your question:

2022 Felipe Zenicola

Hi Trevor,
First of all thanks for having this channel of communication here, beautiful ideia!
I want to renew my gear a bit and have been searching for some drive, compressors, eqs, preamps pedal for my 77 pbass. My range of sound goes from motown to free improv/noise so its been a bit challenging. I personally love the drive sound of your bass on moonchild album, can you share what were you using in that record and any other thoughts on pedals you love nowadays, specially talking about a 70’ pbass? thanks a lot!

my answer:

I don’t remember exactly what distortion I used on the Moonchild records. It’s possible it was a Line6 modeller (the gold one); I especially like that because of the EQ option — you can crank the low end that gets sucked out by saturation. I don’t use any compressors or EQ pedals in general though. I often switch up my distortion pedals from time to time. I don’t really have a formula. Lately I’ve been using a Darkglass Duality and GameChanger Plasma. My advice would be to try a bunch of different stuff, maybe a couple things in combination. For motown stuff you don’t need a damn thing, just a bass!