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Post Your Pedalboard - Part I

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Danelectro Surf & Turf Compressor > Arion Bass EQ > Boss ODB-3 > EHX Big Muff Pi > Boss CEB-3 > MXR Phase 90 > DOD Vibrothang > Digitech Digiverb

I think... my pedalboard is almost done, $400 later. Anyway, I got lazy and took my existing board, painted it black, then found some velcro and velcroed all the pedals to the board. It's simple, and it works, and they all fit. The Muff and compressor are sideways, unfortunately. I might have to cure this by getting a decent compressor and a Little Big Muff. Also, I might have to replace the DOD with a EHX Nano Bassballs. I miss my big honkin' Russian bassballs.

But, my pedalboard is nearing completion, and is more than usable right now. All the pedals except the danelectro are easy to tap, which is what I aimed for.

P.S. the phase 90 is amazing. easily my favorite of the bunch.
 
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sokmonke said:
Whats the black pedal in the second pic.

How does that POG sound ive been lookin for one.
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the purple pedal looks like a tonefactor huckleberry.


the POG rocks. i use it to add immense depth and evilness to my tone. it's instrumental in filling out the aural space in a trio setting (one guitar, bass, drums). i turn the input gain up just under halfway (any more than that and it distorts [which sounds cool, actually... but i use a little big muff and a tech 21 PBDDI for distortion/overdrive]), the dry out all the way up, the suboctave halfway up, and the remaining sliders about a quarter of the way up (for a little overtone-spice). the LPF is about three quarters up, and the LPF mode is #1 (where the dry out is unaffected by the LPF, but all other voices are). this yields a nice, heavy, and full sound that takes care of all empty spaces in the sonic spectrum.

but that's just me. you can use it for all kinds of cool octave effects... including a pretty decent organ sound, crazy lead tones, and even crazier lead tones, among other things. it even tracks chords and every note on the neck, including a low B, perfectly. my only issue with it (and most other EH effects) is that it's a little noisy... but frankly, the noise is only noticeable when i play in a quiet environment, like practice or recording (though there's ways around it). in a gig or rehearsal situation, i don't even notice it/care about it.

bottom line: the POG rocks. :bassist:
 
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sokmonke said:
Whats the black pedal in the second pic.

How does that POG sound ive been lookin for one.
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Jetpack covered both these topics pretty well. :)

I'm torn on the POG, it certainly can do things no other pedal I've tried can do. It is just to complicated for me to actually deal with on a pedalboard, because there are such a wide range of sounds to get out of it and I loath knob twiddlers and refuse to become one.

In the privacy of my home, I really like playing with it to figure out all kinds of sonic mischief. I've found that if I pass it into garageband it cuts off some of the 'digitalness' and I can use it to record guitar line and synth lines, which makes it really fun to record 'demos' of songs I'm working on to share with the band.

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Yes. That said, I don't get that sound live. After I pass it through one of the guitar-amp presets in garage band, it seems to peel off the digital edge that the POG has and provides a more natural guitar sound.

I've been meaning to fool around with some of my newer 'gain' pedals and see if I can create a similar effect live now... (I doubt it though).
 
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grygrx said:
Yes. That said, I don't get that sound live. After I pass it through one of the guitar-amp presets in garage band, it seems to peel off the digital edge that the POG has and provides a more natural guitar sound.

I've been meaning to fool around with some of my newer 'gain' pedals and see if I can create a similar effect live now... (I doubt it though).
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You could try any guitar distortion or overdrive, I think. How about a Line 6 POD? I've heard its amp models are decent.
 
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It's a pedal I made myself based on a basic fuzz look/volume circuit.

Yearn is actually a volume boost/drop with 12noon being aprox "bass volume". Settings under that reduce overall volume, settings about boost. The crave knob is fuzz introduction, it is kind of a smooth even fuzz.

I actually consider it a failure, the fuzz level is to dependant on the volume side and while the low end retention isn't bad, I prefer my fuzz pedals to have a blend knob :)
 
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Ron Now said:
I know alot of people say they are done with their board. But I really am (well unless I some how get about $1000 for that amazing toneczar delay in a recent thread) But after about 2 years of work, I am seriously happy with my pedalboard.

Everything on the board functions the way I need it to, nothing there is useless, everything is in a good location to be used. I have my distortions set up just perfectly, I have enough ambience and delay to cover any needs, I can loop, I can make swells, I have random noise generations, volume control, and I can even match levels on different basses to get an even sound out of different instruments.

I am truely happy with my board.

When I have a chance I'll try to record some sound samples for my distortion set ups, since it isn't as straightforward as it looks.
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I'd like to hear some soundclips of that H&K and the Truely Beautiful Disaster
 
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