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Unless a piece calls for a particular texture that only the bass can add, via POG or Synth, then comp and maybe envelope filter and a touch of phase or chorus is all you need. Then again, lots of players like aggressive distortion, there are lots of pedals targeting that sound.
I reckon the useful bass pedals are just bigger.
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Doug Wimbish's board
Actually his small board. And you can't see the twin Mac Book Pros...
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Some genres need them (some need a lot of them) but for most "rock" music I think drive is the only bass effect needed.
I did laugh when I was a gigging a few years back and the bassist of another band turned up with a massive and unwieldy board with millions of pedals on it and then proceeded to use one tuner and one drive for the whole set (I watched carefully because I was intrigued as to what he would do with them all :-D)
For smaller gigs, he'll use a Zoom B3 but doesn't like the Octaver in it and I concur - it's a weak effect in an otherwise great multi-fx pedal.
Luckily for me, the FX I need for my bass gigs are a compressor, octaver and occasionally, a delay, and they're all built into the Roland Bass Cube. I do have a Zoom B1Xon but I'm on the look out for a Zoom B3.
Tools of the trade. If required, why not?
I had a choice of drives, envelope filter, synth pedal, octave, wah, and a compressor. Still pretty big, but all designed to get close enough to famous song tones.
Can't do "Money" with a GK slap sound, Can't do "Dock of the Bay" with a Sheehan sound, Can't do "Deeper Underground" without a shitload of synth or at least mixing filters and fuzz, Can't do "Hysteria" without... errr, turning everything on and going nuts.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
There are some great bass pedals, but it's much more suited to guitar.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I'm only a size 7 .
Although I admit that one of the reasons I love Boss pedals and hate metal click switches is because foot accuracy is much less important with the Boss ones...
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bass patch for playing at home has fuck tonnes of synth,delays and verbs and all sorts.
Bassist in my main band has tuner, drive, fuzz, gate. The fuzz is yucky.
ive seen boards the size of doors at some gigs, seems massively over kill.
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd