Bass Distortion Pedal Shootout
Last Night for The Home Recording Show I did a quick, pointless shootout of some bass distortion pedals.
Enjoy!
Hopefully the Vimeo embed works, if not it’s on YouTube too.
Bass Distortion Shootout from Jon Tidey on Vimeo.
There’s not really any point to this, there’s no moral to the story and no quiz. However, I will say I think any one of these sounds is better than what I can get with plugins.
The hard part about recording a distorted bass is that often you have no reference of what it will sound like with the rest of the instruments. Committing to a distorted bass sound early can bite you in the ass when it comes time to mix. For that reason alone, it’s a good idea to record a clean DI along with it.
If you save the distortion for when you are mixing, you can reamp through a distortion pedal.
One Response to “Bass Distortion Pedal Shootout”
By Rory on Feb 25, 2009 | Reply
I actually really like the Metal Master one right at the end. Which is pretty rare, I almost never like distorted bass tones!
Also, that’s a pretty sick riff.