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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

#5,141
glassmoon said:
Emulating that tone is exactly what I am after too.

Question regarding the Stomp's loop - I know precious little of the routing options with the Line 6 stuff, but how is it all mapped out? Are you using the DI out to the FoH from the Stomp or the Ashdown?

And thanks for the insights :)
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The signal path is Compressor-->HX Stomp-->Ashdown-->HX Stomp-->FOH. From the Ashdown I am using the Link Out, which is the unaffected signal of the preamp. It goes to whichever amp I am using (mine or backline). This signal would go: Compressor-->HX Stomp-->Amp.

The reason why the Ashdown is on the FX loop is because I am using a cab simulation. If I finally stop using the cab simulation, I'd go simpler: Compressor-->HX Stomp-->Preamp.
 
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NerdyOcean said:
Yeah I built the Vong. I cannot recommend them enough. Julian was super helpful, super quick to respond, and super nice. Was a little over a hundred bucks shipped. It got to my house in about a week. The instructions on the Vong site made it way too easy. It took me about two hours and I was done. Worked fine first try. There are dip switches inside to set the footswitch. I just have it set to engage the boost. This gives me a nice boost at the end of my chain. The filters work great and the DI is very quiet. I honestly don't know how these aren't more popular on this forum. Good value and it does so much.

I love the Blackstone. It is a little bit of a hassle at first, but once dialed in it is super nice. It has a more neutral channel (brown channel) and a higher gain/less bassy channel (red channel). I am using the brown channel as an always on sound. I love it for this. It is a very sensitive OD. It reacts to bass volume big time. I was using the red channel sparingly as a higher gain sound, but it was lacking some. It really shines now though as I opened it up and played around with the socketed capacitors. It has two capacitors, one for presence and one for bass cut on the red channel. I played with the presence cap but found that I like the stock value. I removed the bass cut capacitor for the red channel. This just gave me another brown channel to set with higher gain. Now I love it even more. I have the internal jumper set for buffered input so it plays well with my active basses.

TL;DR
Vong is easy to build cheap and great
Blackstone OD is super touch sensitive and I love it
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I love Schalltechnik. I owned a Guma Antique, a Guma Drive and the NE_04 v2. Now I ordered his always-on HPF. His stuff is amazing, deserves a lot more recognition.
 
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MascisMan said:
What is the pedal on the bottom left? An effects loop of sorts? How are you using it?
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Yeah, it's a 1 loop switcher. I use it as a master bypass for the HX Stomp, so that I can instantly jump to my clean amp tone.

It's also a panic button. If anything goes wrong with the HX Stomp, or I get stuck in some mode that I can't easily get out of during a song, I hit that switch to take it out of the equation :D

Flamingo21 said:
@Naigewron I suddenly realize how you got your screen name.
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:) ezirp eht niw uoY
 
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He’s the pedal section of my floorboard. I’ve replaced all of my larger pedals with ‘good enough’ mini versions. Downsized tuner. The sweeper and lofi machine replaced what I was using a boss bass synth for. Sub n up replaced a boss OC2. Black secret replaced my Rat. The ninety orange replaced a MoogerFooger phaser. I still have the others for recording, but for live, for me, smaller, simpler, and good enough are better.

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RumbleBot said:
He’s the pedal section of my floorboard. I’ve replaced all of my larger pedals with ‘good enough’ mini versions. Downsized tuner. The sweeper and lofi machine replaced what I was using a boss bass synth for. Sub n up replaced a boss OC2. Black secret replaced my Rat. The ninety orange replaced a MoogerFooger phaser. I still have the others for recording, but for live, for me, smaller, simpler, and good enough are better.

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Looks great! :cool:

You should post it in the 1590A thread... ;)
 
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Esquillama said:
View attachment 4148519 View attachment 4148520 I’m really digging the portability and convenience of this battery powered nano. No more running cables (power, or otherwise) for me. I’m also using a Sennheiser xsw wireless to go from the DI to the mixer. Tested at two rehearsals with no dropouts or interference at all.
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Esquillama said:
View attachment 4148519 View attachment 4148520 I’m really digging the portability and convenience of this battery powered nano. No more running cables (power, or otherwise) for me. I’m also using a Sennheiser xsw wireless to go from the DI to the mixer. Tested at two rehearsals with no dropouts or interference at all.
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This is genius. I have often contemplated about the viability of using a wireless to get my pedalboard to my amp. Curious to see how this evolves for you and kudos to you for doing it.
 
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