Post Yer Pedalboard - 23 Skidoo

[Ric5]

I updated my pedalboard page. http://www.3dentourage.com/425/effects.htm

1 - First I run into an equalizer

2 - Then I split the signal into 4 parallel signals with a rolls mixer.

3 - I run one of the parallel lines into the Line6 bass pod where I model an acoustic 360 with a rat or big muff distortion pedal. I use this to get a retro growlly distorted sound. Or I also model an Ampeg fliptop with the Rat Distortion pedal. And I also Model an old Marshall amp. With the bass pod I can get a wide range of clean or dirty sounds and various effects and model different amps and speaker cabinets.

4 - The second parallel signal goes into a MXR bass di+. I use this pedal to get a clean modern sound. It also has a distortion button that can give a moderate to extreme amount of modern distortion.

5 - The third parallel signal goes into a Marshall Guv'nor. This gives me an old 60s marshall stack sound. This can go from a small amount of distortion to an over the top marshall sound. This effect can give you a Chris Squire Yes sound or a heavy metal sound, or just a subtle amount of distortion.

6 - The fourth parallel signal goes into a Tech21 VT Bass pedal. With this effect I get a slightly dirty Ampeg SVT bass amp sound with a tube like growl.

7 - Then I remix the 4 signals back together and run it into a bass amp, or pa, or studio mixer. Because the signals are parallel I can mix clean and overdriven sounds together and still get effect and a sound that punches through the mix.

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Schematic diagram of my effects.

 

[rcubed]

Interesting. Seems like you'd get a mess of a sound mixing all those signals together.

 

[Ric5]

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The mess would be running them in series.

each of the pedals fills holes that the other pedal miss. The result is a nice full sound.

 

[SG-Jazz]

 

[warwick.hoy]

Another Quality SG-Jazz Board. Although some of your cables seem out of place

 

[SG-Jazz]

haha, I know! Im a few george ls away from an all george ls cable board!

I think im gonna change the blue cabling to purple so my cables can be purple and gold to represent my favorite team the lakers!

this is what happens when your almost satisfied with your board and have nothing else to buy

 

[WordIsBorn79]

Here's mine.

 

[Joe Gress]

I think im gonna change the blue cabling to purple so my cables can be purple and gold to represent my favorite team the lakers!

 

[PJMiDi]

I think im gonna change the blue cabling to purple so my cables can be purple and gold to represent my favorite team the lakers!

Go Cavs haha but in all honesty i love the purple gold color combo...

 

[wrathofgod]

hey ric, did you mod the first rolls mixer so you can go into the output and use it as an input?

 

[Kromwarp]

Here's mine.

Thats the same SKB board I use! How is the Bootzilla? Have you run into any build quality issues?

 

[needmoney]

Here's my first board;

 

[megadan]

Here's my first board;

Smoooooth!

 

[Kwesi]

Here's my first board;

Hehe, I really like this board. If I had to bring the pedal count on mine to 4 it would look a lot like this but with the tuner replaced with another fuzz or filter . Btw, you might want to try reordering it Tuner > octave > fuzz > filter. That's the so called "standard" arrangement and I find it works wonders for my setup.

 

[iamdenialNJ]

 

[lobey]

Here's my first board;

I really like that. Very nice, high five!

 

[Bassmike62]

Great board, man !

 

[SnakeAnthony]

I understand. How good a big muff pi sounds on bass, I love my Russian(in my bedroom), but in practice or gig with other distorted guitars I get lost unless I'm cranked

To be fair, I'm ALWAYS cranked. Plus my Bluebeard has a mids knob. It wins.

 

[needmoney]

Hehe, I really like this board. If I had to bring the pedal count on mine to 4 it would look a lot like this but with the tuner replaced with another fuzz or filter . Btw, you might want to try reordering it Tuner > octave > fuzz > filter. That's the so called "standard" arrangement and I find it works wonders for my setup.

I'll try that! Thanks! I wasn't too sure when I set it up... Any particular reason for that order??

 

[Kwesi]

I'll try that! Thanks! I wasn't too sure when I set it up... Any particular reason for that order??

I'm not sure of others' reason for ordering the pedals that way but here's mine: With an octaver I want to octave the truest possible sound of my bass so that would be one of the first effects in the chain (after a tuner or EQ). Next I'd want to apply fuzz/distortion after that that way I get the clean tone and octave or any combination thereof by tweaking the octave. Octavers have a tough enough time octaving a clean signal so octaving a fuzzed out or distorted signal probably wouldn't provide the nicest results (though I'm sure it has applications somewhere musically). Finally, filters should go last but before any sort of modulation (chorus, phaser, flanger, reverb) so you can get the full sound of the filter acting on the wholly effected signal. That hows I make it make sense to me at least, lol. Hope it helps .