Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

jps wrote:I have access to both a Swollen Pickle and a Pork Loin, I should try them out sometime.

Neither sounds Kosher, Jeff!

rickenbrother wrote:

jps wrote:I have access to both a Swollen Pickle and a Pork Loin, I should try them out sometime.

Neither sounds Kosher, Jeff!

Wadya' mean? You never heard of a good Kosher pickle?

You know, like on a pickle and salami pizza?

jps wrote:

rickenbrother wrote:

jps wrote:I have access to both a Swollen Pickle and a Pork Loin, I should try them out sometime.

Neither sounds Kosher, Jeff!

Wadya' mean? You never heard of a good Kosher pickle?

You know, like on a pickle and salami pizza?

Never heard of a Swollen Kosher Pickle!
Pickles would be almost as bad as pineapple on a pizza!

rickenbrother wrote:
Pickles would be almost as bad as pineapple on a pizza!

Almost? ALMOST???????

Thanks guys, I'm really enjoying hearing your thoughts on pedals and seeing your boards! I'm surprised how many of you are using "guitar" pedals instead of the more bass-centric ones.

sloop_john_b wrote:Thanks guys, I'm really enjoying hearing your thoughts on pedals and seeing your boards! I'm surprised how many of you are using "guitar" pedals instead of the more bass-centric ones.

A lot of "bass-centric" pedals have left me cold in the past. If I have to sacrifice some of the really deep lows (<80 Hz usually) to get my effect to work for the song that's fine (although many effects don't even do this or can be tweaked so they don't). Too many pedal makers think a bass pedal needs to sound really boomy and fat for us to like it but I find this is often incompatible with getting the effect to cut through the mix at without overwhelming the rest of the band with a big level boost. That said many of those pedals can also be tweaked or configured more like a "normal" pedal and then it just becomes a matter of what you think sounds better. I know guitarists who run the Bass Big Muff and love it; I prefer the Tall Font Russian (cloned from the green Russian Muffs) for my bass. I think with effects it's really rare to find a right or wrong answer.

sloop_john_b wrote:Thanks guys, I'm really enjoying hearing your thoughts on pedals and seeing your boards! I'm surprised how many of you are using "guitar" pedals instead of the more bass-centric ones.

+1!
I've got admit, I'm enjoying hearing about these too. I've never really used much in the way of pedals, and due to where I live, it's not easy to even find a music store where I can try 'em out. I was thinking about an octave pedal a while back, but found my Lexicon Reverb has a pretty good octave function built-in.

It would be interesting to hear some clips of what the various pedals do/sound like, especially with Rick basses...

cjj wrote:It would be interesting to hear some clips of what the various pedals do/sound like, especially with Rick basses...

I'll be glad to take requests for any of mine.

cassius987 wrote:

cjj wrote:It would be interesting to hear some clips of what the various pedals do/sound like, especially with Rick basses...

I'll be glad to take requests for any of mine.

Muff! With a fretted bass plz.

Will do John. I'll use my 2010 4003. It's stock besides the bridge pickup being RWRP. Believe it or not it sounds pretty good on a fretless too (though this is a Black Russian):



I will probably run the Punch Factory in front of it, with no compression, just for the buffering.

I really like the Taurus line of pedals. I prefer the Silver line over the black even though they are more expensive.
I currently have the Zebu and the Vechoor and they both ROCK! Thinking of the Abigar but there are a lot of good pedals that seem to also work well in this area.

http://www.taurus-amp.pl/bass/preamp-ef ... -line.html

sloop_john_b wrote:Muff! With a fretted bass plz.

Rounds or flats?

jps wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote:Muff! With a fretted bass plz.

Rounds or flats?

Either is fine.

cjj wrote:

rickenbrother wrote:
Pickles would be almost as bad as pineapple on a pizza!

Almost? ALMOST???????

You know what I mean! Neither would be on a pizza that I'm eating.

sloop_john_b wrote:

jps wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote:Muff! With a fretted bass plz.

Rounds or flats?

Either is fine.

My 4003 has D'Addario Nickel XLs on it, so that's what I'll use.