Show me your compact pedalboard setup

[PhatBottomBass1]

The modern board. The u67 controls inputs from different basses. Opus to provide patches and JF to make adjustments for room without having to menu dive on the opus or to switch to a different drive. Power on board also.
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How are you liking the MXR Poly Blue Octave pedal...?

MXR Poly Blue Octave with Saturnworks Tap Switch...
JohnK custom Rothwell Love Squeeze Compressor...
Mooer SPARK Echo* (Tape Delay+Reverb w/ Dry Blend)
Laney Footswitch for Tube Overdrive I/O & Signal Mute
(Powering with MXR Adapter from snake power cable)
D'Addario dual riser mount for large expandable board.

*Mooer SPARK Echo send to amp head effects loop

Just ordered Source Audio ZIO Bass DI/HPF/EQ, but it will be living on the speaker cabinet by the amp head...

 

[MikoFX]

This is my flyrig (also doubles as the board my daughter plays through when I'm giving her lessons). It may not be as small as most of the compact boards on this thread, but for me this is TINY. It's a fairly close approximation of the basic chain on my primary big board, but in roughly half the space.

Hot tip: the Broughton SBM > Origin DCX is brilliant, taking the DCX from just ok to absolutely stellar!

I have only to secure a 3Leaf Octabvre MKIII to replace the Aguilar Octamizer & this board will be dialed in for the foreseeable future.

 

[AmyTwonotes]

The modern board. The u67 controls inputs from different basses. Opus to provide patches and JF to make adjustments for room without having to menu dive on the opus or to switch to a different drive. Power on board also.
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Looking great @klattman! So pleased OPUS is working well for you!

 

[klattman]

How are you liking the MXR Poly Blue Octave pedal...?

The poly blue is by far the best I’ve tried. In poly mode it tracks flawlessly even slides on my fretless down to E or even drop D. In mono mode it’s close enough to vintage faltering octave behavior for my needs. With up and down octaves and the modulation it’s close to pipe organ. The only thing I don’t use is the fuzz because that aggressive fuzz isn’t useful to me.
Yes it’s digital and I have a separate wart under the board powering it or else I get noise interactions.
It’s very impressive and I don’t know why it isn’t raved about.

 

[klattman]

Looking great @klattman! So pleased OPUS is working well for you!

The addition of power amp and preamp emulation makes it much more useful than just IR. Most of the time I’m not using cabinets on it if I’m playing through a cabinet.
I didn’t like a single preset on it but since I have access to all the parameters I came up with 20 and I’m probably not changing them. Of course that initial process took hours.

The emulation is input sensitive so acts like my tube amps. However different basses (even passive) have different output and change the amount of drive. I could set up banks of presets for each but the u67 in front can be easily adjusted for any bass coming in.
I honestly think opus would be useless live without the eq I have after it. I’m not going to menu dive on a gig to adjust for the room and I’m not making presets to cover all scenarios. I suppose it’s really intended due studio work where that sort of thing isn’t a big deal when going to a console.

 

[PhatBottomBass1]

The poly blue is by far the best I’ve tried. In poly mode it tracks flawlessly even slides on my fretless down to E or even drop D. In mono mode it’s close enough to vintage faltering octave behavior for my needs. With up and down octaves and the modulation it’s close to pipe organ. The only thing I don’t use is the fuzz because that aggressive fuzz isn’t useful to me.
Yes it’s digital and I have a separate wart under the board powering it or else I get noise interactions.
It’s very impressive and I don’t know why it isn’t raved about.

Agreed...

The Poly Blue Octave is a monster pedal...!

The Fuzz is kinda glitchy spitty type of thing that can be a cool flavor in small infrequent doses for me. The overall synthy thing is what makes it for me. I also like having the Phase 90 modulation available on it's own!

The Digbeth DB500H emulation tube overdrive is very nice. I plan to use a tiny amount of the ZIO Bass available "tube" grit for an always on warming effect.

 

[sloppy_phil]

The addition of power amp and preamp emulation makes it much more useful than just IR. Most of the time I’m not using cabinets on it if I’m playing through a cabinet.
I didn’t like a single preset on it but since I have access to all the parameters I came up with 20 and I’m probably not changing them. Of course that initial process took hours.

The emulation is input sensitive so acts like my tube amps. However different basses (even passive) have different output and change the amount of drive. I could set up banks of presets for each but the u67 in front can be easily adjusted for any bass coming in.
I honestly think opus would be useless live without the eq I have after it. I’m not going to menu dive on a gig to adjust for the room and I’m not making presets to cover all scenarios. I suppose it’s really intended due studio work where that sort of thing isn’t a big deal when going to a console.

I think it depends on your usage scenario. For example, I use a Torpedo C.A.B. M+ purely as a DI out for my live gigs; it isn't colouring my on stage tone at all. I like the sound of a bass-into-cabinet, but seemingly no sound techs out there are willing to chuck a mic on a bass amp, when they can just stick a passive DI box on it and call it a day. With the Torpedo (or Opus, but I see no need to upgrade personally), they now get a fully treated signal which sounds great in FOH, and I don't have to sweat diving into menu banks to make adjustments. If my stage sound needs a tweak, I'll do it at the amp, so it doesn't impact the mix in FOH. It's frankly perfect (for me)! DI out from my amp into the Torpedo, then XLR out from there to FOH.

I go out on tour semi-regularly, so knowing I have a consistent "amp" sound from venue-to-venue, regardless of which continent I'm on, or what backline I'm provided, and it fits in my carry-on luggage, is super satisfying!

In studio, it's also a great tool. But that wasn't really the point of discussion here.

 

[BK46]

Mini board complete here.. Capo is fantastic.. Couldn’t be happier with this thing. Also shocked by the Empress. I knew it was great, but it may take the place of the Cali 76 on the big board.. Didn’t see that coming. CIOKS DC7 powering.

Not a lot of chatter surrounding the Pico POG on TB. Love it.. started with a Pico Pitch Fork. It’s back at the store!

 

[Blunder]

My humble board!

 

[MrDinsdale]

EAE Model Fet back on the board also featuring the Jad Freer Cato.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

EAE Model Fet back on the board also featuring the Jad Freer Cato.

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I love that cat! Nice pedals too!

 

[DaveParker39]

Newest iteration:

 

[HeavyJazz]

Newest iteration:

Looks kind of similar to my board from last year...

 

[1OHM]

Newest iteration:

What's the single switch on the left for?

 

[wolffire99]

Update: Added the pedalnetics expression switch and Lusithand Alma comp.

I think I’ve finally settled on a small board I’ll be happy with for a while (famous last words I know).

The sushi UA and VMT work so well together. I prefer the drive and eq of the VMT but the UA makes it more natural sounding. If I had to keep one it would be the VMT.

Love the way the Alma evens out the D and G strings without squashing the E and A.

Chain: Strobo mini (buffered) -> Alma -> Sushi UA -> Stomp (eq, octave, fx loop (VMT), chorus, amp/cabsim) -> temple passive DI mod -> FOH

 

[rstephens]

The HX Stomp is now handling compressor, eq, low/high pass, any delay/reverb/modulation effects, and amp and cab sim duties. I’m plugging straight into the 250w powered cab from Blackstar and to FOH if needed/available.

So far I haven’t been able to find anything on the HX Stomp that replicates the band pass and whatever other magic the FX-25 does to give me that deep “dub” sound, so it stays on the board!

The red foot switch box provides two extra switches for the HX stomp and is also a 1.5a power supply for the Stomp and three 500ma outputs for other pedals. Got that from Sweetfoot Pedals - check them out!

 

[Mr. voodoobass]

I use autofilter on the stomp in bandpass mode and lots of tweaks with freq at 100hz for dub tones.

 

[rstephens]

I use autofilter on the stomp in bandpass mode and lots of tweaks with freq at 100hz for dub tones.

Nice! Thanks for the tip. I’ll try that!

 

[arepa_funk]

Testing out a few Pigtronix pedals today. I barely used the Envelope Phaser last time so I'll see if I can fit it in today. The Fat Drive is phenomenal at bedroom volumes at 18v going into a cab sim. The gain is almost fully rolled off and that's enough. On its own it was essentially a fuzz anywhere on the gain knob. The pairing of Fat Drive with Fliptop was A+, but I can't use it on its own except for distortion/fuzz tones. We'll see what it's like in the rehearsal space.

 

[Parzival]

Update board. Liking this setup now. Sounds good, does what I need. This edition of the board is called Dr. Parzival or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The BDDI

Got my setup decently lean and mean, for me. My main preamp I’ve started using for about 70% of our songs is the Regal model in the HX. Who’d a thunk after all the preamps I’ve tried. I am using the BDDI as an alternate pre when I want to use other effects in the HX.
The BDDI was to be used on a mini board I’m going to use for outdoor shows this Spring and Summer (see below), but as I kept trying it out, I’m starting to like the thing. Maybe it’s because I’m playing a P bass most of the time now, maybe my ears have changed, who knows?
I still have a ME Super 40 coming at some point and we’ll see how that goes, but no other changes in the works or being considered. Gone back to no compressor. Just don’t want an always on compressor, plus FOH will do a little light, transparent compression. I may use one for a couple of songs and will dial one up in the HX.