for adding massive width to your tone. I have
flatwound Chromes on a couple of my vintage
a couple of EBS pedals. I have the DynaVerb
Fenders and also use their Half Rounds (semi-
reverb pedal, and the BassIQ, which is a triple
flatwounds) on my fretless basses.
envelope filter pedal. I have a variety of Visual
Sound pedals, including the XO overdrive/
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distortion pedal, and a modified version of an
older Route66 overdrive. One of my all-time
My
bass
instructional
website
is
favorite and most-used pedals is the original
AdamNittiMusicEducation.com. It’s been up
version of Visual Sound’s H2O. It’s actually two
and running since December, 2012. It is an
pedals in one, combining an analog chorus and
interactive video lesson-based website for
an analog echo. You can control each of those
bass guitar. It incorporates video lessons that
effects individually. I use that pedal live for my
are categorized and outlined into a curriculum-
solo tones. It’s really smooth and dynamic. I
based approach, with the purpose of trying to
also have a brand new pedal that I recently put
make the process of studying bass online less
on the board, the Daring Audio Phat Beam. The
arbitrary and more formalized and well-paced.
best way to describe it is that it is a combination
Instead of choosing videos randomly from an
compressor and tone coloration device. It has all
archive site such as YouTube, my online bass
kinds of options for compressing and limiting
school allows you to create more of a path-
dynamically. The Phat Beam is great because
oriented approach that allows you to study
it has a very usable and musical compressor
individual competencies such as technique, ear
with all sorts of variable parameters. You can
training, reading, style studies, improvisation,
introduce subtle color into your tone, or more
groove and timekeeping, and applied harmony
extreme tone changes and distortion.
and theory.
My strings are all D’Addario. I primarily use
The interactive features are what I think are
the nickel-wound XLs, but I also use their
the coolest parts of the site. I broadcast live