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Was just hanging with Josh who plays in the Crash Motive (http://www.thecrashmotive.com). He's playing bass on an EP I'm recording next week and when we were done running through some songs, he played his bass through my BJF board. Some of these pedals sound ridiculously nasty with Bass!!!!!! We tried about 10 different BJFs and of all of them two were just mind blowingly good.........Cliff Hanger and Candy Apple Fuzz. CAF gets some seriously mean sounds a la the band Muse. The Cliff Hanger is just as amazing for bass as it is for guitar. We didn't really hear much in the way of any low end loss at all and it just sounded amazing all around for a bass distortion pedal. Amp used was a Trace Elliot 1210 combo and I think he was playing a Fender p-bass. The CH is a super hero of a pedal. If there was a fight, the Cliff Hanger would definitely kick the Joker's ass!!!!! Interestingly enough, I also liked the sound of the Sparkling Yellow OD with bass......not as amazing as the CH or as crazy as the CAF, but definitely good.

interesting stuff nichope! Good luck with the EP, that's cool!

This is a very important thread to me and I was about to post a similar one. I play Bass in a group that has done a fair amount of recording and touring and use a RRB, and a BPB in my rig with results that I love. I have tried gamillion different Bass distortions, guitar distortions, and fuzzes with Bass and am regularly chasing more inspiring tones, and switching things up. Yesterday, or the day before I plugged my 73 Telecaster Bass into the SWF and holy hail I thought it sounded just amazing! Then I plugged into the Model H and was even more BLOWN AWAY! I was having a real hard time determing if the Bass Guitar frequencies were intact or dropping out when the pedals were engaged. I would very much appreciate if people would chime in on this topic and let us know your experience with SWF, MODEL H, and CLIFFHANGER in this regard. Bjorn and Donner any Bass FEEDBACK if these pedals were designed in a highly bass friendly capacity?

Here is a little clip from my recent trip to South America, you'll hear me fiddling with MP delay, and then if you watch long enough you'll hear my kinda recent Bass distortion tone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG_gKKfkGpY

I think I might be ready to add one of the three (SWF, Model H,Cliffhanger) and could really use you AWESOME peoples' BJF BASS thoughts!!!
By the way I love this board and all of you! Thanks for creating this uber important thread.

nichcope wrote:Was just hanging with Josh who plays in the Crash Motive (http://www.thecrashmotive.com). He's playing bass on an EP I'm recording next week and when we were done running through some songs, he played his bass through my BJF board. Some of these pedals sound ridiculously nasty with Bass!!!!!! We tried about 10 different BJFs and of all of them two were just mind blowingly good.........Cliff Hanger and Candy Apple Fuzz. CAF gets some seriously mean sounds a la the band Muse. The Cliff Hanger is just as amazing for bass as it is for guitar. We didn't really hear much in the way of any low end loss at all and it just sounded amazing all around for a bass distortion pedal. Amp used was a Trace Elliot 1210 combo and I think he was playing a Fender p-bass. The CH is a super hero of a pedal. If there was a fight, the Cliff Hanger would definitely kick the Joker's ass!!!!! Interestingly enough, I also liked the sound of the Sparkling Yellow OD with bass......not as amazing as the CH or as crazy as the CAF, but definitely good.

That's something that I was probably better off not hearing. Something else I'd love to try, but usually high gain means loosing your lows so I assumed it wasn't the best option. I'd been reading a bit about the SWF being low end friendly and my ears perked up a little too...

I was amazed at the CAF on bass too. Lots of fun sounds, even though there's a bunch of settings that aren't really low end friendly. Those'd be great for soloing or cutting through. And the settings that keep the bass make for some really nice, easy to use fuzz. I actually liked the pedal on bass more than guitar at first. It wasn't quite enough of what I was looking for to kick the wooley mammoth off my board as a bass fuzz, but its more fun to play around with.

I'm really looking forward to trying out a model H on bass... voxdefiant, when you say you had a hard time telling if the bottom dropped out or not, I would guess that means if there's some loss of lows its not really serious or is that not quite right? That 73 tele bass should have a nice hefty low end on it! Also, Just watched that clip, what amp/pedals were you using for the distortion tone there?

well one common thread thru the BJF line is correct EQ balance thru the whole circuit, so most of them should work fine for bass, and other ranges, like the SBEQ is excellent for acoustic guitars,basses,vocals etc.... Even the MP40 can be used as a bass amp....

All the bass tracks I do for my demos are the 3BOD into a limiter straight to tape..... the 3BOD has a sweetspot that just sounds like a warmed up bass, no EQ change ....

apparantly one reason there are so few PGComp available is they are all snatched up by scandinavian bassists


so yeah try them all