I've already got a Micro Synthesizer and a Bit Commander, i think i'll have to wait at least five more pedals until i get the next octaver / pitch shifter. They're my favorite type of effect, though (besides the compressor and the reel saturator which i have running all the time, but i'm at the point where everything that doesn't sound like Soulwax on the tail end of a bad trip counts as dry signal).
Transistor amps are more common in bass setups than among guitarists, and back when i played live a lot, i came across some transistor amps that had a really great, well-defined sound. But the high-end stuff often has at least a tube preamp, and then there's these refrigerator-sized all-tube Ampeg stacks that you see in a lot of professional setups. I usually play through a Mark Bass Vintage tube preamp, which is just the pedalboard version of one of their normal heads, missing only the power amp, comes complete with effects loop and a bunch of different outputs. I like that a lot, it sounds good, it's versatile and i can use the same setup for practicing at home through headphones and for playing DI when i get around to jamming in my friends' studio again once everybody's vaxxed. I think if i'd get into a band again where playing DI isn't a thing, i'd just get a seperate poweramp and use it with the preamp on my board, it's really convenient when you ignore that my pedalboard suitcase weighs as much as a small rhino now.
That's actually what i'm getting next, it's already in the mail.
tbh get something like the digitech whammy or an octave pedal and do the thing that royal blood does
I've already got a Micro Synthesizer and a Bit Commander, i think i'll have to wait at least five more pedals until i get the next octaver / pitch shifter. They're my favorite type of effect, though (besides the compressor and the reel saturator which i have running all the time, but i'm at the point where everything that doesn't sound like Soulwax on the tail end of a bad trip counts as dry signal).
have you gotten into tube amps? are those a thing for basses?
Transistor amps are more common in bass setups than among guitarists, and back when i played live a lot, i came across some transistor amps that had a really great, well-defined sound. But the high-end stuff often has at least a tube preamp, and then there's these refrigerator-sized all-tube Ampeg stacks that you see in a lot of professional setups. I usually play through a Mark Bass Vintage tube preamp, which is just the pedalboard version of one of their normal heads, missing only the power amp, comes complete with effects loop and a bunch of different outputs. I like that a lot, it sounds good, it's versatile and i can use the same setup for practicing at home through headphones and for playing DI when i get around to jamming in my friends' studio again once everybody's vaxxed. I think if i'd get into a band again where playing DI isn't a thing, i'd just get a seperate poweramp and use it with the preamp on my board, it's really convenient when you ignore that my pedalboard suitcase weighs as much as a small rhino now.