When I'm watching a gig, its the ballz-out heavy deep bass sound I appreciate. Pedals aren't really heard unless its a solo and its always thinner than a Big Badass Bass groove. I sold off all my pedals except for Darkglass Vintage microtubes which can add just a bit of dirt when digging in.
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How many pedals do you use on a job?
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Boss GT-1B and separate tuner pedal. I always have the multiband limiter on which controls slap spikes. Also use parametric eq for tone shaping (mostly on) and graphic eq for slap shaping. Auto wah and octave when songs require it. Chorus/phaser/reverb very rarely. Distortion never.
I tend to use three or four.
Compression if I want the sound, especially for covers.
Most bands I'm with had at least one song wearing envelope filter comes in handy, so there's no point taking that off the board.
Don't know if tuner counts, but I have one of those.
My DI box has an internal distortion, but I can't even remember what it sounds like. I rarely rarely use that thing.
In very very specific circumstances I will use a sent pedal or an octave pedal to get certain sounds, but that is maybe 5% of the time.
Compression if I want the sound, especially for covers.
Most bands I'm with had at least one song wearing envelope filter comes in handy, so there's no point taking that off the board.
Don't know if tuner counts, but I have one of those.
My DI box has an internal distortion, but I can't even remember what it sounds like. I rarely rarely use that thing.
In very very specific circumstances I will use a sent pedal or an octave pedal to get certain sounds, but that is maybe 5% of the time.
Right now I play in about 12 bands or road-gig situations on a regular or semi-regular basis, and pedal use ranges from zero to 10 depending on the gig (as seen in attached photos of full size and junior size pedalboards). Not shown is recently acquired Radial Bassbone, only used for switching between axes when I use two on a gig (which I'd say is about 50% of the time).
The small pedalboard fits in a backpack and takes up a lot less real estate on stage, which is often an advantage. Both pedalboards have true bypass strips, which improve signal quality vs. chaining thru a bunch of pedals, although bass straight into the amp still sounds better. The big pedalboard (Pedaltrain) has a Pedal Power 2 mounted on the underside. I will occasionally swap out a couple of pedals on either board depending on what I need, if I think I want a different flavor of overdrive, etc.
Top three most used pedals: SansAmp original, Octabvre and Funky Filter.
The small pedalboard fits in a backpack and takes up a lot less real estate on stage, which is often an advantage. Both pedalboards have true bypass strips, which improve signal quality vs. chaining thru a bunch of pedals, although bass straight into the amp still sounds better. The big pedalboard (Pedaltrain) has a Pedal Power 2 mounted on the underside. I will occasionally swap out a couple of pedals on either board depending on what I need, if I think I want a different flavor of overdrive, etc.
Top three most used pedals: SansAmp original, Octabvre and Funky Filter.
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I have a 1994 EB Stingray active into a Fender 350 Rumble with a volume boost on the floor. Am also wireless with a Line 6 G30 Relay using EB flatwounds. This does the trick for me.
I have a 1994 EB Stingray active into a Fender 350 Rumble with a volume boost on the floor. Am also wireless with a Line 6 G30 Relay using EB flatwounds. This does the trick for me.
Has anyone seen Janek gwizdala's wall of pedals? That is beyond my comprehension.
I'm not a pedalfreak but when playing I a coverband I usually tend to use different mixes of Compression, Chorus and Drive. I have had several different brands and variations but sold all of it. Now I only use the Zoom B3n which provides me with more than I ever need in ONE unit. It also allow me to store the settings for different songs in presets that make life a lot easier. Shure there are boutique pedals with better sound, but nobody will hear it on a live gig and frankly hardly ever in a mix. The sounds in the B3n is pretty good if You take the time to really get in depth. The reward is that is so great to be able to switch sounds in a fraction of second, and your controls are exactly where You put them last time You played that song
.....(150 presets will cover You).Some complain that B3n does not contain a DI but most amp does so that not really a problem to me (I do keep a passive DI in my guitar case, but have only used it once).
I'm not a pedalfreak but when playing I a coverband I usually tend to use different mixes of Compression, Chorus and Drive. I have had several different brands and variations but sold all of it. Now I only use the Zoom B3n which provides me with more than I ever need in ONE unit. It also allow me to store the settings for different songs in presets that make life a lot easier. Shure there are boutique pedals with better sound, but nobody will hear it on a live gig and frankly hardly ever in a mix. The sounds in the B3n is pretty good if You take the time to really get in depth. The reward is that is so great to be able to switch sounds in a fraction of second, and your controls are exactly where You put them last time You played that song
Some complain that B3n does not contain a DI but most amp does so that not really a problem to me (I do keep a passive DI in my guitar case, but have only used it once).
A multi-effects unit is the way to go IMHO. I replaced all my analogue MXR pedals with the Boss GT-1B. It sounds just as good as the individual pedals and gives far more control of settings. Pros such as Victor Wooten and Michael Manring use multi-effects pedals.
Line 6 Wireless> Boss Tuner> EH Micro Pog (Octave UP for a couple of things)> MXR Deluxe Bass Chorus ( for a couple of songs)> Tech21 VT-DI (always on- running to FOH)
I usually bring 5 pedals with me these days. Compressor (Pigtronix, which also has an overdrive option), pitch-shifter, chorus, reverb, delay. The compressor is always on, the others I use more sporadically, as bit of spice to add interest. Some songs that I use pedals on:
"Finesse" Bruno Mars, pitch-shifter one octave down with some overdrive to give it a synth/keyboard vibe.
"Club foot" by Kasabian. I use overdrive on the whole song plus delay on the solo. I also cover the synth solo. For this i use my TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb on one of the dense/saturated settings with the pitch-shifter up an octave. It does the job and sounds pretty huge.
"No Pressure" by Muse, overdrive and chorus.
We have a few originals that I use delay and chorus on.
"Finesse" Bruno Mars, pitch-shifter one octave down with some overdrive to give it a synth/keyboard vibe.
"Club foot" by Kasabian. I use overdrive on the whole song plus delay on the solo. I also cover the synth solo. For this i use my TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb on one of the dense/saturated settings with the pitch-shifter up an octave. It does the job and sounds pretty huge.
"No Pressure" by Muse, overdrive and chorus.
We have a few originals that I use delay and chorus on.
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On anyone else's gig: zilch, and no one has ever requested any. On my own I used to bring a big rack of stuff that included multiband compression, stereo time domain EFX (always on, typically), and various forms of distortion. Hoping to get back to that fun sooner than later too now that I have a new slide-oriented bass.
That's his scaled down board. You should have seen what he used to use.
He practices martial arts, so he's really good at the high kicks to stomp on the ones near the ceiling.
What's really amazing is how neat and tidy his patch & power cabling is with that setup.
There's a few Breeders who could put up enough "wall-paper" to make Janek's wall look like it's covered in wholly holey lace.
TEAR DOWN THE WALL !
