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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

#3,901
Nomogram said:
My last pedalboard was about 15 years ago, a homemade one of plywood that was okay, had a power strip attached to it for wall warts, and fit 3-4 pedals.

I went away from pedals for a long time, but am getting back into them with my new band. So I got a Voodoo Labs Small with Pedal Power2. Having the isolated power source is a really big improvement over my previous board!

The Fairfield Barbershop is my favorite pedal. It's an always-on.

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The Silver Aguilar Pedal looks great!
 
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Metalzone had to return, cause ODB-3 has a lot of gain, but when i want to chug chords or tremolo pick a metal riff it cant sound as guitarish as MT-2. So i have my beloved MT-2 back on the board for its quality of losing instead of retaining low end ? haha !(BTW i can get a nice fuzz sound out of it),However,when you boost it with a bass pedal(ODB-3) into another bass pedal (BDI21 Preamp) it can respect your role as a bassist in a mix.Trapping it among 2 bass pedals was a pretty good solution for my sound. Pedals hanging a wee bit out of my nano + but they still fit firmly in the softcase. 1spot does a great job, and with some common sense when you dial gain and blend settings, the rig is pretty noiseless.
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Tao_of_Bass said:
Metalzone had to return, cause ODB-3 has a lot of gain, but when i want to chug chords or tremolo pick a metal riff it cant sound as guitarish as MT-2. So i have my beloved MT-2 back on the board for its quality of losing instead of retaining low end ? haha !(BTW i can get a nice fuzz sound out of it),However,when you boost it with a bass pedal(ODB-3) into another bass pedal (BDI21 Preamp) it can respect your role as a bassist in a mix.Trapping it among 2 bass pedals was a pretty good solution for my sound. Pedals hanging a wee bit out of my nano + but they still fit firmly in the softcase. 1spot does a great job, and with some common sense when you dial gain and blend settings, the rig is pretty noiseless. View attachment 3719100 View attachment 3719101
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The first band I was ever in, 25+ years ago as a drummer, the bassist used an MT2 into a crappy 50 watt Peavey single 12" combo amp... sounded amazing!
 
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MTN.bass72 said:
The first band I was ever in, 25+ years ago as a drummer, the bassist used an MT2 into a crappy 50 watt Peavey single 12" combo amp... sounded amazing!
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Thank you for your reply. MT-2 metal zone and MD-2 mega distortion, are probably the most bass friendly guitar drives of BOSS. I plan to use the rig for a thrash metal power trio next week, through SWR Working Pro 700 and check how everything sounds under pressure. I need to get some EBS flats and do some further cable management,so i dont have pedals hanging out of the edges, but all in all i am happy with the sounds i can get from this small (and budget) rig : )
 
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Tao_of_Bass said:
Thank you for your reply. MT-2 metal zone and MD-2 mega distortion, are probably the most bass friendly guitar drives of BOSS. I plan to use the rig for a thrash metal power trio next week, through SWR Working Pro 700 and check how everything sounds under pressure. I need to get some EBS flats and do some further cable management,so i dont have pedals hanging out of the edges, but all in all i am happy with the sounds i can get from this small (and budget) rig : )
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yeah, that's a powerful rig for those pedals too I bet it sounds great for thrash metal, does it DOOM well too?
 
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Somnambulance said:
yeah, that's a powerful rig for those pedals too I bet it sounds great for thrash metal, does it DOOM well too?
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With all that gain on tap and strong EQ from MT-2, and the bulldozer metallic and cold tone ODB-3 is well known for, i guess its gonna be good for DOOM as well. I can get a pretty heavy Crowbar like sound with metal-zone and both pedals can sound fuzzed to death if you dial them accordingly. I know that those 2 pedals are among the most hated online, but i love using them. Tube emulation from behringer DI does wonders removing the beehive, and leaving nothing but awesomeness behind.
 
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Here's my latest incarnation of a compact board for my blues/jazz band. As I'm not using fun effects with them anymore (mild OD was the last holdout, but they're just not a bass-OD band), all I need is an EQ to switch on and off for my upright when I bring it, a pedal with amp sim, ability to be set flat, and secondary DI just in case, and my wireless so I don't trip and die anymore. So even though I haven't used my modded British pedal in years on bass, it's got everything I need and it's smaller than my VT Deluxe.

As a bonus, it all runs on rechargeable batteries! The pedals get EBL 9v's, the wireless is powered by a USB battery charger. I can get 4-5 gigs safely out of the USB charger, and probably quadruple that with the other pedals. And it fits in my cord bag. Nice!

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