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I would really love to make by bass sound like two pieces of steel slapping into each other, a la very early Swans and other such industrial tomfoolery.

How do?

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFR_eBXK3p0[/youtube]

Rusty Box

Boss hyper fuzz

Honestly, that's exactly what it sounded like when I tried a VT Bass through my Genz-Benz amp.

Also, check out the EHX Steel Leather, it adds a shitload of high-mids when you crank it, and it gets stupid clanky.

Casavettes wrote:Boss hyper fuzz

I currently run my bass through one for all the fuzzy tracks in my band. Not quite what I mean by metallic. Less about saturation and dirt and more about eq and pickups I guess? I want a harsh attack and short decay. Pretty much exactly like that swans song...I just do not get how he is making those sounds!

Will have to try that steel leather.

WeHuntKings wrote:

Casavettes wrote:Boss hyper fuzz

I currently run my bass through one for all the fuzzy tracks in my band. Not quite what I mean by metallic. Less about saturation and dirt and more about eq and pickups I guess? I want a harsh attack and short decay. Pretty much exactly like that swans song...I just do not get how he is making those sounds!

Will have to try that steel leather.

Maybe something with a nice EQ section will do the job? Like what joe suggested with the rusty box

When both knobs get cranked up pretty high, it sounds really clangy and stringy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9IwCrsrySg[/youtube]

bigchiefbc wrote:When both knobs get cranked up pretty high, it sounds really clangy and stringy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9IwCrsrySg[/youtube]

Well, shit. That's about it. I imagine something with a gnarly bridge pick up would help too? I bet this pedal sounds awesome on guitar too.

I'm broadening the spectrum of this discussion a bit.

What are some good pedals to get a really crushing synth bass sound? Like drum n' bass type shit?

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yTDf07byXPI[/youtube]

I often wondered about combining a Rusty Box with an Iron Ether Oxide. The rusty would get there by itself but something like an Oxide added would melt faces.

WeHuntKings wrote:I'm broadening the spectrum of this discussion a bit.

What are some good pedals to get a really crushing synth bass sound? Like drum n' bass type shit?

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yTDf07byXPI[/youtube]

The closest I've ever gotten to that stacked-oscillator synth bass tone is this one:

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/bigchiefbc/synth-bass-clip[/soundcloud]

But it wasn't just one pedal, it was a bunch of them. A synth, a fuzz, and octave, a chorus and a flanger, I think. The flanger could be omitted, I'm just a mod whore.

EDIT::

I knew I took a picture of that signal chain. Here it is:

Shit. I'm gonna need to go shopping. I knew I shouldn't have got rid of my behringer bass synth. What fuzz were you using?

WeHuntKings wrote:Shit. I'm gonna need to go shopping. I knew I shouldn't have got rid of my behringer bass synth. What fuzz were you using?

a fOXX Tone Machine clone.

bigchiefbc wrote:

WeHuntKings wrote:[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/bigchiefbc/synth-bass-clip[/soundcloud]

But it wasn't just one pedal, it was a bunch of them. A synth, a fuzz, and octave, a chorus and a flanger, I think. The flanger could be omitted, I'm just a mod whore.

EDIT::

I knew I took a picture of that signal chain. Here it is:

Damn that's good!

The fz-2 could work but it is almost in a way tooo fuzzy.. For industrial the guitar should be fuzzed out and the bass just distorted. Honestly, I cheapo distortion would get you in industrial bass realm, but an elements wouldnt hurt!