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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
- Thread starter garmenteros
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Nice board! However; our sound engineer prefers my preamp-DI pedal(s) over regular DI's. He says that when I bring a regular DI (such as Radial), we rely too much on the desk preamp and he needs extra time to build the bass sound. If I bring a good preamp-DI, he gets a pre-built sound and needs to do minor tweaks only.
Mind you; the band in question is crowded (10 people), so every minute on sound check is valuable.
He likes my Origin BassRig SVT and Tech21 VTDI equally; for that matter. The settings I use are:
- Origin: Output 13, Blend 17, Drive 9:30, Bass 13, Mid 12, Treble 12, Ultra Hi activated
- Tech21: Output 13, Blend 17, Character 9:30, Drive 9:30, Low 13, Mid 12, Treble 12, Cab Sim and Bite activated
I have the preamp (Space Heater) in front of the DI box...
Yep, great products, and the owners are very nice (and it is almost local to me).
Just got to know them recently. Ordered the model T preamp and like it a lot. Too bad, there's a pond in between but with their rates costs are not too bad to have it shipped.
The VT-DI recently replaced an Ampeg SCR-DI, and the TLC replaced a Keeley Compressor Pro. Now I can fit all my essentials on a nicely compact board.
Finally got my little board pretty settled.
Thank you.
Yeah, I can understand your sound tech's preference.
Our band is only 4 people so there is more time for each instrument during the sound check.
I can see an advantage having the pasive DI box as part of my signal chain. In case anything happens to my signal chain (faulty power strip, broken pedal etc.) I can simply take a spare instrument cable and plug it directly into the DI box (bypassing all the other pedals). The XLR cable is already plugged into the DI box...
Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
Something similar actually happened to me once – the sender of my wireless unloaded in, like, 20 minutes rather than 4 hours. And the Sennheiser's receiver doesn't have an emergency input for such situations. Had to pry the DI box off my board to be able to plug in directly.
This was the reason that made me put the DI off-board for good, the other two points mentioned above (multiple boards, sound people requiring their own DI) actually are perks.
The reason why I put DI box on my pedalboard rather than under the board is to be able to quickly unplug the last pedal and insert an instrument cable in the DI box…
So it just seems to get smaller as I get older... but right now, this is about as good as I think I've ever had it.
I swapped my Ashdown OriginAL for the MXR M81 (3rd time owning this and hopefully someone will slap some sense into me should I ever try and get rid of it again!)
Happy as a clam
I swapped my Ashdown OriginAL for the MXR M81 (3rd time owning this and hopefully someone will slap some sense into me should I ever try and get rid of it again!)
Happy as a clam
I have the same EBS pedals as well. Do I see the switch on the Multicomp in tubesim position? Do you use it always on?
It's in MultiBand (MB) mode, and yes, it is always on... set and forget. Such an amazing pedal...
I didn't think that this qualified as compact until some guy on Reddit told me I needed to get a bigger board and "let my pedals breathe". I'll let you all be the judge:
Rockboard 3.1, taking advantage of the compressor and tuner being always on, along with the tall barefoot buttons making the back row useable.
Rockboard 3.1, taking advantage of the compressor and tuner being always on, along with the tall barefoot buttons making the back row useable.
Meh, if they fit, it's absolutely fine. I guess you could call it "space optimization". Also (or for this very reason), I love boards like yours.
i miss the compact board arrangement of mine… the 3 leafs are now in a bogger boards and the ss/bs was sold. simple rig w/ a complex tone.
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This is what I’m rolling with currently. I have an expression ramper that I’d like to try and shove onto this, but so far this is it. For ampless situations, I run it into a Neve RNDI.
I am about to start a super-compact pedalboard. One pedal--a tuner (Peterson Stroboscope). Still very much a beginner at this bass thing, so no effects yet, but would like to have a good tuner inline.
I am planning to mount it on a small wooden board for now since I am only playing at home don't want to mount it to the top of my Rumble 40. The question I have is the convention of which side of the velco goes where. As I scour the images here, it looks like the loop side (softer one) goes on the board, and the hook side (the scratchy one) goes on the pedal. Do I have that correct? I want to make sure I get that right so that I don't have a problem when I move to a proper pedal setup.
I am planning to mount it on a small wooden board for now since I am only playing at home don't want to mount it to the top of my Rumble 40. The question I have is the convention of which side of the velco goes where. As I scour the images here, it looks like the loop side (softer one) goes on the board, and the hook side (the scratchy one) goes on the pedal. Do I have that correct? I want to make sure I get that right so that I don't have a problem when I move to a proper pedal setup.
