dirty bass / bass distortion / that perfect tone

[SteveDVActon]

how you get yours ? For years I had the age old problem of getting great distortion but losing al the bottom end. If you havent got the cash to run a dual amp set up, i.e a bass amp for the bottom end and a guitar amp to generate the distortion, get a SANSAMP Programmable bass DI. With out doubt a must have. Loads of great tones but it has that all important blend dial to mix your clean bass signal with the distorted. F**cking awesome

WELCOME TO TECH 21 NYC - GUITAR AMPS - BASS AMPS - SANS AMP - EFFECTS AND MIDI

[Tom DV Romford]

There are 2 things you need for a real nasty distorted bass sound:

Tech21 Bass Driver DI Bass Pre Amp Pedal and DI Bo at DV247.COM

Boss ODB3 Bass Overdrive at DV247.COM - has separate controls for the low end and the trebble, also if your running an EQ pedal you can boost the low mids nicely when mixed with this - a must have in my opnion.

Has anyone else got any suggestions - maybe some amplifier suggestions?

Tom

[jamesofthefamousyard]

Firstly, the pedals that I like the sound of with bass are Big Muff, Lovetone Big Cheese and (strangely!) the old Boss Distortion yellow pedal. I've got round the bottom end problem like this...

My amp has an active and a passive input. I put the bass into input A of and A-B box, with output A going to the passive input, and output B going to a small chain of pedals going to the active input. The pedals I used are the Big Cheese, eq pedal and a Lovetone Doppelganger (obviously you don't need this for distortion!). You can set the eq to compensate for the distortion pedal and use the A-B box to kick them both in at once, using the output on the eq to match the levels. If your amp doesn't have two inputs, there are pedals out there which just provide a true bypass loop, so you can switch in a whole chain at once. There is this one TheGigRig Loopy 2

This is quite expensive but I'm sure you can find cheaper equivalents.

[terminal3]

The ProCo RAT works pretty well on bass too. There are a few flavours, I have the traditional RAT II. Best part is that it's cheap, relatively speaking!

[JAYDMF]

What about the Big muff, friend of mine had one and it sounded filthy

[TrevCircleStudios]

for recording or live?