Here’s my two compact boards. Perfect for traveling and flygigs. The Quad Cortex arrived last week
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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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Just wondering...but a $1900 QCtx and a $650 HX, both modelers, have what I expect are good tuner functions, but you keep a TC Polytune mini on your boards. Why?Here’s my two compact boards. Perfect for traveling and flygigs. The Quad Cortex arrived last week
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My Photon has a good Bass tuner and I was able to dispose of a real nice full format Korg Pitchblack due to redundancy.
Yes, I know about the tuner functions
But I want to be able to tune, both with sound and with mute.
Also with the smaller board, I sometimes use the parallel clean DI on the G70. If I mute on the HXS, that DI would not be muted. And I gladly spare the audience hearing me tune
(Not that I have bad instruments that need tuning all the time, but better safe than sorry
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Yes, I know about the tuner functions
But I want to be able to tune, both with sound and with mute.
Also with the smaller board, I sometimes use the parallel clean DI on the G70. If I mute on the HXS, that DI would not be muted. And I gladly spare the audience hearing me tune
(Not that I have bad instruments that need tuning all the time, but better safe than sorry
Thanks, ya can't be too careful...!
I just tuned my Bass by ear and was 1/2 step down in standard 440, (that can work in some situations), but I always hit a line mute (or the AO Photon does cut audio to all Outputs while in Tuner mode) everytime I tune before a rehearsal or performance.
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Put this together today for bare-bones EUB jams. If this doesn't work for me, I'll throw in the towel and go for an EBS MicroBass 3, or something else with a built in tuner. Still got my other board with Boss Core/C4, etc.
My new board for 2022.
EBS Octobass into TC Electronic Spectracomp into Ashdown OriginAL (with cheap as chips tuner in parallel out).
I just, today actually, got the Spectracomp, so I think I'm set for the first time in a long, long time.
I've fluctuated between smallish to largish boards over the last 15 or so years, and last year I went right down to a Fender Downtown Express....but I love the Ashdown sound so much and now with the final piece being the TCE, I'm happy.
Famous lasts words, and all that sort of thing hahahaha
EBS Octobass into TC Electronic Spectracomp into Ashdown OriginAL (with cheap as chips tuner in parallel out).
I just, today actually, got the Spectracomp, so I think I'm set for the first time in a long, long time.
I've fluctuated between smallish to largish boards over the last 15 or so years, and last year I went right down to a Fender Downtown Express....but I love the Ashdown sound so much and now with the final piece being the TCE, I'm happy.
Famous lasts words, and all that sort of thing hahahaha
My bass board has entered it's final form. Swapped out the Ibanez flanger for the EQD Sea Machine chorus and the EQD Hoof for the DOD Carcosa. Also swapped out the TU-3 for the Turbo Tuner. I've had the Microtubes Ultra X for 8 months now and I'm still figuring out how to dial it in. What you see in the picture isn't how I run it. I probably tweaked some knobs when setting up the board.
The Doc Lloyd rocks. Still working with it, we'll see how I like it live (hopefully), but the form factor matters.
Finalized this yesterday. Replaced the Broughton HPF with my old FDECK v3, inserted underneath. Interestingly, I love the zip ties for ease and the appearance never bothered me until I started taking pictures. If this setup lasts, I might have to re-up on my pedal plates. And relocate the one on the Altoids tin so it quits throwing the Walrus Audio pedals wonky.
Not shown: a DOD mini-expression pedal for the C4 (or the Julianna, maybe; haven't tried that yet to see if it's useful)
I did a little work this week...
Firstly i want to mention that the included hook and loop love in the Pedaltrain boards, is the absolute worst Velcro variant i have ever used. Now i ve said that, and after a dramatic fall (and fail) of the pedalboard off the top of the amp ( thick carpet saved the day) i decided to put new velcro and get a 4X daisy chain, just to avoid excess cabling under the board.
Truetone Daisy chain 5x was replaced by a Rockboard one 4x
Heavy Duty velcro replaced the hook and loop hat.. sorry.....Love.
aaaaaaand New EBS Multicomp replaced old buffered bypass MC.
i am much happier with this new version. Sensitivity knob is amazing : )
Firstly i want to mention that the included hook and loop love in the Pedaltrain boards, is the absolute worst Velcro variant i have ever used. Now i ve said that, and after a dramatic fall (and fail) of the pedalboard off the top of the amp ( thick carpet saved the day) i decided to put new velcro and get a 4X daisy chain, just to avoid excess cabling under the board.
Truetone Daisy chain 5x was replaced by a Rockboard one 4x
Heavy Duty velcro replaced the hook and loop hat.. sorry.....Love.
aaaaaaand New EBS Multicomp replaced old buffered bypass MC.
i am much happier with this new version. Sensitivity knob is amazing : )
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That's a piece of acrylic that I had cut to size. There are places that'll do it online. Different options for thickness and colour, including transparent, which I was tempted by. If I was doing it again, I'd get rounder corners, maybe.
I'm still waiting on one more piece... I have a Dispatch Master on order, but it's went through quite a few changes in the past month. Note: Haven't reran the power cables yet... the Keeley Bassist, Aftershock, and VTDI just came in last week.
Changed out envelope filters on my compact board… the v1 Xero Deluxe sounds very killer.
@Matt Dean I’m confused about the Super 300’s placement. I’ve seen it early in the chain like you have it several times. Yet other preamps, such as a Subway DI, Noble, etc are always at the end. Can you give insight into why some preamps are put earlier in the chain? Thanks!
First, I am of the school of thought that an effect pedal can be placed anywhere in the signal chain that sounds good to our ears. However, I have over the years of playing this game found that certain types of effects sound best in certain places in the signal chain. For example, compression sounds best at the end to me. I like modulation and filters closer to the end as well. Octaves sound best at the front of the chain to my ears. Regarding the Super 300, I am using it more like an overdrive than a preamp, although its also a fine pre. I tend to put my dirt before filters and after octaves. In the case of my small roots/rock board, I just use a couple of dirt pedals, an envelope filter and a comp.
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Excellent Q&A about effects strategy and placement. We all have different goals and needs from our effect setups, that is why I follow these threads, plus all the cool pedals.
