A pedal that simulates a bass when playing an electric guitar?

Rocker · September 2017

I have been experimenting, very basic and beginner standard actually, with my Boss RC-3 looper. It would be great if I had a pedal that would simulate a bass when playing an electric guitar. I presume such pedals exist. If anyone can suggest such a pedal or if one is for sale, please let me know here or by PM. Thanks.

Dopesick · September 2017

The Boss Super Octave (OC-3) should do the trick. Most octave pedals really.

Beexter · September 2017

EHX Pitch Fork or Micro/ nano Pog would work

guitarfishbay · September 2017

Any good digital octave pedal will do a decent job. Analogue sounds a bit nicer but the tracking is generally a bit slower and sometimes glitchy, which you probably don't want for this purpose

mart · September 2017

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ICBM · September 2017

A Boss OC-3 with the mode set to Poly and the range set to cut off anything above the low notes will do the job, although it still won't track quite perfectly usually, unless you modify your playing enough that you might as well play bass anyway!

mike_l · September 2017

Digitech drop.
Can do anything from a semi-tone down to an octave down, tracks really well, and can do a blend of octave down and original sound. All for around £110.

JezWynd · September 2017

Boss PS-3 will do it, but as per OC-3, you will need to adjust your playing style to suit it's tracking capability. Quite useable though.

Legionreturns · September 2017

Sub n up... Goes two octaves down

dogload · September 2017

One thing about the EH MicroPog is that it will track very well.

paulphoenix · September 2017

The TREX Octavius tracks very well - it has an octave up and an octave down, plus independent boost

JD50 · September 2017

I get a reasonable impression of bass via a Digitech Whammy.

english_bob · September 2017

Any digital pitch shifter set to an octave down should do it. The newest models are polyphonic, older ones will glitch if you feed them more than one note at a time (they don't mind fifths so much, but they can't handle chords).

I've got a Behringer clone of the Boss PS-5 that you can have for £25 if you want to have a bash at it without spending much.

mynamesnotbob · September 2017

EHX PitchFork works well for this, will take it several intervals, plus 1/2/3 octave down

bingefeller · September 2017

mike_l said:

Digitech drop.
Can do anything from a semi-tone down to an octave down, tracks really well, and can do a blend of octave down and original sound. All for around £110.

the Digitech Drop sounds amazing!

Roland · September 2017

If you want to spend a bit, and add a GK or piezo pickup to your guitar, then a guitar synth can give you all sorts of bass sounds. It can also add string and organ pads, and brass stabs.

Roland · September 2017

Oh, and there's one for sale http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/109074/roland-gr20-guitar-syth-160#latest

Flanging_Fred · September 2017

I've been going on about this for years.

Just using an octave pedal doesn't really cut it for me. I've had a number of octave pedals and to me it makes it sound like a guitar through an octave pedal.(duh). Someone really needs to bring out a pedal with good octave tracking but also with eq and maybe compression (or dare I say even some fancy modelling hocus pocus) that gets the guitar to sound like a bass, not just a tuned down guitar.

Jalapeno · September 2017

Would be a good idea to get a bass combo or something to handle the lower frequency output whatever path you go down.

Think there's a world of difference playing bass on a guitar, and wanting increased bass sounds from a guitar, for the former I'd just get a short scale bass and be done with it. To simply stick a riff in a looper or something an octave pedal would be ok, but you could just use the bottom 2 strings of the guitar.

crunchman · September 2017

Get a bass.

For the price of some of the pedals mentioned you could buy a second hand Squier.

VJIves · September 2017

Before I ended up just buying a budget bass I was using a Digitech Drop, and it did the job perfectly. Wasn't as keen on the SubnUp, the high octave is a lot nicer sounding than the low octave for some reason. Ditto the Mooer Tender Octaver.

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