{"id":326611,"date":"2019-12-16T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=326611"},"modified":"2019-12-16T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:52:29","slug":"top-5-bass-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/top-5-bass-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Bass Pedals of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playing bass<\/a> is fun, especially through a great bass amp<\/a> , but it’s even more fun when you add effects. In 2019 some really interesting effect pedals came out from some top brands. Here is our Top 5 list…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fender Downtown Express Bass Station<\/a><\/h3>\n

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This shiny metallic bass pedal from\u00a0Fender\u00a0<\/strong>is sure to please any bassist with its versatility<\/strong> and design<\/strong>. It’s main functions are an analog compressor<\/strong>, overdrive<\/strong> (with speaker emulation) and a 3-band equaliser<\/strong>. It’s mute<\/strong> switch and DI out<\/strong> make it a pedal ready for any stage.<\/p>\n

Tech 21 SansAmp Geddy Lee YYZ Preamp<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

This snazzy little pedal is the mini version of the rack-mountableTech 21 SansAmp GED-2112<\/a> <\/strong>which is Rush<\/strong><\/a>‘s frontman, Geddy Lee<\/strong>‘s, signature bass preamp<\/strong>. The pedal is smaller but packs a huge punch with its blendable Deep<\/strong> and Drive<\/strong> settings. Lee’s tone<\/strong> (and technique) is legendary and you can get pretty close with this pedal. Now get practising!<\/p>\n

Zoom B1X Four Bass Multi Effect<\/a><\/h3>\n

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A multi-effect pedal<\/strong> for bass with 71 effects<\/strong>, 9 amp simulations<\/strong>, looper<\/strong> (max. length 30 sec.), integrated expression pedal<\/strong>, Guitar Lab software<\/strong> for creating, editing and managing effects and patches, 68 rhythm patterns, 50 memory slots<\/strong>, integrated tuner<\/strong>, amp \/ headphone output<\/strong>, AUX input<\/strong> and so much more. Bring this lightweight<\/strong> all-in-one to your next rehearsal instead of several pedals and use up to 5 effects simultaneously<\/strong> and in any order, switching them with the pedal switches. For this price<\/strong><\/a> it’s a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

Electro Harmonix Bass Mono Synth<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Can’t decide if you prefer playing synthesizer<\/strong> or bass guitar? Or do you just want to experiment<\/strong> with your bass sound? With this pedal you can turn your bass into 11 different vintage mono synthesizers<\/strong>! Because it’s monophonic<\/strong> it only synthesizes one note per oscillator giving it that authentic vintage sound. You know you wanna try it out…<\/p>\n

Darkglass Hyper Luminal Comp. LTD BK<\/a><\/h3>\n

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This Finnish-made<\/strong> pedal is super versatile with its 3 switchable compressor models<\/strong>. By digitally modelling the side-chain circuits<\/strong> of some of the most legendary compressors<\/strong>, the Hyper Luminal captures their characteristic behaviour while maintaining a fully analog signal path resulting in superb bass tone. <\/strong>Its touch-through-metal sensor controls <\/strong>for Ratio and Mode are innovative, intuitive and weather-<\/strong> and wear-resistant<\/strong>, we’ve never seen this technology on a pedal before!<\/p>\n

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Some pretty amazing bass effect pedals there, wouldn’t you say so? Which ones have you tried? Which would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Also, check out last year’s Top 5<\/strong> in the video<\/strong> below:<\/p>\n

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