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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

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I would like to say: “to each their own style” but you would take it the wrong way...

This font size is offered (9 to 26) and I'm over 800 years old, I have old eyes but if it bothers you guys...

Sorry, from now on I will use the standard font size, I promise !

May the Groove be with you.
I say use whatever font size you like. Adversity makes a man… and of course, that is if “dealing with slightly larger than usual font” could even be considered adversity to begin with.

We will either deal with it, or we’ll cry about it and then get over it. No sense in straining yourself to make strangers on the Internet happy.
 
BROUGHTON AUDIO HPF = 12 dB per octave low frequency filter. The knob controls the cutoff frequency and ranges continuously from 25 Hz to 190 Hz.

=> smoothest and musical

SINE EFFECT HPF = 24 dB per octave low frequency filter. The knob controls the cutoff frequency and ranges continuously from 25 Hz to 400 Hz.

=> compromise ?

SFX SOUND THUMPINATOR = 36 dB per octave low frequency filter. The cutoff frequency is fixed at 25 Hz + buffer.

=> effective cutoff + buffer


Usage depends on where you place the filter in the signal chain, at the very beginning/end of the signal path, just like an EQ, to help the gear, before/after an octaver, to remove muddiness, to protect the speakers, to remove the sub bass as it only adds unnecessary energy to the total sound...

The Thumpinator is good but it would be even better with the cutoff frequency fixed at 35/40 Hz and personally, I prefer to have an HPF filter at the end of the signal path...

Afterwards, everything that happens after the HPF filter can generate new unwanted low/sub frequencies, most amps and speakers are designed to receive a wide range of frequencies and often, they already cut below 30/40 Hz, most sound systems/PA/FOH already have EQ and filters...
Great post BTW, thanks
 
Very nice!
Which pedalboard is it for the Noble? The size seems to be very nice.

It’s just a piece of wood that I cut to size for a very specific case I have, rubber feet glued to the bottom. It just so happens that it’s the perfect size board for this particular group of pedals haha.

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Three small pb builds (used with three different rigs) placed together, only for this pic. The top and middle pb’s are in effects loops (Eich T900/Berg HP2)…and the bottom pb into the front of either my Ampeg SVT-3PRO or Aggy DB751…
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I can’t say enough positive comments about the ZeroFiveAudio Lowrider…fortunate to have obtained 3 of them—they’re super useful to me! (Lol, wish I was this lucky, timing Broughton drops!)

Also, SB MORE in front makes gain staging (for a dead quiet noise-floor) so much easier, say nothing of the tube effect.

The middle SR tuner actually splits to two amp tuner out(s) (via a passive JHS a/b switcher) in my home studio.
 
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What do like about that one? I haven't heard much about it, and it's hard to tell from the description on the website alone. What does it do to your tone? How does it play with the other pedals?
Here’s the dedicated thread…
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/zerofive-audio-lowrider.1609556/

Plays great with my other pedals (including a variety of dirt pedals…) Currently powering mine at 18v, but not absolutely necessary..

LR really brings a “finished” studio quality presence/liveliness to your signal—just click thru the dial and find what sounds best, given the bass and signal chain. Always-on pedal for me—if I ever wonder what it’s providing, kick it off—amazing the tone quality that disappears.

The D2 setting is really handy for low volume playing…brings a very pleasing bottom-end fullness.
 
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