From the course: Electric Bass Lessons: Advanced
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Effects
From the course: Electric Bass Lessons: Advanced
Effects
- So I remember back in the 80s, and probably a lot of guys still do it now where guitar players had this huge pedal board and thousands of switches on and off and all these things and basically I had one switch. It was distortion on, (guitar strum), distortion off. As you can see, that makes a big difference harmonically and then (strum) when I have both pick-ups on low and not the normal bass, (strumming) And it cleans right up with the distortion off. So basically I would just have one foot switch out to my microphone and it would just say "on" and "off." We used to make a big joke about that, guitar players' heads just dance on thousands of pedals and stuff is always breaking. I had distortion on, distortion off, those were my two settings that I had. The reason why I did it like that too, why I had all my stuff in the rack, when you have a pedal board, you basically have to send your tone all the way out to the pedal board and then back again in a cable and it's just a great…
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