Bass Chorus and Verb?

[pryde]

A bassist friend of mine wants a chorus and reverb 2-in-1 pedal. I am thinking about a Rub-a-dub for the Reverb portion but have no idea about bass chorus?

Any recommendations for a good diy bass chorus or maybe modding a chorus to be bass friendly? Also, would the rub-a-dub work for bass reverb ok? Thanks for any recommendations and options for this!

[mjcyates]

I built a Pork Barrel for my bassist friend and it sounds great.

[lincolnic]

I'd be wary of reverb on bass, honestly. With low frequencies, reverb tends to just make things into a muddy mess. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't do it - just that historically, it hasn't been very useful.

[pryde]

I'd be wary of reverb on bass, honestly. With low frequencies, reverb tends to just make things into a muddy mess. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't do it - just that historically, it hasn't been very useful.

Thanks. I am not sure why he wants reverb or if he is aware of how it might sound. Maybe a delay or something might work better? I could see it getting kinda muddy with a bass as well though.

[Guitafuzz]

  You can build the pork barrel and make the mods of the tonepad (Corral Chorus). The projects is based in the same pedal. 

[icecycle66]

For the reverb, add a mix knob at least.

If you can, add a low freq filter (i'd be very interested to see the final product of this)
My Iron Ether Nimbus filters low freq at 20hz - 2khz, apperantly depending on how far the knob is turned.

The Boss Bass Chorus also has a low end filter that is adjusting approximately 1kHz

(all those numbers are from the manufacterers)

[pryde]

thanks for all the info/suggestions. It looks like a modded pork barrel will be a good fit here. I will have to do some learning on how to add a low freq filter.

I think he might be pretty stoked to have a modded pork and a rubadub with mix control perhaps?

[icecycle66]

Oh yeah, we bass players love the mix knob.