Bass Guitar Swells/Ambient sounds

Jared Coile

Jared Coile

Jan 28, 2021
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All right guys, I am in awe of guitar players and their swells during church worship. I'm getting close with bass effects but no where near close to where the elec. guitar comes to this. My pedals are POG2, TranzFormer, and have a reverb/delay coming and sustain/freeze pedal.

Anyone have recommendations for bass when it comes to swells or ambient sounds.

Thank for the support.
 
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Budget swells are swell...
If you're a righty player, your right pinky.
If you're a lefty, then your left pinky.


Obscure out-of-production hard-to-find pedal — DOD FX15

SKIP TO 1:40 for proper Swell usage




My favourite, by far. No, I don't have one yet. Probably have to make it myself.


Meanwhile, I have a Dunlop DVP1XL Vol pedal ... and my pinky.
 
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Love that fx15 demo.
It may also be worth trying the slow gear style pedals. things like the mooer slow engine and behringer slow motion will cut the initial attack and then allow the note to ring out. This into a nice big delay should do the trick nicely.
these pedals aren’t hugely tough to source, and don’t cost massive amounts of cash. My spare mooer I just scored cost me less than £20 delivered
 
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+1 EHX Attack Decay. Mess around with your delay and reverb. You can actually get a bowed sound using reverb. Check the threads on bowed or cello or volume swell sounds.

My experience with inexpensive slow attack pedals is they are not polyphonic, so you have to wait for one note to decay before you play another. I found that frustrating, which is why I got the EHX Attack Decay. YMMV.
 
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Volume pedal, volume pedal or volume pedal. ;)

Swell effects can have issues with triggering and even when triggered properly do the same swell time, every time. A volume pedal gives much better control, but you have to practice with it.

Or use the volume control on the bass. Strat players have done this for years because the volume knob is so close to the strings that the player can operate it with their pinky.

P.S. Don't forget that many multi-FX units have expression pedals onboard and there are wahs that can be switched to work as volume pedals.
 
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Five String said:
+1 EHX Attack Decay. Mess around with your delay and reverb. You can actually get a bowed sound using reverb. Check the threads on bowed or cello or volume swell sounds.

My experience with inexpensive slow attack pedals is they are not polyphonic, so you have to wait for one note to decay before you play another. I found that frustrating, which is why I got the EHX Attack Decay. YMMV.
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I agree, I've tried the others, there's even a Malekko...only the EH Attack Decay handles bass signal and returns to full volume (Mooer never returned to full volume for me) and the duration control is accurate (slow or quick swells) One of my go to sounds lately has been Attack Delay into Prunes & Custard (an envelope filter with synthy harmonic distortion).
 
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Agree w everyone who said Volume Pedal. But OP already has a POG2 and a reverb/delay en route, and that combination (in that order, and with liberal use of the POG’s slow attack parameter) will get him 80% of the way there.

If you’re looking for an excuse to get yet another pedal though, a Chase Bliss Audio MOOD is the bee’s knees for ambient lushness. That and a volume pedal.
 
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This one has an awesome shimmer reverb
 
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