Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[Daz39]

42 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

Aye right

Yeah: someone save the message for

posterity! 
 

[MrDinsdale]

Popped a quick video showing how I’m using the EAE Halberd, Dagger and 0xEAE Fuzz. It’s super rough and apologies for the shaky camera!

 

I’d love to do a deep dive and proper demos of each as they’re capable of way more than I’m showing here but time is hard to find at the mo!

[SamIAm]

17 hours ago, MrDinsdale said:

Popped a quick video showing how I’m using the EAE Halberd, Dagger and 0xEAE Fuzz. It’s super rough and apologies for the shaky camera!

 

I’d love to do a deep dive and proper demos of each as they’re capable of way more than I’m showing here but time is hard to find at the mo!

Sounds FAB!!

S'manth x

[lidl e]

Put together a new grab and go board for gigs and public transportation...

 

It's one of those Harley Benton Power Spaceship boards with the power supply built in. I have to say, I'm very impressed with it. 

 

 

[SumOne]

Full House! 

 

 

That's basics covered. Next stop will be some more exotic top shelf material. 

[jimbobothy]

21 minutes ago, SumOne said:

Full House! 

 

 

That's basics covered. Next stop will be some more exotic top shelf material. 

Full houses are always good, but I’d get annoyed with the silver top on the Bass Driver ha ha. It needs to be matchy matchy or not at all he he 😝🤪

[SumOne]

24 minutes ago, jimbobothy said:

Full houses are always good, but I’d get annoyed with the silver top on the Bass Driver ha ha. It needs to be matchy matchy or not at all he he 😝🤪

Yeah that Bass Driver bling is a bit annoying, partly as I find the dials a bit trickier to see and there's reflections/glare, but mostly because it doesn't match! 

 

In fact, I'm not overly impressed with the Bass Driver. It's fine, but the much maligned ODB-3 costs about half as much and has similar controls (low, high, blend, gain, level), the ODB-3 is higher gain though so worth having both. BB-1X is always on, ODB-3 for more rawkus stuff. 

[admiralchew]

I posted my updated practice board a while back but I thought I'd provide an updated picture showing the two outboard pedals, the Mission EQD-1 that controls the Life pedal and the JC Wah. The two outboard pedals just plug into the patchbay (including, in the case of the JC Wah, for power). It's an aggressive board with a lot of dirt and gain but that's perfect for what I typically enjoy playing. It's portable too (if you have several strong friends willing to do you a favour).

 

[Steve_M]

This is mine at the mo. Really happy with it but still want to replace the Pork & Pickle with a Doom2 if I can ever manage to buy one! Signal chain for the nerds like me out there is:

 

Wireless receiver > Tuner > Stomp with Cali76 on FX loop 1 & Pork & Pickle > VMT (for stacking dirt) on FX loop 2 > Noble

 

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Also should note that the VMT is one of the Spencer Doren built ones.

 

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Steve_M
Added info

[MrDinsdale]

17 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

I posted my updated practice board a while back but I thought I'd provide an updated picture showing the two outboard pedals, the Mission EQD-1 that controls the Life pedal and the JC Wah. The two outboard pedals just plug into the patchbay (including, in the case of the JC Wah, for power). It's an aggressive board with a lot of dirt and gain but that's perfect for what I typically enjoy playing. It's portable too (if you have several strong friends willing to do you a favour).

 

It’s so pretty, always wanted to try a SLO preamp but they rarely ever seem to pop up. The SLO and Rusty Box are the two id love to get my hands on at some point. 

[admiralchew]

37 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said:

It’s so pretty, always wanted to try a SLO preamp but they rarely ever seem to pop up. The SLO and Rusty Box are the two id love to get my hands on at some point. 

Thanks! It weights a ton though!

 

I bought the SLO direct from Shift-line; I gather they are still shipping to the UK but I think you need to contact them directly. It’s one of my favourite preamps, particularly for the great cabsims they do) but it was worth getting a Cioks Crux to power it given its power-hungry 12v requirements. I’d been meaning to build a board around it for a while.

 

The Rusty Box looks great too. I think they are being sold directly on Reverb again if I recall correctly and I think there is one in the classifieds. Although I know that just because they’re on sale doesn’t make playing them magically possible!

[Paddy777]

2 hours ago, admiralchew said:

I posted my updated practice board a while back but I thought I'd provide an updated picture showing the two outboard pedals, the Mission EQD-1 that controls the Life pedal and the JC Wah. The two outboard pedals just plug into the patchbay (including, in the case of the JC Wah, for power). It's an aggressive board with a lot of dirt and gain but that's perfect for what I typically enjoy playing. It's portable too (if you have several strong friends willing to do you a favour).

 

That’s pretty immense 🤩 What music do you play with all that lot?

[admiralchew]

20 minutes ago, Paddy777 said:

That’s pretty immense 🤩 What music do you play with all that lot?

Owing to my working hours I can't commit to being in a band (which is a shame given my brother's a good drummer) so this board is just used for whatever I want to play while practicing or jamming. I play a lot of heavy rock, metal, grunge and, more recently, doom. I try to play a bit of everything though because I just enjoy playing (or trying to play) bass. I've been on a bit of a Tool journey recently so I have a bit of a flanger obsession.

 

The SLO can get very gritty so it covers most of the rock tones on its own, but the MBD-2, Parabellum, Calamity, Heliotropic and Life pedals are each their own flavour of dirty or destructive. I really like gain into flanger into delay so they each get playing time with the flanger setting on the Utility Knife and the Echosystem (again, Tool-tastic).

 

My main aim was to replace my old practice board which had on it most types of pedals I could think of so I could try to adapt it to most things, even if not perfectly. This board more or less does that and the Element means I can play to my music using bluetooth too. Plus, I really like messing about with pedals and building pedal boards so putting together something quite big was a lot of fun.

[Paddy777]

I always like the look of the SLO, I don’t need any gritty tones really but still like a bit of tube hair sometimes and I’ve always been impressed with what I’ve heard from it in sound demos etc, but then I kinda felt like I was missing the point with it a bit using it as an entirely clean preamp, I don’t mind dropping £500-600 on a great preamp/DI but not if I’m gonna be in a square peg/round hole situation with it. Once I’m a bit more flush I’ll probably still get one just to scratch the itch , that or a WR Goliath!

[admiralchew]

9 minutes ago, Paddy777 said:

I always like the look of the SLO, I don’t need any gritty tones really but still like a bit of tube hair sometimes and I’ve always been impressed with what I’ve heard from it in sound demos etc, but then I kinda felt like I was missing the point with it a bit using it as an entirely clean preamp, I don’t mind dropping £500-600 on a great preamp/DI but not if I’m gonna be in a square peg/round hole situation with it. Once I’m a bit more flush I’ll probably still get one just to scratch the itch , that or a WR Goliath!

I think it’s capable of a lot. One of the reasons I like it is it has proper tube tone because of the 12AX7, but the other features that made it worthwhile to me were the excellent switchable cabsims, headphone out and effects loop. Of the other preamps I’ve tried, I found it most similar to the Jad Freer Capo, in case that’s a helpful analogy. I find both fully featured, with a good natural tone that sounds even better with a bit of hair. Something like a Noble is cleaner but the SLO still sounds pretty good without the gain up.

[moley6knipe]

12 hours ago, Steve_M said:

This is mine at the mo. Really happy with it but still want to replace the Pork & Pickle with a Doom2 if I can ever manage to buy one! Signal chain for the nerds like me out there is:

 

Wireless receiver > Tuner > Stomp with Cali76 on FX loop 1 & Pork & Pickle > VMT (for stacking dirt) on FX loop 2 > Noble

 

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Also should note that the VMT is one of the Spencer Doren built ones.

 

 

Boss WL-60 Is great, isn’t it? Really

impressed with the one I picked up on here recently. 

[Steve_M]

1 hour ago, moley6knipe said:

Boss WL-60 Is great, isn’t it? Really

impressed with the one I picked up on here recently. 

Yes I think they're excellent. Bit of a game changer really, after stepping on a cable for over 40 years! Suddenly feels liberating on stage 🙂 Should have done it earlier. I've got 2 transmitters - one for each bass. Just turn off the one not in use. Have had no interference issues (quite big festival stages over the summer) and super easy to set up so no complaints. Rechargeable AA's. Simples. 

[Chadu25]

14 hours ago, admiralchew said:

I posted my updated practice board a while back but I thought I'd provide an updated picture showing the two outboard pedals, the Mission EQD-1 that controls the Life pedal and the JC Wah. The two outboard pedals just plug into the patchbay (including, in the case of the JC Wah, for power). It's an aggressive board with a lot of dirt and gain but that's perfect for what I typically enjoy playing. It's portable too (if you have several strong friends willing to do you a favour).

 

Nice board! I like that Fbass! So hard to see a BN5 come in the classifieds. Been looking for one

[admiralchew]

20 minutes ago, Chadu25 said:

Nice board! I like that Fbass! So hard to see a BN5 come in the classifieds. Been looking for one

Thanks! I either love how F Basses look or I’m left really cold by them; this was a real winner. I think the Bass Gallery in London are starting as a dealer of them next year but I may be wrong. I ended up buying this one overseas but it may be worth having a chat with them.

[admiralchew]

14 hours ago, Steve_M said:

This is mine at the mo. Really happy with it but still want to replace the Pork & Pickle with a Doom2 if I can ever manage to buy one! Signal chain for the nerds like me out there is:

 

Wireless receiver > Tuner > Stomp with Cali76 on FX loop 1 & Pork & Pickle > VMT (for stacking dirt) on FX loop 2 > Noble

 

Powered by a Cioks DC7

 

Also should note that the VMT is one of the Spencer Doren built ones.

 

 

Really nice board! Shades of Ian Allison, which is no bad thing given how on top of pedals he is. Cool detail about having the US-made VMT too. If I recall correctly too, the P&P is one of a few ODs that Jack Roan at Noble said he’d heard pair well with the Noble when I emailed him asking how best to get a dirty tone.

[Paddy777]

12 hours ago, admiralchew said:

I think it’s capable of a lot. One of the reasons I like it is it has proper tube tone because of the 12AX7, but the other features that made it worthwhile to me were the excellent switchable cabsims, headphone out and effects loop. Of the other preamps I’ve tried, I found it most similar to the Jad Freer Capo, in case that’s a helpful analogy. I find both fully featured, with a good natural tone that sounds even better with a bit of hair. Something like a Noble is cleaner but the SLO still sounds pretty good without the gain up.

That’s a very useful comparison actually. Currently I have the Caveman BP1 Compact and it’s a beautiful clear tone with a nice bump in the lows, but I am definitely going to get a second preamp, either to run in the effects loop if the BP1 or just to use for other gigs where a bit more variety of tone is required. The Capo is top of my list (I’d have probably bought it instead of the Caveman had there not been a 5 week backlog when ordering) but if an SLO came available I think I’d be just as happy with it - if you ever decide you’ll let the SLO go pls do give me a message, I’d be very grateful! I don’t really use many effects otherwise apart from Compression, I definitely think it’s a road if I started down I’d end up obsessed with niche octave pedals from the 80’s or something else I couldn’t afford and probably isn’t really necessary 😂 

[admiralchew]

9 minutes ago, Paddy777 said:

I definitely think it’s a road if I started down I’d end up obsessed with niche octave pedals from the 80’s or something else I couldn’t afford and probably isn’t really necessary 😂 

Haha, you should definitely go down that road!

 

I think the SLO or Capo would be a great counterpoint to the BP1. I’m a pedal obsessive (maybe not knowledgeable but obsessive) and I had a crazy notion of using the SLO/Capo for hairier boards, and a BP1/Broughton Studio One for more transparent tones. At a certain point they are all pretty versatile but I’m still yet to try something I like that provides clean tones as well as the Noble, BP1 or Studio One while providing grit as well as the SLO or Capo.

There’s actually a Capo on the Bass Gallery website at the minute.

 

[Paddy777]

2 hours ago, admiralchew said:

Haha, you should definitely go down that road!

 

I think the SLO or Capo would be a great counterpoint to the BP1. I’m a pedal obsessive (maybe not knowledgeable but obsessive) and I had a crazy notion of using the SLO/Capo for hairier boards, and a BP1/Broughton Studio One for more transparent tones. At a certain point they are all pretty versatile but I’m still yet to try something I like that provides clean tones as well as the Noble, BP1 or Studio One while providing grit as well as the SLO or Capo.

There’s actually a Capo on the Bass Gallery website at the minute.

 

Oh really!? Well thanks for ruining the kids Xmas..! 💸 Haha

[Steve_M]

10 hours ago, admiralchew said:

Really nice board! Shades of Ian Allison, which is no bad thing given how on top of pedals he is. Cool detail about having the US-made VMT too. If I recall correctly too, the P&P is one of a few ODs that Jack Roan at Noble said he’d heard pair well with the Noble when I emailed him asking how best to get a dirty tone.

 

10 hours ago, admiralchew said:

Really nice board! Shades of Ian Allison, which is no bad thing given how on top of pedals he is. Cool detail about having the US-made VMT too. If I recall correctly too, the P&P is one of a few ODs that Jack Roan at Noble said he’d heard pair well with the Noble when I emailed him asking how best to get a dirty tone.

 

Thanks! Yes, it's similar to IMA's board. In fact I emailed him today to ask about his Stomp FS4/5 switch - and he emailed back! It's http://www.pedalnetics.com/ if anyone else has struggled to find it. You're correct too about the P&P, Jack did say he thought it plays well with the Noble. He also told me he thought the Noble and the Cali are the dream team - I have to admit it's a cracking pairing, especially with a P Bass. Just that elusive Doom2 to go! Next batch is December - fingers crossed I can bag one.

[Lunoxx]

On 19/11/2023 at 22:34, Steve_M said:

This is mine at the mo. Really happy with it but still want to replace the Pork & Pickle with a Doom2 if I can ever manage to buy one! Signal chain for the nerds like me out there is:

 

Wireless receiver > Tuner > Stomp with Cali76 on FX loop 1 & Pork & Pickle > VMT (for stacking dirt) on FX loop 2 > Noble

 

Powered by a Cioks DC7

 

Also should note that the VMT is one of the Spencer Doren built ones.

 

 

What brand is the pedalboard? Looks like the perfect size for the project I have in mind