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Ethan Farmer is one cool bass player. He has the deepest pocket, a low-end attitude to die for and digs pedals!

Linley Marthe was one of Joe Zawinul’s last bass findings. Zawinul had a special gift for spotting groundbreaking and innovative bass players, and interestingly many of them were very keen on using effects…

Jesus Rico Perez came up with a fun idea for a new form of polyphonic expression on bass…

Michael League is a master at using effects whether in obvious ways or extremely subtly. We found 2 videos demonstrating both. We are huge Michael League fans, and we love effects, so when you can have both… What’s not to like!?

Thundercat is taking bass pedals and effects to the extreme. One thing is adding a preamp pedal and some gentle comp. Well, Thundercat goes all in…

Muse bassist, Christopher Wolstenholme, has made it a form of art to use pedals and effects to mimic rough synth bass sounds…

Steve Lawson is a long-time bass effect favorite. The centerpiece in his FX rig is a rack-mount Lexicon unit, but he also has quite a few pedals installed on the floorboard…

This video is all about some massive – and massively weird – synth tones. There are pedals, there is Bootsy. What’s not to like?