Your essential bass pedals

[MrNovember]

I find the most essential bass pedal in my rig is a compressor. I've been using an EHX Black Finger because it adds some really nice character and some grit. It's always on when I'm playing. I've also been loving the Data Corruptor and Dispatch Master on bass lately.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Maybe I’m just all jacked up from Game of Thrones but can you imagine if this thread was made about the “normal” guitar?

Hey guys what pedals do I need to play guitar? I’ll be playing music with it!

^^^^

But generally unless I'm playing a style where I know for a fact I don't need it I'll have one overdrive or fuzz. Any more than that and I'll be adding delay and one modulation pedal. That's about as far as I go unless I'm aiming for a specific thing recording

[greyscales]

Boss OC-2 or something similar is essential for me. Gotta have that synth bass sound. Chorus, dirt, and filter are optional if you want to go full synth vibe.
Meatbox is cool but speaker blow-outs are a risk.

[frodog]

I use the Xerograph Deluxe a lot, now that I know how to wrangle it. But it did cost me a speaker.

[Dapper Bandit]

OC-2 style octaver is a lot of fun to play with. HM-2 is fecking nasty on bass and running an octave into it is one of my favourite sounds.
I personally prefer a very clean digital delay on bass and have been known to enjoy vibrato and filters.

[K2000]

I don't like compressors, I want to be in control of subtle variations in volume and attack, because that kind of detail adds expressiveness. It depends on what type of music is being played I guess. Maybe compresors help with certain tracking pedals downstream, which I don't use.

For "essential" I only need a tuner and some type of dirt. Effects on bass are cool if the music really warrants it. If not, effects can sound cheesy ("here's my phaser sound now"). I tend to prefer a consistent bass sound, one that stays the same.

[moid]

Maybe I’m just all jacked up from Game of Thrones but can you imagine if this thread was made about the “normal” guitar?

Hey guys what pedals do I need to play guitar? I’ll be playing music with it!

Meh, guitars aren't really essential, you can have a piano, or a sax or a organ for a main instrument, bass instruments serve a purpose. Just look at most bands that are just guitar and drums... They suck ass.

Check out Gay Witch Abortion, though-they’re killer! Real cool two piece guitar/drums band

and Lightning Bolt too! amazing free rock noise guitar and drums band!

[moid]

Back on track, I like to use lots of reverb on bass to turn it into a sub frequency wall of sound, but then record a clean bass channel as well and blend them together in a DAW so I can slowly shift from clean bass to verbed to hell bass drone swells.

[Eivind August]

Maybe I’m just all jacked up from Game of Thrones but can you imagine if this thread was made about the “normal” guitar?

Hey guys what pedals do I need to play guitar? I’ll be playing music with it!

Meh, guitars aren't really essential, you can have a piano, or a sax or a organ for a main instrument, bass instruments serve a purpose. Just look at most bands that are just guitar and drums... They suck ass.

Check out Gay Witch Abortion, though-they’re killer! Real cool two piece guitar/drums band

and Lightning Bolt too! amazing free rock noise guitar and drums band!

Ligthtning Bolt is bass, though. And speaking of the purpose of an instrument seems a bit snooty, though I agree that bass instruments serve an important role. You're all being replaced by modular synths anyway.

[DADGBD]

Mini = ALWAYS

and/or
Harmonic Percolator
Rat (that I'm tempted to mod to Turbo Rat specs, to get the most of)

Though lately, I've been playing through my Traynor TS-50B annnnnnnd I've been very happy plugging straight in. So there's that...

[Jwar]

I use the Xerograph Deluxe a lot, now that I know how to wrangle it. But it did cost me a speaker.

Bro I've blown multiple speakers with effects. I feel your pain!

[Ghost Hip]

My favorite combo was ss/bs Buzzz->TAFM->???->Sansamp or other preamp.

Buzzz set for a mids/harmonics heavy fuzz when I had to play distortion but low end wasn't important.
TAFM set for huge gated crushing fuzz for when I needed low end.
??? I would swap a new pedal in every now and then for noisy parts. DBA echo dream II, Boss BF-2, Count to Five, Wizard of Pitch. Something to get weird with.
Pre-amp - Always on tone shaper. I had a Sansamp with the three footswitchable presets, one default tone, and two others slightly modified from the default setting I used in case the sound on stage was different.

[BoatRich]

My bass rig has been HM-2, a boost, and a Sansamp for a minute now so I guess that? Also a chorus, because chorus is sick.

[nogodsnobedtimes]

chorus is sick.

Absolutely

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeeesss chorus