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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

#8,341
Erithon said:
No. It's magic.


JK. It's electrical engineering.
I'll give this a shot. Maybe @Low F# will agree, maybe not. The saturation of the transformer, especially when hit by a hot signal, introduces more midrange and upper frequency harmonics. The coloration is quite pleasing, and because the harmonics are more present in the mids and upper echelon of the highs, to me it almost sounds like a slight scoop in the lower trebles or even, depending on how the high frequencies are colored, a high-end roll-off .
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Transformers saturate at low frequencies far before they do at mid or high frequencies. What you're hearing is most likely due to interactions (resonance) between the inductance of the transformer and the interwinding capacitance and the cabling capacitances.

Anyway, if you like what it does, it doesn't matter how it got there - if it makes you like the sound a bit more, then it's done it's job.
 
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All I have ever needed. Try to adhere to the KISS principle.

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Low F# said:
Noble pre, SVT BassRig, Cali76 CB, DCX BASS, ST-300 mini, and 6 LBA 2020Ss all on a PT Nano +. It still all fits in the PT soft case too! Need to do a bit of cable clean up, but otherwise, compact?
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It looks like you added some furniture 'feet' to raise it up. Also, What is your signal pathway?
I have a few of those LB units too I want to use.
 
#8,347
Pedalboard rebuild update #1790 :banghead:

It made it just over 2 weeks this time o_O....

I took the compressor off, after rebuilding all my patches for an upcoming gig, I now have spare blocks, so I'm going with the onboard comp (Deluxe Comp.) :bassist:

I added the expression (it was off the board next to it before), it looks a little weird, but it still fits in it's case, so I'm pretty stoked for that. :thumbsup:

I added a few labels since I had a “senior moment” at last rehearsal and totally spaced what does what :confused:...(this board gets quite a bit less play time than my others).

My only gripe is the HXS tuner...it's not terrible, but I do miss my Pitchblack or Polytune, but not enough to use up board space. :rollno:

Grabbed a pic of the big brother board too, since I almost never have them both at home at the same time.

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Bass into compressor. Just some peak limiting, not drag compressing..with some makeup gain (above unity) it feeds the Switchblade. The Switchblade is set to be 2 parallel FX loops with a dry blend (that can boost)
The synth pedal has a high threshold that doest get triggered much, and the tone set low. This adds loads of thickness to the booty of the tone.
The other loop has the Hot Cake set to fuzzzzzz! This give me some nice high end. All of this is mixed with a healthy dry signal and is quite compact.


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trigger_happy said:
My latest compact setup. Just got the stomp and loving it! Only the C4 has stayed from my last setup. Really love the octave, filter and synth presets in there. The rest I dial from the stomp :D
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Slap a battery pack on the bottom and you've pretty much got the exact rig that made me TOTALLY fine with modeling. Also I recommend a speaker such as the JBL Go2. Headphone out from the Stomp into that, a very nice travel rig/ practice amp :)
 
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Hi everyone !
I mentioned I am building a big creativity board with 12 effects.
But I am also building a compact utility board for rehearsals and gigs that don’t require that granular micro looper.

I am using DESS’s HPB-M with integrated power supply (MP5) and patchbay (HCX).

The pedals on it will be :
- Strobostomp mini (soon)
-3 Leaf Audio Proton (Miami)
- empress Effect bass Compressor (in silver. This one was borrowed to my large board)
- Darkglass Ultra Vintage 2 pre.

I made the cables myself (Evidence audio Monorail, MDPC-X Grand Bleu XTC sleeves, Square Plugs SP500 and SP6M connectors).

I ll just add an XLR cable out of my Darkglass.
 
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Green Hornet said:
It looks like you added some furniture 'feet' to raise it up. Also, What is your signal pathway?
I have a few of those LB units too I want to use.
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Correct. I got the feet on Amazon for a few bucks. They raise it just enough to fit all of the LBAs underneath.

Signal chain is; BASS > Tuner > OE DCX Bass > LBA 2020S x2 > OE Cali76 CB > LBA 2020S x2 > Noble Pre > LBA 2020S x2 > OE SV BassRig > FOH
 
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Low F# said:
Correct. I got the feet on Amazon for a few bucks. They raise it just enough to fit all of the LBAs underneath.

Signal chain is; BASS > Tuner > OE DCX Bass > LBA 2020S x2 > OE Cali76 CB > LBA 2020S x2 > Noble Pre > LBA 2020S x2 > OE SV BassRig > FOH
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You have six 2020S in your signal chain???
 
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wolffire99 said:
nice. I’ve been thinking about getting one I didn’t even consider stacking them.
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I will admit that I wasn't that impressed with just one, no matter where I put it. Two stacked is where I got the bug. Then I just bought more for multiple boards, not wanting to move them around. Now they're all on one board because they fit, and why not.
 
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Low F# said:
I will admit that I wasn't that impressed with just one, no matter where I put it. Two stacked is where I got the bug. Then I just bought more for multiple boards, not wanting to move them around. Now they're all on one board because they fit, and why not.
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Whatever works for you! Can you describe the difference in tone between 0, 2, and 6 of these things?
 

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