This was legit the online zoom class experience, but with bass... and students that are actually engaged lollll (just pls don't ask me to "turn on my camera" :))
Hey Josh, you mentioned in your last video before the live session that a good working knowledge of music theory will be a huge help in learning to play bass. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see you do a video or series of videos on applying music theory to playing bass - even if it takes several videos or is done as a seperate course similar to B2B. Plus keep the live sessions going, they're fun to watch.
Beginners learn voice leading. Use choir 3 part voice harmony to start. Though V7-1 candence has most points of resolution Just take a simple chord progression and write note names on paper as stacks of lines to the closest note. That way can see what each voice is doing moving or static. Play each line seperately then choose a diagonal or whatever u like path. Use these notes to create your line or as motif melodic notes over the normal roots or other you are playing. POP:: C G Am F C B C C This gives us our guide tones. Simple riff style: Play | C-C | G-B | A-C | F-C | Obviously there are stylistic concerns but you get picture. OR flip and use the E D E F Leading notes on the start of bar. C-C | B-GB | C-A | C F | Beginner dont displace suspend harmony too much move on end beat 4 and move off beat 1 back to root if G G A A on a more dissonant note. But whatever u reckon fits sounds ok. Use these for melody points PLay scale fragment off each one. C - C blah | G -B blah | etc Or dispense with the Roots and play riff scale solo off each guide note. Point being you need to remember the notes in the chord and what happens to those notes when the chord changes. Am i on the Root the 3rd or 5th? Write the scale out in 3rds and memorise. Note order is same in functional harmony. C E G B D F A: C E G etc CEG DFA EGB FAC GBD ACE BDF easy to remember. Maj Min Min Maj Maj/Dom Min Dim. Just add sharps flats each key later as you go further. G B D F# A C E G D F# etc Go to 4 notes CEGB 7th chords etc after that easier to think stacking triads for extensions C+G = Cmaj9 CEGBD. Now we are already higher knowledge instead of playing C over C we can play Em over C or G over C. Watch register if murky. We aready know this because weve memorised the 3rds CEGBDFAC 1 3 5 7 9 11 13. Just an opinion from school we did choir 4 part harmony which was big help for me. Easy way to deconstruct understand the harmony just write into simple lines like this for ideas.
Honestly, for beginner pedals any kind of drive or fuzz like a Boss ODB-3, ProCo Rat or EHX Big Muff would be a good call for some heavier tones and then any kind of modulation like chorus, flanger or phaser can give you some cool Peter Hook, Justin Chancellor or Roger Waters vibes
wow man you're a talented teacher the way you keep it professional and control your emotions and stick to the show is mind blowing am glad u teach bass :')
There is only one must-have pedal for beginners: The tuning pedal:) All other fancy pedals should be bought based on actual needs (of purely for fun or for experiencing)
I have: Korg pitchblack tuner Dodd FX25 envelope filter (1987) Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor BOSS CE-5 Chorus Ensemble (1994) Valeton OC-10 (Great BOSS OC-2 Clone) Marshall Echohead Darkglass B7KU V1 TC Electronic Ditto+ I can do A LOT with this pedalboard but i'm sort of temped to go all in and get a neural dsp quad cortex.
I barely use pedals but the two best I’ve ever incorporated into my setup are a Peterson strobe tuner pedal and Original Effect Cali76 Compact Bass compressor pedal. Both are quite or very expensive but extraordinarily high quality and well made and phenomenally good at what they do.
Cool stuff! Using delay to practice time keeping is great. I never thought of an octave pedal as a tool to check clean technique, but it totally makes sense. 🙂 Gonna try that in my scale and arpeggio practice.
Regarding pedal chain order- 1st- clean preamp, 2nd- compressor (a compressor will accentuate all of the noise from previous effects) and last- noise gate. In between the compressor and noise gate pedals should be in order from least to most depending on how much gain they contribute. So modulation effects should go before fuzzes and overdrives. While I consider the first, second and last of this order to be hard and fast rules, when I want to use my Tube Screamer, I drop my MXR M134 Stereo Chorus in after that if I want stereo out. This chorus unit is really sweet since it has so much head room and it isn't likely to be overdriven with modest use of the effects before it. I modded my TS for bass following instructions I found on line. I would like to start buying pairs of the inexpensive effects I see from companies like Donner and mod those for bass just to mess around with varying those between channels but I'll have to get brave and figure out how to do that on my own since I'm not finding anything online.
Im a fan! Mark Guiliana is awesome. I actually didnt know about him till now. I listened to him years ago not knowingly just because of Avashi Cohen on continuo. I liked what you were doing with the delay. Cool explanation on the pedals as learning tools and i like how you compare the relative majors
I have just re-started my Beginner to Bad-Ass after shattering my elbow in December 2022. I'm on Mod 3 and I feel like it's the best money spent on this bass journey.
I would listen to a 10 hour loop nonstop of your noodling on the delay pedal with that little melody you had going on around the 16:00 mark lol. Been watching bass buzz vids (and other bass vids) heavy last couple months should have my bass in a couple weeks and can’t wait to start b2b and start jamming with some buddies.
Hi Josh! Another great video. Thanks for placing PIP in the right corner ;) about the octave pedals: I've just returned MXR bass octave deluxe because it was glitching like crazy with my TRBX505 even if I was isolating one string + tons of different bass setups... Nothing was helping.. Now I have OC-5 and this is it :) But I observed the same thing as you: I need to focus more on the muting technique :) wish you all the best, take care!
I do originals and at one point I had a giant combo guitar/bass board. But it became a distraction so I created a separate smaller board just for bass with a tuner, Darkglass X Ultra, 2 fuzzes, octave, and chorus. It still sounds like a lot on paper but it all gets used in our set, and I never find myself wanting anything more.
I’m almost done with B2B. I really hope you have a sequel because I love your teaching style and it really makes me look forward to learning, practicing, and getting better!! What’s the next level up from Badass? Badass to Bandmate?
I use a GT-1B for bass effects- but hardly use anything beyond a bit of compression, a touch of drive, and a hint of reverb. I have this powerful effects tool for the instrument I use the least effects on. However, multi-effects processors are simply unbeatable for value. Things like built in tuner, looper, some have drum samples...makes their value skyrocket. For new players they let them play with all the cool effects without $1000 in pedals and a patch cable collection like a hoarder. For dad rockers like me doing covers it's nice to have patches one toe tap away that work for different songs or tunings or even guitars. I have a regular pedal board for my lead guitar and I tend to find a basic setting that works 'good enough' without me having to spend 20 minutes turning knobs between songs or guitar swaps. I think it's becoming a moot point these days with the digital revolution. I feel like a dinosaur using any sort of stomp box running into a loud ass amp these days. The world has moved to laptops and studio monitors. Garage bands have become Studio bands because the studio now fits on your lap.
Post punk? I’d say a preamp DI, a boost for a slight grit , a long reverb, compression, chorus , flanger and some chorus again. Maybe some eq. And a good thick triangular pick. And a long strap.
@purple chili check out @DesmondDoom 's channel. Here's a video titled "How to make Post-Punk in 1 minute ", for bass use Effects and EQ as shon in video: ua-cam.com/video/MJE41lyB5PY/v-deo.html
Some guitar distortion can sound pretty cool IF you use something to blend your dry sound back in to get some of your low end back. I use a Boss LS-2 (Line Selector) to mix my dry signal back in with pedals that don't have a "blend" option. You can also use the LS-2 as a way to activate several pedals at once instead of doing the pedal dance. While it's a blast to get a wall of tone / texture by activating 4 pedals at once, I have found zero practical uses for this playing live lol.
@@MorganaDAlmeida Dry signal is just your signal before an effect is applied to it. A lot of bass pedals have a blend feature included. Essentially, your original signal goes in and gets split into two, applies effect to one then lets you control how much original signal and effected signal are blended back together before it leaves the pedal. It's super handy. I highly recommend choosing effects with a blend or wet/dry control.
Back before the Earth cooled, I used a Boss flanger and delay on my bass. It was bent. 😎 Play with the pedal board at the stores. Just be careful, they're like Pokémon; you might want to catch them all. 😉
@@BassBuzz I'll try to catch your live videos depending on the time zones. I'm a late starter with Bass Guitar, bought an Epiphone Reverse Thunderbird and wanted to try my hand at bass playing as well as acoustic and electric guitar. I'm a lifelong pianist, since I was 8 (I'm turning 60 in January). I'm new to equipment but did lots of research and learning with Kieth at 5 Watt World and also learning things from Scott Devine. I have a Fender Rumble 25 for Bass and the only thing at the moment is my Boss 500 Looper pedal and no effects other than the modeling effects in the Rumble. I have to be mindful of my neighbors so I also have a Mustang Micro so I can practice with headphones. I paid close attention to the pedal you mentioned but here in Germany we have a couple of large music stores such as Music Store Professional, Just Music and Thomann. They all have similar assortments of effect pedals, but the 3 or the 5 are the only available models, should I go with the 5 for my first? Should I invest in a pedalboard or just use them on the floor for the start? Is an expression pedal something I should consider as I noted that a good learning tool uses the Boss EV-1, I have the Boss FS-7 for the RC-500 Loop Station, and I wanted to try the Boss Pocket GT to learn along with UA-camrs like yourself. Sorry for being a bloody beginner but it's all fun for a retired fellow like me. I'll breeze through your channel over the holidays and maybe you can give me your thoughts. Wishing you Happy Holidays from Berlin, Germany.
It highly depends on your own preferences. I like to play funk, and my first pedals are phaser, octamizer and auto-wah, and I'm happy as a clam! Not going to purchase distortion / overdrive effects, or something like that.
Josh: In some of your videos, you look like a very young James Taylor…..and in your older ones when you had longer hair, you look a bit like Ashton Kutcher. :) Anyway, I began playing bass in July after playing keys (not classically-trained) for over forty years. Enjoying your videos. Thank you!
Hey Josh, sorry, I’m late! … by a year or so… 🙈 I’m watching from the beautiful town of Wasserburg at the Inn-River in beautiful Bavaria/Germany. Thanks for making me a better bass player! Just started a few weeks ago by the age of 51 😅
I only have two Boss bass pedals and I rarely use them except on specific songs. I bought my SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer to replicate the sound on Frog Brigade's Buzzards of Green Hill but also use it when playing some Parliament songs or pretty much anything that used an analog synth originally. (And you can get some weird/wild sounds out of it.) Although now that I have my Moog Grandmother/Matriarch combo I've been playing that a lot lately. I bought my OC-2 Octaver specifically to play Sledgehammer simply because it was the pedal Tony Levin said he used in. Although I don't have a fretless bass I just use my Ibanez with flat wound strings and with the Octaver it sounds okay. (Admittedly I'm the other component that makes it sound just okay.)
OC-2 for Tony. He indicated that it was cranky AF (my words). Now it's EBS OctaBass Blue Label For pedals, the most important is your tuner. Get a compressor. Any more pedals depends on your style, how clean or dirty it will be, and if you are a solo person or a contributor keeping the bottom.
I have heard you play. You are a great bass player. Admire because you are humble inspire of well you play. I am sure you are going to heip me be a better bass player. I have found that your lessons are practical and expect to progress. Thank you Ray Garcia
Unless you're thing is a one man instrumental bass show, I can't see any possible need for a gigging, first call bass player to need any pedals beyond a good compressor and a quality DI box. The bass has a spot to fill and the bass player has a job to do. The song is what's important. The best players embrace those facts and can find room for tasteful creativity within the song in a way that adds to the song yet isn't distracting and doesn't take it over. There are great players and great bands who push their position in a song to new boundaries. John Entwistle was most definitely one. Les Clayool is another. In their bands, the guitarist filled in the gaps in more of an accompanying arrangement. But by and large, neither of them, to my knowledge, made much if any use of effects. But they both have an immediately identifiable sound and style. Some of the best bass players, and there are many, are John Paul Jones, Paul McCartney, Tony Levin, Flea, John McVie, Stanley Clark, James Jamerson, and John Taylor. Again, neither of these made much use of effects, although Levin definitely broke new ground with the Chapman Stick and is very creative on bass. I do, however, believe in and enjoy new sounds and new music. And such tinkering is often the catalyst for it. But so much of the music I love most includes a traditional sounding bass line.
Yo josh thx for the shoutout jk just to be clear we weren't doing anything in school today because tomorrow is our Christmas party in school and we have a gig on that day in the party I just watched the stream to ask bass pedal questions
Hi Josh, Another outstanding - Live - video. What are your thoughts on Slicer pedals (useful, not worth the cost, etc)? Thank you for all of your outstanding videos; especially, the Live ones.
Hey Josh! Just joined in. Your bad arse course is amazing > hear the tail end of your discussion on compressors. Do you recommend getting one for a noob ?
Glad you're digging the course! No, don't worry about compressors, you can get through years of gigging and jamming and still not really know what they do. Not urgent!
If I could only have 3 pedals (not counting a tuner) I'd roll with a compressor, distortion and a decent DI but I'd sure miss my octave, chorus and an envelope filter lol. Pedals are a blast and you can get some crazy tones layering them. Chris Wolstenholme of Muse is one of my favorites for musical use of effects and Mike Kerr of Royal Blood split his signal and used an octave pedal and effects to eliminate the need of a guitar player lol (crazy fun to try if you haven't done that). Love your trick with the looper. I use mine mostly to dial in effect pedals or tone but never thought about it as a tool for practicing. That's brilliant. I totally agree on effects processors. I have an HX Stomp and it has loads of awesome stuff if you take the time to work through it but I prefer individual pedals with a few control knobs. How do you dig your Noble DI? I'm on week 32 of my 33 week wait for mine. I can't wait till it gets here.
@@BassBuzz Dear lord! I’m torn with appreciating the honesty and being terrified by it lol. I hope I didn’t pony up that kind of coin and wait 8 months just for a boujee DI / power source combo that only enhances my pedal board street cred!! Lol. I got it mostly for recording. I have a few buddies that do session work and they say it’s almost like an SVT in a box. Either way…. I will convince myself that it was time and money well spent haha.
@@BassBuzz I’m not gonna say my quest for a Sean Hurley tone contributed to my purchase. I won’t deny it either though lol. But I’m not getting his $4500 custom shop bass haha. I have a few session player friends that swear by them for recording. They say the engineers really love the tone. I got it mostly for tracking bass for my band and the little bit of remote session stuff I do. It makes sense for that but not sure I’d pony up that kind of cash to get it for live sound only. The name does light up though so I can’t say that with certainty lol.
There's a lot of inexpensive yet pretty decent pedals out there. I used have an Envelope filter/Wah called a Weeper. These were around $15 in the '90s and no one really liked them but I managed to get a Stratocaster to sound like an acoustic with one. I'm not too familiar with bass pedals but the same must apply.
You can basically use any amp or pedals with Bass or guitar. Of course you may get a slightly different result when you mix and match, but that's where the fun lies! The only damage to worry about is impedance mismatch between speaker cabinets and a separate amp. If you use combos, you're good no worries!
What is your opinion about multieffects pedals? I've been refraining from getting a Boss gx-100 for (many) month. In gigs, I use no pedal. At home, I use a tuner, a wha, a reverb and a looper.
I've got one pedal on my board. A DI...lol. Supposed to get a STROBOSTOMP from Santa though. Santa brought me a case instead...lol. But I've got a chorus, Tuner, and a compressor pedal added to the board. Still thinking if I should get an octave.
What pedals SHOULD you buy??? Whichever ones you want and whichever ones feed your "creativity." What pedals do you NEED???? Depends on the type of music and/ or gig that you are talking about. I use a Helix, so I have pretty much any option I could ever want. I pretty much always use a drive of some sort. I like to have a chorus if I'm doing a totally clean sound, I like a little bit of verb, and I pretty much have a comp always on. That being said, there are plenty of other options that are fun and/or good .
I had a Boss GT-6B.. bought an EHX English Muff'n.. sold the Boss beacause did no use it... and now i less than 3 months i have 12 must have bass pedals 🤣😂 Korg tuner, Bassit analog compressor, RockerBOx octave/synth, boss synthesizer-5, boss synthesizer-3, DIY prunes & custard, Cry baby fuzz, EHX English Muff'n, RockerBOx RubyHead, HightGain volume, DIY Rebote delay 2.5, and DIY Reverb.... i don't know what happend?!?!?!
It depends on the pedal, time, modulation and pitch effects should be fine to use, where you can run into issues is with guitar drive/distortion/fuzz as these can suck the lower frequencies out of your sound.
I want to get a BOSS katana bass amp because I want the best package of effects I can get in one thing, I feel that it will give me any effect I could need, or at least most. I don't think I want to buy a flanger pedal on its own, but it sounds so good on forty six and 2 by tool, so I feel that if I get the amp I'll be set. Hope that makes sense. Otherwise, I want Morley Fuzz Wah, because Cliff Burton.
This was legit the online zoom class experience, but with bass... and students that are actually engaged lollll (just pls don't ask me to "turn on my camera" :))
Jonathan, please activate your camera immediately, or you will be banned from the zoom class!
Hey Josh, you mentioned in your last video before the live session that a good working knowledge of music theory will be a huge help in learning to play bass. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see you do a video or series of videos on applying music theory to playing bass - even if it takes several videos or is done as a seperate course similar to B2B. Plus keep the live sessions going, they're fun to watch.
Beginners learn voice leading. Use choir 3 part voice harmony to start. Though V7-1 candence has most points of resolution Just take a simple chord progression and write note names on paper as stacks of lines to the closest note. That way can see what each voice is doing moving or static. Play each line seperately then choose a diagonal or whatever u like path. Use these notes to create your line or as motif melodic notes over the normal roots or other you are playing.
POP:: C G Am F
C B C C This gives us our guide tones. Simple riff style: Play | C-C | G-B | A-C | F-C | Obviously there are stylistic concerns but you get picture. OR flip and use the
E D E F Leading notes on the start of bar. C-C | B-GB | C-A | C F | Beginner dont displace suspend harmony too much move on end beat 4 and move off beat 1 back to root if
G G A A on a more dissonant note. But whatever u reckon fits sounds ok. Use these for melody points PLay scale fragment off each one. C - C blah | G -B blah | etc Or dispense with the Roots and play riff scale solo off each guide note. Point being you need to remember the notes in the chord and what happens to those notes when the chord changes. Am i on the Root the 3rd or 5th? Write the scale out in 3rds and memorise. Note order is same in functional harmony. C E G B D F A: C E G etc CEG DFA EGB FAC GBD ACE BDF easy to remember. Maj Min Min Maj Maj/Dom Min Dim. Just add sharps flats each key later as you go further. G B D F# A C E G D F# etc Go to 4 notes CEGB 7th chords etc after that easier to think stacking triads for extensions C+G = Cmaj9 CEGBD. Now we are already higher knowledge instead of playing C over C we can play Em over C or G over C. Watch register if murky. We aready know this because weve memorised the 3rds CEGBDFAC 1 3 5 7 9 11 13. Just an opinion from school we did choir 4 part harmony which was big help for me. Easy way to deconstruct understand the harmony just write into simple lines like this for ideas.
Josh, you're a wonderful teacher. You break things down to digestible chunks that aren't overwhelming. I'm making slow progress but progress.
Any progress is good progress Paul!
Honestly, for beginner pedals any kind of drive or fuzz like a Boss ODB-3, ProCo Rat or EHX Big Muff would be a good call for some heavier tones and then any kind of modulation like chorus, flanger or phaser can give you some cool Peter Hook, Justin Chancellor or Roger Waters vibes
wow man you're a talented teacher
the way you keep it professional and control your emotions and stick to the show is mind blowing
am glad u teach bass :')
Thanks Ammar!
There is only one must-have pedal for beginners: The tuning pedal:)
All other fancy pedals should be bought based on actual needs (of purely for fun or for experiencing)
Haha yep, that's definitely a must!
My bass board has the essentials......Korg Pitchblack tuner- Origin Effects Cali 76 Compressor-MXR Bass Overdrive- MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe- MXR M80 Bass DI+.
I have:
Korg pitchblack tuner
Dodd FX25 envelope filter (1987)
Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor
BOSS CE-5 Chorus Ensemble (1994)
Valeton OC-10 (Great BOSS OC-2 Clone)
Marshall Echohead
Darkglass B7KU V1
TC Electronic Ditto+
I can do A LOT with this pedalboard but i'm sort of temped to go all in and get a neural dsp quad cortex.
If I were to have only three pedals, it would be a compressor, a fuzz, and an octave pedal. EQ pedals are also very underrated.
Agree 100%
1.) Wah-Wah
2.) Compressor
3.) Fuzz
I'd say:
1) Tuner
2) Compressor
3) Chorus
4) Preamp/DI
Almost same here! I'd go Compressor>fuzz>fuzz, just because you can't go wrong with fuzz hehehe.
1. Tuner
2. Compressor
3. Distortion
If only 3 are allowed make it 4 or 5
4. Octave
5. Preamp/DI
I have three pedals: Boss TU3 tuner, Tech21 VT Bass DI sansamp, EBS Multicomp compressor. I'm 100% happy and feel no need to buy anything else
Greetings from western Missouri. Subscribed and been watching you for about 4 years, now. Keep up the good work... it's very much appreciated!!
I barely use pedals but the two best I’ve ever incorporated into my setup are a Peterson strobe tuner pedal and Original Effect Cali76 Compact Bass compressor pedal. Both are quite or very expensive but extraordinarily high quality and well made and phenomenally good at what they do.
Cool stuff! Using delay to practice time keeping is great. I never thought of an octave pedal as a tool to check clean technique, but it totally makes sense. 🙂 Gonna try that in my scale and arpeggio practice.
Regarding pedal chain order- 1st- clean preamp, 2nd- compressor (a compressor will accentuate all of the noise from previous effects) and last- noise gate. In between the compressor and noise gate pedals should be in order from least to most depending on how much gain they contribute. So modulation effects should go before fuzzes and overdrives. While I consider the first, second and last of this order to be hard and fast rules, when I want to use my Tube Screamer, I drop my MXR M134 Stereo Chorus in after that if I want stereo out. This chorus unit is really sweet since it has so much head room and it isn't likely to be overdriven with modest use of the effects before it.
I modded my TS for bass following instructions I found on line. I would like to start buying pairs of the inexpensive effects I see from companies like Donner and mod those for bass just to mess around with varying those between channels but I'll have to get brave and figure out how to do that on my own since I'm not finding anything online.
Do another one of these live videos! They're great, and having all these random questions answered is super useful.
Im a fan! Mark Guiliana is awesome. I actually didnt know about him till now. I listened to him years ago not knowingly just because of Avashi Cohen on continuo. I liked what you were doing with the delay. Cool explanation on the pedals as learning tools and i like how you compare the relative majors
I have just re-started my Beginner to Bad-Ass after shattering my elbow in December 2022. I'm on Mod 3 and I feel like it's the best money spent on this bass journey.
Glad you're enjoying the course!
I play in my church on sundays and in the right context I'll turn on my big muff or my ds-1. It's also really fun to play with with reverb
I would listen to a 10 hour loop nonstop of your noodling on the delay pedal with that little melody you had going on around the 16:00 mark lol. Been watching bass buzz vids (and other bass vids) heavy last couple months should have my bass in a couple weeks and can’t wait to start b2b and start jamming with some buddies.
That's awesome, hope you dig your bass!
Hi Josh! Another great video. Thanks for placing PIP in the right corner ;) about the octave pedals: I've just returned MXR bass octave deluxe because it was glitching like crazy with my TRBX505 even if I was isolating one string + tons of different bass setups... Nothing was helping.. Now I have OC-5 and this is it :) But I observed the same thing as you: I need to focus more on the muting technique :) wish you all the best, take care!
Hey Josh, HIPCHIP here in Woodland, Ca. Love the classes and your extra videos.
I do originals and at one point I had a giant combo guitar/bass board. But it became a distraction so I created a separate smaller board just for bass with a tuner, Darkglass X Ultra, 2 fuzzes, octave, and chorus. It still sounds like a lot on paper but it all gets used in our set, and I never find myself wanting anything more.
Missed the beginning last night so i'm happy i get to check it out now :D
I’m almost done with B2B. I really hope you have a sequel because I love your teaching style and it really makes me look forward to learning, practicing, and getting better!! What’s the next level up from Badass? Badass to Bandmate?
I use a GT-1B for bass effects- but hardly use anything beyond a bit of compression, a touch of drive, and a hint of reverb. I have this powerful effects tool for the instrument I use the least effects on. However, multi-effects processors are simply unbeatable for value. Things like built in tuner, looper, some have drum samples...makes their value skyrocket. For new players they let them play with all the cool effects without $1000 in pedals and a patch cable collection like a hoarder. For dad rockers like me doing covers it's nice to have patches one toe tap away that work for different songs or tunings or even guitars. I have a regular pedal board for my lead guitar and I tend to find a basic setting that works 'good enough' without me having to spend 20 minutes turning knobs between songs or guitar swaps.
I think it's becoming a moot point these days with the digital revolution. I feel like a dinosaur using any sort of stomp box running into a loud ass amp these days. The world has moved to laptops and studio monitors. Garage bands have become Studio bands because the studio now fits on your lap.
Post punk? I’d say a preamp DI, a boost for a slight grit , a long reverb, compression, chorus , flanger and some chorus again. Maybe some eq. And a good thick triangular pick. And a long strap.
@purple chili check out @DesmondDoom 's channel. Here's a video titled "How to make Post-Punk in 1 minute
", for bass use Effects and EQ as shon in video: ua-cam.com/video/MJE41lyB5PY/v-deo.html
Usefulness beyond draining bank accounts - thanks for the chuckle 😂! Excellent video and primer. 24:18
Thanks Jon!
That intro loop is so calming
My vote: there’s 3. A tuner, a pre amp and a compressor.
Am watching from Jamaica can't wait to know about the different pedals bless
Thanks Josh! Great content as always!! Be blessed!
Some guitar distortion can sound pretty cool IF you use something to blend your dry sound back in to get some of your low end back. I use a Boss LS-2 (Line Selector) to mix my dry signal back in with pedals that don't have a "blend" option. You can also use the LS-2 as a way to activate several pedals at once instead of doing the pedal dance. While it's a blast to get a wall of tone / texture by activating 4 pedals at once, I have found zero practical uses for this playing live lol.
Hey Croc, I'm new to the pedals/sound system part, what is a Dry signal? Is it something I could see in a histogram? Thanks!
@@MorganaDAlmeida Dry signal is just your signal before an effect is applied to it. A lot of bass pedals have a blend feature included. Essentially, your original signal goes in and gets split into two, applies effect to one then lets you control how much original signal and effected signal are blended back together before it leaves the pedal. It's super handy. I highly recommend choosing effects with a blend or wet/dry control.
Back before the Earth cooled, I used a Boss flanger and delay on my bass. It was bent. 😎 Play with the pedal board at the stores. Just be careful, they're like Pokémon; you might want to catch them all. 😉
Don't worry about the technical issues. You do a great job. I'll just watch your videos until things get straightened out.
Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany here. Subscribed and like how you present bass here. Easy to understand. Cool.
Thanks Antonio!
@@BassBuzz I'll try to catch your live videos depending on the time zones. I'm a late starter with Bass Guitar, bought an Epiphone Reverse Thunderbird and wanted to try my hand at bass playing as well as acoustic and electric guitar. I'm a lifelong pianist, since I was 8 (I'm turning 60 in January). I'm new to equipment but did lots of research and learning with Kieth at 5 Watt World and also learning things from Scott Devine. I have a Fender Rumble 25 for Bass and the only thing at the moment is my Boss 500 Looper pedal and no effects other than the modeling effects in the Rumble. I have to be mindful of my neighbors so I also have a Mustang Micro so I can practice with headphones. I paid close attention to the pedal you mentioned but here in Germany we have a couple of large music stores such as Music Store Professional, Just Music and Thomann. They all have similar assortments of effect pedals, but the 3 or the 5 are the only available models, should I go with the 5 for my first? Should I invest in a pedalboard or just use them on the floor for the start? Is an expression pedal something I should consider as I noted that a good learning tool uses the Boss EV-1, I have the Boss FS-7 for the RC-500 Loop Station, and I wanted to try the Boss Pocket GT to learn along with UA-camrs like yourself. Sorry for being a bloody beginner but it's all fun for a retired fellow like me. I'll breeze through your channel over the holidays and maybe you can give me your thoughts. Wishing you Happy Holidays from Berlin, Germany.
It highly depends on your own preferences.
I like to play funk, and my first pedals are phaser, octamizer and auto-wah, and I'm happy as a clam! Not going to purchase distortion / overdrive effects, or something like that.
Josh: In some of your videos, you look like a very young James Taylor…..and in your older ones when you had longer hair, you look a bit like Ashton Kutcher. :)
Anyway, I began playing bass in July after playing keys (not classically-trained) for over forty years. Enjoying your videos. Thank you!
The underwater effect would be an envelope filter
Yeah that's probably what he meant!
I have my eye on the Fender Rumble Studio 40 & a Fender GTX-7 footswitch; a built-in tuner, a bunch of effects, and looper capabilities...
Dude you really made a technical difficulty screen before hand. Next level gig planning.
Haha, thanks Paul, I had spare batteries on hand too. :P
Now I know how to use my looper for useful practice. I stopped using it when all I did was get weird with it.
Hey Josh, sorry, I’m late! … by a year or so… 🙈
I’m watching from the beautiful town of Wasserburg at the Inn-River in beautiful Bavaria/Germany.
Thanks for making me a better bass player! Just started a few weeks ago by the age of 51 😅
Your the guy who played scarborough fair on the fretless bass using harmonics. Remarkable ...
hi from Australia could you please do a vid on pick ups
Just got an envelope filter and I haven’t had this much fun in so long :D
Completely agree about the Aguilar heads.
I only have two Boss bass pedals and I rarely use them except on specific songs. I bought my SYB-3 Bass Synthesizer to replicate the sound on Frog Brigade's Buzzards of Green Hill but also use it when playing some Parliament songs or pretty much anything that used an analog synth originally. (And you can get some weird/wild sounds out of it.) Although now that I have my Moog Grandmother/Matriarch combo I've been playing that a lot lately. I bought my OC-2 Octaver specifically to play Sledgehammer simply because it was the pedal Tony Levin said he used in. Although I don't have a fretless bass I just use my Ibanez with flat wound strings and with the Octaver it sounds okay. (Admittedly I'm the other component that makes it sound just okay.)
Been following you for years!! Thanks!!
OC-2 for Tony. He indicated that it was cranky AF (my words).
Now it's EBS OctaBass Blue Label
For pedals, the most important is your tuner.
Get a compressor.
Any more pedals depends on your style, how clean or dirty it will be, and if you are a solo person or a contributor keeping the bottom.
The timing practice with the delay. Thanks for tip.
The delay tip is actually pretty clever. I'm practice with my carbon copy and never thought about it
I have heard you play. You are a great bass player. Admire because you are humble inspire of well you play. I am sure you are going to heip me be a better bass player. I have found that your lessons are practical and expect to progress.
Thank you
Ray Garcia
You have a good sense of humor too 🤠🤠🤠
Typo: and I expect to
Unless you're thing is a one man instrumental bass show, I can't see any possible need for a gigging, first call bass player to need any pedals beyond a good compressor and a quality DI box.
The bass has a spot to fill and the bass player has a job to do. The song is what's important. The best players embrace those facts and can find room for tasteful creativity within the song in a way that adds to the song yet isn't distracting and doesn't take it over.
There are great players and great bands who push their position in a song to new boundaries. John Entwistle was most definitely one. Les Clayool is another. In their bands, the guitarist filled in the gaps in more of an accompanying arrangement.
But by and large, neither of them, to my knowledge, made much if any use of effects. But they both have an immediately identifiable sound and style.
Some of the best bass players, and there are many, are John Paul Jones, Paul McCartney, Tony Levin, Flea, John McVie, Stanley Clark, James Jamerson, and John Taylor. Again, neither of these made much use of effects, although Levin definitely broke new ground with the Chapman Stick and is very creative on bass.
I do, however, believe in and enjoy new sounds and new music. And such tinkering is often the catalyst for it. But so much of the music I love most includes a traditional sounding bass line.
Watching from Glasgow, Scotland
Yo josh thx for the shoutout jk just to be clear we weren't doing anything in school today because tomorrow is our Christmas party in school and we have a gig on that day in the party I just watched the stream to ask bass pedal questions
Hi from South Waikato, New Zealand
Awesome playing!!!
My Ampeg Rocket Bass RB 112, 100 watt combo is lightweight and powerful
Wow! I learned so much on this video! Great work!
Mark Guliani beat music…I’m on it!
Hi Josh, Another outstanding - Live - video. What are your thoughts on Slicer pedals (useful, not worth the cost, etc)? Thank you for all of your outstanding videos; especially, the Live ones.
You mean the Boss pedal? Haven't tried it but it's probably fun! Wouldn't guess it'd be "useful" for most bass playing, but fun is a use in itself. :)
I like the octave pedal
Hey Josh! Just joined in. Your bad arse course is amazing > hear the tail end of your discussion on compressors. Do you recommend getting one for a noob ?
Glad you're digging the course! No, don't worry about compressors, you can get through years of gigging and jamming and still not really know what they do. Not urgent!
If I could only have 3 pedals (not counting a tuner) I'd roll with a compressor, distortion and a decent DI but I'd sure miss my octave, chorus and an envelope filter lol. Pedals are a blast and you can get some crazy tones layering them. Chris Wolstenholme of Muse is one of my favorites for musical use of effects and Mike Kerr of Royal Blood split his signal and used an octave pedal and effects to eliminate the need of a guitar player lol (crazy fun to try if you haven't done that). Love your trick with the looper. I use mine mostly to dial in effect pedals or tone but never thought about it as a tool for practicing. That's brilliant. I totally agree on effects processors. I have an HX Stomp and it has loads of awesome stuff if you take the time to work through it but I prefer individual pedals with a few control knobs. How do you dig your Noble DI? I'm on week 32 of my 33 week wait for mine. I can't wait till it gets here.
I love the Noble! Not sure I have the ear to really hear the difference between it and a $100-200 DI, but I feel really cool using it. :)
@@BassBuzz Dear lord! I’m torn with appreciating the honesty and being terrified by it lol. I hope I didn’t pony up that kind of coin and wait 8 months just for a boujee DI / power source combo that only enhances my pedal board street cred!! Lol. I got it mostly for recording. I have a few buddies that do session work and they say it’s almost like an SVT in a box. Either way…. I will convince myself that it was time and money well spent haha.
Haha, I'm sure you'll dig it! I got it because Tim Lefebvre is into them and I'm a fanboy. :) I trust his ears more than mine!
@@BassBuzz I’m not gonna say my quest for a Sean Hurley tone contributed to my purchase. I won’t deny it either though lol. But I’m not getting his $4500 custom shop bass haha.
I have a few session player friends that swear by them for recording. They say the engineers really love the tone. I got it mostly for tracking bass for my band and the little bit of remote session stuff I do. It makes sense for that but not sure I’d pony up that kind of cash to get it for live sound only. The name does light up though so I can’t say that with certainty lol.
Hey Josh…hi from Guam. Missed your live but enjoyed it just the same. Jam on ~
A tuner. The Sonic Research one is nice, but there are plenty good choices.
Wisconsin..Thanks!!!
Nice stream! Thanks for your knowledge!
Hello Buzz,
I.'m Watching from Germany
Great Fan from Germany here !
One dull box rules them all - the name is for sure compressor. Love my Ampeg one.
In a nutshell, what does it do and how do you use it in your playing?
Larry from Middletown,CT.
amazon basics "distortion" (brick red) mini pedal is awesome for $20
There's a lot of inexpensive yet pretty decent pedals out there.
I used have an Envelope filter/Wah called a Weeper.
These were around $15 in the '90s and no one really liked them
but I managed to get a Stratocaster to sound like an acoustic
with one.
I'm not too familiar with bass pedals but the same must apply.
Late to the party, but I have a question. I have a Fender rumble 25 for my bass. Can I safely use that with my guitar 🎸 without damaging anything?
Yep!
You can basically use any amp or pedals with Bass or guitar. Of course you may get a slightly different result when you mix and match, but that's where the fun lies!
The only damage to worry about is impedance mismatch between speaker cabinets and a separate amp. If you use combos, you're good no worries!
Bass amps can play guitar just fine, the only time you have to worry is the other way around.
Hey Joshy!! Hailing from Texoma over here.
Really enjoyed this video
Love the loop pedal
Josephine cardiff
I bought my first bass pedal the orher day.
I used to steal them before that!
which Squier Bass is this? signature or not
3mm Jim Dunlop big stubby is a staple bass pick.
Hello from Thomasville Ga
What is your opinion about multieffects pedals? I've been refraining from getting a Boss gx-100 for (many) month. In gigs, I use no pedal. At home, I use a tuner, a wha, a reverb and a looper.
Merry Christmas Josh!!!!
Good to know as I don't have a Bass or Guitar peddle
I've got one pedal on my board. A DI...lol. Supposed to get a STROBOSTOMP from Santa though. Santa brought me a case instead...lol. But I've got a chorus, Tuner, and a compressor pedal added to the board. Still thinking if I should get an octave.
Cheers from Germany, Nuernberg !
New to bass don't understand.....yet!!!😊
Hi Your teaching is much better than your sweater,lol from Chesham England
Hello from Arizona❤
What pedals SHOULD you buy??? Whichever ones you want and whichever ones feed your "creativity."
What pedals do you NEED???? Depends on the type of music and/ or gig that you are talking about.
I use a Helix, so I have pretty much any option I could ever want. I pretty much always use a drive of some sort. I like to have a chorus if I'm doing a totally clean sound, I like a little bit of verb, and I pretty much have a comp always on. That being said, there are plenty of other options that are fun and/or good .
Got here late. Darn' Loving the course though Josh!
Hey Josh can you talk about your thoughts on Picallo bass? Love the channel, i'm learning alot
Spelling would be a good start.
I had a Boss GT-6B.. bought an EHX English Muff'n.. sold the Boss beacause did no use it... and now i less than 3 months i have 12 must have bass pedals 🤣😂 Korg tuner, Bassit analog compressor, RockerBOx octave/synth, boss synthesizer-5, boss synthesizer-3, DIY prunes & custard, Cry baby fuzz, EHX English Muff'n, RockerBOx RubyHead, HightGain volume, DIY Rebote delay 2.5, and DIY Reverb.... i don't know what happend?!?!?!
I think i need a loop station...
Hi, from Salmon Creek WA
Just about to start learning bass and I wanted to ask if I can use my guitar pedals with the bass or do I need to buy bass pedals?
It depends on the pedal, time, modulation and pitch effects should be fine to use, where you can run into issues is with guitar drive/distortion/fuzz as these can suck the lower frequencies out of your sound.
Lewis from North Carolina!!
Thinking about buying a bass guitar
Man if you are even thinking about it and want to dedicate even a little time to it please do so. It’s one of the best hobbies you can pick up.
Hello from Ontario Canada
Hi From Harlow in Essex UK
Until a few months ago, I used a bunch of pedals. Then I went back to going straight into the amp.
I want to get a BOSS katana bass amp because I want the best package of effects I can get in one thing, I feel that it will give me any effect I could need, or at least most. I don't think I want to buy a flanger pedal on its own, but it sounds so good on forty six and 2 by tool, so I feel that if I get the amp I'll be set. Hope that makes sense. Otherwise, I want Morley Fuzz Wah, because Cliff Burton.
From Nelspruit , South Africa hello
Big fan of yours