Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[Jonse]

22 minutes ago, haraszo said:

 

 

 

Serious piece of kit and beautifully wired. 

[prowla]

I had a go on my re-wired board yesterday and my overdrive and octave pedals weren't working when I selected their loops.

Doh! I'd connected the Octave pedals loop and the Overdrive one the wrong way round.

Fortunately the patch cables reached OK, so I could just swap the respective pairs of jack plus around.

😕

[lee650]

1 hour ago, haraszo said:

There is strong chance that this is the final one…. for some time.

Oof that's a Heavyweight board! I love it 😍

[lee650]

21 hours ago, jimbobothy said:

… so I’m going to consolidate my many boards into a ‘Home only’ board for looping stuff etc and a ‘live board’ each for church and then Funk/Motown stuff. Just picked up a used Pedaltrain JR Max for a great price also 👍🏼. 
 

My current crop:

 

 

… the new board:

 

 

… and what it’ll hopefully look like with one more pedal purchase (Fredric Effects BugCrusher at some point):

 

 

Wow that's a lot of pedals 😁

[jimbobothy]

1 hour ago, lee650 said:

Wow that's a lot of pedals 😁

Yeah, lockdown madness ha ha 😆

[Salt on your Bass?]

5 hours ago, haraszo said:

There is strong chance that this is the final one…. for some time.

How's the MERIS mercury 7? I keep being tempted by it but I'm struggling to justify the increase in cost Vs my TC HOF which I've managed to dial in to where I'm happy recently. 

Really Nice board. ✌️

Edited February 6, 2022 by Salt on your Bass?

[CJPJ]

5 hours ago, haraszo said:

There is strong chance that this is the final one…. for some time.

That is proper pedalboard porn. Is that a GigRig board? Very nice.

[Kev]

11 minutes ago, CJPJ said:

That is proper pedalboard porn. Is that a GigRig board? Very nice.

You made me just look up the costs of a Gigrig pedalboard...absolutely insane!

 

Still, that is a nice selection of pedals, any music to share showing it in action?

[Bunion]

Been busy today, chucked this together but I still need a Blackstone mosfet overdrive to squeeze in there, if anyones got one in a drawer 😄

 

[lee650]

3 hours ago, Bunion said:

Been busy today, chucked this together but I still need a Blackstone mosfet overdrive to squeeze in there, if anyones got one in a drawer 😄

 

Wow! A big box Cali and a Noble are high on my want list, actually so a 3 leaf Octave 🙄

[lee650]

On 04/02/2022 at 10:39, Al Krow said:

 

That's a great looking board Lee and, knowing you, I suspect it will be sounding equally awesome mate!

Aww cheers Pal, it'll change again as I've a Saeamoon Funk Machine incoming lol!

[krispn]

9 hours ago, Bunion said:

Been busy today, chucked this together but I still need a Blackstone mosfet overdrive to squeeze in there, if anyones got one in a drawer 😄

 

I’ve tried the Noble/Cali combo and it’s a really good pairing. You’ll struggle to make your bass sound sweeter especially with the low cut engaged/bass boosted. It just adds the right kind of lows. 

Edited February 7, 2022 by krispn

[haraszo]

On 06/02/2022 at 19:16, Salt on your Bass? said:

How's the MERIS mercury 7? I keep being tempted by it but I'm struggling to justify the increase in cost Vs my TC HOF which I've managed to dial in to where I'm happy recently. 

Really Nice board. ✌️

Thanks! I fell in love with mercury7 due to

its si-fi character. I think it’s something you will not get out of HoF but it’s also something that not everyone is looking for from a reverb.

 

On 06/02/2022 at 19:26, CJPJ said:

That is proper pedalboard porn. Is that a GigRig board? Very nice.

Thank you 🙏 Are you asking if the board was built at GigRig?

I bought the board directly from Schmidt Array and built and wired it myself which was a lot of fun! I also wouldn’t mind even cleaner wiring 😅

 

On 06/02/2022 at 19:38, Kev said:

You made me just look up the costs of a Gigrig pedalboard...absolutely insane!

 

Still, that is a nice selection of pedals, any music to share showing it in action?

It is bit sad that since I can afford pedals I can’t afford time to play them enough

[prowla]

Pah!

Anybody who says this will be their last iteration of a pedalboard is clearly delusional.

Edited February 7, 2022 by prowla

[moley6knipe]

On 16/05/2021 at 00:40, moley6knipe said:

Slight rework to reflect addition of looper (I'm hopeless with it) and replacing a previous second isolated PSU with a GigRig Isolator (thanks @mildmanofrock!) - now only one kettle lead needed innit.

Tuner > C4 > Looper > Soul Food > Chorus > Delay > HPF > Comp (always on).

MIDI is MC6 > Hub > C4. The Hub is just a dumb box for me - I store everything on the MC6. Awesome bit of kit, overkill for one pedal but synth/MIDI has been my lockdown project! I also use an expression pedal plugged into the MC6.

The GigRig is ace - powers four pedals (the least important ones!) from one of the 500ma outlets on the Truetone. 

Mixture of Harley Benton and Lava Tightrope solderless patch leads - the HB plugs are really good for stacking side by side without taking up too much space.

Time for an update! Since the last iteration I've lost the Looper (nah.... useful at home but not on stage); gone full digital with the effects; added a 3 way switch to the Morningstar; bought a Peterson because xmas work bonus 🙂

 

Tuner > C4 > Aftershock > Flashback > Mercury > HPF > Comp (always on 4:1).

Morningstar MC6 MkII > MIDI 5 pin out > Neuro hub.

Source Audio pedals connect to Hub using the usual SA TRRS cables (which are waaay too long for my board).

 

Strobostomp HD: wanted to lose the buffer on the Boss (because the average pub really notices the difference!) and be able to store a bunch of different tunings. So this lets my cycle through them using the +/- buttons, and each has a different colour. It's far more tuner than 99% of users inc. me could possibly need. I use the DC out to power a Looper at home when I want to set up sounds.

C4:  Still love it. It's everything I need from a synth, filters and octaves are great. We know all this by now 🙂

Aftershock: A revelation! The tube drive is EXACTLY what I was looking for, and you can cop (at least) 90% of any dirt or fuzz sound you can think of. Despite the C4 being able to cop a nice muff, this is a worthy addition.

Flashback: Using this for some slapback e.g. Folsom Prison Blues style thumpers; some longer delays for the odd pretty moment! Would love to go MIDI but cost outweighs benefit given my minimal usage.

Mercury: Love this. Chorus, Phase, Flange, Vibe. Cut the lows or keep the lows. Great EQ section. The 12 Stage Phaser is awesome - add that to a juicy synth for "look at me!!" intros.

HPF: No-one should be without one, really. Happier speaker cones ahoy!

Keeley: 😍 If I could only keep one pedal (I'd cry like a baby) it would be this one. It just compresses your bass according to how you set it.... and that's it. No noise, drama, signal loss, distortion - just compression. It's always on, and I go at it quite hard on a shade over 4:1 ratio. Helps when the C4 starts chucking out mountains of bass too.

 

Morningstar MC6 MkII + Hub: if your MIDI device supports it, and you can think it, this can most likely do it. Bank 1 (Home) is Core sounds: Page 1 filter, drive, octave, phase; Page 2 synths. Then many Song banks. Then generic banks for drives, octaves, filters, chorus etc, synths. And a browse / toggle bank for when I'm setting up sounds, auditioning new presets etc. I still address the C4 with CC commands, but now have a range of PC assigned on the Hub to: Mercury; Aftershock; Mercury + Aftershock. So on the MC I click new preset, add in the "engage preset" commands I want from my CC and PC User Library and there you go - any combo of sounds you like. The 3 way switch changes banks, toggles pages within a bank and lets me tap midi clock tempo in. Top-right preset on both pages of every bank does: (Double-tap) Jump to next batch of banks; (Long Press) Jump to Bank 1 (go Home). Still need to properly add in my expression pedal i.e. target mapped MIDI parameters per pedal with dedicated Expression Presets per MC Bank. This eats the guitarist friendly MIDI controller competition as a mere snack. Putting the hours in means you can completely create the sound switching environment that you want, on your terms. It's stupidly powerful.

 

And bought one of those nice Brother P-Touch label printer thingies obvs.

[SumOne]

I'd be careful switching some of these boards on, they look close to becoming concious and gaining free-will. It'll be the begining of what future generations refer to as 'The Event'. 

[Phill]

Currently got 3 boards on the go! The big one as a min, the small for travelling lighter at pop gigs in the city mainly & a studio board with just the OC-2 & Cali 76

[krispn]

Small tweaks to mine. It won’t be triggering any ‘events’ in the immediate future even with all the transformers involved! 😀

 

A comp, a preamp/EQ, some tubes and transformers going direct to the desk (and IEM’s) but also routed to the amp via a dirt pedal for when I take an amp to gigs. I may tidy the board…but I’ll need more of that grippy stuff. Looking forward to the next few chances to get it tried out. Sounds bon at home! 
 

 

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by krispn

[moley6knipe]

@krispnwins the DI game!

[krispn]

6 minutes ago, moley6knipe said:

@krispnwins the DI game!

Only if it’s the DI overkill game!🙂

[ped]

One of the reasons I don’t have a pedalboard. These are three of my fave pedals and not a single one uses a standard 9v supply, or shares anything in common with the others. Luckily they all take batts!

 

 

[NicoMcJ]

Anyone else sticking “always on” pedals UNDER their boards?  I’m saving some precious real estate by placing my noise gate out of the way.

[Thunderbird]

On 05/02/2022 at 17:35, jimbobothy said:

… so I’m going to consolidate my many boards into a ‘Home only’ board for looping stuff etc and a ‘live board’ each for church and then Funk/Motown stuff. Just picked up a used Pedaltrain JR Max for a great price also 👍🏼. 
 

My current crop:

 

 

… the new board:

 

 

… and what it’ll hopefully look like with one more pedal purchase (Fredric Effects BugCrusher at some point):

 

 

Very cool stuff 

Out of interest what kind of effects would you use for church? I really have no idea about church music at all 

[jimbobothy]

… well it does depend on what style of Worship the church tends to do. Currently we play a rock/folk sort of vibe, a bit of a loose generalisation I know. I just use a Nano normally with a Radial Instrument switcher, tuner, Spectracomp and finally a Exciter Pre-amp pedal/DI. We use IEMs so the mix is always decent. I once took a bigger board with an Octave, delay, overdrive etc on it and tbh I was surprised how well using the effects worked, but It is normally fairly keep out of the way type of stuff as the focus is on Worship, not getting the dance floor full he he. Saying all that I used to play at a much larger church where the vibe was a really great mix of Gospel-RnB-Funk, but I was a ‘no-effects’ kind of chap then ha ha!! Good question though Thunderbird 👍🏼

[BabyBlueSound]

Keeping it simple. I made the board from a piece of wood cut to the right size  Compressor is the first, HPF is the last.