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?

OK! So I am a bit of a pedal junkie, and I have finally worked out a bass pedal board that I am properly stoked about. There is nothing that I still want to add to the board (just yet...). So here she is, a far cry from the pedals that were placed onto that board when it was first built.



The chain is Ibanez Tuner => Ernie ball Volume Pedal => Markbass Compressore => Vox Big Ben Overdrive => Tech 21 VT Bass => amp. In the VT Bass Effects loop Send => Boss OC-2 => BBE Sonic Stomp => Return. I am super stoked with this set up! 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! I have read countless good reviews on the BBE SS to date, so it is getting me itchy to play with a band soon!!!

I am open to questions!

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.

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...

So as my other 'new pedal' thread suggests, I've got a number of new pedals, so my board has changed round somewhat, so thought I'd post an update here.......



So in order of signal chain.....

Craigamps Minion buffer; T-Rex Squeezer Compressor; Lovepedal OD11 overdrive; Lovepedal Hi-Power Tweed; Bogner Ecstacy Blue overdrive; VOX Ice 9 overdrive; Diamond Quantum Leap modulation; Lovepedal Echophonic delay with modulation; Strymon El Capistan tape delay plus Favourite switch; Strymon Ola Chorus; VOX DelayLab.

Looking forward to making some noise with this lot! ?
Regards
G!

Nice!

Now... time to stop building and start playing.

That's a great looking board Big G! Do you use all those delays with your bass? That's a lot of delay for a bass guitar!

This is my guitar board, but I have used delay on bass. Sounds fantastic. I am considering taking the delaylab off this board, and using it on my potential bass board, but we'll see what happens. I love a bit of chorus on bass, but I'm really getting to use effects at the moment with the kinds of settings I get to play bass at present. I'm hoping to change that soon though. ?

Regards
G!

One thing I forgot to write earlier is that I am running the board in stereo from the El Capistan onwards. It really sounds fantastic when using stereo, though I'd really like to add a stereo trem to the mix. We'll see if/when I get to that stage though!

Regards
G!

So, it seems my board keeps on changing a lot at the moment, and this time, most notably, the actual board itself has changed....

Gone is my DIY three tier effort, and in comes a board I found in a random shop in Brackenfell.....

How it looked when I first got it....


After applying 5 metres of velcro....


And I traded a pedal I wasn't using for this stunning Xotic BB preamp.....


So now my completed board is looking like this.....




Hopefully this will be the last update for a while, although I have now started building a bass board, so that could be my next share? All-in-all though, I'm very happy with this current board, but want to add a nice compressor still, as the T-Rex bass Squeeze didn't really work well with guitar, as could kind of be expected.

Regards
G!