How bass effects pedals have improved over the past 30 years

Bass Pedals
(Image credit: Future / Gavin Roberts)

Even for those of us that lived through it, it can be difficult to remember what being a musician was like when Bass Player magazine first appeared on the scene. 

1990 feels not so much like a different era as a different planet – and, up until that point, interstellar sonic exploration among bassists was a relatively rare event. Certain pedals were already firmly within the bassist’s consciousness by that point, of course. 

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