...or get a POG.

If it doesn't have to sound like a bass guitar, just "make bass" then a Boss Octave pedal is great. EQ it and it's even better.

At the end of your effect chain, a/b between a guitar rig and a bass rig. When you are playing Fake Boss Bass, you can run though the bass rig. Alternately, you can just run a good all-round amp like a Traynor TS50b or a Fender Bassman through a full range cabinet.

You can't have it all. If you really want bass, someone will have to play a bass guitar, but why sound like everyone else?

Try something like this:

Or use a Baritone guitar tuned to A. Then use an Octave pedal with *that* when you need it.

If you have some money, pick up a Fender Bass VI reissue.

Take an old guitar, string E to B, like Keef, and then put a low E string from a Bass VI in place of where the low E normally would be.

Or, Bass VI gauge on the E and A, then normal guitar strings for D, G, B and E.

You get the idea.
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there is such a box---its called an Akai Unibass.

8/12 string bass.

or

a baritone guitar.

Thanks for all the replies and advice everyone.

I guess my ideal setup would be to have a six string bass strung E-E with an octave to the guitar amp. But I can't really afford that right now.

I really enjoy building easy stompboxes out of random stuff. So I have a bunch of splitters, a/b, kill switches, and a loop station in my rig I didn't really mention to simplify the split into two amps situation. Well actually three/four amps as I can't get distortion I'm happy with from distortion pedals. Way too much equipment I can find motivation to move for gigging but practices are sweet.

As for the music? I can't really describe. Alot more punk and structured than you might be thinking. A strong hold onto punk/hardcore (gorilla biscuits) roots but not really playing that stuff. The Coffee song I posted in the recording-everything-yourself-thread was the origin. Then taking some influence from Unsane, Modey Lemon, Red Medicine, and I've really been listening to Superpussy after I found a link here. Some lighter stuff too. But definitely rock.

alex maiolo wrote:If it doesn't have to sound like a bass guitar, just "make bass" then a Boss Octave pedal is great. EQ it and it's even better.

How is the "tracking" on the Boss Octave pedal? I vaguely remember trying one at Guitar Center, and it seemed to have trouble following even easy picking patterns.

Just play it through a bass amp. It's not rocket science! fuck all these pedals. Maybe split to a guitar amp as well if it's not full enough but it's that simple. Play it through a bass amp.

As another option...

Teisco made a guitar, can't remember the model in it, that had a built in bass effect. I believe Amedeo from Blonde Redhead plays one. Anyway, get that, and then a Head Rush, and loop your bass lines a la Don Caballero, then throw it back into guitar mode and rock the song.

May not make your live shows as dynamic as possible, unless you don't mind building up that bass line before the song kicks in.

Just a thought.

(By the way, anyone remember what model of Teisco that was?)

I used to play a lot of "bass" parts on my Les Paul and lots of people used to come up and ask what sort of trickery I was using to abtain my sound and I would have to say "I pluck them 2 big strings and turn that bass knob up some".
Works.

honeyisfunny wrote:Just play it through a bass amp. It's not rocket science! fuck all these pedals. Maybe split to a guitar amp as well if it's not full enough but it's that simple. Play it through a bass amp.

Well, there is that little problem of the guitar being tuned higher than a bass...

Playing through a bass rig will definitely get your tone deeper, but there's no substitute for dropping octaves.

I have another idea.
A Danelectro solidbody baritone guitar is usually less than $300. There is no difference between a baritone guitar and a Bass VI, other than string gauge and set up. The Fender Baritone Jag and Bass VI are essentially the same guitar.

Why not get a Dano and string it with Fender Bass VI strings?

Still too pricey?

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