My First Bass Board (suggestions?)

[Achtane]

For playing "normal" bass through the board, I put the big spider first in the chain because hitting it with anything else I have makes it really splattery. Sending it into the octave would be cooler, just based on my personal preference.
I really only use it in the mid-boosted mode; sounds like butt in the scooped mode. However, the two modes are less polarizing when instruments other than bass are run through it...not having any mids on bass feels bad.
It is fantastic cascaded into other fuzzes; Big Spider blended into the Team Awesome is THE SHIT. Multiplies teh doomz by at least a hundred.
For making noise though, splattery is good. btw, it doesn't really do anything cool in a feedback loop :/

[skullservant]

Thats good feedback, I'm glad to know that now. I really hate splattery fuzz on bass. I'll make sure to put it first. I agree that the mid-boosted mode seems like where mine will stay as well.

I might get Ben to make me new side panels for mine stained Dark Oak......

Thinking about a Micro Pog and just cranking the sub octave. Pitch Black-> Big Spider-> Micro Pog ->blah

[Deltaphoenix]

tuning down to C will make life hard for ANY analog octaver. Most track down to G on a normally tuned E string. Some people can only get them to go to A. But really analog Octavers shine around the 7-12th frets anyways...

edit: Micro pog will go lower than an Analog.

[skullservant]

Do you think Digital Poly is the way to go then?

[skullservant]

I just remembered I have a Boss PS-5 I will have to try out tonight. That has a clean blend too... Hmmm. That might actually solve my problem

[Achtane]

Dude, if the sides on yours are the dark green stain I'll trade you my dark brown ones!

[skullservant]

PLEASE CAN WE TRADE THE SIDES

[Deltaphoenix]

Probably digital if you want those LOW octaves.

I know PS-5 is cool doing up octaves, let me know how it does on them downs.

[skullservant]

Will dooooo!

[Bassboar]

Have a gander at some form overdrive.
Because totally clean bass sucks.
Give the EQD Speaker Cranker a looksie.
Or not......whatever you want.

[skullservant]

I just might have to do that. The only overdrives I've got at the moment are the WIIO and Lluna, and both don't really keep low end very well. Does the Speaker Cranker? I've always been intrigued by it.

[skullservant]

BIG SPIDER = HOLY SHIT.

I set up my head so that the distortion channel is actually my bass channel (at least until the new cab comes)
What is nice is that I can add a low pass filter into the distortion channel only, so if I was to switch between guitar and bass all I would have to do is change the channel to drive. I wasn't a fan of the Rock Master's distortion channel until I used it for bass anyways. The drive is all the way up, and instead of distortion, creates this really nice, thick, bass heavy overdrive that I use as my main tone. Slam the Big Spider into it and it is heaven.

I tried the PS-5 after the Big Spider and I have mixed feelings. I like it WAY subtle. Just to add a little more thump. Sounds a little too digital to me at this point, but I'm still fudging with the clean blend and from spending a few minutes with it, seems like it might work.

The DOD DFX9 I have set to a super short reverb-like setting for now, and it holds up to the Spider well and doesn't clip. I'm really happy with this so far!

[GardenoftheDead]

Boss RV-5 or RV-3 if you can get one. Jeff Caxide toanz.

[skullservant]

I actually just got an RV-5 for the second time about a week ago. It won't fit on my guitar board, I guess that's it's calling to be on my bass board!

[skullservant]

Just put this together tonight and I am in love:

Footswitch for the channel selector on my amp, and then the board: Verellen Big Spider->Boss RV-5->Madbean Cave Dweller->DD7 for looping-> Amp

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