Modulation pedal suggestions...

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fretless

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Being primarily a bassist for the last 42 years, I don’t use pedals. Guitar has always been my ‘safety valve’ for me to blow off steam and keep my bass playing from becoming stale. My best bud however, had other ideas. He is learning how to build tube amps from scratch and is in the process of building me a 5 watt 6v6 head with a negative feedback circuit. So... I now have a Fulltone OCD overdrive and I would like either a chorus, phaser or univibe to go with it(I’m a huge Trower fan). Can y’all fine folks give me some direction here? Thanks in advance, and sorry for the rambling post.
 
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Being primarily a bassist for the last 42 years, I don’t use pedals. Guitar has always been my ‘safety valve’ for me to blow off steam and keep my bass playing from becoming stale. My best bud however, had other ideas. He is learning how to build tube amps from scratch and is in the process of building me a 5 watt 6v6 head with a negative feedback circuit. So... I now have a Fulltone OCD overdrive and I would like either a chorus, phaser or univibe to go with it(I’m a huge Trower fan). Can y’all fine folks give me some direction here? Thanks in advance, and sorry for the rambling post.
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Eventide it's worth it. Eventide will replace several other effects all at the same time. The system can be updated via USB, and has software to run on an external computer. The performance and noise levels are obviously far superior to other systems.
It costs more but it blows the competition far away. It's miles ahead of any analog system available. The result is equal to any professional recording studio.
Having worked with pro sound systems and worked in studios for many years, I would rate the Eventide system as very impressive.
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And so I would recommend: leave the toys behind, and upgrade to a professional level.
You would rather have one Eventide compared to 10 cheap analog effects pedals.

Robin Trower told me that he would rather use a Leslie, although his roadies hated moving the Leslie cabinets...

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My friend Duffy was a stage hand for Trower. Duffy died of a blood infection years ago but I talked to Robin a few times
on the phone I would play guitar Robin would tell me what guitar and amp and effects I was using over the phone
What a ear. And told me all your missing is the VOX Wah I had a Cry Baby. Duffy was a Bass player I gave him a 1969 Fender P Bass.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
Eventide it's worth it. Eventide will replace several other effects all at the same time. The system can be updated via USB, and has software to run on an external computer. The performance and noise levels are obviously far superior to other systems.
It costs more but it blows the competition far away. It's miles ahead of any analog system available. The result is equal to any professional recording studio.
Having worked with pro sound systems and worked in studios for many years, I would rate the Eventide system as very impressive.
www.eventideaudio.com

Home

Discover the award-winning effects processors, effects pedals, and VST plug-ins that inspire musicians and audio professionals worldwide.
www.eventideaudio.com www.eventideaudio.com

And so I would recommend: leave the toys behind, and upgrade to a professional level.
You would rather have one Eventide compared to 10 cheap analog effects pedals.

Robin Trower told me that he would rather use a Leslie, although his roadies hated moving the Leslie cabinets...

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Eventide makes amazing equipment. My problem is this: if i have something that does many things well, I wind up playing with it more than actually using it in context. Because of my weird type of ocd, I have had to limit myself to what I will actually use and stick with it.
 
My only univibe is the one on the Vox Tone Lab, and Fretless, you talk about having to many options the Tone Lab is full of options, but I have quit messing with the knobs and just play. I (have learned to just use the factory settings) because my Tone Lab is faulty, and won’t recall a saved setting, so you can understand my problem with changing settings each time I use the pedal.
Cheers
Mitch
 
I think what I’m going to end up with is: my od pedal, a uni-vibe pedal and a reverb pedal. I’ve tried delay pedals and they drive me stark raving nutz, and wah pedals (I’ve owned 3!) are something I’ve never bonded with. And don’t even get me started on loopers! I have friends who love them, but they just ain’t my bag. I admire anybody who can use one! Guess I’m destined for the tar pits with the rest of the sauropods.:BH:
 
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I think what I’m going to end up with is: my od pedal, a uni-vibe pedal and a reverb pedal. I’ve tried delay pedals and they drive me stark raving nutz, and wah pedals (I’ve owned 3!) are something I’ve never bonded with. And don’t even get me started on loopers! I have friends who love them, but they just ain’t my bag. I admire anybody who can use one! Guess I’m destined for the tar pits with the rest of the sauropods.:BH:
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Yeah I'm not into loopers or delays that much, basically anything that requires coordinated footstomping like tap tempos I am hopeless at, I always use an analog delay with minimal repeats (or a digital simulation thereof) rather than any kind of U2 nonsense
 
I only use the looper to lay down chords to practice scales or lead melodies over

My looper (Jamman Solo XT) has the feature of an SD card on which you can store samples, so it can be useful live if you want to be in a grindcore or powerviolence band with the obscure movie samples between songs
 
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