Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[krispn]

15 hours ago, Kev said:

What I find worse with Dual Lock is getting it off a pedal if you ever need to, selling it etc, the adhesive is wicked!

Add a couple of strips of Sellotape, masking tape or that wide brown paper packing tape to the base of the pedals first. You can just peel the whole thing off if need. 

Edited Thursday at 11:18 by krispn

[rwillett]

Here's my homemade pedalboard. I'm now swinging both ways and playing guitar and bass. I prefer the sound of the guitar through the Tonex and the bass through the Mod Dwarf. So use the EHX box to mix. The third channel of the EHX box goes to a Mac for recording purposes. The Tonex has some lovely Fender amps which sound great with a Fender Tele or Strat.

 

It's all driven through a Cioks DC-7 mounted underneath. Its bigger than it needs to be, I could save 2-3cm on the width, but its not a big deal. Its very, very solid. You can certainly stand on it, and we got up to 150Kg with zero issues, so possibly too solid

 

 

Everything is printed including the cable management which nicely slots into the aluminium extrusion.

 

[bassist_lewis]

On the subject of Dual lock, has anyone got a method of unlocking it from itself? Currently I've been using a butter knife to pry them apart but it's squashing the little mushroom things.

[admiralchew]

3 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

On the subject of Dual lock, has anyone got a method of unlocking it from itself? Currently I've been using a butter knife to pry them apart but it's squashing the little mushroom things.

If a small plastic spatula is a system, then yes…

 

I’ve started cutting it in half lengthways to have thin strips on either side of a pedal. It seems to work. For the most part I’ve been able to peel off Dual Lock without too many issues (apart from blisters) but there seems to be a point where once it’s been on a while it becomes trickier to remove.

[jimbobothy]

… so I was going to make a ‘Stealth’ all black board, but remembered whilst starting to assemble (with the Keeley Bassist Limiting Amplifier) that I had a Lusithand Alma Mk 2 in Chrome sitting on a shelf somewhere lol (my favourite comp and it’s British 🇬🇧 😎) so …

 

 

 

 

[bassist_lewis]

52 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

If a small plastic spatula is a system, then yes…

 

I’ve started cutting it in half lengthways to have thin strips on either side of a pedal. It seems to work. For the most part I’ve been able to peel off Dual Lock without too many issues (apart from blisters) but there seems to be a point where once it’s been on a while it becomes trickier to remove.

OK, not just me then! I tend to swap out my univibe for a chorus for conventional/wedding gigs, and I've put 1x1cm squares on instead. Seems to be easier to remove...

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, bassist_lewis said:

On the subject of Dual lock, has anyone got a method of unlocking it from itself? Currently I've been using a butter knife to pry them apart but it's squashing the little mushroom things.

small squares and a wooden spatula

 

[admiralchew]

 

[bnt]

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.

[LukeFRC]

Nice @bnt - how’s the onward working out? I utterly ignored it when it came out thrn was a vid of it in action and could see the appeal 

[bnt]

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.

[SpiritDKBass]

Just rebuilt and added a few pedals to my pedalboard,



My signal path:

Peterson strobostomp HD
MXR bass compressor

MXR bass M80 DI+
Headrush MX

    In the FX loop 
    Strymon bluwsky

    GFI system Skylar

Then, because when I'm home i sometimes record using my bass into Ableton and would like to use the stereo feature in both the MX5 and the reverbs, but also like to actually hear the bass vibes, i have an Yamaha FR speaker behind me, so i then run into the Yler ABY pedal so i get 3 cables out of my board, 1 mono back to the Yamaha FR, and a y-cable stereo running to my sound card


it has to be said that and i have no clue what, but there is somekinda error in my board, all the pedals work perfect when testing one by one, but when i activate the FX loop in the MX5 i get so much latency that Yousician that i normally use to play along with, regestre my notes as so late in fail the note, and i simply do not know whats wrong, it does not seem to be the cable a 2x TR jack to 1x TRS Y-cable into my Motu M2 sound card, you can't hear the latency, but you can clearly see it on the small LCD display on the M2 and see the hit registration error in Yousician, a guy from Thomann said it was because i had too many digital pedals on my board, but i don't get it, i have seen much much bigger boards that seemingly had no problems

[BEADist]

Hiding the spaghetti:

 

 

I am changing this pedal-board layout much too often to commit to tie-wraps and the like. So I attached a piece of cover of a document organizer with velcro and a gaffer-tape 'hinge'. This is a Pedaltrain JR, I cut off the 'rail' at the back to make it more flat (I prefer that because of the expression pedal) and smaller.

 

 

This pedal-board is for an 'eclectic punk' duo (drums, bass, 2 x vocals). With the expression pedal I add a secondary (parallel) distortion with delay, reverb, pitch-shifter, sound-hold and/or chaotic effects from the Boss Core.

 

 

[LukeFRC]

16 hours ago, SpiritDKBass said:

Just rebuilt and added a few pedals to my pedalboard,



My signal path:

Peterson strobostomp HD
MXR bass compressor

MXR bass M80 DI+
Headrush MX

    In the FX loop 
    Strymon bluwsky

    GFI system Skylar

Then, because when I'm home i sometimes record using my bass into Ableton and would like to use the stereo feature in both the MX5 and the reverbs, but also like to actually hear the bass vibes, i have an Yamaha FR speaker behind me, so i then run into the Yler ABY pedal so i get 3 cables out of my board, 1 mono back to the Yamaha FR, and a y-cable stereo running to my sound card


it has to be said that and i have no clue what, but there is somekinda error in my board, all the pedals work perfect when testing one by one, but when i activate the FX loop in the MX5 i get so much latency that Yousician that i normally use to play along with, regestre my notes as so late in fail the note, and i simply do not know whats wrong, it does not seem to be the cable a 2x TR jack to 1x TRS Y-cable into my Motu M2 sound card, you can't hear the latency, but you can clearly see it on the small LCD display on the M2 and see the hit registration error in Yousician, a guy from Thomann said it was because i had too many digital pedals on my board, but i don't get it, i have seen much much bigger boards that seemingly had no problems

It also depends on the latency of different pedals, some will be worse than others boss gt1000core is one of the lowest and then it goes up - if you’ve got the two reverbs it in the loop of that multifx you’ve got an extra stage at loop out and in too, plus for each reverb pedal. Try the reverbs after that multifx, it may almost half the latency …

[MrDinsdale]

 

It's that time again 👌

 

Going to use the new 0xEAE Bass Driver as a preamp, much like the Rusty Box. Currently playing with the Mother in front but really like how it takes the Dagger and Black Math too. Going to start popping it on the board now Im pretty happy with the order.

 

Its extremely clanky in here.

 

UPDATE

 

Had a little more time than expected so I got it all wired up. Think it'll stay like this for the foreseeable until I've had chance to experiment with upcoming musical endeavours and maybe I’ll downsize to essentials.

 

 

Heres and undercarriage shot for anyone into that:

 

 

Not the neatest but passable 👌

Edited 20 hours ago by MrDinsdale

[Eric_Wombat]

My first pedalboard is coming together, need to make up some cables of the correct lengths so I can tidy it up. 

[krispn]

3 hours ago, MrDinsdale said:

 

It's that time again 👌

 

Going to use the new 0xEAE Bass Driver as a preamp, much like the Rusty Box. Currently playing with the Mother in front but really like how it takes the Dagger and Black Math too. Going to start popping it on the board now Im pretty happy with the order.

 

Its extremely clanky in here.

 

UPDATE

 

Had a little more time than expected so I got it all wired up. Think it'll stay like this for the foreseeable until I've had chance to experiment with upcoming musical endeavours and maybe I’ll downsize to essentials.

 

 

Heres and undercarriage shot for anyone into that:

 

 

Not the neatest but passable 👌

Ooh the 0xEAE Bass Driver! Loved the demo I heard. Was tempted to seek one out. How you finding it as my thought was lower gain as a preamp rather than a full bore filth unit

[MrDinsdale]

1 hour ago, krispn said:

Ooh the 0xEAE Bass Driver! Loved the demo I heard. Was tempted to seek one out. How you finding it as my thought was lower gain as a preamp rather than a full bore filth unit

Its great so far, very similar to a Rusty Box given the same inspirations. I'm using it for low gain clank, I'm then using the Science Mother like 2 channels into it. Its a beast of a pedal, waaaay more versatile than the 0xEAE Fuzz. I love everything John and EAE put out though so its kind of a given that I love it 🤣

 

They said they'd they might look at putting the same circuits in different enclosures in future. If I had to fault it, it'd be the completely impractical size of the pedal but it looks like a magnificent obelisk of doom so its easy to forgive. 

[0175westwood29]

added the octave clang and pickle back on, have a noise project coming up! 
 

 

the clang is in a damnation dirt fixer and is mad when you add the octave! And everything sounds cool running the life into it!! 
 

all about running in parallel aswell with the ML10x 

[Bagman]

played keys in the studio today

clavinet into FTT Comp into 3Leaf Audio Proton

 

quite funky