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Post-Rock and Metal Pedal Boards?

as far as post-rock, it depends on whether you are the guy holding down the melodic low-end, or if you're adding some chaos of your own.

Fuzz, reverb and delay are your friends.

I personally use: Boss RV-3, Line6 DL4, a Little Big Muff, and a russian green muff. Fuzz > RV-3 > DL4 is great for creating noisy/ambient walls of sound.
 
Bands like Russian Circles/Tera Melos/Explosions in the Sky use the Whammy IV. I'm saving up for one myself. I play a lot of experimental/psychadelic/post-rock stuff. I have a DL4/DD-3/Ibanez Bass Synth (mehh)/ODB-3 (it works)/Russian Muff/Boss Chorus. Can get some pretty cool sounds with OD/tons of overlapping delay.
 
For awhile it has been Fulltone OCD-> Bluebeard Fuzz-> Boss RV-3, but here soon I would like to essentially do an entire pedalboard makeover. I want to use some variation of Tuner-> Original (or big box reissue) RAT-> Fulltone Fatboost v1> Delay (probably Malekko)> Reverb.

I love my RV-3, but the volume drop in a few of the modes is starting to bother me, so I'm thinking of forking up the cash for a VanAmps model of some sort. I have a Bass Whammy on it's way to me which might see some use, but I will admit that it is more of a collector thing for me. I also might add a real fuzz to the board. I love my Bluebeard, but I've been thinking of picking up another SuperFuzz of late.
 
progressive metal here:

Line 6 Rotomachine
Morley Little Alligator volume pedal
Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeller


Leslie emulator as an alternative for chorus, less tonesuck than a chorus but very mellow for mellower parts.
Volume pedal for volume swells.
Delay for dimension (also mostly on mellower parts, or technical solos).
 
Thrash/Crust Metal-y band:

EHX BBM
Boss ODB-3
EHX Holy Stain w/ Expression Pedal
Boss CEB-3


Messing around with my room mate doing post-rocky stuff:

everything in my profile plus;
Devi Ever Eye Of God
Boss DD-20
Ibanez Weeping Demon




*I had a Whammy IV but hated it. I sold it (for a good hunk of change mind you). I really wish Digitech would re-release the Bass Whammy... those E-Bay bidding wars on them are out of hand...
 
I <3 post hardcore, doom and grunge. Oh, and genre hopping. I'm not afraid to mix funk, pop and dance with my post-hardcore :D

Bass >> MXR Blue Box >> BYOC A-Twin >> Ibanez Weeping Demon >> Eventide PitchFactor >> Boss DD-6 >> DOD FX79 Punkifier >> Boss RC-20xl >> amp
 
my band plays thrash / almost hard rock variations,... think of a new band trying to be progressive but still learning lol

my pedals are:
Ibanez Pd7 for goto distortion
Tz-2 fuzz (rarely used as it loses out in the mix no matter what I do with it :( )
devi ever Cherry pop (destroy all fuzz)
valcoder tremolo
DL8 delay (used as modulated delay, so almost a chorus+delay)
and ibanez weeping demon,...

for the most part I play clean or with the PD7 on but use the above for spiking it up a bit,... I'd love a bigger board so I can fit my ps-3 and expression pedal on as well as noise box and a few others,... but for the sake of holding the low end and the occasional spice I will have to make do with the above for now!
 
I guess my band broadly might come under post rock, we play with alot of post-rock bands, we're kinda grunge/prog-ish:

My Board+the rest of my pedals (majority up for sale):

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Tonebender is great for stoner/post metal/blah blah big riff music
 
I guess my band broadly might come under post rock, we play with alot of post-rock bands, we're kinda grunge/prog-ish:

My Board+the rest of my pedals (majority up for sale):

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Tonebender is great for stoner/post metal/blah blah big riff music

I notice you have a digitech "hardwire" stereo chorus pedal on your pedalboard. I was wondering does that pedal is work well on bass?