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2019 Trends in the pedal world

#41
zubrycky said:
Well, here in Brazil there's no pedal trend of any kind. Everything cost an arm and a leg (it's depressing to compare the brazilian prices with the original ones) and a lot of pedals never appear here anyway. In other words, you just buy what you can find. That's life.
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Imo that's not such a bad thing (for musical creativity). Awesome fresh new ideas can come from the most creative people with limited resources. I admire that alot!!!!

Real life example..... Jamaica and reggae and dub....wow.....mind blown !!!!! Lee scratch Perry and king tubby had sound laboratories made with insanely creative things. I still floors me to this day.

But yes, the social inequalities in your country are very sad indeed.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
If the PA was "farting" the FOH tech was sleeping on the job. It's standard procedure to put a low cut on just about everything as a "default" setting during soundcheck to prevent such situations.

Not saying the hpf and lpf filters are not useful tools, they clearly are. It's just new that they are now on our pedal boards.
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That's just it, there was nothing to put a low cut with on the board. I looked over the mixer myself trying to keep from having to resort to cutting back on my Sansamp Bass Driver DI. There may have been one on the PA speakers themselves as they are only a few months old, self powered, and have digital readout screens with all kinds of options accessible on the back of 'em. But, not my gear and I was just a guest who played every song but 3 in a 4 hour period.
 
#45
Clark W said:
That's just it, there was nothing to put a low cut with on the board. I looked over the mixer myself trying to keep from having to resort to cutting back on my Sansamp Bass Driver DI. There may have been one on the PA speakers themselves as they are only a few months old, self powered, and have digital readout screens with all kinds of options accessible on the back of 'em. But, not my gear and I was just a guest who played every song but 3 in a 4 hour period.
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No low cut on a mixer.....jeez.....poor you....must have been the only one in the country at the moment.
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
No low cut on a mixer.....jeez.....poor you....must have been the only one in the country at the moment.
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It was an old peavey board, box actually, one with, get this, a 400 watt amp built in it. It can run passive or active speakers. But other than a pan, and 3 band EQ per channel, there wasn't much else on it. And from the amount of dust on it, I'd say it probably hadn't been turned on in a decade. The board they should have been using was 20 minutes late to the show so it never got setup or used.

Never again will I be caught without my own HPF ability at my fingertips, or toes, thanks Broughton! Heck, I've been tempted to buy my own PA gear too, but I haven't gotten mad enough too, yet... But I got the board for it now since I bought a Zoom LiveTrak L-20.
 
#52
JohnnyBottom said:
hmmmm...People are getting rid of them, and people are buying them. :blackeye:
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My birthday being less than a month away.. the birthday gifts I'm receiving have already been ordered and they're probably going to be the finishing touch on my pedal board. A midi controller and the neuro hub for my 3 source audio pedals.. and darned right one of them is the c4.. but I doubt there is going to be much need for anymore pedals on my board anytime soon.
 
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#54
N4860 said:
I don't think that is a recent thing though. From my experience watching the forums here and the friends that I have that use a lot of pedals, it is very common for people to be constantly changing their pedalboards. I feel like musicians that use a lot of pedals are inherently more prone to tinkering so it's not surprising that they are always on the lookout for new/different pedals. This probably happens more so with effects pedals than other types of gear. Since they are also just little boxes with a circuit in there, it's easier to get another down the line and not have to worry about the sound consistency between products of the same line. For instance, if I sold a jazz bass that I loved, it's not as easy to find the same instrument and know full well that it is going to play and sound the same. I've read many times in the forums of guys buying and selling the same pedals multiple times though.
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I am guilty of buying and selling tons of pedals, mostly for guitar, but also for bass. Bass is a little different because my default sound is uneffected or has a bit of always-on compression, so I'm not looking for a signature sound.

With guitar, my signature sound is fuzzed out, and I'm always looking for something. I've been through a zillion fuzzes, but also envelope filters, wahs, flangers, phasers, compressors, tremolos, overdrives, etc. With the exception of a Keeley Bassist and a small Vintage Microtubes (each of which I could easily gig without), my bass effects are guitar effects from my stash.
 
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#55
Laurent said:
2019 is almost a wrap!
What were the trends changes you saw in the world of bass pedals?

Here are some of my observations:

1. A saturated market: too many options to keep track of.
2. They all want a piece of the pie: everybody's making pedals even companies which historically never made any (Boss, EH, MXR now have way more competition).
3. Darkglass continues to dominate the high end (meaning expensive) market.
4. I am seeing more all in one pedals or pedals offering three or more functions.
5. MXR started making clones of older designs (Brown Acid Fuzz and Vintage Bass Octave).
6. EH is reissuing some of their own historic designs (Ram's Head, Triangle Big Muff Pi, Green Russian Big Muff....).
7. Boutique has lost some its luster: with so many players making pedals, it's not special anymore.
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We live in a golden age of pedals that past generations would drool over :thumbsup:
 
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#56
Soooooooo many options. I never really 'needed' anything more than a little OD & a little chorus.
I used to have a bunch of stuff, 'just in case'. That pedal board was stolen. I decided to replace only what I really needed.

This past year, the band has gone ampless. For awhile, I still used my amp without a plugging into a speaker. I got tired of the weight. The time had come to experiment. A new pedal board with a new approach. It took a long time and a lot of money to find the right preamp. Lots of trial an error. I was using a compressor for a little while, which I've since removed.
Wireless>Turbo Tuner>clean boost (rarely used),>chorus>preamp.
DONE!!

It's really quite amazing that the market can support so many options. It's a good 'problem' to have. But it does take time to find just the piece of the puzzle.
 
#57
dwade said:
It's really quite amazing that the market can support so many options. It's a good 'problem' to have. But it does take time to find just the piece of the puzzle.
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I think the market is actually not supporting that many options. Between the vast amount of options available and the ease or reselling pedals via the internet, manufacturers are doing shorter and shorter runs. The days of a company selling 10,000 pedals of a single model are over. I suspect production runs are made in 100's if not less.
 
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Rolling Thunder said:
We live in a golden age of pedals that past generations would drool over :thumbsup:
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Indeed but I also miss the magic of "vintage pedals", I can think of a Roland Jet Phaser, or pedals from Homebrew Electronics, Frantone, vintage Boss....
Some of these pedals do not have the technical perfection of modern pedals, particularly when it comes to using them with a bass, but there was a lot of tone there.
 
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The other night I discovered that Source Audio has really slimmed down their offerings.

I always thought they had a good selection of unique modern effects like the Multiwave distortion, but now that is considered a “legacy product” and the only thing remotely modern is the C4 synth. The rest if the offerings seem to be geared towards vintage fuzz and reverbs.
 
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Laurent said:
Indeed but I also miss the magic of "vintage pedals", I can think of a Roland Jet Phaser, or pedals from Homebrew Electronics, Frantone, vintage Boss....
Some of these pedals do not have the technical perfection of modern pedals, particularly when it comes to using them with a bass, but there was a lot of tone there.
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I get it...there was a time when a Tonebender or Rangemaster would elicit ooohs and aaaahhs like new Music Man.
 

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