So I started playing bass a while back. I am learning a lot of Type O Negative by ear just so you know where my skill level is at...

Anyone wanna suggest songs that might help me improve?

Also, I am going to be looking for some pedals soon but I really have no idea where to start..

Do I get a distortion one first or a whammy effect or do they make pedals that can do both?!

Help please since they took bassmasta.net down

If you want some inspiration into different playing styles you should look into some Death bands that have some nice bass tunes.

Try the bands Death~ Album Individual Though Patterns & Obscura ~Album Cosmogenis for starters.

In my experience, alot of my bassist friends have just got a straight pedal board (zoom or smth) and it has everything. Flange works nicely on a bass

I love death, I don't know if I could play any of their stuff but I can try. Never listened to Obscura before so I will look into it, thanks bud!



What is a pedal board? I really don't know much about pedals at all..

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&rlz=1G1ASUSCENUK306&q=Boss+Pedal+Board&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=11536389348303676794&sa=X&ei=yLogTqHaLsnBhAeWs_yWAw&ved=0CEYQ8gIwBA

That is essentially what it is, and there are THOUSANDS of them. Zoom do good ones too

Oh so it has multiple uses and effects in one foot pedal? That's pretty cool man.

Do I need to buy a bass specific one? Or do guitar pedals work the same as a bass pedal?

There are bass specific ones, but as a pure guitarist I can safely say that any will work on any plugged in instrument, bass or guitar.

Most of them have about 70+++ effects, and some of them have loop microchips so you can for instance, play the bassline to AC/DC - Back In Black, then while it's looping, you can then play a solo over the top - and thus you have a recorded song! ish xD

Thats awesome! I watched a demo clip of the ME-70 and it looks awesome! Is that the one you own?

For starting off, Nirvana has some of the easiest bass lines ever! And they are pretty sexy sounding I must add.

I don't use effects pedals. I had a Zoom GFX-4 but Couldn't work it for shit (either coz it sucks, or coz i'm retardedinthehead) so I simply use my guitar + distortion pedal + amps chorus.

I may invest in another one, but I gotta know how the fuck they work first