I don't know what it is about it, but playing it through the HM-2 just always rubbed me the wrong way, and it's odd because I love it on my guitar, it's one of my main pedals. I'm joining a band on bass and I have to figure out what kind of distortion I want in my rig, so I"ll probably give it another go. So far I've like the DS-1 or big muff best, and I even like my MXR dist+.

Old School Days

HM-2 - I liked it at the time cause it actually had a bass knob on it. Big round tone

Rat - 2X - before HM-2 nice tone lots of bite one for overdrive one for distortions. Chorus between.

Fuzz Box after all thease boxes for added flavor

These days

I like the XXL bass Distortion and the XXL Guitar distortion they have relpaced the rats (1 for blur one for bite)

Zoom Ultra Fuzz

Think the bass pickups have a lot to do with what sounds good. Regular percision pickups probibly would want something different than a jazz.

I think the big muff has good potential for a bass distortion. I have a modified russian big muff, with germaniums diodes. What this does it clip faster, more or less. It ends up with a lot more dynamics and a different sound at a lower total output volume. With the two germaniums I pretty much have to peg the volume, but overall there seems to be more dynamics in teh sound. I think If you put germaniums as the first set and kept silicon for the second set of clipping diodes you would get a happy middle ground. You could also change the tone stack a tad if you wanted

here is some more info
http://www.student.ru.nl/r.kerkhof/Taas ... 20Muff.htm

The Rocktron Metal Planet.
You won't be sorry. I'll bet you can find one for $75 on ebay.

It's distortion, or fuzz.
It's subtle, or it can peel paint.
It has a 4 band EQ that sweeps from one end of the spectrum to the other. I've used mine to make Sabbath growl and then to mimic Tracey Pew playing Dead Joe.

It's pretty solidly built too.
Plus the LED's blue, and that's what matters the most, right?

-A

I got a really cool bass sound when I used a Crate 1x12 practice guitar amp with the gain and volume set equal at around 3o'clock, lots of treble and very little mid/bass. Really clear and crisp yet not overpowering. One of the better bass sounds I've laid down on the 4-track cassette deck.

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:good thing to..
i've always hated the way electroharmonix pedals look

foolish bastard!

nope...too big..shit metal..weak cases i'm afraid
nice paint job, but i give two shits for paint jobs

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:nope...too big..shit metal..weak cases i'm afraid
nice paint job, but i give two shits for paint jobs

I gotta second this, though I have a soft spot for EHx. Unfortunately they have a soft spot for me, right in the middle of their cases. A cast metal version of their shit would RULE. I haven't tried any of their new Nano pedals or whatever, but they are at least smaller and conveniently sized.

i'd suggest checking out the sanford and sonny bluebeard fuzz/od.

bass players in mastodon, torche, and russian circles are using it.

super nice low end and great grit. can get out of control sometimes, but just have to master it like any other good piece of gear.

links:

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... +Fuzz/10/1
http://www.myspace.com/sanfordandsonny
http://www.atomicmusiconline.com/bluebeard.asp

this stupid thing (i wouldn't call it a distortion) was a great deal of help with a shit hartke..



this is the version i used..


i'm sure you could do better..but it freaks the amp input and dosen't break and was free..

i brought it to spain