Gig Boards

[Darknut]

Great idea for a thread! There are a lot of boards online that would be pretty unrealistic to gig with. I gig a lot & here is my much used board. I found my sweet spot & have not changed anything in quit awhile.

 

[Deadsound]

Gigging is the main reason to have a pedalboard. For home playing and recording, there's not as much need to have a single thing to plug in that only takes a few seconds to unpack/pack up.

Have you been to the breeder thread

 

[Mosfed]

Yeah, I use my tuner as a mute, too. It's at the beginning of my chain, though, whereas I see a lot of dudes here with it at what looks like the last position on the board.

I use mine as a mute as well. It's third from the end in the always in line stuff. It's there because it fits well there and no other reason.

 

[Korladis]

It's my control panel for everything. It's an extremely powerful switching unit with flip-flop capabilities, blending, switchable buffers, etc. I needed a switching unit as we use a fair amount of effects and I sucked at tap dancing. But the main reason I got the Pedal Palette two years ago was that I needed an easy solution to a problem I encountered using the EHX B9/c9/key9 series. What I wanted to do was give those pedals a clean, uncompressed, no-always on overdrive signal while still using my standard "clean tone" for the bass line. The best sounds I have gotten from the series is when I send the keys signal to the PA and keep my normal bass signal going to my amp/cab. When I switched on the keys sound, I wanted my basic sound out of my cab to not change while the PA got a nice keys signal. But at the same time, I didn't want the EHX pedals to receive a colored signal as they sounded best first in line.

So I set my Pedal Palette up like this:

loop 1 - Always on - e.g. Cali comp, Valvecaster
Loop 2 - dirt (irrelevant for this example)
Loop 3 - keys / organ - e.g. EHX Series into the Strymon Lex straight to the board
loop 4 - other (irrelevant for this example)

And my first preset is just loop 1. Preset 2 is my keys loop and the following happens:

The Pedal Palette flips the order of the loops (1,2,3,4 becomes 3,4,1,2) so Loop 3 sees a clean signal and sends it straight to the board/PA. Then Loop 1 in parallel is engaged with all my normal always on stuff and that goes to the amp. Since Loop 1 is in parallel, it sees a clean signal as though it was first in line and doesn't care that the Keys loop is ahead of it.

I use this setup often with the Ravish as well. Similarly useful if you want to do lines on Ravish that track your bass lines and have them coming from 2 separate speakers.

These days I think the Boss ES-5 / ES-8 series probably trump the Pedal Palette. But I am not sure. The ES-5 is longer but less deep. Costs pretty close to the same amount. I find they work great - perfectly quiet switching, easy to program, easy to switch between presets and manual mode. Just a great unit. Hasn't given me anything but help.

Sorry for the long explanation

Nah, it makes sense with like 16 effects to turn off and on. I only have five, so it wouldn't make as much sense.

Have you been to the breeder thread

I don't have enough pedals to be on there.

I use mine as a mute as well. It's third from the end in the always in line stuff. It's there because it fits well there and no other reason.

Yeah, mine is first just because it seemed to make sense. I don't know if there's a technical reason for putting it there, or anywhere else.

 

[Mosfed]

Nah, it makes sense with like 16 effects to turn off and on. I only have five, so it wouldn't make as much sense.


I don't have enough pedals to be on there.


Yeah, mine is first just because it seemed to make sense. I don't know if there's a technical reason for putting it there, or anywhere else.

Putting it first for you has a nice effect of adding in a buffer right at the start of your chain. So that's pretty useful.

 

[bassmusic17]

Yup.

 

[blindrabbit]

It's my control panel for everything. It's an extremely powerful switching unit with flip-flop capabilities, blending, switchable buffers, etc. I needed a switching unit as we use a fair amount of effects and I sucked at tap dancing. But the main reason I got the Pedal Palette two years ago was that I needed an easy solution to a problem I encountered using the EHX B9/c9/key9 series. What I wanted to do was give those pedals a clean, uncompressed, no-always on overdrive signal while still using my standard "clean tone" for the bass line. The best sounds I have gotten from the series is when I send the keys signal to the PA and keep my normal bass signal going to my amp/cab. When I switched on the keys sound, I wanted my basic sound out of my cab to not change while the PA got a nice keys signal. But at the same time, I didn't want the EHX pedals to receive a colored signal as they sounded best first in line.

So I set my Pedal Palette up like this:

loop 1 - Always on - e.g. Cali comp, Valvecaster
Loop 2 - dirt (irrelevant for this example)
Loop 3 - keys / organ - e.g. EHX Series into the Strymon Lex straight to the board
loop 4 - other (irrelevant for this example)

And my first preset is just loop 1. Preset 2 is my keys loop and the following happens:

The Pedal Palette flips the order of the loops (1,2,3,4 becomes 3,4,1,2) so Loop 3 sees a clean signal and sends it straight to the board/PA. Then Loop 1 in parallel is engaged with all my normal always on stuff and that goes to the amp. Since Loop 1 is in parallel, it sees a clean signal as though it was first in line and doesn't care that the Keys loop is ahead of it.

I use this setup often with the Ravish as well. Similarly useful if you want to do lines on Ravish that track your bass lines and have them coming from 2 separate speakers.

These days I think the Boss ES-5 / ES-8 series probably trump the Pedal Palette. But I am not sure. The ES-5 is longer but less deep. Costs pretty close to the same amount. I find they work great - perfectly quiet switching, easy to program, easy to switch between presets and manual mode. Just a great unit. Hasn't given me anything but help.

Sorry for the long explanation

Now I want a switcher.

 

[_Some Dude]

 

[Fat Freddy]

I've got a request....

Being a complete pedal newb, is there any chance that you guys posting your boards could say what it is that's on them...and why?......Loving the pics....pretty....but I have no clue as to what's what....

 

[Mo'Phat]

I've got a request....

Being a complete pedal newb, is there any chance that you guys posting your boards could say what it is that's on them...and why?......Loving the pics....pretty....but I have no clue as to what's what....

Sure - in the pic above yours, there's a distortion and a fuzz.

 

[Mo'Phat]

I'm in the process of putting together a brand new board - tiers are where it's at.

Wireless or cable will go into the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe (octave down), then to Team Awesome! Fuzz Machine (fuzz), to Source Audio OFD (overdrive, fuzz, distortion), then Source Audio Manta (envelope filter, low-pass filter, cool noise maker), then to Digitech Bass Whammy (pitch shifter, harmonizer, dive-bomber), then to Line 6 M13 (all reverbs, delays, synths, and craziness - Ernie Ball VPjr 25K for expression control), then to Zoom MS-60B (preset for compressor, noise gate, and high-pass filter - filtering out all sub-low frequencies from synths and octaves...protecting my amp and the PA), into the Polytune Mini tuner (tuner and mute).

I still need to stain/velcro/wire the board, and the M13 is dirty because I haven't used it in a while and have re-fallen in love with it.

Hope that helps.

 

[el murdoque]

Yeah, I use my tuner as a mute, too. It's at the beginning of my chain, though, whereas I see a lot of dudes here with it at what looks like the last position on the board.

In fact, on my small board, the tuner is first and on the big board it is last.

 

[Darknut]

My setup: Picture in Post 81

Bass>Pitchfork-01> Badger Schism>Pitchblack Tuner>MXR Bass Compressor>Sansamp BDDI>PRO-DI/Amp
Schism Loop 01: Pitchfork-02>MS60b-01>MS60B-02> Modded Boss ODB-3
Schism Loop 02: JamMan SoloXT

I never turn off the MXR Compressor or the Sansamp BDDI
The Schism is a dry blend (for those who don't know) Main use of Pitchfork-01 to drop tune everything a whole step, hence it being in front. Pitchfork-02 I use for octave below or above (above most) depending on the song.
The MS60B's both have the same set of patches. Having it this way gives me a ridiculous amount of options depending on how I stack them. One example is MS60b-01 with a patch that is "Slow Attack" & "Flanger" pushing MS60B-02 with a patch that is reverb & a touch of delay pushing the ODB-3 for dirt. This gives me a surprisingly convincing smooth synth sound to play on slow songs. If I need it to be more aggressive I push it all with Pitchfork-02 set to upper octave.
I have multiple Filter patches & boost for solos ... and more

The JamMan I use to play Keyboard intros that I recorded at home ... it works very well for this.

The small 2 channel looper turns the MS60B's on & off

I play in a traditional 3 piece cover rock band with a non playing front man. We play weddings & corporate events more than anything else.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Sure - in the pic above yours, there's a distortion and a fuzz.

Yeah....Even I could grasp that.....Thanks.....

 

[Fat Freddy]

My setup: Picture in Post 81

Bass>Pitchfork-01> Badger Schism>Pitchblack Tuner>MXR Bass Compressor>Sansamp BDDI>PRO-DI/Amp
Schism Loop 01: Pitchfork-02>MS60b-01>MS60B-02> Modded Boss ODB-3
Schism Loop 02: JamMan SoloXT

I never turn off the MXR Compressor or the Sansamp BDDI
The Schism is a dry blend (for those who don't know) Main use of Pitchfork-01 to drop tune everything a whole step, hence it being in front. Pitchfork-02 I use for octave below or above (above most) depending on the song.
The MS60B's both have the same set of patches. Having it this way gives me a ridiculous amount of options depending on how I stack them. One example is MS60b-01 with a patch that is "Slow Attack" & "Flanger" pushing MS60B-02 with a patch that is reverb & a touch of delay pushing the ODB-3 for dirt. This gives me a surprisingly convincing smooth synth sound to play on slow songs. If I need it to be more aggressive I push it all with Pitchfork-02 set to upper octave.
I have multiple Filter patches & boost for solos ... and more

The JamMan I use to play Keyboard intros that I recorded at home ... it works very well for this.

The small 2 channel looper turns the MS60B's on & off

I play in a traditional 3 piece cover rock band with a non playing front man. We play weddings & corporate events more than anything else.

Ok.....That may just as well have been written in Japanese as far as I'm concerned....

Thanks for trying but I think that I've got some serious homework to do.....

Time to hit the interwebs and find out what does what methinks.....

 

[LowEndOperative]

Just got it wired five minutes ago. Cupboard is bare but I have two more stompboxes coming.

 

[Byron K]

My new GK Plex w/ old Boss GE-7B Pedalboard!

 

[Jonny5bass]

Now I want a switcher.

You should get one!

 

[theunknowndude]

My pedalboard (can't recall the post number but it's the gator board with 7 pedals on it) pitchblack tuner -> boss PS3 ( set to 50:50 wet and dry with one octave up to 2 octave up using expression pedal for crazy noises ) -> cog mini 66 ( always on overdrive with clean blended in) -> aftershock for more dirt when needed -> ceb3 bass chorus ( always on, chorus on high notes to emphasise my usually low mid tone ) -> boss rv3 ( reverb and delay for spacey tone ) -> weeping demon Wah for distortion and wah for screaming Wah tones

Band plays metal / hard rock that's kind of system of a down instrumental wise but singer does more growly singing

 

[Mosfed]

I've got a request....

Being a complete pedal newb, is there any chance that you guys posting your boards could say what it is that's on them...and why?......Loving the pics....pretty....but I have no clue as to what's what....

bass -> Decibel 11 Pedal Palette Switching Unit * -> Spaceman Atlas III preamp booster -> Broughton Designer Submarine Preamp -> Polytune Mini -> FEA Growler Preamp -> Sfx D][plomat preamp

Pedal Palette loops:

Loop 1 (always on + octave) - Cali Compact Bass compressor -> Broughctave Octaver -> Valvecaster dirty boost/always on tube gain
Loop 2 (dirt) - CCP Ball Buster Buffer Buster -> Dunwich Volt Thrower 125B -> Dunwich Old Dirty Bass -> Broughton Azure Drive -> COG Grand Tarkin bass fuzz
Loop 3 (keyboard emulation) - EHX Key 9 -> EHX C9 -> Strymon Lex with expression control over rotary speed. Signal sent direct to PA
Loop 4 (other) - Panda Audio Future Impact -> Moog Mf-delay

Main presets:

preset 1 - clean tone - Loop 1 active
Preset 2 - keys - Flip flop of order to 3->4->1->2, loops in parallel, Loop 3 active and straight to PA, Loop 1 active straight to cab
preset 3 - dirt - Loop 1 -> Loop 2 active
Preset 4 - funk - Loop 4 active
Preset 5 - dirty funk - Loop 1->Loop 2-> Loop 4
Preset 6 - dirty keys - flip flop of order to 3-4-1-2, loops in parallel, Loop 1-> Loop 2 straight to cab


Hope that helps