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Funnily enough, a Bad Monkey is a brilliant boost for bass..
I genuinely like it, I have 2!
£24 brand new, and capable of being seriously noisy and obnoxious - I use mine with the gain on *zero* and it's still pretty aggressive.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
When you start doing a lot of splitting by frequency phase can start being something to consider. My understanding is a bunch of guitar overdrive pedals have high pass filters, and by nature if you copy a source and high pass one and not the other you could start having phase shift occurring.
This particular link is about drums, but the exact same principle will apply to bass:
The worst-sounding guitar overdrive pedal I've ever heard is the Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive, which blends Tube Screamer-type overdrive with clean. Awful, horrible-sounding thing - there was only one way to get a good sound out if it, which was to set it to pure dirt with no clean.
If I remember correctly, the Boss ODB-3 has the clean and dirt sounds out of phase, which I assume must be intentional since it would be very easy to fix if it wasn't.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Not directly related to bass, but when using multiple mics perfect phase is of course impossible since there will alwys be some wave lengths that dont work out for the distance reltionships.
My philosophy si that if it doesnt sound like a flanger is on it then its prob fine.
I do agree if it sounds good it is good.
Have you ever watched the Fabfilter video about zero latency vs linear phase EQ, it's almost 20 minutes but it explains a bunch of stuff about phase shift, pre-ring etc.