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...

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.

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!

Well my last update hoped that I would not need to post for a while, but there have been a number of changes to my board, with some new pedals that I posted about in another thread which I'll also update shortly with more info on those specific pedals, but wanted to also update how my board is now looking, so here it is.....



A few pedals have had to move on, and get out of the way, to make space for the newcomers, but one thing I've learnt in this process is that I am not a fan of overdrive or distortion, with the exception of dumble/zendrive type drives. I'd rather create a heavier sound by stacking several dumble drives together than use one brittle and shrill sounding heavier type overdrive. Just my feel I guess?!

So again, I dare say that my board is feeling pretty much 'there' wherever 'there' is, and I don't foresee too much change now, though I have learnt never to say never! ?

All in all, I'm a happy bunny! ?

Regards
G!

Pedal board update!

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Nice setup! How do you find the Pork loin? I love mine! Do you prefer that or the Green Rhino?

Cheers
G!

Big G wrote: Nice setup! How do you find the Pork loin? I love mine! Do you prefer that or the Green Rhino?

Cheers
G!

Thanks man, I've had the Line6 M9 Stompbox Modeller for ages (bought from fellow forumite and absolute champ IceCreamMan last year) but I'd been too busy (and at times too lazy) to get it on my board... now if I could just work out how to use the damned thing!

I love the Pork Loin, it's probably my most used effect, it takes my clean sound (strat through Mesa Lonestar Special) and just takes it to that edge-of-breakup bite... instant SRV! The Green Rhino is great too, it's basically a Tube Screamer clone but with more flexability, I run them both on for overdriven solos where the Pork Loin works as a slight volume and gain boost. I'm still trying to properly make friends with the Swollen Pickle and the Fat Sandwich... the Swollen Pickle is just too fuzzy and the Fat Sandwich just too distorty for my ears.

My 2 Pedalboards....2 Totally Different,but Unique Setups ?

Not much, but this does it for me now. Looking for a proper power supply, and I might build a little looper.