Distortion for bass

[GCUZakalwe]

This may have come up somewhere here before but I was wondering which Madbean distortion project would work well for a bass.  I'm thinking of building a pedal board for my bass with just a few effects.

[brucer]

Hard to beat the Slow Loris (Rat).  Very versatile.

[selfdestroyer]

I always loved the RAT and a Tubescreamer on bass for some nice grit and Russian Big Muff for the fuzzys.

Runt, Green Bean and Mudbunny..

Build them all!

Cody

[jimilee]

I always loved the RAT and a Tubescreamer on bass for some nice grit and Russian Big Muff for the fuzzys.

Runt, Green Bean and Mudbunny..

Build them all!

Cody

Russian big muff is awesome. I found the tube screamer to be a bit thin as is. I love the big bass overdrive that JMK has, or the BYOC bass overdrive. They sell PCBs separately in some of their projects.


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[matmosphere]

I second the rat. I used to have one of those ToneLock (?) Tubescreamers and it was great on bass. I'm not sure how different it was from any other screamer though.

[matmosphere]

Also, If you check in the group buy section someone was selling boards for a bass over drive recently.

[jimilee]

I second the rat. I used to have one of those ToneLock (?) Tubescreamers and it was great on bass. I'm not sure how different it was from any other screamer though.

I should have prefaced  my answer with, of course, it's all subjective as far as your personal preference to your sound, but yeah, the tube screamer does scream in bass also.


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[matmosphere]

The wolfshirt also sounds great on bass.

[solderfumes]

Whichever way you go, wiring up a blend control somehow (maybe a simple buffer on a little piece of perfboard to go before the circuit and split the signal?) would be a great thing for a bass version of any of those pedals, I think.