Most versatile musical distortion pedal for bass?

[Fuzz_Pi]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm

Metal muff? Duh.

[jrmy]

FWIW, Sunmachine made an Ezekiel clone recently - it may still be available: http://sunmachine-effects.blogspot.com/ ... clone.html

[theavondon]

lol@him being disappointed with it

[jrmy]

lol@him being disappointed with it

Right? Although he tried it on guitar, and if you look at the other clones he's built himself, it's a cornucopia of heaviosity.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I'd also recommend the Black Arts Toneworks - Black Forest. It's getting rave reviews on bass, goes from awesome clean boost, to light od, to full on gnar fuzz! Simple bass and treble eq with the added awesomeness of a 6 way depth switch. Tones a plenty in that wicked lil box!

[sev]

I used to own a 'Zeke. It was well built. But, I'll put a helmet on and a mouthpiece in before I say that I think it's a little over-rated.
Out of the 4 settings, one of them was great, another was ok, and I found two of them no good to my ears.
The best thing about it was the clean blend, but you can buy a blender pedal to use with any of your dirt.
I actually liked it as a guitar overdrive better than I liked it on bass.

If it was a normally priced pedal, I'd have no problem with it.....but for what they sell for ($500-700 last time I looked), it is totally not worth the money IMHO.

I recently got a DS-1 that was modded for bass. It's perfect, it breaks up at just the right frequency, has decent low end, and is very distortion-y (vs fuzz).
I paid $30.

[D.o.S.]

I think the 'Zeke is the one pedal I'd own with a clean blend... if it was free.

That clone has an awful layout compared to the original, though.