Can ANY Guitar Pedal Work On Bass? 🤔

Can't find bass pedals you like? Maybe you should try guitar pedals! But BE WARNED, there are some things to watch out for when using pedals on bass, that's what this video is all about.

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Used in this video:
Ibanez TS10, JHS modded Digitech Bad Monkey, Visual Sound Comp 66, Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food, MIM Fender Jazz.
iPhone 14 pro, Ableton Live 10, Davinci Resolve 18.

0:00 Coming up...
0:17 In a world
0:41 The answer
1:00 Preamp pedals
3:13 Compression pedals
5:32 Dirt pedals w/two-band EQ
9:46 Dirt pedals w/clean blend

[MrTheWimmer]

A boss LS-2 should be on every bass players board. Makes any and all pedals have a blend knob.

[rogertinker]

I could not do without my favorite, and sometimes only bass pedal I use. The boss GEB-7 equalizer . Thanks for the informative video

[WilDBeestMF]

The Bad Monkey honestly sounds and retains better than all of them. Damn it, Josh..

[tristantalksmusic]

Hey Dave! I'm working my ass off on bass. I have a music degree and I'm doing well. What are your favorite bass education YouTube channels?? Cheers 🎉

[alexskibicki]

Awesome clip, Dave. I’ve tried some guitar effects on bass and they were fun to experiment with. I once tried a metal zone on bass and I think it sounds killer. Though not ideal for bass, but it is fun to play around with. Now I got a darkglass microtubes x7 and a source audio aftershock. Both phenomenal bass distortion pedals

[entyzst]

Recently been using a Boss DS1 as ultra dist, it does cut lows but with eq around 3\4 o'clock you get them kinda back. But you need to push dirt up to 10 so it squashes pretty nicely for metal sound. OCD is great one too for dirting it up albeit not as bright.

[trunks]

Tech 21 sans amp. Same one you have. It’s my svt rig in a box. Love mine so much I got a rbi rack into a power amp for my live and recording rig. Don’t use a amp no problem xlr out and good to go haha.

[Durkhead]

The boss ceb-3 bass chorus works really good for high gain guitars

[JMK-kbyq]

I just found your channel today. I subbed immediately. Great content. Btw I use a $34 Caline Wine Cellar for my preamp with a $50 EHX Knockout pedal as sort of a Sonic maximizer. Sounds monstrous.

[Homie]

I picked up a demonfx darkglass clone and it's filled a spot between my vaderin kroaked and a joyo rat clone. Was trying to get a sound between Suffer Through by Movements, Grown Ups, and Im Okay (x3) by Swordfish. Lots of grunt and lots of tweaking 😆

[declanturner]

What would be the signal chain when using a preamp direct?


Would it be effects infront of the preamp and preamp into mixer?

So basa, effects, preamp micer?

Loved the video 😁

[Azajndo]

Is that an epiphone ripper bass @1:19?

[pirhala]

Nobels, That’s a great pedal for bass

[wesmitchem]

I don't care what club or arena I play I'm not leaving my sound up to anyone but myself and will never go without my amp I've paid and experimented for way too long to just give it up

[zeusapollo]

I use the tube screamer as a bass pre direct to console

[robertavila]

a question that has haunted me, since 2014

[JakeStrange]

Well, definitely not all pedals work for bass.
I have a Vox tonelab st that is nearly impossible to get a good bass sound from.
It's actually not even a great pedal for guitar IMO...not terrible, just not great.
But for bass, don't even waste your time trying.

[richardstober]

Bass sounds better with an amp. People are just getting lazy.