Bass pedal.

renmorescout

Looking for some advice please. I was hopeing to buy a bass pedal for my
16 yr old bass playing son! He is into evetything from heavy metal to jazz!
Any ideas on what would be a first pedal to buy. I was looking at a DIGITECH BASS SYNTH WAH on THomman, for €75. What do ye thing? many thanks.

Don1

Something like this perhaps. Nice introduction to effects. Not too crazily expensive like someof the bigger pedal boards. Afraid I don't have much personal experience of bass effects so I can't comment on the quality of the sounds. All I know is I started out using a Zoom guitar effects pedal and it was grand until I got greedy and wanted loads of sounds.

renmorescout

Thanks Don1. I will run it by him later. I missed that while looking thru the
catalog. We have used Zoom units before, got guitars, and they were grand.

feylya

If you want to spend more money, the Boss ME-50B is worth a look.

http://www.thomann.de/ie/boss_me50b_bassmultieffekt.htm

renmorescout

Ha ! if he wants a nice bit of gear like that, He can get a job and buy it himself !!

Karl Hungus

renmorescout wrote:

Any ideas on what would be a first pedal to buy.

That's a very difficult question to answer.

Does he actually need a pedal?

Any clue on what kinda he'd go for?

John

I'd advise against one of those cheap multi effects like the Zoom. You'd be better spending the same amount of money on a single effect that he'll have for life. What sort of music does he listen to and play on the bass?

Parsley

John wrote:

I'd advise against one of those cheap multi effects like the Zoom. You'd be better spending the same amount of money on a single effect that he'll have for life. What sort of music does he listen to and play on the bass?

+1, I'd vote for a quality single effect.