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Originally Posted by Daniel_
I bought all my pedals back in nineteen hundred and spelling mistake, and used to play a no-name fender Precision bass clone (which I lost in a move), and a Hohner B2A Steinberger copy (which I still have).
My pedals were all bought second hand and were mostly BOSS.
I had (in rough order of acquisition)
Distortion
Digital Delay
Super Chorus
Phaser
As you can tell - I was rather enamoured with the prog rock genre and the playing of Chris Squire on the Tormato album... </shame>
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Boss huh? Never actually tried those, do they produce a decent sound or wind up muting a lot of tones? I've found digitechs grunge pedal in particular softened way too much on the low tones and kind of killed the low end appeal of a bass.
It's been a while since I've purchased a pedal but I used to run the Digitech Grunge and Danelecto distortion pedal through a Fender Jazz Bass and Hartke 2500 amp. It just snarled so nicely and added a really mean sound under the guitar and really helped out with the noisy Sonic Youth kind of stuff I was into at the time.
The coolest thing I liked to do with a pedal was run the distortion through my upright bass and attack it with a bow....the sound just spiraled out of control into something I can't quite explain but it really thickened up some of the songs we were doing.
Fun stuff but I guess at heart I'm an old school fellow and just love the sound of a bass all on its own.