I've always wanted to try out the Alien Bass Station. How are you enjoying it?
Thanks!
Brent
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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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Thanks!
Brent
I really like it and find it plays really well with other pedals. It sounds amazing with the RC on before it. The Comp and Amp Sim work great together and, in fact, never use them on their own. The big thing to note is that the Comp is a limiter where Sensitivity is adjusted based on input and Comp is how much limiting you want. The Output directly feeds the Amp Sim. So cranking the Limiter Output will cause the Amp Sim to distort, and it's pleasing if that's what you want, but I prefer to lower the Output and increase the Amp Sim Output so that it can relatively clean with small amounts of Gain added.
The fuzz is useful and has many tones depending where on the input dial you've got it set. I use it sparingly at most. I want to experiment putting the Station earlier in the chain so I can add some modulation after it. Then I think I'd use the fuzz more. Maybe. Hope this helps!
First doubleheader of the season....
This one lives under my practice desk, as pictured here, and also goes to church with me.
This one is essentially a backup. It's made up of stuff I don't really use/haven't used for a bit. I've reserved it for taking to a buddies house for jam, or, If I need to leave my board (above) at church. Sometimes if it's a special service like Easter or something all the gear needs to be pre-loaded in and set up, so this board (below) gets me by just find as a backup in that contingency.
Note both have HPF and buffer as well as Zoom to provide all the good extra stuff; compression, chorus, reverb, trem, octave...
This one lives under my practice desk, as pictured here, and also goes to church with me.
This one is essentially a backup. It's made up of stuff I don't really use/haven't used for a bit. I've reserved it for taking to a buddies house for jam, or, If I need to leave my board (above) at church. Sometimes if it's a special service like Easter or something all the gear needs to be pre-loaded in and set up, so this board (below) gets me by just find as a backup in that contingency.
Note both have HPF and buffer as well as Zoom to provide all the good extra stuff; compression, chorus, reverb, trem, octave...
Yes it does! I appreciate the information! I don't think I've found a good demo on the pedal yet. If you have any ideas or soundclips, please let me know. Thanks again!
Brent
The testing process before assembly.
Will replace the tuner with a Peterson Mini.
Will replace the tuner with a Peterson Mini.
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Have you used the Strobostomp Mini? I personally prefer the Polytune to it (I found the response time of the Mini grabbing onto a note to be a bit slow).
I haven't, but part of my consideration is visibility of screen size for a mini tuner. I had a polytune 3 mini mini years ago and went back to the standard size for that very reasonini.
I will however look at what you say when comparing the two tuners. Thanks dude.
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For what it's worth, I do not notice any difference in the response time between the Polytune and Strobostomp Mini. YMMV.
I had a Nano and Nano+ boards that I decided to reconfigure. Took all of my pedals and played around with various placement. This is what I came up with.
The YYZ and Zio are great together. I had them on the smaller board with just a compressor and it was glorious. Lots of options just between those two. I use the YYZ just for dirt (in this configuration). But the Zio really tightens up the drive of the YYZ.
I'll send you some clips probably early next week? Have a rehearsal coming up this Friday that'll likely be recorded. More to come!
Very cool! Thanks!
Most of the demos I’ve seen seem to divert immediately to an all out dirty sound. Can it do clean? My personal tone is more edgy or gritty than all out distortion. Think Geddy meets Steve Harris .
Thanks again!
Brent
Thanks for that, when $s allow I will get vmt, deluxe or ultra, is only thing I'm not sure on. Iv learnt "buy once, cry once", and bit wary of getting deluxe, then wanting the ultra...arrrrr.
I’ve had the Ultra and VMT. Both great. If I get another preamp in the future it will be the Ultra.
The VMT is just drive and what I have now. Great sounds and as was mentioned sounds great in the mix. The Era knob is the special sauce to sculpt from older school drive to a little more modern. The Ultra has the full eq preamp and the drive you can engage separately. No simple era knob though, the drive tone is sculpted with your preamp eq. The deluxe is similar to ultra but no separate drive it’s just built in and you dial it in or out.
I’ve had the deluxe, ultra, and standard. They each have a slightly diffident sound. I’d rank them 1. Standard 2. Deluxe 3. Ultra. They made a mistake dropping the era, aka tone, control on the ultra and deluxe. The ultra sounds like a completely different drive altogether. It’s more modern sounding in the ballpark of the other Darkglass stuff.
Today's jam board. Swapped some things. Experimenting with using the Analog Alien fuzz as mid gain dirt, similar to what I was using the Xotic BB before. Putting the RC near the end of chain and testing out my second go around and first with a band with the Spectrum. Hope to have clips I can share next week with @BrentSimons and others who may interested in what the Analog Alien sounds like in a mix.
Got the Capo in from classifieds, can’t wait to start really learning it
Just received my CAPO yesterday, I got halfway thru the board before I had to call it a night. Really loving the sound.
board order, so far. BBA->HPF->Almacomp->CAPO<-> H9 in the post loop ->CAPO -> Infinity -> DAW
all this on a nano+. I do however dislike the pedals spilling over the side of the board and may upgrade to a Metro 20 and move the always on pedals to the top of the board. Time will tell.
board order, so far. BBA->HPF->Almacomp->CAPO<-> H9 in the post loop ->CAPO -> Infinity -> DAW
all this on a nano+. I do however dislike the pedals spilling over the side of the board and may upgrade to a Metro 20 and move the always on pedals to the top of the board. Time will tell.
