When I'm not complaining about people asking stupidly high prices for used guitars (see other thread), I quite enjoy adding to my Boss pedal collection from ebay. I've been thinking of setting up a small bass board, and here's the first one, which was mint, boxed, and even contained the original battery (which was sadly a little too flat to work) for 55% of the brand new price (that's more like it, eh?):
http://i.imgur.com/JTNrpom.jpgThe low filter knob is very useful for preventing the low E becoming too wobbly, and for the first time I've been convinced that level and depth controls are useful. An interesting trick is to plug a dummy jack into the B output, which tricks the A output into only supplying the vibrato signal.
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The level and lo-cut knobs are definitely very useful and stop it sounding as cheesy and seasick as bass chorus can… level definitely doesn't do the same thing as depth.
Here's a slightly off-the-wall suggestion - FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz. It's an amazing bass fuzz, even though it's designed for guitar. Although there's no clean blend like most bass distortion pedals, there is an active bass boost (and treble boost) which will easily restore enough bottom-end. There's much more gain than it really needs normally - I have mine set to minimum - but it's capable of some seriously massive, synthy bass fuzz in mode 2 - mode 1 is a more conventional middy 'trying to kill a transistor amp with bass' sound . And it has a useful clean boost mode (with the EQ still active) if you get fed up with fuzz...
The FZ-2 is no longer that cheap, but still not at all expensive by fancy pedal standards.
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I was thinking an LMB-1 or maybe an OC-3 next...