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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
- Thread starter garmenteros
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If the power supply on my bass board could handle it, I would move my HX one from my Guitar DI board to it in minute.
I was a little concerned at first but I got a cheap MXR iso brick mini brick that has 4 - 300ma outputs and 1 800ma which can power the one.
Pretty happy with this fuzz/octave/wah module. Not a section I use very often, but super fun to play around with.
Here's my updated minimal board. I don't use any effects that I turn on/off, I just send one good tone to FOH. I just got the Sadowsky pre so now I have two flavors of pre, or, the RC after the Sadowsky is super cool sounding with the Gain up high(got that idea from Michael Rhodes, RIP). Makes it a little less polite if needed. I have a Sadowsky bass incoming so the outboard pre will be handy if that bass' battery ever dies. Otherwise, it all kills on my various passive basses.
I’ve gone to as compact as I possibly can.
My “amp” is a GRBass AT 110 ACT. If I need a DI for FOH, I take it from the GR.
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Gonna play this out tomorrow.
Custom, one of a kind!
I keep wondering about the Caveman. Tell us more.....
It’s pretty new to me - first time playing it with a band tomorrow night at rehearsal. So it’s largely untested at this point. I put this board together because for this group I’m looking for just one solid clean tone - an always-on board I don’t have to mess with (although my boards change week to week so we’ll see). So far I’ve played the Caveman through headphones, and it sounds really incredible. It’s very similar to the PC-2A and Edison, in that if you like the one thing it does, then you’re golden. But they each pretty much do one thing - very, very little tweak ability, obviously, judging by the… ahem… “control layout”. With the others in the Caveman loop, it all makes a very cohesive unit, at least to my ears. I find the roll-off in the lowest lows that happens with the Edison is nicely balanced with the Caveman’s low-mid bump. I will report back after using it with a band.
Yesterday, on a whim, I traded my Hartman Analog Flanger for a new Strymon EC-1. Fickle is the pedal lover!Although I'm a BBD delay aficionado, I am not a purist. Brig does such a good job that whatever, man. And no headaches.
Today I did an extensive A/B comparison of Brig and EC-1. Not to see if one was better, but to learn their differences and similarities, and to see if I preferred one in this pedalboard.
They derive from a template for Strymon to design delay pedals (or any pedals, really) of this generation, I found. Each has special powers, is quite playable and useful, and is as authentic an emulation of the originals as you could wish for. Brig has a more narrow focus. EC-1 has a higher "no headaches" factor than Brig (I mean, no tape to replace, first of all).
Both are excellent with bass. I decided to let them take turns in the spot, and that it was EC-1's turn now.
Did a couple of cool updates…
Catalinbread Bicycle is freakin’ wild. Out of control. With the Bass Synth going in and more delay behind it, this board does doom!
On the 20” board, the Monger IPA Overdrive was cutting low end too much so I replaced it with a used/mint red Blumes. Overdrive on this board is just a bonus because it’s all about octave-fuzz-phaser and then into outer space with the Echo Shifter, but Blumes is just the best.
I’m real happy with both of these, and the other three.
And hey, check that out… post #11,000!
Catalinbread Bicycle is freakin’ wild. Out of control. With the Bass Synth going in and more delay behind it, this board does doom!
On the 20” board, the Monger IPA Overdrive was cutting low end too much so I replaced it with a used/mint red Blumes. Overdrive on this board is just a bonus because it’s all about octave-fuzz-phaser and then into outer space with the Echo Shifter, but Blumes is just the best.
I’m real happy with both of these, and the other three.
And hey, check that out… post #11,000!
