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How much to replace your board?

That is a THING! So many goals right there
Yeah, at that time I was actively gigging on BG, EUB, electric guitar, guitar synth, and heavily processed vocals that I often tweaked in real time. The general concept was clean stereo plus a dedicated dirt/stunt channel, with four presets and a couple of expression pedals that could be assigned to different parameters in each patch. Sound dudes hated me, off course. :roflmao:

Only a few pieces left by now, but I still have all those needs, plus I've added acoustic guitar and a banjo/dobro hybrid instrument to boot.
 
Tech 21 VT Bass $120
Zoom MS-60B+ $100
Source Audio Aftershock $200
Source Audio C4 $250
Keeley Synth-1 $180

I've owned the VT Bass for more than 10 years. That was my only pedal until very recently. I saw the Zoom MS-60B+ on Reverb for cheap, so I figured it could be fun. What a mistake that was. Now the flood gates have opened! I'm anxiously watching the tracking for my next pedal, a Source Audio Ultra Wave. I'm thinking I'll probably let the Keeley go because the C4 does everything i can ever imagine needing.

I'm still messing around with the order of them so if anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear them. I don't know a thing about this stuff but it's a lot of fun just trying different things.

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I had to laugh. I've been immersed in printed circuit boards all week, at home and at work. So when I saw "board" I first thought about circuit boards. Then just as I clicked on the thread, I wondered if maybe it was about fingerboards, because my upright bass has a fingerboard problem.

Now I know. ;)
 
Oof, yeah this one is gonna sting. Two of these pedals aren't made anymore, so I will collect the mean price of the highest and lowest sales from the transaction history blurb on Reverb. These will be in Canada Bucks, as I add this up right now.

Polytune - 150
Belle - 200
Subterranea - 950 (OMG and I thought what I paid was steep, if fair, 2.5 yrs back)
FMeron - 430
DCX - 420
London Underground - 250
Xerograph Deluxe - 445
Carina - 270
Omnicomp - 350
HPF - 100

CS6 Power - 200
Metro 16 board - 130

Total:
CAD - $3895
US - $2745

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Nice board. And that Subterranea!
 
As long as you understand that the tone is in the pedals fingers and tone hunting is a hobby in itself, it's a very nice way to waste time and money ;-)

I would never admit that, but I've played gigs with a Nano that held a Sansamp PBDDI, a Strymon BlueSky and a tuner and musicians praised me for the tone I got.
"played gigs with a Nano that held a Sansamp PBDDI, a Strymon BlueSky and a tuner" That's awesome!
 
Was going to look into this anywayto, so here goes:

Noble - 1300
3 Leaf Doom 2 - 333
Audio Kitchen Fake plastic trees - 520
Turbo tuner - 130
EAE Hypersleep V1 - 399
Cog T-16 - 250
LBA 23 Fe+ - 120
Broughton Studio boost mini - 150
Effectrode LA-1A - 580
Broughton BBA - 95
Darkglass Element - 250
Ciocks Sol - 160
Alder&Ash board and case - 600

About 4900 plus cables and barefoot buttons. More than expected…

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Such a beautiful board!
 
This CCM classic "Bethel" board cover all my needs, about $1300:
  • Tone Hammer DI, $225
  • Bass Microsynth, $300
  • JHS Kilt drive/fuzz, $180
  • HX One multi effects, $300
  • Mono Lite+ Board, $150
  • CIOKS DC7, $175
However, I've also acquired many other pedals to swap out from week to week and a larger Mono board. All-in about $3200.
The TOTAL bass hobby inventory (pedals, Moog synth, 4 basses) is $12K.
I compare this to my previous off-roading Jeep hobby rig at $50K and bass is much cheaper.

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Talking new prices…

HX Stomp - $600
Shure GLXD+ - $500
CIOKS DC7 - $230
Pedaltrain Nano - $80
Cabling - $100 (give or take)

$1,510 ($2,110)

I sometimes use a Khan DI after my Stomp so add another $600 that’s not “on the board” officially.

Pretty modest considering what some have.
 
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This CCM classic "Bethel" board cover all my needs, about $1300:
  • Tone Hammer DI, $225
  • Bass Microsynth, $300
  • JHS Kilt drive/fuzz, $180
  • HX One multi effects, $300
  • Mono Lite+ Board, $150
  • CIOKS DC7, $175
However, I've also acquired many other pedals to swap out from week to week and a larger Mono board. All-in about $3200.
The TOTAL bass hobby inventory (pedals, Moog synth, 4 basses) is $12K.
I compare this to my previous off-roading Jeep hobby rig at $50K and bass is much cheaper.

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Nice board!
 
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Talking new prices…

HX Stomp - $600
Shure GLXD+ - $500
CIOKS DC7 - $230
Pedaltrain Nano - $80
Cabling - $100 (give or take)

$1,510 ($2,110)

I sometimes use a Khan DI after my Stomp so add another $600 that’s not “on the board” officially.

Pretty modest considering what some have.
That is a pretty modest board. It seems like a simple board with a lot of possibilities! I'm sure the Khan sounds nice after the Stomp. I know you had a reddi for a bit, I can't remember if you ever tried the neptunium? If so, how did that compare with the khan and red?