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Funny that we're on an Octaver kick, since I just got a Boss OC-5. I already have a MXR BOD, but I have two boards now and I wanted something with a nice octave up. In Vintage mode it gives me a digital octave up and a OC-2 style analog octave down. I watched a few videos before buying, but I'm discovering that even just a little of the +1 fattens the tone considerably, which I like and wasn't expecting. Still learning. The other pedal I got at the same time was a Landlord FX Cheeky Pint compressor, which I'm still dialling in a bit. Super cheap but seems solid enough. At the highest volume & compression, I seem to be clipping it a little if I play hard. By comparison, my Orange Kongpressor can take 12V and runs on 18V internally ... but cost me 5x as much.

Red Right Returning - Michael Manring https://youtu.be/ZyCykngB7Q8

Shock To The System - Yes

Glass Onion - The Beatles

Bus Stop - Tin Machine

That's a mixer, not a splitter = only the last part of the chain. It doesn't take standard pedal power, so it would be awkward to put on a pedalboard. I didn't know about the Joyo Orthros before, that looks pretty decent - especially for the price. It doesn't have a crossover, though, so you would need to use EQ on the pedals in the loops.

Living In Another World - Talk Talk

The Onward is definitely a trip. It takes a bit of attention to make it sound musical. If I try and do a progression, I have to be careful to play clean, since it can detect a change you didn’t intend and then loop the silence! It always sounds interesting, especially with a suitable amount of Error glitchiness, which is why I want to tweak that on the fly with the expression pedal.

Looks like my Big Board is turning in to an ambient / looping kind of system, with a couple of recent additions and the return of some old favourites: Peterson StroboStomp Mini Orange Kongpressor Mosky Silver Horse "Klone", usually in Golden Horse mode (low gain boost / OD) MXR Bass Octave Deluxe. It has both Growl and Girth. T-Rex Diva Drive. Tube Screamer with a Mix control, basically. I pulled it out again the other night and it sounded better than I remembered. IK Multimedia TONEX ONE. Doesn't have a fixed role. For straight bass, all I would need is The Fridge (SVT amp/cab), but it's a Swiss Army Knife that can do all sorts. I might add a Preset that uses stereo delay and/or reverb, for example. All stereo from here on: Boss MD-200: all the modulations. Chase Bliss Onward: I talked about this in the Mystery Box thread. I need to put a right-angle plug on the expression pedal I have to control the Error levels. Mooer GL100 looper, just arrived a few days ago. Still learning how to use it. It includes a basic drum presets that work in time with your loops. It can hold & play back pre-made loops too, or will once the app for that arrives. One annoyance: it has a headphone out but no volume control for it. Not a problem live in to a DI, but for practice I have: t.mix MicroMix 2. Has Bluetooth playback for practicing. I'm fairly sure that I probably have "too many" pedals at this point, and my Small Board has a couple of new additions for another post.

I just got one of these Landlord "A Cheeky Pint" compressors to try it on my "small board" and so far I quite like it. It's not transparent like e.g. my Orange Kongpressor can be: the Tone control is boosting frequencies, but I like the result with the EQ at around 9-o'clock in "Half Pint" mode. On the "Full Pint" mode I think the EQ is a bit too aggressive and it loses a little low end, so I would only recommend the "Half Pint" mode for bass.

Right - the Sub-Atomic is a pedal version of that, a bit cheaper and not quite as flexible in routing, but with switches.

Running Free - Iron Maiden

Here Come The Bastards - Primus

Hair - The Cowsills (from the musical of the same name)

Flow My Tears - Stuart Hamm