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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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My bass and octave up "guitar" bi amp board for my main band.
Still might move things around a lil bit,
Signal chain tu3w>oc1 compressor clone>sw buffered splitter>quint>lunar>
Bass side >dark waves>sbm>rfe>sushi finally v2 (not pictured)
Guitar side >precision>broadcast > Westinghouse
The micro stomps are just kill switch for each signal.
So I decided to have a good look into stripping down my outboard gear even more. I played around with my Zoom MS-60B and found - much to delight - that I can use an amp, set 100% flat and still use the cab option.
So now the TC Electronic impulse response loader is off (as is the chorus, which as much as I adore chorus, I just don't use it in the pub band) and the Zoom does a decent enough cab sim.
The DemonFX Tone Mallet is there only for my Ibanez BTB 6, as a preamp (the older BTBs are brilliant, but the vari-mid eq is a bit bleh after playing the Sadowsky).
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Julian aka Glassmoon
So now the TC Electronic impulse response loader is off (as is the chorus, which as much as I adore chorus, I just don't use it in the pub band) and the Zoom does a decent enough cab sim.
The DemonFX Tone Mallet is there only for my Ibanez BTB 6, as a preamp (the older BTBs are brilliant, but the vari-mid eq is a bit bleh after playing the Sadowsky).
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Julian aka Glassmoon
My Vertex Compact pedalboard. Sounds amazing.
I got it down to where I fit on a Pedaltrain Nano. I’m pretty pleased with it.
Terrific looking board there @ChronicPyromaniac...
Question... What does the Cortext have that the HX doesn't? I know very little about the Neural DSP gear (other than a few plugins I use) so I'm interested to understand how you use it alongside the HX.
My thanks in advance...
Julian aka Glassmoon
Assembled this litte monster on a PT nano board w/ a cioks dc5 underneath comprising of my 3 favorite builders of all time. 3Leaf, iron ether and broughton. pls pardon the settings as some have been moved.
State of the board. Found a cheap nano+ board in the marketplace and put together my current Broughton and 3Leaf collection. My main board for function gigs covering pop, funk, motown and synth stuff
I’m basically using the Nano Cortex as a Neural Capture loader. The community has tons of cool amp captures that I would probably never see on the Stomp. So the NC is using an FX loop block on the Stomp to insert an amp capture where you’d usually use one of the Stomp’s models. I have linked all the presets together on the two, so it all switches automatically via MIDI.
That's a very, very cool setup mate
Had a hankering for a second pedal board recently....this one pretty much covering the basics, and is primarily for FOH purposes. Summer is supposed to be stacked with quick changeover fair/festival stuff, and I/we don't carry enough "clout" to dictate backline specs....and what sound guy doesn't like SA stuff eh? haha
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Do pedalboard-less pedalboards count?
Used to carry around a huge board: Boss Tuner, Sadowsky Preamp, Origin Effects Cali76 CB, Fairfield Barbershop, Moog Low-Pass Filter, MXR Bass Octave Deluxe, 3 Leaf Audio Wonderlove and the Moog expression pedal -- I would sometimes even add the Moog 12-step Phaser.
To something more concise: Peterson Strobestomp HD, Effectrode PC-2A compressor, Mantic Hulk, Boss OC-2, 3 Leaf Proton, 3 Leaf Doom 2.
To: Sonic Research ST-300, Broughton HPF, Effectrode LA-1A and Broughton Fliptop.
But at the end of the day, the only effect I really ever used was an octaver. So why not over indulge in octave pedals instead of having all that other stuff lying around? The Broughton Subsonic for synth-like tones (clean all the way off) and the Aguilar Octamizer for clean tones with the octave.
Used to carry around a huge board: Boss Tuner, Sadowsky Preamp, Origin Effects Cali76 CB, Fairfield Barbershop, Moog Low-Pass Filter, MXR Bass Octave Deluxe, 3 Leaf Audio Wonderlove and the Moog expression pedal -- I would sometimes even add the Moog 12-step Phaser.
To something more concise: Peterson Strobestomp HD, Effectrode PC-2A compressor, Mantic Hulk, Boss OC-2, 3 Leaf Proton, 3 Leaf Doom 2.
To: Sonic Research ST-300, Broughton HPF, Effectrode LA-1A and Broughton Fliptop.
But at the end of the day, the only effect I really ever used was an octaver. So why not over indulge in octave pedals instead of having all that other stuff lying around? The Broughton Subsonic for synth-like tones (clean all the way off) and the Aguilar Octamizer for clean tones with the octave.
Almost spilled a pitcher of beer on my Noble and bigbox cali76 rig last gig so i made a smaller footprint gigboard and used my other PT metro20 w/ cioks dc7 underneath. The Broughton Gladius arrived last saturday and the Blue hammertone MBD2 arrived today so i went to incorpairate that in the board and love to see it in action next jam. the neptunium is my tube/DI amd a cali76 laser etched for the squeeze and some collection of goodies to compliment the tone. pardon the settings as its still being dialled in.the bigger board with the noble/cali bigbox with CB autmatone mkii and cxm1978 w/ a 3leaf octabvre mkii and chromatron will serve as my studio board instead. away from harm lol yet will serve its purpose. Cheers!
My God, that would have been one expensive pitcher of beer.
yes sir it would’ve cost me alot of anxiety and sleepless nights lol
Nice recovery, in all respects.
I sense a theme here. Noble on one board and a Neptunium on the other.
Very nice.
I sense a theme here. Noble on one board and a Neptunium on the other.
Very nice.
I’ve been making and remaking my basic board for months but posting this because it’s mostly settled. A nano board with a Cioks Sol underneath, cables run leapfrog so it’s super clean and there’s no cable looptyloops begging to snag on my cases etc: Turbo Tuner > Vintage Bass Octave > Bass Compressor > Doom 2 > DCX Bass > Lowrider
I’ve been using a pile of different DI’s depending on the gig, so I stopped worrying about fitting it on the board and just have an empty slot on the Sol available to power something if it’s needed. Very pleased with this for most of my work, and I have another board of chaos if I want extra flavor available.
I’ve been using a pile of different DI’s depending on the gig, so I stopped worrying about fitting it on the board and just have an empty slot on the Sol available to power something if it’s needed. Very pleased with this for most of my work, and I have another board of chaos if I want extra flavor available.
I had the Octamizer and enjoyed the tones, but I found the tracking problematic especially using a pick. On the other hand, the Subsonic tracks significantly better. What is your experience.
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Sorry, which one tracks significantly better in your experience?
I find the tracking to be phenomenal on both compared to the couple of OC-2s I've had in the past. I'd say they're on par. That said, I've noticed that the Subsonic tracks much better when both the clean and octave are at the same level. It doesn't track as well when the clean is off. I haven't tried the Octamizer without the clean. I'll try it later.
Edit: I should add that I only play with my fingers. No pick or slap, etc.
