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An EKO K1 bass pedalboard from the 1970s.
Bass pedals are an electronic musical instrument with a foot-operated pedal keyboard with a range of one or more octaves. The earliest bass pedals from the 1970s consisted of a pedalboard and analog synthesizer tone generation circuitry packaged together as a unit. The bass pedals are plugged into a bass amplifier or PA system so that their sound can be heard. Since the 1990s, bass pedals are usually MIDI controllers, which have to be connected to a MIDI-compatible computer, electronic synthesizer keyboard, or synth module to produce musical tones. Some 2010s-era bass pedals have both an onboard synth module and a MIDI output.
Bass pedals serve the same function as the pedalboard on a pipe organ or an electric organ, and usually produce sounds in the bass range, which, in organ terminology is the 16′ stop. Some bass pedals have an 8′ stop (an octave higher) which can be used by itself or combined with the 16' stop. Bass pedals are used by keyboard players as an adjunct to their full-range manual keyboards (the keyboards played with the hands), by performers of other instruments (e.g., electric bass or electric guitar), or by themselves. Bass pedal units usually have a smaller range (13 notes) than a church pipe organ's pedal keyboard (32 notes for an American Guild of Organists standard pedalboard). Bass pedals with larger ranges are less common, but do exist, such as 17 notes (C to E), 20 notes (C to G), and 25 notes (C to C two octaves higher). As well, bass pedals usually have shorter pedals than those on a church pipe organ's pedalboard.
Basspedals are an electronic musical instrument with a foot-operated pedal keyboard with a range of one or more octaves. The earliest basspedals from...
as some forms of jazz, fusion, and punk, two bass drums are used, or alternatively two pedals on one bass drum. If two drums are used, that is often to...
pipe organs, pedal pianos, theatre organs, and electronic organs. Standalone pedalboards such as the 1970s-era Moog Taurus basspedals are occasionally...
"Raven" and "Rheem Kee Bass" [sic] names. In the 1970s, a variant form of keyboard bass, basspedals, became popular. Basspedals are pedal keyboards operated...
(2008). "Taurus 3 BassPedals". Moog Music. Retrieved October 20, 2015. "Moog Music announces the end of life of the Taurus 3 BassPedals". Asheville, NC:...
music; dynamic effects such as volume pedals and compressors, which affect loudness; filters such as wah-wah pedals and graphic equalizers, which modify...
onto the sides of a triangle Pedals (Rival Schools album) Pedals (Speak album) Bass drum pedal, a pedal used to play a bass drum while leaving the drummer's...
Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways. Modern pianos usually have three pedals, from...
In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign...
of distortion pedals is typically divided into fuzz pedals, distortion pedals, or overdrive pedals. Designed for electric guitar and bass and operated...
played basspedals both live and in the studio, often playing simultaneous twelve-string guitar and basspedal parts in order to cover rhythm and bass parts...
Crane's work in Atomic Rooster, where Crane played the bass lines on a Hammond organ's basspedals and suggested that he could do this as well. With just...
featured himself alongside his brother, John, on flute, basspedals, and guitar, Dik Cadbury on bass and vocals, Nick Magnus on keyboards, John Shearer on...
a deep bassline. On organs, the bass line is typically played using the pedal keyboard and massive 16' and 32' bass pipes. Basslines in popular music...
frequencies). Boutique fuzz basspedals even have unusual effects such as a "starve" effect, which mimics the distortion sound a pedal gives with a dying battery...
many others. There are also single, double, and triple basspedals that drummers may use for the bass drum. Before motorized transport became widespread,...
He eschewed a bass player, and played all the bass parts himself using the pedals, generally using a walking bassline on the pedals in combination with...
harmonica and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, basspedals, keys and ukulele, and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler and backing...
guitar. (Prior to this, Lifeson used Moog Taurus BassPedals before they were replaced by Korg MIDI pedals in the 1980s.) Lifeson and his bandmates shared...
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