MXR M85 Bass Distortion Effects Pedal

Description

The MXR Bass Distortion effects pedal dishes out big gnarly tones with all the low end your bottom-dwelling heart desires. Working closely with indie pedal phenom, bass dirt guru and Fuzzrocious Pedals founder Ryan Ratajski, MXR took a famously nasty-sounding distortion circuit and retooled it for the modern working bass player.

Back in the day, if you wanted to use a distortion pedal and keep your low end intact, you had to split your clean and dirty signals between two amps. With the MXR Bass Distortion, there´s no such need. This pedal puts control over the clean/dirty mix right at your feet with separate Dry and Wet level controls. The Tone control, which only affects the distortion signal, is a simple high-cut filter for dialing back the top end, and the Distortion control sets the distortion signals intensity.

Finally, the MXR Bass Distortion´s raunchy sound comes in two flavors, selectable via the LED/SIL switch. The default SIL setting uses silicon clipping diodes for an aggressive, biting sound and a bit of compression, while the LED setting uses LED diodes for a more wide open sound and a nice gain bump.

Features

• Codesigned with bass dirt guru/Fuzzrocious Pedals founder Ryan Ratajski
• Based on a classic distortion circuit famous for its nasty sound
• Separate Dry and Wet level controls
• Select between Silicon and LED clipping diodes
• Internal control sets the max gain level of LED mode
• Get the sound of a split clean/dirty signal chain in a single box