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I didn't post that for the likes, honest guv, but much appreciated regardless!

Well, I just made Grand Master somehow, clearly not for my bass playing. Is it a coincidence that it’s also my birthday? 

Pride - U2

Dust In The Wind - Kansas

Home Nucleonics - Strapping Young Lad

No Milk Today - Herman’s Hermits 

1 hour ago, juice said:

I don’t expect it will be long before a software update as this has come out of the gate with just enough to make it a viable product and then I’m sure there will be rapidly expanding library as other developers/brands come onboard….

Oh, I agree, like ToneX didn’t have modulation effects until recently. It’s all DSP programming. 

I had a look at the block list … a Flanger, but no Phaser?!? For shame! 😳 

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

19 minutes ago, thebassist said:

Would this work?

https://amzn.eu/d/b29gDsO

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.

On 06/04/2023 at 11:02, asingardenof said:

I can heartily recommend this as a low-budget option, I love mine: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/181102334391008--landlord-fx-a-cheeky-pint-optical-compressor-mini-pedal

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.

20 hours ago, Linus27 said:

 

That does look really interesting. Oddly enough, this came up on YouTube today and it looks and sou d absolutely brilliant and the features are amazing. It's quite pricey but not silly money.

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

Starman - David Bowie

I have looked at the BTB before - but I forgot to mention that I’m also keeping an eye on weight! (Picky, I know.)