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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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Final assembly on the mini pb, just added a chorus from previsor version and now it’s complete. Used it at practice this evening and the setup is definitely approved.
There are some tone monsters on that little board!
Yikes. Yeah I hate it when pedals have power jacks on the side. Darkglass does that with their smaller pedals and it can be a pain sometimes.
For gigging for several years now I’ve used a shure glxd wireless. It has a built in tuner and both the power and output jacks are top jacks. For playing at home mainly use my hx stomps tuner. It has some jacks on the side but they are for effects loop, midi, and headphone out. Which I don’t use. The input and output are top jacks though
Well, the last board only lasted a few days before I decided I wanted to shoehorn the Saturn VI back in for low gain tones. Had to rebuild everything onto a slightly larger board (Pedaltrain Mini) and make a little riser for the B1K in order to get everything to fit, but fit it does!
Nice to see someone that found this video! I play bass in HammerFall and we’ve been ampless since 2009 I think. The Klang is an amazing thing. If you download their app you can try it for yourself with a prerecorded track where you can move everything not only in stereo but up and down and also back and forth. Really fantastic to be able to give room to all the tracks! Try it!
What does that do? Turn on your high beams on your '71 Datsun?
My last post about the mini board I use for my EUB with the dancey indie band I tour with got some love so I figured I’d update! Swapped out the Eventide PowerMini for a Cioks Sol because I was really sick of the wall wort situation. The Sol is bigger, but plugs directly into the wall with a standard IEC cable and still fits comfortably under the Pedaltrain Nano+. Since this gave me an extra power outlet (the Sol has 5!) I decided to see if I could squeeze one more mini pedal without the thing becoming an unruly mess. Here’s what I managed to pack on to this little board!
Aguliar Octamizer
MXR Carbon Copy Mini
MXR Booster (always on preamp)
Radial Tonebone OD (DI/EQ/mute/tuner out)
Korg Pitchblack Mini Tuner
I even have kept open the channel A so I can still use the DI for gigs that where I play acoustic bass! While I have some complaints about the radial’s size, EQ settings (I would love a four band EQ), the IMO poor quality OD, and inconveniently placed effects loop, but it still has all the features I need in one box in a way no other preamp on the market currently does. Love the tuner out and where it is placed on the pedal. I love that I don’t need my tuner in my signal chain. I’ve switched to 3-4” flat patch cables from these clunky MXR pancakes I was using, which both make for a much neater looking board, more secure board. I bought a specially made 4” patch cable from West Coast Pedalboards that had opposite facing connectors to run from my large, lipped Aguilar pedal to the little MXR mini, which I think is the best $20 I’ve ever spent. Maybe having shorter cable length helps the tone? Who knows.
It seems like my Krivo magnetic pickup is a little sterile sounding into the Radial, but the echoplex-powered MXR booster really helps fatten it the signal while retaining the instruments core sound. It’s an always on pedal for me, but I wouldn’t think one would need this if they were plugging a P-Bass into this setup.
I have tried tons of octave pedals (vintage boss OC-2 Octaver, Meatbox, Sub’n’Up, Markbass Bass Synth, Boss SY-3) and the Octamizer is the clear winner in my setup. Kind of the perfect combo of the punch of the OC-2 and the sub push of the Meatbox with the LFO filter completely closed. I used to twiddle around with setting on the fly but now just stick to the one octave down, clean and filter completely off setting that I think is THE SOUND of this pedal for me. The tracking isn’t perfect on the E and A strings in the lower registers, but honestly it’s the best tracking octave I’ve ever had. The Meatbox and OC-2 were more glitchy for me on sustained noted, and the digital pedals had subtle latencies that would bug me.
I only use the delay in tandem with the octave, always set to just one repeat, to get some of that synth, techno “bubble” on certain basslines that draw from EDM. Because this pedal is analog as well, that first repeat hits hard and really does great things with the Octamizer’s signal (I was worried about it really crushing it down.) The only thing I’d mess with on the fly would be the delay speed, which is easy but truth be told I’d love a tap tempo. Not worth upsizing the board or going digital for it, though.
So this board doesn’t produce a lot of varied sounds, basically just utility stuff and a couple one-trick analog “synth” voices that sound GREAT, are responsive to my playing, and compliment the inherent sound and attack of my bass. My EUB’s tone is on point, it sends an easy to mix signal to every stage I step on, and I have the basic effects I need to cop the house/techno/trap vibe that really adds something to my live set without feeling like I’m distracted by pedals all night. If need to get more synthy than this, I think I’m in the “buy a moog” place as opposed to the “buy more pedals” place
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Just added the Cali76, and the Fuzzistor not too long ago. Just wrapped up my first gig with this lineup. Super content.
You like having the octave after the fuzz - have you ever tried it with octave first?
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I’m confused. Where is the preamp/ amp sim before the IR loader?
It's been a while 
My board is now a bit bigger and has a great DI sound
My board is now a bit bigger and has a great DI sound
There’s no preamp on that setup, just tuner, compressor, chorus and the Element as cabsim via the XLR output to FOH and also sending a clean signal to my stage amp. I use this board at church and there I usually use my Jazz Bass that has an onboard Lusithand 800TS preamp, so no need for preamp on the board.
When playing with my band or with a passive bass, I use this little board that has a DSM Simplifier preamp & cabsim at the end of the chain
