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Teaching myself bass guitar...
tomselleck69:
Boss and Ibanez make bass overdrive pedals and MXR makes a bass fuzz, all 3 can be found for under 100 bucks.
Boss pedals are pretty reliable in general. MXRs are also reliable and maybe a little more "unique" than Boss pedals. I've never used the Ibanez pedal, but I own another one from the Tone-Loc series and it is sturdy as hell, if a little hollow-sounding (it's not a distortion or a bass pedal so I don't know if there's any comparison here). The Ibanez is the cheapest, but if price is not a concern, I'd lean toward the MXR or the Boss.
Couldn't find much in the way of bass-specific reverb (except for a couple expensive ones), but I know Danelectro makes some basic reverb pedals that are both dirt cheap and very nice-sounding when a guitar is played through them.
Uh.. I mean, don't buy effects pedals until you have been playing for a while.
parm:
--- Quote from: tomselleck69 on 04 Aug 2008, 19:42 ---Uh.. I mean, don't buy effects pedals until you have been playing for a while.
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This.
I use a Bass Pod XT Live for pretty well everything (I've actually been known to ditch the separate amp/cab and use in-ear monitors and the amp/cap emulation in the Pod in smaller venues; it's not ideal, but it sure does make sound engineers happy and it means you can be as loud as you like without fucking up the mix).
Phaedra:
--- Quote from: parm on 05 Aug 2008, 00:34 ---
--- Quote from: tomselleck69 on 04 Aug 2008, 19:42 ---Uh.. I mean, don't buy effects pedals until you have been playing for a while.
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This.
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Well yeah, but it's still fun to see what's out there to be played with. I'm definitely not (and probably won't be for a number of years) confident enough to be playing to an audience; it's a dilettante hobby for me.
Addendum: Out of curiosity, what would you define as "a while"?
pwhodges:
--- 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.
parm:
--- Quote from: Phaedra on 05 Aug 2008, 05:29 ---
--- Quote from: parm on 05 Aug 2008, 00:34 ---
--- Quote from: tomselleck69 on 04 Aug 2008, 19:42 ---Uh.. I mean, don't buy effects pedals until you have been playing for a while.
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This.
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Well yeah, but it's still fun to see what's out there to be played with. I'm definitely not (and probably won't be for a number of years) confident enough to be playing to an audience; it's a dilettante hobby for me.
Addendum: Out of curiosity, what would you define as "a while"?
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I dunno. I was going to write a load of wank about how you should get to know your instrument properly before fucking up its tone with effects, but really, if you just want to get together with some mates and jam, just go for it because if you start getting bogged down with purist muso crap now, you'll never actually enjoy to whole playing in a band thing.
So I guess my actual recommendation would be to, y'know, just do whatever now. Have fun, jam, make riotous noise that everyone else hates but you think is awesome and just enjoy that whole thing, because playing in a band is really, really fun. Then once you're more comfortable around your instrument you can start paying more attention to how it really sounds and start worrying about tone and technique and matching effects to tone and all that.
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