquaker Afterneath and a separate expression pedal) for me to use on either guitar or bass (I really just play at home and have been using the virtual effects on my DAW, so I didn't feel much need to get a bunch of guitar pedals), and now I have 2 more new pedals (Darkglass ADAM and Digitech WhammyDT) and a wooden pedalboard that has not had anything mounted to it quite yet and will almost certainly need expanded immediately (luckily the one I got was pre-slotted and uses brackets to screw multiple boards together side-by-side, allowing me to build up the size and still have one board), and a power supply unit that has not been mounted yet. Once I have these set up better, I plan to get a couple more either/or pedals (ones that are technically guitar pedals, but would sound pretty interesting on bass), mainly a boss ce-1 clone and a surfybear analog spring reverb unit. After that, maybe a couple more pedals like a tremolo or phaser or something. I have most of the stuff for early level 3 right now, but I'm still really at like a late level 1 in terms of execution. Hopefully I'll be able to get the time available to set everything up soon.

After going throught 5 pedals, I decided to slay the dragon by trading them for the Boss Katana bass 210. Please consider reviewing it as it falls in conjunction with your effects and combo amp vids. Its got sooo much to offer!

Good video I am in position 2, I hope to be at the professional level soon

2.5 ATM aiming to go 2.9 as I like diy and I just wanna upgrade my current board which fits 10 boss sized pedals and a power source below to one that has space below the board for some pedals (compressor or perhaps distorsions if I use some kind of switcher) or other stuff such a buffer, di, etc that are always on so they can be tucked below the board. That would be about 14/16 devices in total plus the power source. I doubt I'll ever need more.

Bass pedal king 👑

I'm a mix between level 2 and level 3. I have a proper metal pedalboard, but use daisy chain as a power supply.

Thankyou Bassist Jesus.

Love your channel! I'm currently using the zoom B1x and my drummers wifes big muff pi, all on a shittly sawed / snapped off old ass pallet, dollar tree ziptied and living in a goodwill suitcase, I split my signal into a small mixer on the board from the wireless (DI out clean channel,1/4inch effected line). out of curiosity why would you want a DI out on your board vs on the amp? maybe non-amp shows/recording? I just have always used the DI out on my Hartke HD500 combo.

My pedal has migrated down to a HX STOMP. I think it has one of the best tracking OCTAVE pedals inside. Does everything I need it to do. Except the compression is a PITA.. Has No metering to determine threshold or amount of gain reduction in the edit software. But it works and its small and consistent

I'm at leval 5 with a switcher and boss digital pedals

Awesome explanation! I forgot what it was like being level 1, great explanation of the three different levels of pedals. Very cool to see that you used zip ties for your templeboard, the mounting system definitely adds up especially when you're like me and have them on 20 different pedals. Really diggin your new pedalboard, you'll have to give us a proper video sometime soon!

Really nice video. Bought a Big Muff pedal this afternoon so know I'm starting down a dangerous path! What's the song you played right at the beginning? New earworm for sure. But need to know do I can learn to play it.

Im just starting to look at build a pedal board around a Darkglass Adam I like to play a lot of 80 90 early 2000 music like Foo Fighters, Tragically Hip, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, But also playing things like Bugles Video killed the radio star, ELO, Stevie wonder, Right now i just do stuff on youtube and Instagram and have been doing dry signal to daw. using Bias FX2 now the trick is to figure out what pedals or best way to set this up so if I want to just run to my Mesa Boogie Subway D800+ or if i start preforming and go to FOH. Any suggestions thoughts?

i'm at level 0 right now and i want to go straight to two already

Can you show how your power supply is mounted? How did you get the power input jack mounted so that it is accessable on the side of the board like that?

When I hear muse I knew I was at the right channel 😂

Great video, thanks for posting. The power supply you are using, instead of batteries -- isn't that power supply really a battery? Is it rechargeable? Or do you plug that power supply into an electrical outlet?

Cool video, but there is also something cool about plugging a Fender bass straight into an Ampeg and having it sound great on every song

Amazing collection! What is the riff you play at beginning. I am losing my find trying to find it :)

First 45 seconds. Yes. This is why I bass.

My dream board is 12 distortion pedals all diff flavors lol

0:31 The most badass doodoo fart of all time

Huh.. I think I'm a level 1 going for level 3 and skipping 2 completely

Is it reasonable to buy fuzz (the same big maf pi green) and chorus pedals, if my bass guitar is a squire affinity precision (that is, a fairly budget option)? how important are compressor, di box, preamp? at home I play through bias fx 2 and I don’t see much point in buying a processor

I'm lvl 0, just trying to learn bass and about anything else pertaining to bass. I do not own an effect pedal yet but i would be interested in any pedal which would help me play funk such as Heart's Desire by Don Blackman. So what is the "black bass" set of pedals?

Nice, but I expected more of a sampler of different bass pedals and their sound.

In my experience, most real professionals tend to use fewer pedals, not more, despite the current fad for pedals. For most of my nearly 30-year career as a gigging and recording bassist, I've played with one pedal, a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner. Occasionally, I'd use a compressor pedal, but not always. I do use more pedals now, but I have a total of 5 pedals in my signal chain, including my tuner, and one of them, an acoustic preamp pedal is only there because I play a bass with piezo pickups; it's not needed when I'm playing the magnetic pickups. Tuner, acoustic preamp/DI, compressor, electric preamp/DI, and reverb, and that's it. Accomplished players know exactly what they need and what they don't.

Hi, I am a beginner with no pedal. So just for the sake of explanation : how do you reach second row pedal with your foot without problem ?

thanks alot but what about the order of the pedals ?

Hi what is the song that's played in the intro? it sounds like a Muse song but i can't seem to find it...

For someone who has a home studio and enjoys creating songs using far out sounds, these effects may be of use with many instruments, including bass, and even the human voice. And, I suppose, you could find a venue somewhere that will book you to reproduce such music. But in 99% of the gigging bands anywhere in the world, the pedals on your board ruin the sound, benefit, and purpose of a bass guitar. The bass has a place in the mix. In a good sounding, properly tuned mix, the bass and the kick drum are married to sound as one. The sound is clean, is tight, and is felt as much as heard. It is the percussive bottom of the sound in songs. And the bass player has a job to do. It is not to make a spectacle of his or herself by playing a perpetual bass solo. There are bass players of very successful bands that have trampled that rule, such as John Entwistle. But the success of The Who was founded on Pete Townsends ability to write great songs with great melodies and to fit his guitar work into the spaces left open by Entwistle and Keith Moon, who played very well, but also played a perpetual solo. By and large, the very best bass players are those that achieve a clean, solid tone and play creatively in the pocket. Their creativity often shows best not in what they play, but in what they don't play. Many players who know and practice this philosophy have a style that is immediately recognized as theirs. As for pedals, the bass player only needs two pedals. A very good compressor and a quality direct box. The compressor has a few very valuable benefits. Mainly, it solves the problem of some notes on the bass being too loud and some too soft. My compressor of choice is the Electro Harmonix Platform. It offers a very tailored control of my bass sound. As for a quality direct box, my gigging DI is the Radial JDI, mono version. Those two devices constitute my whole bass rig. I go ampless and get an amazing sound. As a matter of fact, the rig works so well that I perform using a $199 Ibanez Mikro bass. I bought it because it was the most playable short scale, light weight bass I could find. I have back pain from a work injury in 2012. I can't tolerate a full scale, heavy bass like a Fender Precision. I'm all for creating new sounds and new music, as long as it's music and not noise. I'm even good with a player who uses a bass to create new sounds in a band. But unless you completely change the structure of the long beloved full band sound, you still need a bass player laying the foundation in the band while the other player breaks new ground.

Level 2 plus

What an exciting scenario! It's getting a bit tense for the Brits with all that German armour heading their way! 😮

you don't have a pre-amp pedal with a DI out?

Clean that fretboard dude ;)

at this point my dream is just 1 pedal to do it all, the greatest myth of them all.

the swollen pickle and the muff are not kind the same? also what is tha jhs pedal?

I'd say I'm a weekend warrior

Step 1: buy a rat to play sabotage Step 2: ? Step 3: I'm going broke buying 9v batteries

you never showed how or where into bass amp, you plug it

😂

The new cheap pedals are often better than the expensive ones which are only clones of Boss pedals mainly. If you work playing bass good luck but do you have the money for 300$ pedals. The 30$ pedals are often better because they are modified by engineers and don't have the private small companies spending thousands on creating a new pedal. Usually just a clone mod not a new circuit. Guitarists are usually uneducated but have these weird biased opinions with the any knowledge.. Buy the cheap ones and if you like them try out the expensive ones at a reliable shop

Anything Zoom sucks !

Click bait. Nothing here for the beginner…!.

Do a bass player really need all those effects... i bet not. A compressor and a drive then you ready to go.

Sorry but no professional is putting shitty cable ties round their pedals, that's bedroom wannabe behaviour.

Seriously a waste of time.

Also add trash to your sound!