Thanks! Multipass is pretty sweet, I was surprised how easy that was to do.
yeah so what I was getting at is, in Parallax you can easily turn the cab sim on and off, etc - but it also kills the additional amp tone they do in addition to the distortion. So by turning off the cab sim, not only do you lose the rounding of the cabs, you also have significant tone impact. Or at least it did for me.
That I didn’t do yet is see if there is a “DI” option on the speakers as this should bypass the speaker part but leave the rest. Maybe that’s what the speaker on/off do? I’ll check when I fire it up again.
are pedals that are (primarily or almost exclusively) marketed for guitar also useful for bass guitars? I could imagine there are pedals where it doesn’t matter, while others might have to be adapted to work with the different frequency ranges!? How would one know?
For example, these were just announced (for guitar, I guess) and look like really cool high-end pedals - could they be used for bass as well?
When the blurb says “suitable for guitars and synthesizers” is “guitars” meant to include bass guitars?
it depends. some “guitar” pedals works well with basses, other have frequencies issues like for exemple a buffer with a low-cut filter set too high for a bass. sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.
I use a few “guitar” pedals (or at least not labeled or marketed as “bass” pedals) with basses : my beloved DOD FX84, graphic EQs, some overdrives. modulation effects (reverb for example) should mostly work too but I don’t like them with a bass so I didn’t try.
it’s somewhat a matter of the type of effect, and somewhat a matter of luck.
Well, may not be what you expect if you are expecting something from it, but it might not matter at all, in fact, it could be cool, but it depends on what you want to do with it.
But its just semantics. if you ask will it matter, only you can answer, cuz you know what you want it for or what you want to create with it.
As far as what you can likely get, the others have answered well
he’s talking about a pot to blend the dry signal (coming from the bass, not modified) and the wet signal (modified by the effect). this blend pot is very often there on bass overdrives because it allows to blend a part of the clean low-end with the saturated high frequencies : it sounds saturated but not muddy.
the same idea works with other pedals because the blend pot often allow to add low-end, which is what is often lacking when using a guitar pedal.
but even this blend pot doesn’t always work, depending on the low-cut frequencies of the different buffer and gain stages of the circuitry.
I’m guessing that most overdrive, distortion, reverb and delay pedals can be used for both bass and guitar. Or at least from guitar > bass while I think bass > guitar often doesn’t work that well. For example the TC delay and reverb are good for most instruments.
You could say that every “family” has pedals that are both good for bass and guitar. Personally I would stick to the ones that are specifically created for an instrument.
