I LOVE the phase 90 circuit, it can get a little crazy, but I find that if you tame it, it'll sit well in the mix! and I think the CE-2 clone will be fantastic to, I owned a CE2 a while ago.
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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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I LOVE the phase 90 circuit, it can get a little crazy, but I find that if you tame it, it'll sit well in the mix! and I think the CE-2 clone will be fantastic to, I owned a CE2 a while ago.
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The Becos Compiq is small and powerful, I bought one for my small pedal board that I use for band practice, it sounded so fantastic right out of the box, I may buy another one.
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Man I would love a tiny comp with LED metering like this, but I love my Accountant... How's the Becos sound? (e.g. transparent, thick, etc)
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@scubaduba did a better review than I could, see it here: Testing Compressors: Cali, Smoothie, Empress, Diamond, Keeley, FEA, Darkglass, Doc Lloyd, JHS & more
Slight tweak to my new board had to replace my travel worn PSM5 with the LS2 and I was missing having a second dirty driver on my board so have the Fuzzrocious BDPG v1 there for now may try several others but i really would like to get my BrassMaster clone on there for legit tones-because- bassbrad has a new gig! My sub gig turned into a really lucrative offer for a very good 70-80's R&B - Soul cover band that does corporate and private events for very good money. Did good enough sigh reading except on the EWF, already practicing that. They thought i was bold showing up with my Zoom recorder to tape the gig, ha ha.
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Nano+ in a Metro 20 case.
Nano+ in a Metro 20 case.
I love the Hyper Luminal Compression pedal. I never was a big user of a compression pedal until I tried this one!
I’m really enjoying mine! It’s moved towards the end of the chain just before the Olympic preamp and I’m very happy with it there!
Previously had a big box Cali76-G which I loved but wasn’t happy with it combined with the Olympic preamp and it was very large so I replaced it with an Amptweaker Pressurizer which is also really good but is not your typical compressor setup. Got the Hyper Luminal as I wanted something with better metering and a bit more traditional setup, plus it had a bunch of other really cool features and I like the Darkglass stuff as well!
Previously had a big box Cali76-G which I loved but wasn’t happy with it combined with the Olympic preamp and it was very large so I replaced it with an Amptweaker Pressurizer which is also really good but is not your typical compressor setup. Got the Hyper Luminal as I wanted something with better metering and a bit more traditional setup, plus it had a bunch of other really cool features and I like the Darkglass stuff as well!
Here's my latest iteration. Signal chain goes bass - MXR Vintage Octave - A/Om - Joshwah - HX Stomp - to amp/FOH. The polymoon is in the loop of the HX stomp, and the DMC micro controls presets for the Polymoon. All of it fits on a Metro 16 and is powered by a Cioks Adam, with the exception of the Stomp.
I love the idea of a multieffects pedal and patches where the details can be very finely tuned, but I do need some effects to be more immediately accessible. My plan was to use the HX stomp for all of my set-and-forget effects (compressor, light OD, amp/cab sims, etc.) and my weird patches, but keep all the often-tweaked pedals as standalone units.
I bet if you swapped that Cioks Adam for a Cioks DC7 you could power all of it from a single source!
Probably! I'm just scared of underpowering the HX stomp. The power supply is 3A, and although I think that it can run on slightly less than 2A, it would be a bit hard to conjure that power.
Ive been using the DC7 to power my Stomp (with 2 of the 9v outs) for about 6 weeks now without any problems...I also power an EHX Bass Mono Synth and Earthquaker Westwood at the same time.
Just redid this Pedaltrain Nano board by adding the MXR Isobrick Mini instead of a TU3 with a daisy chain and the Wampler Ego Mini instead of the TC Spectracomp. Very nice with clean power and a nice step up in compressor pedals from the Spectracomp which is nice but somewhat limited in comparison.
Revision two of my nano+. Ran the last one for about 2 years and plan to keep this one the way it is for quite a while (except maybe look at a dual Broadcast at some point):
Signal chain: Korg Pitchblack -> Doc Lloyd Photon Death Ray (optical compressor w/blend) -> johnk XO crossover distortion (4-band EQ, clean lows, drive circuit on highs that can be toggled on/off) -> Hudson Broadcast (transformer saturation and germanium dirt circuit) -> Electronix Submarine (little magic box!) -> Broughton P15 (tube preamp section of B15-N with DI out to FOH and effected 1/4" output to power amp)
Signal chain: Korg Pitchblack -> Doc Lloyd Photon Death Ray (optical compressor w/blend) -> johnk XO crossover distortion (4-band EQ, clean lows, drive circuit on highs that can be toggled on/off) -> Hudson Broadcast (transformer saturation and germanium dirt circuit) -> Electronix Submarine (little magic box!) -> Broughton P15 (tube preamp section of B15-N with DI out to FOH and effected 1/4" output to power amp)
