Pedals that stack with the Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

EarthQuaker Devices Dirt Transmitter leans this transparent tone toward fuzzy, which it doesn't make on its own

Comes earlier in the signal chain

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (transparent → fuzzy)

Run JHS Smiley into that transparent platform and it finally leans toward fuzzy

Comes earlier in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Electro-Harmonix Bad after Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp in the signal chain, clear of Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp's own gain stage

Comes earlier in the signal chain

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain.

What Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp brings here leans toward transparent — that's worth building a pairing around

Comes earlier in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Meris Polymoon after Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp in the signal chain, clear of Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Run Dawner Prince Boonar after Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp in the signal chain, clear of Orange Bass Butler Bi-Amp Bass Preamp's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain