Bass Player

THE LAST NOTE

Hello all—I’m back with the second instalment of my pedalboard column! I hope part one last month on compressor pedals has been useful. This time we’re looking at ‘drives’, or to be more specific, distortions, fuzzes, and overdrives for bass.

WHAT IS DISTORTION?

In brief, it’s driving a source signal into an audio circuit and then upping the gain until the circuit design can no longer reproduce an accurate

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