Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[Franticsmurf]

A new song for the Hulla band has made me think that the 12 Step will be needed for some synth bass. For one song it may be overkill (not shown is the wiring loom, synth (a half rack Korg01/RW) and associated stand) but I'll take it along for tonight's practice and see if there are other potential uses. I have to be careful as we have a keyboard player and just as I wouldn't want her playing basslines, I have to be careful what I play. The top row is the usual small board line up which I'm hoping to use this year. The MS60b has compressor and noise gate patches plus a few modulation patches and is there so I can try out ideas on the fly. As we narrow down the final choices for the core set for this year, it may be replaced by dedicated pedals although I'm happy with the sounds it produces and the simplicity. The Joyo line selector acts as a summing mixer for keyboard and bass with options for bass only or both. It also acts as a tuner and mute. The Broughton H24 is great but may be redundant as our sound guy is now using a HPF on my channel.  

 

Edited February 16 by Franticsmurf

[MM Stingray 62]

My new board

 

[simondee]

21 hours ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

My new board

 

Clean. Gig rig worth it? Any loops going on?

[nilorius]

21 hours ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

My new board

 

Armour of God.

[MM Stingray 62]

1 hour ago, simondee said:

Clean. Gig rig worth it? Any loops going on?

Not had a chance to use the board yet.

[Rodders]

On 17/02/2025 at 16:42, MM Stingray 62 said:

My new board

 

 

Forgive my ignorance, does the strip at the bottom numbered 1-8, mean that you don't have to turn each pedal on and off individually and they are each assigned to one of the numbers? 

[0175westwood29]

43 minutes ago, Rodders said:

 

Forgive my ignorance, does the strip at the bottom numbered 1-8, mean that you don't have to turn each pedal on and off individually and they are each assigned to one of the numbers? 

Yeh looks like he has a gig rig quarter master 8, you can put pedals in the loops  to have a cleaner signal

flow as your signal only goes thru the pedals you have on rather than all of them. 
 

if you have a big board they worth looking into 

[LukeFRC]

so a few years ago I just had a HX stomp, sold it and went into the individual pedals world, finding out what suits, what doesn't ... and then maybe admitting some kind of defeat by buying a HX stomp again, but finding out I've learned so much along the process that I'm using it completely differently ....
So big changes with and the plan is not to fiddle too much bar a few wee things I need to sort ... it also is I think the first time I've spent ages working out a layout that works well for ergonomically. 
Complete overkill too - but fun. And sometimes thats the point. 

 

Signal chain.

Sonic Research - Turbo Tuner - Christmas present from my daughters fancier than I need, but does let me do fairly good setups so there's that. 

The iron man - My version of the SS/BS mini - it's fantastic clear sounding JFet drive. It's my kind of sound. It has a C1M pot for bass so a bit more low end than the schematic you see online, and the J201 ldss values you would use in a Barbershop... 

Valeton -  OC-10 - It's a tiny OC2 clone, with the mod of disconnecting the -2 portion for more gain. It sounds like a smooth OC2 and tracks down to low D. The first octave I've tried that made me 'get' octaves. 

Broughton Omnicomp - You can keep your cali76's and whatever... my thing was always going to be optical compression, and this is one of the best. (IMO, @jimbobothy may disagree...   ) It sounds better than good and just works. Normally always on.

HX Stomp - I caved and went back. I had had a L4 preamp doing amp sounds in analogue world - but the bottom end was a bit uncontrolled. This gives me control. And scratches the itch of "ooh but I'ld like to try a rat with a clean blend and a flanger on the clean"or whatever. Set to change patches on the H9 via midi if I want and accepts Expression CC and tap tempo.  

•  LOOP 1.1  - Aoteaora Intermodulator - my tiny version of a prunes and custard - it's amazing. Quite often with distortions I find they take over your sound in a big fuzzy or velcoy mess, this wave folder is so touch responsive and just sounds musical and synth.  I need to finish the others I'm making , sorry @lee650, this made it on my board before I posted you yours!  You can see why I kinda needed a small pedal! I'm not allowed a bigger board. It was going to be before the stomp - till I realised the fun of sticking tremolo into it. 
• LOOP 1.2 - PastFX PF-101 a moog MF101 clone. Turns out I like a moogerfooger envelope way more than a mutron style. And I like this, like the Aoteaora it feels musical to me, and usable in subtle ways. 
• LOOP 2.1 - Providence Anadime Bass Chorus - I've got a few digital versions for chorus here, both sound good. None touch the Anadime. Bought off @admiralchew I think so I could shoot it out against the Tech21 bass boost chorus. There was only one winner - again sweet and musical sounding. 
• LOOP 2.2 - Eventide H9 - It does a lot, the things it does well it does very well, and interfaces with the HX better than it did on it's own.  The hot switch will be in an enclosure bottom right once I get around to it. Theres a wee home made patchbay underneath to patch out the expression and hotswitch. 

JHS colourbox v2 - Always on and the reason I ended up trying the individual pedals thing, sound great, transformer sound, Janek, @krispn and I can't all be wrong right? I use it as a low gain warm DI thing. It does fuzzy, which is normally pretty rubbish but can be nice clipping the tops of signal. The HPF is set a bit high for bass which means it gets a lot of Talkbass hate from the kinda folk who judge pedals based on printed specs, but dont let it put you off, but I'm probably never going to use Metal guitar amps on the stomp either but that doesn't mean it isn't a good tool for bass players...

 

 

Now to learn to use this all together. At the moment I'm enjoying the ease of getting sounds -the stuff that's easier analogue is analogue, and the control is digital - it seems a simpler workflow. 

 

Challenge is to not change it again. 
Bar the hot switch and... 
I think the HX needs more current. So either a Cioks crux or 4 thingy or I daisy chain more other the individual pedals together. 

 

Edited Thursday at 21:34 by LukeFRC

[Quatschmacher]

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted a board shot. Been through a lot of chopping and changing and, as you can see, have been on a preamp exploration of late. At some point I need to re-integrate my Morningstar loop switcher and MIDI controller.

 

The chaotic, unfinished and disconnected nature of this is pretty much a reflection of the state of my brain at the moment.

 

Also looks like I need some more cables and a power supply expansion. 

Edited yesterday at 06:38 by Quatschmacher

[javi_bassist]

I'm always struggling with my interest in pedals and me not wanting to take a big pedalboard... I am very happy with this new pedalboard because it covers all of the projects I play in.

 

The layout might be a little weird, but I think it is the best I could make.

 

 

Line 6 Relay G10s-->Boss TU-3w-->HX Stomp-->Walrus Canvas DI. All powered by Cioks Sol.

 

I wanted to put the tuner on the left because I always fear that the wireless go crazy (never happened, but better be ready) so I can plug a cable straight to the tuner. I use an external tuner, even though I really like the tuner in the HX, just because I like to have a pedal that mutes not being the HX (in case something happens to the HX). I could have bought a cheaper tuner, but I like the Boss's switch I have to say. 

 

I will include my Disaster Area Midi Baby 3 when I need to switch presets or when I need more footswitches. I will just turn the DI 45 degrees and put the Baby 3. The board is a D'addario XPND so no problem.

 

I have no problem with the G10sII. However, I got a Fender Telepath that works incredibly good and it works in 5.8 Hz instead of 2.4Hz. I prefer the format of the G10s, but it takes some room. In the future I will probably switch to the famous Shure, so that I can replace also the tuner, but so far so good.

[Sibob]

Board family update…a few little changes, mainly the main board as per my last post, and a couple of better cables on the other boards.

 

 

Si

[jimbobothy]

9 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Board family update…a few little changes, mainly the main board as per my last post, and a couple of better cables on the other boards.

 

 

Si

… out of interest what is your favoured one?

[Sibob]

1 hour ago, jimbobothy said:

… out of interest what is your favoured one?

Well the bottom-left is my ‘Main’ board, in that it gets used in the band I typically have the most gigs with. 

Bottom right was meant to be a smaller approximation of that board…for when I need to take less gear…but only really gets about 70% there tonally, still nice though. 

The Enabler board I just put together because they were bits I had lying around, but it turned out to be a really nice ‘clean’ board, ie no drive, that I typically use with Jocee.

 

The top left board is definitely the most ‘fun’, so much drive and dirt, no band for that at the moment, but I’m working on it. 
 

The HX Stomp board is essentially just a backup to everything, because why not, I have approximations of each board programmed into it.

 

So favoured?

Functionally it would be the ‘main’ board…. But my heart says the drive board. Who doesn’t enjoy stacking 3 dirt pedals into a Sansamp? 🤪

 

Si

Edited yesterday at 21:09 by Sibob

[bnt]

I'm trying an alternative version of my small board, in anticipation of a possible gig in April.

 

R-L:

• I managed to repair the HB PowerPlant Tuner, after I managed to blow a capacitor by plugging in the 24V supply for my big board. It was a SMD electrolytic cap from which the magic smoke had obviously escaped, but there was sufficient space in the case for a conventional cap.
• Orange Kongpressor: it's currently this or the TC SpectraDrive, both of which are quite large. It's "nice" but I have an eye on something smaller, such as a Joyo Scylla which I've heard good things about.
• MXR Bass Octave Deluxe: got to have it, basically.
• LY-ROCK Tone Monster: I've been trying to think of ways I could use this again, since it's an interesting alternative to the modelling route taken by the ToneX One. So I'm using its parallel channel facilities through an A/B switch:
  • Preamp FX Send: after the internal preamp (SVT type, they say), straight out to one side of the switch and back in again. I might squeeze another mini pedal in that loop.
  • Parallel FX Send: clean out to the ToneX One and back through the other side of the switch;
  • The switch output is back in the Preamp Return, so not through the LPF that the Parallel side has. That then goes through the Cab Sim to the outputs (XLR and headphone).

So I have set it up for A/B switching between (a) just the preamp and (b) everything the ToneX One can do. Which is a heck of a lot with the right Preset programming - there's whole 'nother thread on that. Currently, I can have two cab sims in a row, which I'm aware of. I'm leaning towards little or no cab sim on the preamp, and having that only on the ToneX One channel.