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Post Your Pedalboard - Part I

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Damn this thread is long! Okay, here's my budget board. It's a piece of plywood with zip ties and the whole thing drops into an old Anvil briefcase that it's resting on in the picture.

Clockwise from top right.
Digitech bass synth wah
EBS octaver
Loooper that bypasses everything
Homemade [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] with a few mods and a Invalid Link Removed
MXR Phase 90 reboxed and with a blue led that pulses with the speed of the effect.

A 1Spot power supply ties it all together. You can see old holes from previous configs, the zip ties make it relatively easy to change my mind.
 
Heres my latest pedal set up. The trace dual comp. in front of Baby Blue.

00Funk in AX3000B insert loop

Midi presets on Filter / modulation pro

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00Funk said:
You ought to see the wore out '78 thunderbird I drive. :) All my money goes for bass toys.

I live in a ghetto apts. (Renters insurance)

ONLY buy thriftstore clothes and furnitue, drive throw away cars.

Thats how I afford my toys


u sound like me.. lol


i buy cheap @$$ k-mart cloths. i dont have a car, and i live with my parents, i have no real source of income, and my parents hardly have enough money to pay for the bills. but i have about $600+ on my pedalboard lol
 
geeyza said:
hmmm,that sounds like a Deep Impact :hiding:
LOL, nope. actually I meant to put 5 *'s not 6 :o

Anyway, my new rig: a Line 6 Bass PODxt bean!

Strait Shot:
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Angle Shot:
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1 of my cases actually needed to have the foam insert raised, back when I was useing single pedals. I used a couple of pieces of hardboard to do that, but the height was too much for the POD, so I cut out a section of the foam, and it works perfectly.

w/o POD:
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w/ POD:
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As for the POD, it's a great little thing! Since I've never actually owned any of the actual modeled equiptment I really don't know how well they've done, but I'm just letting my ears guide me. Which is the advice I think anyone trying out the POD should take. I found a great reggae/dub setting very eaisily, in like 10 min from turning it on, w/ minimal reading of the manual. The controls on this are suppriesingly well layed out/labled. My reggae/dub setting is the California (Mesa 400+) w/ the 1x18 AMP 360 (Acoustic 360) cab, BTW. A little amp EQing (kill the hi mids/treble, boost the bass a little), and some room (10%) and I'm in dub heaven! I don't even think I need my PDDI anymore...

:D :bassist:
 
In all it's glory after years of hardwork I'm very very happy with this setup.

Enjoy the large pics and no comments about resizing them please, because it's just not going to happen ;)

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And finally my awesome pedal python or as a friend called it pipeline

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Right so I shall explain whats going on here. Firstly the Tone Factor Hellbaby is soon going to be replaced with a custom coloured Tone Factor Eleven as the hellbaby is just a bit to loud and touchy on the volume knob so I'm going to replace it.

OK, so firstly the pedal python is built for me by Dave as Bassics http://www.bassic.co.uk/ and in this cable I have 3 instrument jacks 2 being inputs to the board from both my wireless's so I can switch basses super quick and the 3rd is an output back to the amp, then there is an xlr extension as such so I can run a DI box in this case my tuner back to near my amp and plug the Xlr cable to the PA into the end near my amp at the back of stage, therefore keeping the stage nice and tidy and easier for me to run around on, then I have a 9v extension so in emergencies I can plug my one spot into the end near my amp again and run the power to the board, then finally I have a main power cable running up the python at the end near the amp I can just plug in a normall kettle (IEC) lead and then at the pedal board end it goes from IEC to figure 8 for my diago power brick but in the future I may change to a voodoo labs in which case the python will be able to plug directly into this.

The power is run around the board using 2 one spot daisy chains, it is all wired in George L's cables in 2 colours.

Now the pedals, those who know me can see some new pedals that I've been waiting for. So in chain order it goes Banzai A/B box (to switch between basses/wireless signals), this then goes into my Custom Barge VFB2 which features are True Bypass fx loop, blendable active fx loop so no issues with impedance, then and here is the best bit there is an internal buffer which changes your impedance to what ever you set so you can use any bass with any electronics with any pedal and not worry about the impedance as it is changed to that of an average passive bass then finally there is a passive volume cut knob so you can also reduce the volume going to the loop incase you have a massively hot signal and need to take it down before it hammers the inputs of your effects. In the loop of the barge I have the Tone Factor Mule into the Tone Factor Huckleberry (Custom Colour 1 of 12), into a Tone Factor 442 Analogue Filter (Modded by TF to have a blue led) and then into a Tone Factor Nebulla. So by having these in the loop of the Barge I can switch any of these effects between 100% wet and blended, I can reduce the volume and impedance going into the loop and it has essentially tripled the usage of these effects and obviously I can turn more than one effect on at a time. So the output of the Barge then goes into the EBS Multi Comp this then goes into a Peterson Strobe O Stomp (Has XLR so can be used as a DI box, but obviously I then lose the boost going through the PA) and this finally goes into the Tone Factor Hellbaby (as stated before will be replaced for a Tone Factor Eleven soon).

So all the signal and power is all sent through one cable that plugs into my rack which is already setup to make it easier to connect up (Rack mount power unit and Patchbay).

So there it is enjoy, discuss and feel free to ask questions.
 
jetpackbassist said:
that being said, isn't it a little boring next to all the other pics/rigs you've had up here? we want adventure and excitement!!! :D
lol :D It is a little boring I guess... But, don't be judgin' no book by the cover! It's got a personality if you know what I mean :D


TaySte_2000 said:
Enjoy the large pics and no comments about resizing them please, because it's just not going to happen ;)
Hey, I just asked once :p And besides, your resoning is flawless. You want people to see your stuff in all its glory :D As jetpackbassist said above, they want adventure and excitement :bassist:
 
DarkHarted said:
lol :D It is a little boring I guess... But, don't be judgin' no book by the cover! It's got a personality if you know what I mean :D



Hey, I just asked once :p And besides, your resoning is flawless. You want people to see your stuff in all its glory :D As jetpackbassist said above, they want adventure and excitement :bassist:

It's not directed at you, I posted the same post on about 5 forums where there is always someone pointing out that the pics are big, but how else are you meant to see everything.
 
TaySte_2000 said:
It's not directed at you, I posted the same post on about 5 forums where there is always someone pointing out that the pics are big, but how else are you meant to see everything.

Those huge pictures totally destroy the formatting, and I can't read everything on line line even when I shrink the text size and stretch out the Safari window on my pretty big moniter. As such I have no interest in reading the text associated with it, since it's way more work than it's worth... And if I'm not reading the text describing the pedals, why even look at the pictures? Plus it makes everyone else's text harder to read...

Seriously if you shrink them just a bit so it doesn't totally rape the page formatting, that'd be really great... Or you could thumbnail them and have 'em link to another page where we could view it in fullsize glory, that would be even better.

Anyway that's what I have against posting pictures that large. It's just realy annoying.

-Dash
 
TaySte,
1) That's a very cool-looking board, it looks like you have an excellent selection of usable tone options.

2) I agree with Dash, completely. I feel that 600px wide is easily wide enough to convey all the details of a pedalboard, without wrecking the page formatting.

3) I see that you've "corrected" it by putting clicky links instead of pics, but that seems kind of petulant. Really, what's wrong with helping people to enjoy your killer pedalboard?

4) Enjoy your awesome tone machine! :)
 
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