Found the pic of my bass rig for “Jam My Wave” and the “Let’s Drift” project (hopefully Mars Lights).
Signal path:
- Squier PJ bass with pickups modded to be in series
- Tuner
- Falcon Heavy drive (named before Elon went crazy) at minimum gain and flat EQ (2 JFET stages)
- Wheeler compressor
- OG POG (or whatever needed to be flipped in/out per the song. That’s the rotating spot; most songs probably didn’t have anything on in that spot)
- SHORTY parallel loop. In the loop:
- FCOD drive
- BYOC Large Beaver (triangle Muff spec with increased output cap that probably didn’t really change much)
- Motown DI set for maximum color
- Output captured in Reaper
- Thru output to the Quilter Interbass
- Quilter Interbass
- Direct output captured in Reaper
- Powered out to Ampeg V4 cab with Sennheiser e906 on it (cab & mic the same as my guitar rig) captured in Reaper
So my modded bass was typically going through… 4 pedals of my own design :lol: I used the FCOD a lot more than the Muff, maybe only 2-3 Muff songs out of (!!!) 25. My clean sound was just the SHORTY off, though the Quilter’s gain was near-maxxed.
Great rig. The FCOD has just a liiiiiitle clank to it at times that I’ll try to nudge down in the mix. The “clean” (dirty clean, no SHORTY) and fuzz sounds were incredible just at the capture. The Interbass DI is the main sound, with the Motown DI blended in for subs/fundamental and the cab blended in for bite and top end. The cab sound is crucial, even at a low level, to bringing the sound to life.