Now you have your solution Josh, just add a "bass" toggle to all pedals that gives a XdB boost to bass frequencies post-effect. Boom, all pedals are now bass pedals.
Josh! Thank you so much for a bass pedal episode ! As a bassist for 40 plus years I religiously watch your channel ! I very much appreciate what you do ! Thank you for having such a great personality and sense of humor !
Mutemath had such a massive influence on me so having Roy on this show is freaking awesome Edit: That entire Zoom pedal jam was INSANELY awesome. Every bass tone and riff absolutely killer
Today’s jams were head and shoulders above any you’ve done before (and there have been some great ones in the past) also Roy is such a laidback delight to watch and listen to, excellent work guys.
I really enjoyed this episode, and i get your thesis that "all pedals are bass pedals". Roy is a treasure. At the same time, finally seeing a title like "How To Use Pedals For Bass Guitar" on the JHS podcast and seeing maybe one bass specific pedals is a little disappointing. I get that JHS had a bad experience trying to sell a bass pedals, but maybe we could get some nods to modern pedals designed with bass in mind.Things in the bass world have changed over the last few years.
IMO I think that was sort of the point, it's not much of a guide to say "just use bass centric pedals" because that's quite obvious and perpetuates the myth that guitar pedals can't be used on bass and vice versa. I do agree though it would be cool to see an episode on something like darkglass effects or even the Dunlop Bass wah and just use a bass for the demo
I have been playing electric for just a few years and just started playing bass and this video has been such a huge inspiration! You have introduced me to so many bass sounds I never imagined. I just got the moonshine V2 for bass but now I need to try it on my morning glory! I love all the JHS videos... I have a bunch of your pedals and you have taught me SO much. Thank you! :)
On stompboxes for bass: post-FX bass adjustment is one thing. The other thing is just plain volume adjustment. Many fx just lead to a small increase/decrease of volume, which might be irrelevant if you're a guitar player and already blasting out in your solo and being upfront everybody else. But as a bass player I provide the basis, the cushion, the foundation for everything else. The density and the thump should not drop when I engage any pedal. So I need a sensitive volume knob to compensate for any volume change induced by the fx. Sometimes there are volume knobs, that cover a very wide range vom 0 to 200%. That's nonsense. A stompbox needs an adjustment knob for +/- 6db, unity at 12:00, that's enough.
Old video came on my autoplay in the background, but I had to stop and comment on how great Nick’s drumming was with Roy demoing the Bass Balls. Bass player’s dream to play with a musical drummer like him.
The advice to run effects in parallell or send a dry signal to font of house is in my opinion a testimony that some guitar pedals don't work for bass (without a workaround). How often do you have to bypass your tubescreamer with a clean signal to get a decent sound when you play guitar? That said, some pedals like the big muff work for bass without problem so yeah try everything and be creative to make it work.
Exactly. This, and I don’t want another pedal (in this case an EQ pedal) ONLY for the sake of adding more low end. There’s so many other pedals that provide a blend or even a bass knob that’ll make the EQ pedal obsolete (for the narrow purpose of adding low end that is).
Some great jams. Also, I've played bass finger style forever,(I'm 65) and recently started to put the pick in my arsenal and I'm totally down with it.And it's bringing new things out in my playing.Never too old for learning some new things.
This conversation was everything I dreamed of! Well done. Roy has always been one of my all-time favorite bassists. We need more videos for us bass players!
Hey Josh, thanks for thinking of us bass players. There’s a ton of information to chew on here. This episode in particular made me really appreciate your guitar playing and approach. And don’t forget, Roger Waters used the bass balls for quite a few of his songs with Pink Floyd.
As a bass player for 36 years, the best advice I ever received was about 32 years ago. Words to the effect of “use EQ in stages: Pre, post, and in between (as a boost)” Also, “get a compressor or two, learn when and how to use them.” Boring “effects” are powerful on bass. One needs a solid foundation first, then work overdrives, fuzz, and modulation into the system accordingly. I use effects loops for bass more than guitar. Parallel signal paths with clean direct tone mixed in are magic for bass.
Gear gives you more colors to paint with, but it doesn’t make you a better artist. I think that’s the moral of this episode. Love Mutemath btw! Such a phenomenal live band. First time I saw them live I was just in awe of how badass they were. It was an experience that definitely had such a significant effect on me.
I made the biggest mistake of my life missing this live stream two years ago, but I've played this a bunch of times over for the jams, so I'm trying too make up for it! The Zoom 506 jam is so freaking great. Roy, Nick, and Josh are a powerhouse trio. If they released an album I would buy one for me and one for each and everyone I know and love. Thanks for this inspiration, y'all.
I kinda wish we had more shots from the top during the jams so we could see setting of your pedal flow and settings and have the desktop more organized instead of the plethora of pedals not in the chain.
I have the Zoom BFX708 (similar to the 506 w/exp pedal), used it for years. I read somewhere that those were semi analog, because the digital technology were not very advanced, so the hybrid approach were best. Now I use it to channel both outputs on my Chapman Stick into a mono output. It's the only unit that does that I have. Had been repaired many times for soldering issues (cold solder) but otherwise a workhorse.
Boss line selector was always the trick to keep the low end and dial in whatever dirt you wanted from a pedal. The one time crossing the streams is a good thing.
The Teleprompt version of the self-titled Mutemath album is my desert-island album. Love the whole Mutemath discography, and love Roy as a bassist and guitarist. Seeing Roy on here made my day. EDIT: @JHSPedals The self-titled album was released in a batch of 1000 in 2006, and another 1000 in 2016. But yeah, it took about a month for prices of the reissue to reach original pressing resale prices.
My brother and I had the same experience with stacking a bass EQ at the end years ago. We were chasing after that Failure Heliotropic tone, and despite the different possible combinations we’d read on forums online (a Rat, a Green Russian, a Rat and a Green Russian, two Rats), the one thing each speculation had in common was a bass EQ at the end of the chain to add lows back in. My brother ended up buying the Behringer clone of the Boss bass EQ, we threw it after his deuce tone Rat (we cascaded the channels) and just nailed that tone. Fun times.
Years ago, before i shut down My FB profile, i wrote to mutemath FB page asking when they gonna come to south america, and the one who respond my question was Roy in a perfect spanish... Cool guy and one of the best bass players i ever heard... Todo lo mejor Roy! Sos un grande!
not that anybody asked, but... my bass pedal board consists of Boss DD-7, Boss CEB-3, EHX Cock Fight, EHX Expression Pedal, EHX Bass Big Muff Pi, ProCo Rat 2, Boss ODB-3, Boss OC-3, Boss SY-1, Digitech Whammy Bass and Morley M2 Wah/Volume (still to come obviously)
This was insanely inspiring. Roy is the best! I LOVED the sounds he got with the Zoom. Also, I love my Morning Glory on bass... gotta try the EQ trick 😎👍
Waow this was refreshing! Thx. Awesome subject choice for all us bass players who like to be inspired by sound effects and know pedal boards aren't exclusively for lead guitarists! In my experience most pedals sold as "bass pedals" are rarely of the same quality as the so called "guitar pedals" (of course there are exceptions), and imho that's a shame, but some of Roy's remarks were spot on! So yeah, I'm not much of a technician, but why is it that most pedals take away that much low end of the sound? Also the jams themselves were really great and make me wanna listen to Mutemath. And as always the ever enjoyable personality of Josh is a real plus, it's such a rarity in this world of egocentric people - including youtube vloggers - to come across someone genuinely humble. Btw you guys said "Fascination Street" is maybe your favourite Cure song, then I can't help myself of recommending to listen to the b-side of the ep, cause "Babble" is arguably even better! :) And if I could recommend a band with also an amazing bass player who uses great effects it would be the Italian band Zu (with Massimo Pupillo). Keep on rocking!
yeah im a big fan of plugging any instrument into any pedal since like 10 year so when i plugged my dads accordion into my noob digitech rp150 just to see what would happen. yes it was loud, but yes it was also glorious
Ibanez early 80s made a three effect bass pedal UE 303B. There were a number of Nashville gigging players using it. The TC Chorus was my first really good chorus. As an audio engineer by trade i started using effects in parallel like we did in the studio. I now use the Eventide Mixing Link to achieve effects without losing the bottom end.
Woah. Other channels demo things from time to time. This channel goes on absolutely fricking epic jams and I wish to god they'd just record a bunch of them and put them somewhere convenient for us to listen. Killer jams!
I modded a standard dunlop cry baby with a switch to hit bass wah frequency sweeps ... i end up using that with my guitar a fair bit these days. I do play bass but barely. Need to get a little board made up now! :)
i like that this drives home the point of being a good bassist before having good gear. As I have gotten better and further along my journey, yes I've cared about my gear, trying to have a quality guitar and quality amp, but I've truly become less and less concerned with the gear i'm using and more focused on my performance and how i'm recording it.
Well, heck, this little session made me realize I have a 506 sitting down in my practice room -- in the box! Guess I should either sell it for a huge inflated price now or plug it in and rediscover it all over again. I think I stopped practicing with it because my active bass would overdrive it ... but now I don't always use my active bass. Hmm. Who'd a thunk?
@@juanmoulinho Yeah, I went down, found the Zoom pedal and then looked around the stacks and realized I have a Museum of the Evolution of Bass Effects down there, myself. Another Digitech multi-effect unit (but with an expression pedal), an ART rack unit with a huge MIDI switch pedal, a rack compressor... and then the two pedalboards which developed over the last few years during this great golden age specialized stompbox rennaissance. I could keep Reverb busy for a week or so.
I have the Zoom 506, and a Zoom Driver 5000 for guitar that I've SWORN by, well the Zoom 5000 I've sworn by since 1993, has the absolute BEST guitar distortion sounds in a pedal ever IMO the Zoom 506 I got last yr for like $15 with 3 guitar cords, and some other shit from a person off of FB Marketplace. But I can verify that 506 has some amazing tones in it. The stock sound, I think it's the "B-2" setting just PUNCHES HARD. It takes my boss bass overdrive and run through my Fender Bassman and it just absolutely adds to my punch. And it has a ton of fun sounds, a few crap sounds as ALL muti fx pedals have,lol. Anyways, was super stoked Josh said the 506 was the best pedal there in this vid. Made me proud..lol cuz I thought I may have just lost my taste In tone over the yrs when I got this pedal not expecting it to be GOOD, and I ended up LOVING it. Now I know it's not just me, so thanks for that.lol My pick for bass driven albums for this episode, first thing that comes to mind is...im gonna go WAY out of the box and try to think of a bassist no one here would pick, and that's the bassist from RKL. That dude is so good, and the bassist from A Wilhelm Scream, those guys, punk bass wise, are absolute maniacs. The bass on the song Betrayed is absolute madness. As talented as NOFX is, they still claim that to this day none of them or anyone they know could even come close to playing that RKL record, and RKL recorded it when they were YOUNG. That old RKL record is one of the most talented bass and entire band records to ever be recorded.
In high school I was a guitar player, but everyone needed a bass player so I bought a bass. I still call myself a guitar player, but man I love pulling out my bass every once in a while and thumping along to something
I like a blend/dry knob on pedals for bass, not to preserve low end, but to preserve the attack transient, the rhythmic sound of the finger stroke. More expensive pedals do this with a "gate."
The best pedal I have used for Bass was the Boss OD-1, the original, it worked perfect for Bass. Another good drive pedal for Bass is the Tech 21 XXL, it is more aggressive than the Boss OD-1, but unlike most distortion pedals for guitar, it doesn't sound like shit. After trying many flangers and chorus pedals, the Boss Dimension C won out. The Boss pedals are very hard to come by, but if you are watching this and reading this, that probably gets you off.
I like the Zoom 506! But, like the 506 for bass, the pedal box is plastic and can break. The Zoom B2.1u is the pedal that is house in metal with a foot pad that is part of the Zoom B2.1u also. I also have more choices and USB, (to download new choices) multi-pedal and allows combinations of several pedals to define using many sounds! I don't think you can find them new, they were a division of Samson. I'm sure you could find one used? Maybe one c with a box?
I'm on like my 3rd 506, keep going back to it for a few sounds Besides for the micro switches being what I will call semi fragile It's a great little pedals And you can change the presets and save them, Bonus Cool show Rock on Love the guitar sounds Awesome
I saw Rat Juggernaut in the picture amongst the other bass pedals... So I would so much like to hear thoughts on it. Because mine was having a terrible, I mean totally terrible popping issues when switching on/off. I sent several emails to the manufacturer but never got an answer. I mean, it seemed and sounded to be really useable piece of gear, but the mentioned issue made it totally unusable.
Thank You so much i have learned more from watching you guys on pedal history and just try it then what i have learned just by playing in my room ....again thank you so much 101 learning about it all guitars .pedals. amps fuck man everything...and i mean everything love the relationship you have with Paul Gilbert thank you again Sir
As far as flats vs rounds, I prefer to have round wound strings and when I want to sound more muted, you can put a mute on the strings! I use to cut a piece of foam and shove it under my strings behind my bridge pickup but there are lots of other cool solutions out there. Also palm muting is part of my dynamics for bass and guitar. Picking with light palm mute on round wounds is one of my favorite bass sounds. :) Also, I'm still watching through all the JHS videos so I might have missed it, but no one has mentioned Starship Troopers by Yes. It has one of the most epic bass tones with some unique bass effects. I could listen to that intro bass riff on loop forever.
I've wanted to buy a bass EQ for a while because I feel like guitar EQ 7 band just doesn't have enough low end control. But I also haven't had a 10 band yet. It's so much easier on a computer to just draw a high pass with a boost, a low pass with a boost, and a mid scoop with a narrow Q.
For me as a bass player playing live through a decent PA vs in a rehearsal spot or at home is very different. Pa subs bleed frequencies that are around 100hz and below back onto the stage (really low frequencies are omnidirectional. Which is why we don’t get much of an effect running bass in stereo. And having a lot of super low frequency content can actually just make the bass indistict and muddy. That’s why I think some pedals that cut lows are popular amongst bass players. A lot of bass players actually use high pass pedals not to make the bass super thin but just to get rid of enoughsuper low frequencies to get more out of their amp and tighten up and focus their sound. I think the pa sub bleed thing is also why I think the ampeg 810 is so popular. It’s not tuned to push a bunch Low super low frequencies. I mean it’s what a 60 year old design by now? It actually works pretty well onstage because you can send a Di to foh and the pa sub bleed can actually fill in the lows you do want to hear while your amp sound is more focused and articulate so you can actually hear what you are playing.
Buttkicker is a bass transducer that vibrates substrates like wood instead of pushing air. There are higher quality versions than the “brand” name version.
Was Josh swelling with the volume knob in the bass balls jam? Camera wasn’t super focused on him so I couldn’t tell if that was volume knob or pedal,but it sounded great
Marty Robbins. My life is finally complete, having heard this epic solo and historic guitar effect!!! 😂 But also 👍🏼 Btw I have to thank you guys- new bassist here, and after watching your show I thought, why not just try my guitar pedalboard?? Oh wow. A little Archer as a clean boost, my old TC Chorus, and a surprise Wow on the Prussian Blue Reverb, no bass player should skip trying that always on reverb.🎉
Now you have your solution Josh, just add a "bass" toggle to all pedals that gives a XdB boost to bass frequencies post-effect. Boom, all pedals are now bass pedals.
A hybrid pedal 😮
Just add a dry blend for low end
Josh! Thank you so much for a bass pedal episode ! As a bassist for 40 plus years I religiously watch your channel ! I very much appreciate what you do ! Thank you for having such a great personality and sense of humor !
THIS. I don't understand why designers don't do this. Especially as someone who plays guitar and bass, that sounds awesome
Thank you Josh my Zoom 506 sold in the middle of the show!!
Yoooo I see Roy, I click. SUCH an underrated bassist from such an underrated band.
Josh: Lets have a bass heavy jam!
Also Josh: Buries bass with voodoo-rific slide guitar solo
Watching Josh get to play with a hero of his and watching that hero get a huge smile on his face is priceless. Love it.
Mutemath had such a massive influence on me so having Roy on this show is freaking awesome
Edit: That entire Zoom pedal jam was INSANELY awesome. Every bass tone and riff absolutely killer
Today’s jams were head and shoulders above any you’ve done before (and there have been some great ones in the past) also Roy is such a laidback delight to watch and listen to, excellent work guys.
Head and shoulders above?? Maaaybe Pantene Pro V above, the 2 in 1
Head and Shoulders? Like the shampoo?
I really enjoyed this episode, and i get your thesis that "all pedals are bass pedals". Roy is a treasure. At the same time, finally seeing a title like "How To Use Pedals For Bass Guitar" on the JHS podcast and seeing maybe one bass specific pedals is a little disappointing. I get that JHS had a bad experience trying to sell a bass pedals, but maybe we could get some nods to modern pedals designed with bass in mind.Things in the bass world have changed over the last few years.
IMO I think that was sort of the point, it's not much of a guide to say "just use bass centric pedals" because that's quite obvious and perpetuates the myth that guitar pedals can't be used on bass and vice versa. I do agree though it would be cool to see an episode on something like darkglass effects or even the Dunlop Bass wah and just use a bass for the demo
@David Wang guitar has massively changed in 50 years just assume bass has been on a similar path
I have been playing electric for just a few years and just started playing bass and this video has been such a huge inspiration! You have introduced me to so many bass sounds I never imagined. I just got the moonshine V2 for bass but now I need to try it on my morning glory! I love all the JHS videos... I have a bunch of your pedals and you have taught me SO much. Thank you! :)
On stompboxes for bass: post-FX bass adjustment is one thing. The other thing is just plain volume adjustment. Many fx just lead to a small increase/decrease of volume, which might be irrelevant if you're a guitar player and already blasting out in your solo and being upfront everybody else. But as a bass player I provide the basis, the cushion, the foundation for everything else. The density and the thump should not drop when I engage any pedal. So I need a sensitive volume knob to compensate for any volume change induced by the fx. Sometimes there are volume knobs, that cover a very wide range vom 0 to 200%. That's nonsense. A stompbox needs an adjustment knob for +/- 6db, unity at 12:00, that's enough.
Old video came on my autoplay in the background, but I had to stop and comment on how great Nick’s drumming was with Roy demoing the Bass Balls. Bass player’s dream to play with a musical drummer like him.
The advice to run effects in parallell or send a dry signal to font of house is in my opinion a testimony that some guitar pedals don't work for bass (without a workaround). How often do you have to bypass your tubescreamer with a clean signal to get a decent sound when you play guitar? That said, some pedals like the big muff work for bass without problem so yeah try everything and be creative to make it work.
Exactly. This, and I don’t want another pedal (in this case an EQ pedal) ONLY for the sake of adding more low end. There’s so many other pedals that provide a blend or even a bass knob that’ll make the EQ pedal obsolete (for the narrow purpose of adding low end that is).
Some great jams. Also, I've played bass finger style forever,(I'm 65) and recently started to put the pick in my arsenal and I'm totally down with it.And it's bringing new things out in my playing.Never too old for learning some new things.
This conversation was everything I dreamed of! Well done. Roy has always been one of my all-time favorite bassists. We need more videos for us bass players!
Hey Josh, thanks for thinking of us bass players. There’s a ton of information to chew on here. This episode in particular made me really appreciate your guitar playing and approach. And don’t forget, Roger Waters used the bass balls for quite a few of his songs with Pink Floyd.
As a bass player for 36 years, the best advice I ever received was about 32 years ago. Words to the effect of “use EQ in stages: Pre, post, and in between (as a boost)”
Also, “get a compressor or two, learn when and how to use them.”
Boring “effects” are powerful on bass.
One needs a solid foundation first, then work overdrives, fuzz, and modulation into the system accordingly. I use effects loops for bass more than guitar. Parallel signal paths with clean direct tone mixed in are magic for bass.
This was the best live stream i watched in the last month!
After the stream i watched it again 😁
Thank you Josh, Roy and team
Gear gives you more colors to paint with, but it doesn’t make you a better artist. I think that’s the moral of this episode. Love Mutemath btw! Such a phenomenal live band. First time I saw them live I was just in awe of how badass they were. It was an experience that definitely had such a significant effect on me.
I made the biggest mistake of my life missing this live stream two years ago, but I've played this a bunch of times over for the jams, so I'm trying too make up for it! The Zoom 506 jam is so freaking great. Roy, Nick, and Josh are a powerhouse trio. If they released an album I would buy one for me and one for each and everyone I know and love. Thanks for this inspiration, y'all.
You should have had all three of you playing bass and doing a cover of Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom".
I kinda wish we had more shots from the top during the jams so we could see setting of your pedal flow and settings and have the desktop more organized instead of the plethora of pedals not in the chain.
i miss juan alderete
Wishing Juan all the best in his recovery.We need him and Nick back doing their thing.
I have the Zoom BFX708 (similar to the 506 w/exp pedal), used it for years. I read somewhere that those were semi analog, because the digital technology were not very advanced, so the hybrid approach were best. Now I use it to channel both outputs on my Chapman Stick into a mono output. It's the only unit that does that I have. Had been repaired many times for soldering issues (cold solder) but otherwise a workhorse.
Boss line selector was always the trick to keep the low end and dial in whatever dirt you wanted from a pedal. The one time crossing the streams is a good thing.
Yeah, more bass. Always! Thanks, Josh.
As a bass-first player, I loved this so hard. Great jams, great conversation.
yall need to have roy back. I rewatch this episode a few times a year. love it
"Pino, Carol Kaye, and you -- no pressure."
Bahahaha
The Teleprompt version of the self-titled Mutemath album is my desert-island album. Love the whole Mutemath discography, and love Roy as a bassist and guitarist. Seeing Roy on here made my day.
EDIT: @JHSPedals The self-titled album was released in a batch of 1000 in 2006, and another 1000 in 2016. But yeah, it took about a month for prices of the reissue to reach original pressing resale prices.
I feel like Nick is the only actual human who could do justice filling in for Steven Drozd on drums
🔥👄🥁👍
I'll be back tomorrow for some time stamps
haha right. we already lived through the VHS era with 2 hours of mystery
Is that so you can send a letter to the future?
@@vprice509 lol
mine say "forever"...
My brother and I had the same experience with stacking a bass EQ at the end years ago. We were chasing after that Failure Heliotropic tone, and despite the different possible combinations we’d read on forums online (a Rat, a Green Russian, a Rat and a Green Russian, two Rats), the one thing each speculation had in common was a bass EQ at the end of the chain to add lows back in. My brother ended up buying the Behringer clone of the Boss bass EQ, we threw it after his deuce tone Rat (we cascaded the channels) and just nailed that tone. Fun times.
As a bass player, my fave two overdrives are the Mojomojo and the ODR-1. They're two underrated guitar pedals that go hard on bass.
Bought my DE7 several years ago after seeing MuteMath live in Quebec City. The « pedalboard solo » was so great I had to get one 😀
Years ago, before i shut down My FB profile, i wrote to mutemath FB page asking when they gonna come to south america, and the one who respond my question was Roy in a perfect spanish... Cool guy and one of the best bass players i ever heard... Todo lo mejor Roy! Sos un grande!
That Zoom 506 jam though! OMG yes! Wow
Crushing it in terms of pedal videos.
not that anybody asked, but... my bass pedal board consists of Boss DD-7, Boss CEB-3, EHX Cock Fight, EHX Expression Pedal, EHX Bass Big Muff Pi, ProCo Rat 2, Boss ODB-3, Boss OC-3, Boss SY-1, Digitech Whammy Bass and Morley M2 Wah/Volume (still to come obviously)
I’ve seen this episode multiple times and this is the first time I noticed your Plumbus! So jealous.
This was insanely inspiring. Roy is the best! I LOVED the sounds he got with the Zoom. Also, I love my Morning Glory on bass... gotta try the EQ trick 😎👍
Best JHS show ever. Roy is the best! :)
I totally bought into the 'no picks on bass' as a kid - taken me 20 years and learning guitar to be comfortable with them on bass
Adames Graphite picks
The late great Tim Chandler always played with a pick "to get as much crunch out of the bass as possible"
He had great rock tone.
@@daveclinton4945 He once said that Gene nailed his tone on Out In the Cold
Great track
Nice that you've got the EHX section in order there lads... ;) And the Cheese Wedge Shaped Pedals shelf next to it...Nice
Man, the JHS Muffletta such a staple in my bass tone. Compressed, hairy, thick goodness that feels so right...
Waow this was refreshing! Thx.
Awesome subject choice for all us bass players who like to be inspired by sound effects and know pedal boards aren't exclusively for lead guitarists!
In my experience most pedals sold as "bass pedals" are rarely of the same quality as the so called "guitar pedals" (of course there are exceptions), and imho that's a shame, but some of Roy's remarks were spot on! So yeah, I'm not much of a technician, but why is it that most pedals take away that much low end of the sound?
Also the jams themselves were really great and make me wanna listen to Mutemath. And as always the ever enjoyable personality of Josh is a real plus, it's such a rarity in this world of egocentric people - including youtube vloggers - to come across someone genuinely humble.
Btw you guys said "Fascination Street" is maybe your favourite Cure song, then I can't help myself of recommending to listen to the b-side of the ep, cause "Babble" is arguably even better! :)
And if I could recommend a band with also an amazing bass player who uses great effects it would be the Italian band Zu (with Massimo Pupillo).
Keep on rocking!
yeah im a big fan of plugging any instrument into any pedal since like 10 year so when i plugged my dads accordion into my noob digitech rp150 just to see what would happen. yes it was loud, but yes it was also glorious
Ibanez early 80s made a three effect bass pedal UE 303B. There were a number of Nashville gigging players using it. The TC Chorus was my first really good chorus. As an audio engineer by trade i started using effects in parallel like we did in the studio. I now use the Eventide Mixing Link to achieve effects without losing the bottom end.
Woah. Other channels demo things from time to time. This channel goes on absolutely fricking epic jams and I wish to god they'd just record a bunch of them and put them somewhere convenient for us to listen.
Killer jams!
ROY!!! THE BEST BASS PLAYER!!! I saved this just instinctually, I CANT WAIT to watch this
Holy snap my favorite bass player! This man taught me how important the two is in the groove.
Just discovered the EQ pedal at the end of your chain trick a couple of weeks ago. Game changer!
Just noticed the Plumbus behind Roy. Nice work.
First thing I did after watching this was putting flats on my Fender Jazz
This is such a great video.
Learned a lot from it. Thanks for sharing your musical wisdom.
I modded a standard dunlop cry baby with a switch to hit bass wah frequency sweeps ... i end up using that with my guitar a fair bit these days. I do play bass but barely. Need to get a little board made up now! :)
i like that this drives home the point of being a good bassist before having good gear. As I have gotten better and further along my journey, yes I've cared about my gear, trying to have a quality guitar and quality amp, but I've truly become less and less concerned with the gear i'm using and more focused on my performance and how i'm recording it.
Well, heck, this little session made me realize I have a 506 sitting down in my practice room -- in the box! Guess I should either sell it for a huge inflated price now or plug it in and rediscover it all over again. I think I stopped practicing with it because my active bass would overdrive it ... but now I don't always use my active bass. Hmm. Who'd a thunk?
Same here John! Couldnt believe it either when i saw it. Couldnt believe they actually play it!
@@juanmoulinho Yeah, I went down, found the Zoom pedal and then looked around the stacks and realized I have a Museum of the Evolution of Bass Effects down there, myself. Another Digitech multi-effect unit (but with an expression pedal), an ART rack unit with a huge MIDI switch pedal, a rack compressor... and then the two pedalboards which developed over the last few years during this great golden age specialized stompbox rennaissance. I could keep Reverb busy for a week or so.
@@johngpendleton woehaa! or Josh for that matter, having a go with them.
I have the Zoom 506, and a Zoom Driver 5000 for guitar that I've SWORN by, well the Zoom 5000 I've sworn by since 1993, has the absolute BEST guitar distortion sounds in a pedal ever IMO the Zoom 506 I got last yr for like $15 with 3 guitar cords, and some other shit from a person off of FB Marketplace. But I can verify that 506 has some amazing tones in it. The stock sound, I think it's the "B-2" setting just PUNCHES HARD. It takes my boss bass overdrive and run through my Fender Bassman and it just absolutely adds to my punch. And it has a ton of fun sounds, a few crap sounds as ALL muti fx pedals have,lol. Anyways, was super stoked Josh said the 506 was the best pedal there in this vid. Made me proud..lol cuz I thought I may have just lost my taste In tone over the yrs when I got this pedal not expecting it to be GOOD, and I ended up LOVING it. Now I know it's not just me, so thanks for that.lol My pick for bass driven albums for this episode, first thing that comes to mind is...im gonna go WAY out of the box and try to think of a bassist no one here would pick, and that's the bassist from RKL. That dude is so good, and the bassist from A Wilhelm Scream, those guys, punk bass wise, are absolute maniacs. The bass on the song Betrayed is absolute madness. As talented as NOFX is, they still claim that to this day none of them or anyone they know could even come close to playing that RKL record, and RKL recorded it when they were YOUNG. That old RKL record is one of the most talented bass and entire band records to ever be recorded.
Omg!!! I just a new Ibanez bass today!! Perfect timing of this video! Thanks josh!
Just checked out the Mutemath record. 'Tis great!
Flats, on a p bass. Going into a compressor and a tech 21 sansamp. Complete perfection. For me, anyway.
As a bass player who started in the 80’s I approve of this rig.
In high school I was a guitar player, but everyone needed a bass player so I bought a bass. I still call myself a guitar player, but man I love pulling out my bass every once in a while and thumping along to something
I like a blend/dry knob on pedals for bass, not to preserve low end, but to preserve the attack transient, the rhythmic sound of the finger stroke. More expensive pedals do this with a "gate."
Thank you Josh for this episode!! Bass player love for you
The best pedal I have used for Bass was the Boss OD-1, the original, it worked perfect for Bass. Another good drive pedal for Bass is the Tech 21 XXL, it is more aggressive than the Boss OD-1, but unlike most distortion pedals for guitar, it doesn't sound like shit. After trying many flangers and chorus pedals, the Boss Dimension C won out. The Boss pedals are very hard to come by, but if you are watching this and reading this, that probably gets you off.
Missed the giveaway, don't care - great jams and really interesting chat - more bass please!
I like the Zoom 506! But, like the 506 for bass, the pedal box is plastic and can break. The Zoom B2.1u is the pedal that is house in metal with a foot pad that is part of the Zoom B2.1u also. I also have more choices and USB, (to download new choices) multi-pedal and allows combinations of several pedals to define using many sounds! I don't think you can find them new, they were a division of Samson. I'm sure you could find one used? Maybe one c with a box?
I liked the part where you talked about pedals and played music
I'm on like my 3rd 506, keep going back to it for a few sounds
Besides for the micro switches being what I will call semi fragile
It's a great little pedals
And you can change the presets and save them, Bonus
Cool show
Rock on
Love the guitar sounds
Awesome
Roy is way cool and a real musician. I loved the episode and am sad because I suck at bass. Thank God there are guitars because i suck less.
my first bass pedal was the Jhs low drive! cheers
I saw Rat Juggernaut in the picture amongst the other bass pedals... So I would so much like to hear thoughts on it. Because mine was having a terrible, I mean totally terrible popping issues when switching on/off. I sent several emails to the manufacturer but never got an answer. I mean, it seemed and sounded to be really useable piece of gear, but the mentioned issue made it totally unusable.
The Music for Airports jam was excellent. I drifted away.
Thank You so much i have learned more from watching you guys on pedal history and just try it then what i have learned just by playing in my room ....again thank you so much 101 learning about it all guitars .pedals. amps fuck man everything...and i mean everything love the relationship you have with Paul Gilbert thank you again Sir
I loved the What is Hip reference because I always think that Roy’s bass line on the song Armistice is kind of a modern take on What is Hip.
What a great jam yall have here, love it!
Great show! My Pedals Salute you!
Santa brought me a Zoom 506 and I'm loving it.
Outstanding show - love this format!
My fave bass tone ever is Geddy Lee on Moving Pictures. Epic Rickenbacker tone and playing.
Dope episode fellas! As a bass player I also want to defend bass pick players! Jhs has the best team ever! The company that keeps on giving. 🤓👍
Mutemath!!! Miss this band so much
As far as flats vs rounds, I prefer to have round wound strings and when I want to sound more muted, you can put a mute on the strings! I use to cut a piece of foam and shove it under my strings behind my bridge pickup but there are lots of other cool solutions out there.
Also palm muting is part of my dynamics for bass and guitar. Picking with light palm mute on round wounds is one of my favorite bass sounds.
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Also, I'm still watching through all the JHS videos so I might have missed it, but no one has mentioned Starship Troopers by Yes. It has one of the most epic bass tones with some unique bass effects. I could listen to that intro bass riff on loop forever.
I've wanted to buy a bass EQ for a while because I feel like guitar EQ 7 band just doesn't have enough low end control. But I also haven't had a 10 band yet. It's so much easier on a computer to just draw a high pass with a boost, a low pass with a boost, and a mid scoop with a narrow Q.
Ha! I played bass for MY high school's production of "Grease" as well. Yes, "Greased Lightning" is a favorite.
Great episode. Used to own the Maestro Bass Brassmaster BB-1. It's incredible...(unprofessional, non-bassist demos on my channel)
Love love love the bass content!!! Please please please do more!!!
I had a Zoom 506 back in the day. I loved it but nobody else in the band did. Lol.
For me as a bass player playing live through a decent PA vs in a rehearsal spot or at home is very different. Pa subs bleed frequencies that are around 100hz and below back onto the stage (really low frequencies are omnidirectional. Which is why we don’t get much of an effect running bass in stereo. And having a lot of super low frequency content can actually just make the bass indistict and muddy. That’s why I think some pedals that cut lows are popular amongst bass players. A lot of bass players actually use high pass pedals not to make the bass super thin but just to get rid of enoughsuper low frequencies to get more out of their amp and tighten up and focus their sound. I think the pa sub bleed thing is also why I think the ampeg 810 is so popular. It’s not tuned to push a bunch Low super low frequencies. I mean it’s what a 60 year old design by now? It actually works pretty well onstage because you can send a Di to foh and the pa sub bleed can actually fill in the lows you do want to hear while your amp sound is more focused and articulate so you can actually hear what you are playing.
Oooh...that smoooooth transfer at about 4:35.
Drybell U67 with bass and mids turned up into Fulltone 2B with limiter set high gives killer direct bass tone
Buttkicker is a bass transducer that vibrates substrates like wood instead of pushing air. There are higher quality versions than the “brand” name version.
Was Josh swelling with the volume knob in the bass balls jam? Camera wasn’t super focused on him so I couldn’t tell if that was volume knob or pedal,but it sounded great
This was awesome! More bass players please!
I’m a guitarist but I have a Fender Jazz Bass, a GK amp and a Wampler Low Blow Bass Pedal that is unreal.
So much joy in that Zoom jam through the the 3 of them
Marty Robbins. My life is finally complete, having heard this epic solo and historic guitar effect!!! 😂 But also 👍🏼
Btw I have to thank you guys- new bassist here, and after watching your show I thought, why not just try my guitar pedalboard?? Oh wow. A little Archer as a clean boost, my old TC Chorus, and a surprise Wow on the Prussian Blue Reverb, no bass player should skip trying that always on reverb.🎉
Oh, I did buy the MXR Bass Compressor. Sometimes you *don't* want that high pass 😉
that DE7 jam was just absolutely sick