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[Jan Deal]

Does anyone have tips? When I've tried to record my bass through a big muff, i can never get a good defined sound, it's either too muddy or too trebly. I usually go bass > Big Muff > Pod v2.0 > 4 track.

I've also tried using the fuzz setting on the pod, but it's a bit rubbish.

[Hogisbald]

The Muse bassist has a cool fuzz sound. I think its one of those fancy pod rack thingys he uses though

[betamax]

a proco rat sounds good on bass

[soundian]

Try a different bass.

[David]

to my knowledge the bassist in muse uses a big muff pi

i have been trying to find a good fuzzy bass sound too lately

the proco rat is quite nice on bass, not exactly the sound i am trying to find myself, but the best out of the pedals i have, and definately worth a try at least (i have tried a high quality fuzz face clone, zvex fuzz factory, rat, marshall amp)

i am intending making a fuzz pedal sometime, so i will see how well that works on bass

if you can afford it, the zvex wooly mammoth looks awesome, only problems being the price (£200 odd i think) and the lack of an led (which should be fixed soetime soon)

one thing i would like to try is something to put half the signal through the fuzz, but leave half of it clean, so you get both the nice fuzzy sound, but also the clear defined clean sound, another diy plan for the future...

David

[spellchecker]

the pod alone can make quite nice fuzzy sounds, just play with the different amp simulators, not the fuzz one. for example, here's a preset i have for a nice distorted bass (apologies if you don't have some of the knobs, i have a pod pro rack thingy):


Amp: Rectified
Drive: 8.30pm
Bass: 1pm
Middle: 11.30pm
Treble: 12pm

Effect: Compressor
Effect Tweak: 12pm

all the times represent the position of the knobs, so 12pm would be bang centre (sorry i'm simple like that).

just play with the drive, bass, middle and treble knobs and see what you come up with. i've also had a lot of success with the tube pre amp simulator setting.

[jon]

I know it's pretty obvious, but the Boss ODB isn't a bad way to go either - you have a blend control to mix the clean and distorted sound, and if you put the gain up high but blend in only 5% of the distorted sound, you get a defined fuzz sound without the bottom end vanishing.

[Keilan 303]

The Shredmaster pedal sounds awesome for the bass, dunno if its the sound you are after though....

[Jan Deal]

Cheers for all the advice... I think I'll try Spellcheckers pod settings before investing in another fuzz box. Or I might hassle the bass player into doing the investing.

[MTA]

Chris (Muse Bassist) uses clean bass from amp 1, Microsynth (square wave setting) and a bit of fuzz. then just mixed together in amp 2. recording it, Take the clean Amp mic ch 1, DI into the FX into Ch 2 the FX can have the bottom rolled off to stop it altering the clean bass, The fx is blended in to the clean until you have the right sound..