el guapo wrote: Howzit Rowen,

Sorry if you've outlined this before (I couldn't find it), but I have a couple of questions about your signal path (I couldn't tell for certain from the photo):
(a) are the Neutriks on top just linked straight to the ones on the sides?
(b) everything in front of the amp?
(c) how do you use your volume pedals (looks to me like one is before your dirt pedals as a "gain control", one at the end as more of a level control?)

Thanks man.

Howzit boet. With regard to your questions:

(a) Yep, you are right. Makes it easier to swap out pedals or change board configuration should the need arise.
(b) Right again. I Play through a Vox AC 15. No effects loop.
(c) And right again. One serves as a gain control and for volume swells and the one at the end is to control overall level.

Cheers.

Thanks ?

Since the last post, the Mobius, POG2, polytune and freeze have been kicked off. Also now running in stereo! HOG2 and H9 have been in for a half year or so. Great pedals! The HOG2 is great, a lovely combo of the POG2 and freeze, but with excellent midi integration. I also now have a midi splitter underneath my board, 1 in 3 out. Super useful. Oh, and I also got one of those pedal train booster things for the H9 and Timeline ? Makes their footswitches accessible over the ground control.

Great selection of pedals there Danny! Just the Timeline and H9 together is a pretty powerful combination. I have to ask - do you do a lot of ambient/pad stuff?

Danny B wrote: I also now have a midi splitter underneath my board, 1 in 3 out. Super useful.

What make/model are you using? I've been thinking I need to add one in to reduce the delay introduced by daisy chaining from thru ports.

Danny, great board ?
what is your signal chain though?
Cheers!

Alan, I'm using a Molten Voltage MIDI splitty. It works fantastically. It's a bit more pricey than the MIDI solutions quadra thru, but I ordered the midi splitty with the HOG2 from Prymaxe. It really does make everything faster - I was chaining 7 devices together.

Norm, signal chain goes like this:

Compressor (always on) => HOG2 (turned on/off via midi) => Voodoo Labs Pedal switcher (Whammy, Musket, Fix'd Fuzz, Timmy) => H9 => Timeline. H9 and Timeline are in stereo.

Coolness, thanks Danny!

Danny B wrote: I'm using a Molten Voltage MIDI splitty. It works fantastically. It's a bit more pricey than the MIDI solutions quadra thru

Thanks. The Quadra Thru is actually more suited to my needs as it's MIDI powered.

It really does make everything faster - I was chaining 7 devices together.

Ouch! While the delay varies from unit to unit, it all adds up beyond three units. All you need is one slow device in a chain and everything downstream suffers. I also have one unit that has no hard or soft through, so it always has to be at the end of the chain, and it's also the slowest patch switching, so always lags far behind.

WIP

Ooooh, nice board Greg. But let's face it, just not good enough on the details ?

What are the two next to the Strymons? (I recognise the top one but can't figure out what it is). What do you have in the looper and what the amp's loop?

Nice!

DDR4LYF wrote: I am super stoked with this set up!

So you should be. I could happlily gig bass with that board. I love the Big Ben OD - although I've not tried one on bass, I'm sure it works well. I gather from the OC-2 that you play 4-string bass? Great octaver for that purpose.

The Sonic Stomp is new and it sounds good as is, but I will need to give it a good tweaking in a band setting to really see what happens with it!

Don't know them - I'll have to google it. I tired of the BBE rack exciters soon after they came out, when everyone was slapping them on everything.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Nice!

Thanks Alan!

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
So you should be. I could happlily gig bass with that board. I love the Big Ben OD - although I've not tried one on bass, I'm sure it works well. I gather from the OC-2 that you play 4-string bass? Great octaver for that purpose.

Nah, I play 5-string, not exactly out of choice. I bought the bass from a friend and it was a really good price and it was a 5-string. If it got lost and I had to buy another bass, I would have a hard time choosing whether to go with a 5 or 4. I use the octave for creating a bigger sound in driving or breakdown kind of space.

I am using the big ben as kind of a low pass filter with the tone rolled off and minimal gain. The low pass thing is rad, but it also adds a nice subtle growl to the sound which I was not expecting to sound so tastey.

I bet the previous owner of the Big Ben is really jealous that he never thought of using it like that. Lol
I think it's about time I posted my board.

I think so too Jay! Although I am kind of glad that you didn't think of using it like that! Cause then you would have kept it!!!

DDR4LYF wrote: I think so too Jay! Although I am kind of glad that you didn't think of using it like that! Cause then you would have kept it!!!

I'd probably still have sold it, too big for my taste. ? I'll wait for my New Eno Pedal then I'll post mine.

Update on my board. The Sonic stomp sounds kind of cool playing alone. With a band!! Oh my word! I can't believe the difference. Can't really put my finger on it, but everything I played today just sits better in the mix easier to hear, doesn't drown out anyone else. It was the first time people have noticed and commented on things that I have been doing for ages. I really love this pedal and would recommend it to any bassist! So I am now even happier with my pedal board than ever before! Yeah!!!

Pretty simple setup: Fuzzilla > Planet waves tuner > standard Dunlop Crybaby > Craig TremoSoul > Way Huge Aqua-Puss.

Next addition will probably be a buffer between the fuzz and tuner.

So here goes my multi size board. I need a better power supply, though and I'm still playing with the order of things. It's a Gator Pedal Tote that I modified a bit by putting in the removable lift.

1. Home, mess around, I feel like carrying around a lot of stuff.



2. The essentials, I don't feel like carrying around a lot of stuff (this one fits in my cable 'n stuff bag)

It's a bit of a mess ATM. I've added in an amp stand for my rack, so that it sits right next to me, angled upwards. I've moved from the TC G-Major to a TC M350 for electric guitar reverb and added in a Digitech Vocalist Live Pro.


Front(ish) view.


Player's perspective. L-R: Roland GR-55, Roland KD-9, Roland TD-9, Roland KD-9, TC G-System. Drum stuff is on a short rack tube


To my left. Rack T-B: Samson PB10, Focusrite Liquid 56, Eleven Rack, Vocalist Live Pro, TC M350, TC G-System.

Complete one-man-band in three pedal "units", an 8U rack and a pair of powered speakers. 10 minutes to setup. Studio I swap the powered PA speakers for nearfield monitors. The Focusrite works as a nice quality mixer/monitor mixer. Plug in a firewire cable and each source (piezo, magnetic, synth, vocal, drums) has it's own stereo input to my DAW.

I have a pair of in-ears inbound. Then I must just get a Crown CM311A headset mic and I'm sorted (for now at least).

I think I'm getting somewhere...