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PYPB 44: ...like Tetris with boxes, wires and cables

#7,603
loopee said:
but isn't it a bigger ss/bs Mini?
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loopee said:
but isn't it a bigger ss/bs Mini?
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It's really quite different.
The eq is different. The f doesn't have the same low end as the mini but, for me at least, it has plenty.
Instead of just a bias knob that you need to bend over (I hate bending over!!!) to get two different sounds with, you get a footswitch that you get two sounds with.
What's even awesome'er is the switch that lets you choose what the second footswitch does... straight overdrive then crackle when engaged or vise versa.
I will also add that the crackle with the threshold knob sound nothing like the bias on the mini. The best way I can describe it is: broken up but buttery.
 
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rjovin said:
It's really quite different.
The eq is different. The f doesn't have the same low end as the mini but, for me at least, it has plenty.
Instead of just a bias knob that you need to bend over (I hate bending over!!!) to get two different sounds with, you get a footswitch that you get two sounds with.
What's even awesome'er is the switch that lets you choose what the second footswitch does... straight overdrive then crackle when engaged or vise versa.
I will also add that the crackle with the threshold knob sound nothing like the bias on the mini. The best way I can describe it is: broken up but buttery.
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mmmm.....I somehow can't get along with my Mini (yet), maybe the F would be better.....I love butter
 
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Cleaned up the board a bit for aesthetics and more accessibility to my most-used pedals. I like the look of the two Source Audio pedals way more side-by-side!

Everything is in the effect loop of the Empress Buffer+, which then goes out to the Nemesis & Ventris (didn't want the noise filter on the delay effects).

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stambroker said:
Cleaned up the board a bit for aesthetics and more accessibility to my most-used pedals. I like the look of the two Source Audio pedals way more side-by-side!

Everything is in the effect loop of the Empress Buffer+, which then goes out to the Nemesis & Ventris (didn't want the noise filter on the delay effects).
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Nice layout :-).

Got a couple of questions: is the Empress buffer doing a job on your board similar to what the Boss LS-2 does on mine, i.e. splitting signals and ensuring low-end integrity when I'm using effects ? Also, I really like the way you write out your sig, with a link to your pedalboard pic... how do you get that done ?
 
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Bassmike62 said:
Nice layout :).

Got a couple of questions: is the Empress buffer doing a job on your board similar to what the Boss LS-2 does on mine, i.e. splitting signals and ensuring low-end integrity when I'm using effects ? Also, I really like the way you write out your sig, with a link to your pedalboard pic... how do you get that done ?
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Thanks!! The Empress Buffer is pretty much acting as a buffer and noise filter for everything in its effect loop. The signal enters into the Empress Buffer+, then the Source Audio Nemesis and Source Audio Ventris. The loop in the Buffer+ goes:

Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor -> TC Electronic Polytune2 Mini -> 3Leaf Audio Octabvre Mini -> 3Leaf Audio Doom -> Fredric Effects Bugcrusher -> Moog MF-101 Low Pass Filter -> DOD Meatbox -> Subdecay Quasar DLXv1 -> EHX Bass Clone

The link in my signature block is just a hyperlink I embedded!
 
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MILLENNIUM FALCON

Pedaltrain Novo 24

3-Leaf Audio Octabvre MK-II
MXR Blue Box (true bypass, C11 mod, tone knob,-1/-2 Octave switch)
Fuzz Factor 11 (Fuzz Factory clone with mods)
EHX Green Russian Big Muff Pi Reissue
Subdecay Noisebox
Boss SYB-03 Bass Synthesizer
BSY-600 Bass Synth "Bass-O-Tron" (rehoused/etched Dan Dubblewe)
Hagen FX "Ezekiel" DAM Ezekiel clone
Source Audio Manta Bass Filter
Electro-Harmonix POG2
DOD Gonkulator
EBS DPhaser
Boss PS-2 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay
Boss PS-3 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay
Source Audio Orbital Modulater
Dr. Scientist Bitquest
Roland RE-20 Space Echo
Zoom MS-100 BT
DOD Meatbox Subsynth MK-II
Boss LMB-3 Bass Limiter

Controllers
Source Audio Reflex (BSY-600,Bitquest,RE-20)
Bentinstruments mini PEEP (RE-20)

Power:
Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 +

This board has a recent addition of a Subdecay Noisebox as well as some re-ordering. I've learned to use the Manta as a wah and really dig it. The Gonkulator is a fun pedal that likes dirt feed into it. Really loving this second board and consider on par with my main at this point.

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MOTHERSHIP

Pedaltrain PT-GRANDE

TWA Great Divide 2.0 Analog Synth Octaver
Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory
Zvex Mastotron
Malekko Omicron Fuzz
Iron Ether FMereon
Effector 13 Vintage Fuzz Master
Earthquaker Devices Data Corruptor
Broughton PLL
"Mr Sparkle"Way Huge Pork Loin (cap change:John K mod, rehoused/etched: Acid Splash Designs)
Way Huge Swollen Pickle: Dirty Donnie Edition
Death Star Sovtek Muff (bias,gate,feedback mods: Guttermouth Mods: lo/hi mids,Tonebender/Muff footswitch, diodes blend, Q2 resistor, Q3 resistor, LED switch with diodes lift: Acid Splash Designs)
WMD Geiger Counter (bass mod: Danndubblewe)
Gnomeratron VTF MK-II
Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer
"MST3K" EHX Bass Micro Synth XO
Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer
PandaMidi Future Impact
Bananana Effects Matryoshka
Mooer Bass Sweeper
Fuzzrocious Terrordactyl V.2 Kid-Paint Edition
3-Leaf Audio Proton MK-II
Subdecay Prometheus
3-Leaf Audio Groove Regulator MK-I
Dunlop 105Q Mini-Wah
Eventide H9 MAX
Zvex Instant Lo-Fi Junky
Boss VB-2W Vibrato Wazacraft
Boss PS-3 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay
"Hypnotoad"EHX Freeze (rehoused/etched:Acid Splash Designs, mods:blue LED with bezel,click less bypass)
Eventide H9 MAX
Eventide H9 MAX
DOD Meatbox Subsynth MK-II
MXR M87 Bass Compressor

Controllers:
Source Audio Reflex (MIDI:SY-300,Future Impact.Expression: DMC-4v.2,Geiger Counter,FMereon )
Damage Control: DMC-4 gen.2 (3 H9s)
t1m mini PEEP (PS3)
t1m mini expression knob (SY-300)
Heet Sounds Plus-EBOW
Dunlop Chrome 220 Slide
Dunlop Bronze 222 Slide
Dunlop Glass 213 Slide
D'Addario NS Tri-Action Capo

Power:
Voodoo Labs 4x4 Digital
Walrus Audio Aetos

My main crazy board is just crazy. Newest addition of the Effector 13 Vintage Fuzz Master that has a Superfuzz/Octavia vibe. Switched some stuff around to a better order. Starting to really like the FMereon that it's "additive" synthesis is truly different from "subtractive".
 
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