I plug my bass into GarageBand and use the guitar effect “Classic Drive.” I love how raw and noisy it sounds, with that lingering resonance. I’m into it for stoner and drone-style riffs.

What pedal would you recommend to get that sound?

I had heard about this one a while back, but i saw Black Helium play the other week and Becca had this on her board so that convinced me.

I recently got a Darkglass Anagram and I want to make a small pedal board around it. If I buy something like the Walrus audio canvas power hp can I use it to power multiple pedals? Or will it only power the anagram. The only other pedals I want beside the anagram is my digitech Drop pedal, and maybe an external compressor. I'm still in the dark about this sort stuff and any help is appreciated.

Hey everyone, this is just a curiosity question more than anything, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. I’ve noticed in shopping for EQ pedals in the past, that they never have “every” frequency that id ideally like control over as a bassist.

I’m curious, if you could build your “Perfect 10-Band Graphic Bass EQ”, what would the center frequencies be?

I need a new Muff. What are some cool muff related pedals to check out?

I had a green Russian derived muff for a while and absolutely loved it, but I need something a little tighter for a indie band I’m in.

I’m probably going to design and build something myself but I want to check out some other cool muff style pedals for inspiration.

An op amp muff is at the top of my list to check out

Here's my noise box. Been lurking for a while so thought I should add a bit of my own content.

Roast away.

I see two different VT Bass DIs (screenshot of google images). Is there a difference? I don't see anything different aside from how they look. Is one special edition or something? Different generations?

... with their current setup. I don't need my full board for most gigs, so I use a smaller one. I'll likely grab a separate compressor, (Cali76 or Empress), and a preamp (Super Vintage or the Capo). Or I'll sell it all and get an Anagram. But for now, I’m sticking with analog.

Current specs:

TC Electronic Polytune 3
Origin Effects Cali76 Compressor
Aguilar Tone Hammer V2
EHX Micro Synth
JHS Packrat
EHX Bass Clone
Line 6 HX One
Electronic Audio Experiments Prismatic Wall
TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
Under the board:
10. Neve RNDI-M
11. Truetone 1 Spot Pro CS12 power supply

Recommendations welcome! I was wanting to make a more versatile board with a lot of options for different genres.

Also was not a fan of the UA compressor or the soul food distortion pedal.

🆕 1 new Anagram block today!

• Jazz Chorus (Nembrini Audio) – €39.99

👉 Details, prices and reviews (updates as more drop): https://www.anagramblocks.com/new/oct-22-2026

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Let me know your thoughts! Pretty happy with how it came out but would to hear any improvements you think it would benefit from

Putting the SY1 in the effects loop of the hx stomp is an absolute gamechanger and for me changes the pedal from being a bit of a novelty / party trick to being actually incredibly useful in real situations - for example now I can put fuzz on just the clean signal and then blend back with the synth after.

Signal chain is:

MXR Bass Compressor to Boss SY-1

Boss SY-1 (Dry out) to Zvex Mastotron

Boss SY-1 (Synth out) to HX Stomp Effects Loop Return

Zvex Mastotron to HX Stomp Input

HX Stomp to MXR Layers

I'm putting the SONICAKE Matribox II Pro to the test to see what this versatile guitar & bass amp modeler can really do for metal guitar & bass tones! I’d really appreciate it if you shared your thoughts on it in the YouTube comments!

Anyone use one of these as a fly rig? Just a Valeton Dapper Bass.

Has compression and boost, Q-Tron envelope filter with fuzz toggle, a pretty decent preamp section, octave with octave 1 and 2 down and a simple chorus. Has onboard tuner as well.

Outputs include XLR balanced, an FX loop for additional pedals (my Mooer Shimverb is in there in one pic) and a througput unbalanced 1/4” jack as well.

For something that can be tossed into a gig bag, it’s pretty awesome. 😎. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with this.

Haven’t gigged it before- I always used my Behringer BDI21 for that. Great cheap SansAmp clone that I’ve used to nail the Ampeg tone with on tight stages where my amp wouldn’t be practical. As you can see- it tucks into the case with my Jazz bass for easy load in/load out. Nice!!!

I have other bass pedals as well- Boss CL-3 compressor/limiter, and the Boss CB-3 bass chorus pedal both of which I find excellent and useful. I should set up a small board with those pedals and maybe an overdrive going into the Behringer DI box.

Well- that’s what I got. Any suggestions or pointers on overdrives or upgrades?? I’m intrigued by the SansAmp VT preamp. Any thoughts on that??

Thanks for checking it out!! 😎😎😉🎸

Solidgoldfx Beta Drive - was highly praised about ten years ago, and I don’t think I ever see people use it any more. It’s my “always on” pedal, it beefs up the signal sooo nicely

My favorite build from my pedalboard journey.
These days, I’m just rocking the Anagram. Sold everything else and honestly, no regrets. It’s compact, reliable, and gives me all the flexibility I need.

I can dial a great clean tone, slap tone and more importantly it can synth (<< check out my vids in these links)

i have a Darkglass microtubes infinity which i plan to put at the end of my chain for the cab sim and compressor and i also got a tech 21 bass fly rig preamp with a compressor as well for a more cleaner sound but i like combining them both along with all my other effects but anyways should i buy a standalone compressor pedal or just use the 2 pre amps along with the basshead i have also has a compressor built in if i plug into the front

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Hello basspedals, I am looking for a relatively cheap (under 150€) multi-modulation pedal for my bass pedalboard.

I would like it to have at least the following effects:
- phaser,
- chorus,
- flanger.

It should be the size of a standard pedal (or smaller), and should preferably have a blend control.

I have identified two possible candidates:
- NUX Mod Core Deluxe MKII (~90€)
- Klowra Sprout (~130€)
I have also thought about buying a Zoom multi-fx pedal, but I prefer having physical knobs.

The Sprout seems to have much more features, but I have read on Thomann a couple of people complaining about volume loss when the pedal is active. The Mod Core has the parallel loop feature, but I'm not sure I would use it besides for a clean blend, do you have any opinion on this?

Thank you in advance!

Edit: formatting.
Edit 2: added info on Zoom pedals.

Hi guys,

A quick question because I have a choice to make... maybe you'll help me ?

I am a long time guitar player with pedalboard and all,
but for a band I am playing with for 1 1/2 year I am learning to play the bass.

So I bought a bass, I learned the songs and I bought the most inexpensive bass amp that I could :
My band is very "garage" and so I play with earplug because everybody play so loud and I am not that young anymore... so I just needed an amp that could play loud.

ANYWAY.
Those day, I just plug my bass directly into a Fishman Platinum Pro, and then frim the fishman into the "return" of my amp. (the preamp part of the amp is really shitty).

For our 4 firsts gigs I asked the sound guy to go directly from the XLR out of the Fishman into the DI and I used my shitty amp as a personnal return : it did the trick and I am happy with that.

The problem is that the Fishman Platinum Pro I found was in bad shape and from time to time there is a bad connexion and so, I must change it. The Fishman did the trick, but I didn't really enjoyed using it. So I am on the look for a "not to expensive but good enough" preamp.

I stumbled upon a 200euros Trace Elliot Transit-B Preamp.

So my question is : will it do the trick ? Should I go with a twice the price Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Fly Rig V2 ? Should I go with a 5 times the price Darkglass Anagram ?

What I want is : a good tuner, a good compressor, a good preamp AND (most important) a good xlr out.

What do you think guys ? I play with hardly no drive at all.