Pedalboard feedback

[scott sinner]

I have been playing around with various versions of this for a while and keep debating myself about a few options. Thought I might see whether the great bass pedalboard minds might give me some feedback for any changes or just push me to stop overthinking it and put this together in a tidy manner.

This is for a project where the bass and drums carry a lot of space. There isn't guitar normally, just keys.

Current best plan
Turbo Tuner mini>
source audio c4 synth>
Boss MS3

In the boss ms3 loops
1. Source Audio Ultrawave
2. Amptweaker Tight Fuzz
3. Dark Glass b3k

then

H9>
VFE Whitehorse Compressor>
Broughton High pass filter

The Blackstone is being swapped for the Dark glass.

control via
the ms-3 (midi controller)
NeuroHub
Boss EV30 dual Expression

One of my debates is - do I really need the Tight Fuzz? The Ultrawave can do a good fuzz. But my use for that is more for odd ball dirt, with the Tight Fuzz and Dark Glass being my bread and butter dirt. I don't use the h9 for dirt.

Another is the Compressor. The White horse imparts a nice overall sheen, but I wonder if what I really need is more of a limiter. It has a blend and bass pass, so it isn't terrible for that, but is more of a character comp. Thinking about a Wampler mini Ego (space is pretty tight as you can see).

I am also having to be pretty tricky to power this as is with the Voodoo 4x4 I have. Not wanting to upgrade...it is a bit of an intentional limiting factor. Plus some things are probably going to be needed to mount under, like the junction box.

 

[Bright Midnight]

Hey Scott, sorry to hijack your thread, but I'm looking for an MS-3 user to get me some information I'm looking for. Specifically how do the compressor and modulation effects of the MS-3 compare to the effects of say the GT1000 Core. And also, are they better quality effects than the GT1B for example?

 

[scott sinner]

Hey Scott, sorry to hijack your thread, but I'm looking for an MS-3 user to get me some information I'm looking for. Specifically how do the compressor and modulation effects of the MS-3 compare to the effects of say the GT1000 Core. And also, are they better quality effects than the GT1B for example?

Sorry to not be able to be of any direct help on this but I haven't used either of the other pedals. I think the ms-3 modulation and compressor effects are good. If I am being picky, I would say the compressors and modulations don't seem to have much in the algorithms to try to mimic analog. They are, you could say, a little clean. The drives are a contrast in that though. They seem to have some good nuanced programming. I feel like I probably couldn't tell the difference blind on the drives. They tend to be your rather bread and butter typical effects which is why I still feel I need the other multiFX here.

 

[Critter Music]

I have been playing around with various versions of this for a while and keep debating myself about a few options. Thought I might see whether the great bass pedalboard minds might give me some feedback for any changes or just push me to stop overthinking it and put this together in a tidy manner.

This is for a project where the bass and drums carry a lot of space. There isn't guitar normally, just keys.

Current best plan
Turbo Tuner mini>
source audio c4 synth>
Boss MS3

In the boss ms3 loops
1. Source Audio Ultrawave
2. Amptweaker Tight Fuzz
3. Dark Glass b3k

then

H9>
VFE Whitehorse Compressor>
Broughton High pass filter

The Blackstone is being swapped for the Dark glass.

control via
the ms-3 (midi controller)
NeuroHub
Boss EV30 dual Expression

One of my debates is - do I really need the Tight Fuzz? The Ultrawave can do a good fuzz. But my use for that is more for odd ball dirt, with the Tight Fuzz and Dark Glass being my bread and butter dirt. I don't use the h9 for dirt.

Another is the Compressor. The White horse imparts a nice overall sheen, but I wonder if what I really need is more of a limiter. It has a blend and bass pass, so it isn't terrible for that, but is more of a character comp. Thinking about a Wampler mini Ego (space is pretty tight as you can see).

I am also having to be pretty tricky to power this as is with the Voodoo 4x4 I have. Not wanting to upgrade...it is a bit of an intentional limiting factor. Plus some things are probably going to be needed to mount under, like the junction box.

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Ive had a Blackstone for years (for one of my guitar rigs). I’ve never even thought about trying it with my bass rig. I’ll have to try it. Why are you swapping it out?

 

[scott sinner]

Ive had a Blackstone for years (for one of my guitar rigs). I’ve never even thought about trying it with my bass rig. I’ll have to try it. Why are you swapping it out?

At the time I took the picture, I was just testing it, had been testing a bunch of things. It had been on my guitar board. Definitely my all time favorite guitar overdrive. It is fine on bass, but doesn't feel tuned specifically well for it.