Ultimate Bass Overdrive & Tone Shaping
The BASSTARD is a powerhouse overdrive pedal built specifically for bassists, delivering everything from subtle warmth to aggressive growl with absolute control. Designed for versatility, it allows you to shape your tone with precision, ensuring it fits seamlessly into any playing style or genre.
With Gain, Damping, Headroom, Volume, Bass, Mid, and Treble controls, you can fine-tune every aspect of your sound. The Blend knob ensures the perfect mix of clean and overdriven signal, maintaining low-end clarity while adding the desired grit and punch.
For even greater flexibility, the BASSTARD features:
- Symmetry Switch – Adjusts the distortion characteristic for different tonal textures.
- Mid Freq Switch – Fine-tunes the midrange frequency for precise tonal shaping.
- Class A / Class AB Switch – Lets you choose between two distinct tonal behaviors, from smooth and dynamic to tight and aggressive.
Whether you're after subtle harmonic enhancement or bold, saturated distortion, the BASSTARD gives bassists the tools to craft their perfect overdrive tone with total control.
Specifications:
• Flexible Bass Overdrive
• Controls: Gain – Damping – Headroom – Volume – Bass - Mid – Treble – Blend
• Switches: Symmetry O/I – Mid Freq - Class A/B
• Footswitch: Effect Bypass
• LED: Effect On/Off
• Connectors: Input (6.3 mm jack) – Output (6.3 mm jack) – Power Supply Connector
(coaxial power connector, 5.5 x 2.1 mm, negative polarity inside)
• Power Supply: 9 – 18V / 24 mA – no battery operation possible
• Dimensions: Width x Depth x Height: 3.70" x 4.72" x 1.50" (94 x 120 x 38 mm)
With switches, jacks & knobs: 3.70" x 4.86" x 2.09" (94 x 123.5 x 53 mm)
• Weight: 0.90 lbs. (410 gr)