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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

#961
I use this Dual Purpose Board for electric guitar and bass. The board is a Gator Case powered pedal board with G-Bus-8 power supply. It does 9v and 18v DC. The only factory stock pedal is the MXR Stereo Chorus which works great for bass and guitar. The Wah is a kit from BYOC. I modded it with pots for the Q and tone so it works great with Bass and Guitar. The OD2 is a DIY kit from BYOC. It's a clone of the Tube screamer 808, with the addition of a clean boost. It works great with the guitar and Bass as it has many adjustments for tone shaping. And the clean boost helps with passive signals when using the other effects. The EF 440 is a General Gadgets Kit of the DOD 440 Envelope Filter: It works great for guitar when using the boost, but it sound weak and thin with the bass guitar.

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#962
Just did a little redecorating last night.

Herded all of my 3Leaf pedals together.

I would've preferred to use my Polytune Mini but I needed the 9 V daisy chain output that the regular Polytune provides.

In the first photo it looks like the end pedals are hanging off the end of the board but they actually are not.

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Fun Size Nick said:
For ten bucks, one of these will solve that problem for you!
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Oh yeah... I am already using a three banger on there. I just decided to arrange it with what I had on hand and just moved the Mini to my big board.

Here it is... since some others have posted their PT Jr. to this thread, I suppose I may as well too ;)

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#966
Something I've been experimenting with. I'm using the envelope filter in the drive loop of the EBS Billy Sheehan pedal, but I'm keeping the sensitivity at minimum so that the filter doesn't open, but it does provide me with a nice midrange boost.

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#967
Spidey2112 said:
PedalTrain Classic Jr, utilizing Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+... pedals include EHX Bass MicroSynth, TC Electronic Sub-N-Up, EHX Bass Clone, and Keeley Bassist Compressor/Limiter...

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... if it looks sparse, that's the intent... pardon the lack of patch cables, as my OCD prevents me from hurrying placement... I may need them, eventually.
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Try the chorus after the microsynth if you're using the microsynth for moog type bass - a little chorus gives it a bit of the detuned oscillator sound.
 
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#968
Latest iteration - it's a Gator GPB board, the angled aluminum kind, about 16x8 or so. I could even go a little smaller if I keep the current pedal lineup.

Sorry about the photo quality; my phone's camera has decided to just give up on life I think.

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Anyways:
- the Slash octave fuzz on the right is way underrated as an octaver or for synthy sounds, with the octave down and straight signal set to zero fuzz, while the upper octave is fuzzy like analog octaves do. Sounds really great, but will be replaced eventually by a Cog T65, though, that I have some custom art for Tom to etch...
- the Thrash Master fuzz I stumbled upon a mention of here in the forum and found one cheap enough to try out - arrived yesterday and I love it! I leave the gain low and it's somewhere between a gated fuzz sound and a ripping Brassmaster type. Smooth but toothy, if that makes sense.
- the Bassballs is a bassballs; I have the trimpots inside turned all the way down for a more vocal sound. Might be replaced, but I keep going back to it.
- the Zoom MS is serving tuner, noise gate, compressor, and modulation duty.

And hey, it's all very budget-friendly stuff! I think the Slash was the most expensive pedal and it was still only a hundred bucks or so.
 
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HalfManHalfBass said:
This was a PedalTrain Pro, but I cut it in half and then nearly in half again!

The result is a little bit slimmer than a PedalTrain Junior with its last rung chopped off.

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Well done! I was just thinking about trimming my PT-Pro. I like the width but find it to be too deep so I might chop off one of the rails. What was your method for cutting it down? It looks really clean.
 
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HelpImaRock said:
For the slutbanging metal enthusiast.
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With my history, I have to say guilty as charged, but my musical tastes and play styles are way more varied than it might appear =0)

Been having fun with that Thrashmaster fuzz, but it's not the perfect fuzz. Put before the Bassballs, it muffles the sound of the bassballs for some reason, so now I have it placed after. Bummer because I love fuzz into filter, but I do have the octave fuzz on the Slash still in front of the bb and it's awesome. I have to do a video soon, just to show everybody why I geek about this pedal combo.
 
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DDXdesign said:
With my history, I have to say guilty as charged, but my musical tastes and play styles are way more varied than it might appear =0)

Been having fun with that Thrashmaster fuzz, but it's not the perfect fuzz. Put before the Bassballs, it muffles the sound of the bassballs for some reason, so now I have it placed after. Bummer because I love fuzz into filter, but I do have the octave fuzz on the Slash still in front of the bb and it's awesome. I have to do a video soon, just to show everybody why I geek about this pedal combo.
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I fear you have taken me literally instead of ironically. Just in case, this old gem is worth re-posting. :D

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#976
Bioflava said:
Here's my current rig: Modulus Flea -> Darkglass Super Symmetry -> DG VMT -> Source Audio Manta -> TC Corona mini -> Kliq Tinytune -> MB D-800 -> Mesa 115 & 112. Board is a PT Nano+ powered by a Cioks DC5. Runs and sounds like a dream. Any problems with this rig have nothing to do with the gear! :)

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Glad to see someone else hip to the KLIQ tuner - one of the greatest value pedal tuners out there, IMHO.
 
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#977
winterburn69 said:
Love those replacement knobs on the MXR BOD. Reminds me a bit of a Depth Charge.

They look like Boss knobs if I'm not mistaken.
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Hi and thanks for the interest!

Yes, they are indeed push-on Boss replacement knobs.

Part of my OCD requires that all my pedals must have them (the SansAmp VT Bass has them too!)

If the spacing of the knobs is too tight to allow for this, (as on the other pedals) I use the push on black rubber type with a white stripe.

I don't have problems with my eyesight (except for being colour blind) but the bigger the white stripes on knobs, the easier it is to see settings with a downward glance.

In fact, I routinely switch out all LEDs with the larger 5mm blue type for my colourblindness, as it's the easiest colour for me to see. Dull red or green LEDs are almost invisable to me sometimes!

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ThrewSilver said:
Well done! I was just thinking about trimming my PT-Pro. I like the width but find it to be too deep so I might chop off one of the rails. What was your method for cutting it down? It looks really clean.
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Hi and thanks for the interest!

I just use a hacksaw blade and a file.

Where ever the frame is cut, leaving a square hole, I file the hole back about 4mm on each of its sides and plug it with these black plastic end covers.

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Jonny5bass said:
My Dad has the same color blindness. It makes going through intersections in foreign countries REALLY EXCITING!!!

Nice board!
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Heheh! You know the most frequent question I get is: What do you do at traffic lights? Even if I were unable to distinguish between light green and dark red the fixed order of the lights is always a big give away!

If he doesn't know already, there's a company called Enchroma who make sunglasses and day glasses to correct colorblindness. If my bass related shopping list ever permits me to, I'll get a pair but from the US to here in Italy would cost me about $500 a pair!

It would be cool to see how normal vision people see but it could also totally freak me out being the equivalent of the strongest kind of acid trip!
 
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