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How many pedals do you use on a job?

Do you use pedals for performances

  • Just the bass and my fingers

  • 1 pedal

  • 2 pedals

  • 3 pedals

  • More pedals than Tim Commerford

  • Carrots in an orange stomp box

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IamGroot

IamGroot

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#1
I usually dont use anything with an active bass, but I know I am in the minority. No compression. I like chorus and reverb occassionally. I use a DI box with passive basses.

What do you bring to a show and punch in for more than one song.
 
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I use 13 in my current set up, not counting expression pedals, of which I have two. Had to look up Commerford's board thinking it must be as amazing as that of @Bonesy85 (it wasn't).

Eta: that's for my jamband, classic rock cover band I may or may not bring the board, and if I do, don't use many of them; none for praise and worship, just DI and small amp for monitor.
 
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On cover music gigs, I only bring 'utility pedals' like a tuner and a compressor because the music doesn't need more (30s to 60s, no fuzz).

Originals? Well... Around 8. most of them overdrives, distortions and fuzzes that either run stacked or get mixed with a Boss LS2. Envelope filter is in there too.
 
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Using my active Spector with band#1 for years I only used a tuner, then added an MXR Bass Comp, then put a VTbass down, and we just wrote one song where I use my Keeley Caverns delay & reverb for a few measures.

Since joining band#2 is when the earth really broke apart and a rabbit hole of pedals appeared under my feet! Now I've got a bigger board than a lot of guitarists that I'm still making adjustments to :whistle:
 
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#11
Varies a lot. On any gig, if it's just clean tone all night, I'll at least bring the FlyRig these days, for the tuner (and to mute!) and its SansAmp section.

With Granite State Rhythm and some other occasions, I'll use the "medium" set up with a tuner, preamp, compressor, and for certain songs a chorus and maybe octave or OD.

With Six Cowards it's no holds barred: that's got a dozen or so pedals in separate signal chains to two amps and every single one gets used on at least one song.
 
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#12
Three ...

Voodoo Bass always on, set for “tube like” compression
Sole Pressure, more push just into the grit zone
Rust Booster, for a little more upper mids grind

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#13
I have few ”effecty” pedals, only really the SA C4 synth, which I haven’t really programmed yet :D.

Other than that a 30hz low pass filter, an FEA DE-CL always on comp with limiter for songs that need it. Noble Preamp, tuner and cabsim. I suppose I could find many of these things in an amp, but... been there, done that! Plus I wanted to try something new.

Now I'm gonna go find a bass synth sound for I wanna dance with somebody and a few other songs!:hyper:
 
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IamGroot said:
I usually dont use anything with an active bass, but I know I am in the minority. No compression. I like chorus and reverb occassionally. I use a DI box with passive basses.

What do you bring to a show and punch in for more than one song.
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Zero to three.

For hard rock I use three distortions in various combinations throughout the gig, depending on what kind and how much dirt I need. At least one will be bright/aggressive, at least one will be neutral.

For other gigs I use one or two dirts, or compression, or dirt plus comp.

And sometimes I use no pedals or FX.
 
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Depends on the setlist...
DarkGlass Vintage Ultra V2 is always and at the end of the chain (DI with CabSim).
Usually some compression - Becos Stella or Compressore. Compression and the Vintage Ultra add some tubey warmth.
If we're doing Bridge of Sighs, a delay.
Modern Rock stuff (e.g. GodSmack) gets some Alpha Omicron drive.
If we're doing 80's (e.g. Eurythmics 'Here Comes The Rain Again') a simple synth.
There's a couple that want an envelope filter - can't think of them offhand...
Auditions and open mike/jam is usually zero.
 
#18
Well, I don't have a job.

Haven't gigged or played in a regular band for years now, but I am working on a solo bass project currently that might eventually lead to some gigs, once I got more tracks down and released some of those.

In that case I currently use 10 pedals for that project, one of them a multi effect, and I plan on getting at least 2 more, perhaps even 4.

I have absolutely no idea how many pedals Tim Commerford actually uses, but I definitely use more than 3 pedals, and while I do actually own an orange stomp box too, even as a part of my current setup, no carrots are currently involved in that, so weather it is then actually factually correct or not I took a wild guess and used the elimination approach ending up voting on the option that seemed to fit the bill the best which happens to be "More pedals than Tim Commerford".
 
#19
Depends on the gig, but I never take less than 1, being a tuner. My full board has 7 pedals though: Tuner>Drive>Boost>Octave>Delay>Mod station>Reverb. I almost always have one song in a set where I can throw a reverb or delay in, but those are mainly for me to mess around in the bedroom.
 

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