planning a small pedal board for bass

[Mudfuzz]

What kind of music are you playing?

totally forgot to mention in the first post. you get 10 points for asking a useful question

hardcore and/or skramz, maybe doom agaim, and maybe some punk 'n' roll.

I've been playing bass for, fuck, 25 years.. And there is no good answer, no one but you and answer this type of thing, it's one of those best bass of metal things.. you just have to ask yourself what sound do I want, then comes the hard fucking part, does it work with a band? So many pedals fail at this for bass. so try first the dirt you love the sound of, and get a really long cord or wireless, so when you jam with someone you can get as far from amps/drums as you can and see how you sit in the mix and adjust your rig from there..

[PanicProne]

I take back everything I said. Read Mudfuzz post instead.

[waltdogg]

mudfuzz and bossman pretty much got it right. what works for me, works for me. but telling me i need this or i need that is utterly pointless.

i was asking for utility pedals and got suggestions for sub octave, bit crushers, etc

[Jwar]

mudfuzz and bossman pretty much got it right. what works for me, works for me. but telling me i need this or i need that is utterly pointless.

i was asking for utility pedals and got suggestions for sub octave, bit crushers, etc

You need moar fuzz. Nothing else matters but fuzz.

[Jwar]

I could say that if you don't use a comp or limiter it may be super useful to have. If I played in a band, like legit played out. I'd probably have like 2 or 3 pedals max. My board is just for fun. I don't have a need for any of it. I think for a bass player in most situations, you can get away with an overdrive, delay (which you probably don't even need), compressor and maybe a fuzz if your band needs one. If you are into funk type music or industrial stuff, then an envelope filter would be good as well.

For me, the pedals would be-

FEA DE-CL or Opti Fet
Darkglass B7K or Dr. Scientist The Elements, and a Boss delay.

[actual]

As a synth player who also plays bass, I'm all about a particular sound for each song almost. I'll make songs using a flanger and/or chorus the whole time, envelope filters and different flavours of those, phasers for psych stuff and as an alternative to envelope filters, dirt post and pre modulation/filters, modulation post and pre dirt, comp, different octavers/subharmonizers etc. all of that adds up. I'd also most likely never use delay or reverb.

[JonnyAngle]

Take everything off your board.

Go: Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, amp

[rustywire]

mudfuzz and bossman pretty much got it right. what works for me, works for me. but telling me i need this or i need that is utterly pointless.

i was asking for utility pedals and got suggestions for sub octave, bit crushers, etc

Heynow, you were given suggestion for utility and face melting sub octave!
Every bass board should have a BitQuest. There's also that. Like a compressor, really.
Those recommendations stand for any style of music. There's utility to be found at every turn.
The Meatbox not so much...although you can use BitQuest to get a sub-octave which is what I currently use in lieu of the MB...it's better to have massive sub-octave after BitQuest if at all possible an option

[waltdogg]

yeah i think i'm gonna get a comp (maybe another accountant) and a maybe another ct5. just to make you all happy.

[Invisible Man]

Mini, tuner, Ct5 would be an ultra dope bass board. Extra points for symmetry.

Also wanted to say I don't get the 'they're just tools, get the right one for the job' idea. This is a fun and wasteful thing that we do. There are pretty much no pro musicians here, so we do this shit because it's fun and we like to bullshit about crazy/gear sounds. It's cool to be utilitarian...but if that were the case you'd go to GC and buy whatever was in the case. I don't obsessively research and watch demos of reciprocating saws before I buy one. I go to the store and pick the cheapest one that'll do the job.

Pedals are instruments, too, is I guess what I'm getting at.

[waltdogg]

instruments, toys, whatever you wanna call em. gear is gear.

[Invisible Man]

If that were true, none of us would be here.

[actual]

instruments, toys, whatever you wanna call em. gear is gear.

Is music creation even fun for you? I'm genuinely curious.

[frigid midget]

Even more so than with guitar, effects for bass depend on your particular band/style imo.

I could personally easily get by with just a hotcake and a cs-3. Anything else, like envelope filters, chorus, or delay/verb, would just annoy my band mates, be at the expense of low end, make things muddy, or all the above

Effects on guitar can add something different. Effects on bass mask your tone and tend to kill the attack/punch imo. Ymmv ofcourse, like I said, totally up to personal preference and taste.

One last thing, a question of my own out of curiousity: Doesnt the mini make the average bass sound scratchy/thin/fuzzy, in a way that may be desirable for guitar, but not at all for bass?

[Chankgeez]

Take everything off your board.

Go: Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, Fuzz, amp

Duck, Duck, Goose?

(I actually approve of your proposed signal chain, btw.)