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PYPB 44: ...like Tetris with boxes, wires and cables
- Thread starter Jean Baudin
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I use it as a clean boost into the Multiwave. It does as well as the BOSS LS-2 I had in there before. Maybe there's more top end when on due to the high impedance. But no problem with lows. It's a SHO with a master volume.
You can't go wrong with the Empress or Spaceman phasers. I have both, and each is great in its own right. Spaceman is a little easier to fit on a board, but I still use the Empress from time to time since it sounds so lush.
Yeah the Spaceman can get into some weird "throaty" textures that I haven't heard from any other phaser. If you use an expression pedal in the Manual sweep mode, it has a really interesting "gurgling" kind of sound that's hard to describe.
I made a video on the current setup on my board featuring a lot of new additions. I tend to use a lot of overdrive and distortion and mix it in with my clean signal, so check it out if you're into that sort of thing.
WARNING: I play with a pick exclusively and I'm aware that's completely unacceptable for some. I also I have a very monotone Scottish accent, so skip to 11:10 if you want to get to the sound examples:
WARNING: I play with a pick exclusively and I'm aware that's completely unacceptable for some. I also I have a very monotone Scottish accent, so skip to 11:10 if you want to get to the sound examples:
obviously the oc5 has been replaced by the dyna drive
How do you find the unicorn? I've seen reviews saying that it clips at the top of the sweep.
Peace,
SoundSupport
Three substitutions incoming, but the wiring is done.
Rock board Tres 3.1, the patchbay really makes this work.
Chain:
Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor(Soon to be replaced with an Empress Bass Comp)
Polytune3 Noir
Boss SY-200: Incoming Saturnworks 2 button switch to replace the Mission TT-2
Effect loop: Poly Blue Octave into MXR M85, which will be swapped for most likely an Alpha Omicron
HX Stomp
Hotone Soul Press 2
Source Audio Collider
DI out.
Rock board Tres 3.1, the patchbay really makes this work.
Chain:
Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor(Soon to be replaced with an Empress Bass Comp)
Polytune3 Noir
Boss SY-200: Incoming Saturnworks 2 button switch to replace the Mission TT-2
Effect loop: Poly Blue Octave into MXR M85, which will be swapped for most likely an Alpha Omicron
HX Stomp
Hotone Soul Press 2
Source Audio Collider
DI out.
Custom board, now on version 3: secreted below are strips of LEDs that give a nice lightshow, front says 'Mission Control' in 3d printed chrome letters (tee hee), and the top left corner allows me to clip on a reading light (for those darker stages). Today, each pedal has a Mooer 'topper' that I painted with glow-in-the-dark paint... also a boon on a darkly-lit stage!
Chain:
TC Electronic Polytune2
EBS Multicomp
MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe (always on just a touch...)
MXR Carbon Copy Bright (rarely used, but handy)
Onecontrol Crimson Red preamp
Strymon Deco (the best saturated overdrive ever!)
EHX POG2
Emma Discumbobulator (Mu-tron copy with useful boost... best I've heard)
EHX Superego (for sustain drones)
Chain:
TC Electronic Polytune2
EBS Multicomp
MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe (always on just a touch...)
MXR Carbon Copy Bright (rarely used, but handy)
Onecontrol Crimson Red preamp
Strymon Deco (the best saturated overdrive ever!)
EHX POG2
Emma Discumbobulator (Mu-tron copy with useful boost... best I've heard)
EHX Superego (for sustain drones)
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Of course I changed things 2 days after I had posted this picture...
I replaced the FX10 with GT2. Now the Pork Loin is set as a light drive / bass boost and GT2 for a heavier overdrive:
Please tell me about running both the BDDI and the GT2. Is the BDDI always on? Does the GT2 cut low end? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yes, BDDI is always on, but never with a blend above 10:30-11 o'clock (also with mid-heavy setting on the amp)!
GT2 doesn't cut low end as long as you set it right.
It can cut them very easily...Low end is safe on "clean" / "tweed" setting. With "center" and "off axis" positions on "MIC" slider there is actually too much low end, so I tend to keep it on "classic" position. However, these positions can compensate low end on heavier distorted "AMP" and "MOD" position combinations. But I like the light drive with "tweed" setting.
New board for new prog project. Audition/jam/feeler went well. Simplified a bit and bringing this:
Yes, BDDI is always on, but never with a blend above 10:30-11 o'clock (also with mid-heavy setting on the amp)!
GT2 doesn't cut low end as long as you set it right.
Low end is safe on "clean" / "tweed" setting. With "center" and "off axis" positions on "MIC" slider there is actually too much low end, so I tend to keep it on "classic" position. However, these positions can compensate low end on heavier distorted "AMP" and "MOD" position combinations. But I like the light drive with "tweed" setting.
That's cool. Do the British settings cut bass?
Back to the original configuration moved on the Rockboard. I couldn't resist using the patch bay (with no real reason actually LOL). Still not 100% happy with the underside layout, cable routing and stuff, Instill have to refine it, but it sounds so good. I use the Glowplug to add some subtle breakup to the sound, whereas the driven sound of the SansAmp (hidden underneath) never felt quite right to me.
