It did feel like something was missing...
Turns out I forgot to turn on the 1 octave up effect I otherwise always have engaged as part of my basic "clean" tone.
So here is a new bowl of noodle soup, perhaps a bit less inspired though, with yet another pedal engaged:
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If anyone's interested, this is my amp-less setup:
My signal chain explained in written form (currently in the process of rearranging my setup, so this is preliminary basic setup, only consisting of my always on, basic tone, pedals, and my dirt pedals) :
(*pedals listed in
[ red/bold/underline text ] are "always on" effects*
)
5 string 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass (strung with 1 Elixir Nanoweb stainless steel bass string, of the gauge .105, and 4 Elixir Nanoweb nickel-plated guitar strings, of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036, tuned in Eb standard tuning, that is one half step bellow the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning) ->
->> XVive Undulator (tremolo pedal, but never actually engaged and used exclusively for its great buffer) ->> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, with 2 preamp tubes operating at proper high 300V plate voltage, primarily functioning as a tube preamp stage, driven to just at the edge of the tubes's breakup point, but with some very subtle compression dialed in as well) ->> TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini (for adding a 1 octave up, mimicking an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass, using a custom made Toneprint) ->> Mosky Black Rat (RAT clone, in Turbo RAT, LED diode clipping, mode, quite raunchy, medium gain distortion) ->> Boss LS-2 [A+B Mix <-> Bypass] (parallel effect loops mixer/switch) ={ [Loop A Send] ->> Joyo Oxford Sound (clone of the Tech 21 Oxford, which is an all analog emulation of an Orange Amp type preamp, dialed in to deliver a high gain overdrive, always used blended with "clean" signal from parallel effects [Loop B]) ->> [Loop A Return] ->|+|<- [Loop B Send] ->> ([Loops B] empty, used to blend in "clean" signal) ->> [Loop B Return] ([Loop A] + [Loop B] mixed at an approximate 50/50 ratio) => [LS-2 Output] }=>->> Zoom B1Xon (used predominantly as reverb and delay unit, with various different reverb and delay patches, including my always on {very subtle Plate Reverb -> subtle Spring Reverb} reverb patch that is part of my basic "clean" tone, and beside that, among others, an extremely thick, lush reverb patch, used as a pad effect with volume swells from the build in expression pedal, and a trippy reverse delay patch, though also used for a couple of additional other effects, including a prominent "wah" pedal patch) ->> Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (post reverb high gain distortion) ->> Mosky XP Booster (Xotic EP Booster V.1 clone) ->> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (amazing digital emulation of the legendary Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay, most of the time dialed in to deliver a lush reverb like effect) ->> NUX (NBP-5) Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI (loaded with a digitally emulated Aguilar Tone Hammer amp, and an Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab simulation, with HPF @ 40Hz, LPF @14kHz, and a subtle low gain overdrive blended in at a 50/50 clean/drive ratio) ->
->> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp and DI, with build in HPF, fixed @ 40Hz, engaged, tube driven to just on the verge of breakup point) ->
// ->> Band rehearsal/jamming/gigging // ->> Home practice // ->> Home recordings // :
// ->> Band rehearsal/jamming/gigging ->> Effects Return (poweramp input) of a Peavey Solo Special 112 (160W combo amp, with the build in speaker disconnect and instead hooked up to a passive PA speaker) ->> The Box PA 502 (passive full range flat frequency response PA speaker with 1x 15" woofer/mids driver + 1.7" high frequency tweeter horn (crossover 2.3kHz)) // ->> Home practice ->> The T.Mix Mix 502 (mixer) ->> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro (studio grade, that is FRFR, headphones) // ->> Home recordings ->> M-Audio Fast Track (audio interface) ->> Reaper (DAW) //
So this recoding is just taken from the ART tube preamp directly into my Zoom handheld recorder.
