Hi Everyone,
Hopefully the collective wisdom of the forum can help me here-I'm a bass player & use a Trace Elliot GP7 SM 150 amp with a 2 x 12" cab, I don't use any effects pedals. I recently bought an old Gibson Explorer 6 string just to mess around on so what I would like to know is: what make & type of pedal would I need to buy to get that nice warm distortion crunch through my bass gear without spending a fortune?
I have done a bit of research, reading reviews & looking at the many tutorials on YouTube but the choice seems quite bewildering to someone not already fluent in such things. One pedal, the Boss DS1 keeps cropping up together with it's Keeley modification but several reviews say that it is outdated technology-is this true? Perhaps I need something other than a distortion altogether? To give an example of the sound & tone I'm looking for I would say that classic Gibson sound-Michael Schenker, Steve Jones, Thin Lizzy etc. Looking forward to hearing from you,
John.
Hopefully the collective wisdom of the forum can help me here-I'm a bass player & use a Trace Elliot GP7 SM 150 amp with a 2 x 12" cab, I don't use any effects pedals. I recently bought an old Gibson Explorer 6 string just to mess around on so what I would like to know is: what make & type of pedal would I need to buy to get that nice warm distortion crunch through my bass gear without spending a fortune?
I have done a bit of research, reading reviews & looking at the many tutorials on YouTube but the choice seems quite bewildering to someone not already fluent in such things. One pedal, the Boss DS1 keeps cropping up together with it's Keeley modification but several reviews say that it is outdated technology-is this true? Perhaps I need something other than a distortion altogether? To give an example of the sound & tone I'm looking for I would say that classic Gibson sound-Michael Schenker, Steve Jones, Thin Lizzy etc. Looking forward to hearing from you,
John.