tayste_2000

Gonna throw out an alternative here. Use a light overdrive with a slight volume dip for the main sound and then turn it off for the parts you’re thinking would suit the distortion. The jump in volume and fullness of signal might cut quite nicely 🤷🏻‍♂️ Might be what you need is a phat clean in those moments and you can get away with quite a lot of saturation the rest of the time smoothing out that sound.

My work around is to have 4 compact boards

XPND 😉

Nudge that tuner up to the top of the board and it can all squish up a bit more and you might be able to avoid the overhang that I know is bothering you.

Sure you can 😇

Can relate to you massively on this. I found my solution to be an IR loader (obviously still need the distortion pedal and really you do still want the blend on it), or at least for picking my sound for live use. So I recently got a Darkglass Element and it’s been an absolute revelation. I spent a while finding an IR and eq that gave me the sound I try and get out of preamp (which is just me rolling quite a lot of highs) and I’ve ended up with 2-3 settings where the “clean” sounds pretty much the same across all of them but any distortion is wildly different depending on how much high the cab is allow. So this would be my first recommendation, I think the Element is incredible, I now own two and it’s my di, IEM mixer, IR loader, eq, practice headphone rig, etc etc, so using something like that to dial in the sound at home through headphones. Then I would look at something like the Kasleder Albatross, Lusithand Ground and Pound or Backburner Big Booty Judy https://kaslederfx.com/albatross/ https://bassbros.co.uk/product/lusithand-alma-comp-mkii/ - Though you may want the newer model https://backburnernoise.com/products/big-booty-judy The latter two are both rat clones, which I’ve really started to appreciate in the mix with my JHS Punchline, but it has to have the clean blend and it has to run into some sort of cab simulation for me to dial it in.

Well my 2nd punchline purchase fell through so I’m thinking of keeping this now, but I did already send it off to @Sibob to have a play with. Will spend more time this week with the mk1 and see how I’m feeling.

Would something like https://audiob.us potentially work with having the routing through that and ending up in the Camera/Video app? Obviously you’d have to check to see if that app is available as an output, but if it is another app in the chain could solve the issue. Even as an absolute Darkglass hater, I could gush about how great the Element is for hours and hours. I haven’t tried it as an audio interface though yet but I’m excited for it’s ability to record a bass with and without ir at the same time along with bluetooth audio so I don’t have to rip tracks from the net for playalongs. Final option, use something other than the default camera/video app, I don’t have any suggestions past that but I imagine there are some available for your use case.

I had, I’ve probably spent the last 5 years playing with just a DI, using a D’addario muting cable and a headstock tuner. But as I only play with IEMs I was pushed to essentially always have a 2 channel mixer (mix one side, bass the other) so I could get something I enjoyed on gigs. I honestly feel having got a pedal tuner recently that the period with headstock tuner was a mistake, they’re fine, don’t get me wrong and I’ll always have one in a gig bag but it’s so much more comfortable on a gig to just click a button and mute your whole chain. So between having some form of DI, Tuner, IEM mixer you’re back to a pedalboard very quickly (or a very faffy setup each gig) so why not chuck a preamp and overdrive on there. Then very soon you’re back to the whole huge pedalboard thing. My recent posting is essentially Tuner - Boost - Patchbay so I can add other fx mid chain without pulling the board apart) - Preamp/DI. It’s mounted on a board I can extend and I’ve got a very flexible power supply in the Cioks 4 that I can daisy chain power to whatever additional fx I have. But it’s a very very tight setup and I do wonder if I could go to some more full sized pedals and have more margin for error when stomping on them, but the moment I get a bigger board….. there is a space to fill…… and so the cycle begins a new. Now go buy a pedal and tell yourself it’s just a tool and you’ll only have the one and it’s not some weird life altering choice.

If you’re only recording bass and want the smallest no power solution I’d recommend the Boss Katana Go

The only negative about this unit. I love mine so much I bought a second, I can’t express how useful this pedal is. Everything a spicy Di (Di with some eq, gain, cab sim) to an IEM Mixer live.

For the next few hours at least