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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
- Thread starter garmenteros
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Beautiful board. How’s that walrus 385 on bass? I see you’ve got the bass knob cranked. Do you feel it still retains low end well? I’ve been using the odr1 for a little while and enjoy it but always interested in other ODs
Thanks! Don't pay too much attention to the knobs as they got bumped and moved when re-adjusting the board. However, I did feel like I had to boost the bass quite a bit and cut the treble a little to get it sounding best for me. It's a fairly new pedal for me, but I did a quick comparison between a couple of the drives I had and overall I preferred the sound, feel, and functionality of the 385.
Yeah. I got an HX one a while back to try out some different effects to see directionally what I liked and didn’t like. There was a setting on there called “prize drive” which essentially is the ODR-1 simulation.
I believe the ODR-1 had complaints from guitar players that it was “bass heavy” so they added a “bass cut” switch but left it adjustable. I think it holds it quite well. I picked one up for $75 so I figured I’d give it a whirl and I’ve enjoyed it!
The 385 has me interested. I've really backed off buying drives, but the 385 would be able to replace my drive & boost and open up a slot on the board for something else. I don't use the dirty boost that often but it makes the difference in just a couple situations.
One of those drives you compared against wouldn't happen to be the DCX bass would it?
Here is tomorrow’s board for amp gig. Don’t need preamp DI as the Ampeg has a great DI.
Taking a spare bass tuned down 1/2 step. We’ll see if it’s faster for me to switch basses or just manually tune down.
Taking a spare bass tuned down 1/2 step. We’ll see if it’s faster for me to switch basses or just manually tune down.
Well, you certainly squeezed every inch out of that board! Not square inch of real estate wasted. Do you by chance build houses out here in L.A.? I see a lot of your past work here.
I decided five boards is too many and the mini boards weren’t really doing it for me. A friend has the Ghostfire Baby Max, 27” single row with 9 pedals on it. I said, that’s the ticket. I started with 14 pedals and 9 survived on this amazing board. Everything plays with everything else. Ghostfire isolated power supply around back.
R to L: SpectraComp, Bass Synth, Double Dragon, Spatial Delivery, Special Cranker, Rotary Chorus, Phase Shifter, Carbon Copy, Canyon.
Pedals I sold: Pulp N Peel, Gary, Big Muff 2, 3 Series Oil Can delay, Dynamic Wah.
R to L: SpectraComp, Bass Synth, Double Dragon, Spatial Delivery, Special Cranker, Rotary Chorus, Phase Shifter, Carbon Copy, Canyon.
Pedals I sold: Pulp N Peel, Gary, Big Muff 2, 3 Series Oil Can delay, Dynamic Wah.
Updated and enlarged board. Nano with a Sol underneath.
I added the Neptunium because I wanted to compare it with the Finally v2. It's probably not necessary to have two tube preamp/DIs, but it balances the board nicely.
The second Tonex One, in stomp mode with the Polar Plus to switch between presets, has been a lot of fun. I'm mostly using it for drive (Klon capture, usually on), chorus (built-in FX), or distortion (Darkglass capture).
Signal path:
Empress Bass Compressor => Finally v2 => Tonex One (Stomp Mode, controlled by Polar Plus) => Splitter => Tonex One (Amp Mode) => Neptunium.
Outputs:
Finally v2, XLR dry signal to mixer/DAW.
Splitter, TS post stomp signal to amp.
Neptunium, XLR wet (post stomp and amp sim) to mixer/DAW.
I added the Neptunium because I wanted to compare it with the Finally v2. It's probably not necessary to have two tube preamp/DIs, but it balances the board nicely.
The second Tonex One, in stomp mode with the Polar Plus to switch between presets, has been a lot of fun. I'm mostly using it for drive (Klon capture, usually on), chorus (built-in FX), or distortion (Darkglass capture).
Signal path:
Empress Bass Compressor => Finally v2 => Tonex One (Stomp Mode, controlled by Polar Plus) => Splitter => Tonex One (Amp Mode) => Neptunium.
Outputs:
Finally v2, XLR dry signal to mixer/DAW.
Splitter, TS post stomp signal to amp.
Neptunium, XLR wet (post stomp and amp sim) to mixer/DAW.
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As promised earlier, the larger version - not so compact anymore. My typical always-on setup that’s usually on a Nano or Nano+ runs across the top. The bottom row is the area currently being used for experimenting and changing things out until the songs “tell” me which sounds they want. Then, hopefully, solidification.
As far as practical usage at rehearsal, the envelope filter worked well as expected for Shakedown Street, going to put the Xerograph on instead for next rehearsal and compare. Chorus came in handy during some of the more delicate passages in a couple ballads, and during a jam the delay came out for a bit. I tried the octave during Fire on the Mountain (during between-verse improv bits) but the 3Leaf unit is a bit boxy and synthetic for what I’m trying to get - going to play around with that spot, maybe the Aguilar, with its more organic sound.
Side note: got a Shure wireless on the way to replace the Xvive. Gotta love an upgrade.
As far as practical usage at rehearsal, the envelope filter worked well as expected for Shakedown Street, going to put the Xerograph on instead for next rehearsal and compare. Chorus came in handy during some of the more delicate passages in a couple ballads, and during a jam the delay came out for a bit. I tried the octave during Fire on the Mountain (during between-verse improv bits) but the 3Leaf unit is a bit boxy and synthetic for what I’m trying to get - going to play around with that spot, maybe the Aguilar, with its more organic sound.
Side note: got a Shure wireless on the way to replace the Xvive. Gotta love an upgrade.
I find the MXR BOD is the most organic of the octaver, just a consideration but I guess the Aguilar has those top jacks
I just bought a chrorus (Providence Anadime Bass)...and plan to place in front of my Nobels ODR overdrive...
Made a few changes, so here's the current setup
Recently got the Finally V3. I just bought it as the deal was too good to let go.
I used to own and love the A -Designs REDDI for years but I foollishly sold it a few years, thinking I'd never record in a decent studio again.
I was wrong!!.
Back to the Finally: I did not think much about it but I was pleasantly surprised with its tone. It has some of that warm mid forwardness of the REDDI. It is not quite there, but rather close. It frames the sound of my basses going through my pedalboard nicely, even without using the switchable HPF (the static 30hz HPF being always on)
I used to own and love the A -Designs REDDI for years but I foollishly sold it a few years, thinking I'd never record in a decent studio again.
I was wrong!!.
Back to the Finally: I did not think much about it but I was pleasantly surprised with its tone. It has some of that warm mid forwardness of the REDDI. It is not quite there, but rather close. It frames the sound of my basses going through my pedalboard nicely, even without using the switchable HPF (the static 30hz HPF being always on)
What are you powering this with?
I had this tuner and the Bass Jive on a board powered with a Cioks 4 and i just constantly had noise and i couldn't work out why.
I assume you've had no issues?
