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tomselleck69:
Yeah the "don't buy anything till later" rule is a lot more applicable when you're talking to a beginner who is convinced he needs really exotic effects. The point is to remind you that having a somewhat decent command of your instrument comes before you start playing with toys, and to keep you from spending too much in case you find you don't like it later on. Overdrive and reverb are not particularly exotic (they come standard on many amps), and I think wanting those pedals after 6 months of playing is pretty reasonable. Otherwise I wouldn't have recommended 3 of them.

That said, if you start to feel you need a compressor pedal or a volume pedal, take a deep breath, count to 10, and then wait a few years.

Phaedra:

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--- Quote from: Phaedra on 04 Aug 2008, 19:05 ---just bored kids. Kids that are over 21.
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Your avatar captures that rather well.

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Cheers. :lol:

And thanks for the help y'all. Considering the part about amps coming already equipped with those effects, I may just go that route.

Ballard:
What you should look into, though, is a bass EQ (equalizer) pedal.

They're a fucking godsend and I'd even say they're more useful than guitar equalizers.

Be forewarned though that they're not in the "fun" category of pedals that make wacky noises come out of your amp. They just make your bass sound a hell of a lot better once you learn how to use them.

parm:
Yeah, and I'd probably put an EQ down as something to worry about once you've actually got the hang of your instrument and have started worrying about tone and that. I mean, fuck, I've been playing bass for 12 years and 99% of the time I just set the EQ to what I know works and leave it.

Mars:
Yeah, if you're a bass noob an EQ is probably going to be mostly useless. When you need one you'll get one, and until then you probably won't know what to do with it anyway.

I love Line6 gear. Bass Pod is a lot of fun to screw around with. Mostly you can probably just do without effects pedals for now, though. When it comes to gear I believe in buying what you need; in other words, you get the effects that you want in order to find the sound that you're looking for. That's always worked for me in the past, but then I'm a bit crazy and I usually have a very clearly defined idea of exactly what tone I'm going for in my head. So I can just do my best to emulate it with the real world stuff.

YMMV.

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