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Darkglass pedal board

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Yeah you have to experiment with compression before or after drive pedals. I’ve heard it sound good either way and I’ve tried it either way & definitely gives different results so you have try it based on your playing style and preferred settings.

before drive it affects your attack more and can change how the drives behave. after the drives have more dynamics to respond to and the compressor tends to act more as a final level control & Lee things from jumping in level too much.

Lately I’ve just been into stacking drive pedals and not using a compressor
 
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hbabels said:
Lately I’ve just been into stacking drive pedals and not using a compressor
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I've seriously considered pulling my Strymon OB.1 off my board and going compressorless. I almost always have at least a bit of drive, even if "drive" is just a bit of tape saturation from the Strymon Deco. It gives a really light compression which I think is just enough. I haven't done A/B testing, but I can see pulling my compressor and not missing it.
 
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The power supply, noise gate, and tuner and all the patch cables cost less than $100 all put together. Everything that doesn't affect tone is cheap, but hey it works. The pedals cost more than any single one of my basses too hahaha
 
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I use a different distortion pedal for each one of my basses, I just keep them in the same signal chain on the same board. The B7K goes to a Modified Fender Deluxe P with an on-board Darkglass pre-amp. The B7K ultra goes to a Sterling Ray 34. The Microtubes X goes to a Modified Fender 70's reissue P. The Alpha-Omega goes to a Squier Jazz HH 5-string. Compressor is occasionally used with each. Noise gate just keeps the buzz from coming through the amp.
 
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I'm seeing a lot of compressor before/after the drives so here's my two cents. I use the compressor to clean up the entire signal and kind of 'funnel' the raw drive signals to one destination before tidying the signal up. If I put it before my drives the signal would get distorted and wouldn't get cleaned up, it would just change the clean tone. For my purposes, I like the cleaned up distorted tone instead of the distorted cleaned up tone
 
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AustinRanger101 said:
I use a different distortion pedal for each one of my basses, I just keep them in the same signal chain on the same board. The B7K goes to a Modified Fender Deluxe P with an on-board Darkglass pre-amp. The B7K ultra goes to a Sterling Ray 34. The Microtubes X goes to a Modified Fender 70's reissue P. The Alpha-Omega goes to a Squier Jazz HH 5-string. Compressor is occasionally used with each. Noise gate just keeps the buzz from coming through the amp.
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This is an interesting approach makes sense though as I found switching Basses with some of these drive pedals can be tricky level and tone wise
 
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TerriblePeril said:
Gotta catch em all!
My VMT is likely never leaving my life. Small, simple, lots of uses. I kinda want the ultra big brother but.. I dunno. Money, it's a thing.

Have you stuck that board between a guitar and guitar amp? The DG stuff is amazing on more than just bass in my opinion.
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I’m a big DG Vintage fan and have tried every version since the first one was released and am back to the simple original version. In my opinion the Era control is a big part of the mojo in that pedal and I could never get the newer ones without the Era control to sound as good. YMMV!
 

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