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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
- Thread starter garmenteros
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Interested to know more about how you use the Acoustic Preamp. Is that to enhance an ABG ? Or fake an upright ? Or .... ?
I have used a Boss AC-2 Acoustic Simulator with my piezo fretless StingRay with flatwounds and mutes to get a more upright-like woody tone. Around this time last year, I built my tc electronic pedalboard and used the BodyRez, but it doesn't quite work the same way as the Boss Acoustic Simulators, it's more like the AD-2 Acoustic Preamp.
The AD-2 and the Body Rez are good at subtly adding a bit of body to the piezo pickups of an acoustic/electric guitar, but for my purposes, I don't think they work as well as the AC-2 or AC-3. I will have a more final answer later this week, because I have an AC-3 coming in, as well. Somehow, I suspect the AC-3 is going to be the winner, for me.
I'd be interested to hear more once you get the AC-3. I used to have an AC-2, which I found marginally useful on one piezo/chambered bass, but I never got to try it on my Rob Allen Deep 5 (also piezo/chambered).
Big Corona out. Mini Corona in to fit Spectracomp. Very pleased with this now.
Where I'm at now—this sounds like Heaven:
My board...
Cioks dc5 located under. Still some room left but pretty easy to carry!
Cioks dc5 located under. Still some room left but pretty easy to carry!
I must say, I love the way you set up the dip switches on your board! Awesome way to make use of the routing openings!
~Nick "Klaus" G.
Signal path:
Pedaltrain with
One Control Junction box >
Either input of Korg pitchblack plus AB Box/Tuner >
Boss PH-2 Phase (for melodic fun in my original band) >
MXR Bass Distortion (for grind in my punk covers band) >
Tech 21 VT Bass (always on preamp, adds some Geddy-like grit and compression) >
Radial Stagebug Passive DI box, (thru to amp, DI to house via semi-permanently attached cable, so soundmen don't destroy the XLR pins by plugging their cables a$$backwards in the dark)
Amp: TC BH250 or BG250, with a little bit of the spectracomp toneprint running, depending on acoustics of the room.
Powered by Pedaltrain Volto underneath.
the little siliver pedal is a woolly mammoth clone. It's mostly a place holder right now. I'm probably going to put a COG Mini 66 there.
I have a conundrum for the TB community to solve - since I've gone back and forth with this quite a bit.
I play in a Chili Peppers tribute and we fly to most of our shows, so a compact board is a must. I'm on the fence about bringing what I consider expensive pedals in checked baggage...fearing loss, theft or damage - instead choosing a less expensive, possibly less good sounding board with me on travel dates.
Here's what I'd like to bring:
Here's what I think I would be okay losing on the road:
B1On would be in the LS-2 loop and cover all OD/DIST/FUZZ/ENVELOPE, and the MS-60b is my always-on limiter, high-pass filter and noise gate.
Love to hear your thoughts on travel dates.
PS - If Zoom made a B3 with an expression pedal or a B3N with expression - or the Tech21 Bass Fly Rig didn't have some issues - or a Fractal FX-8 wasn't completely overkill...I would absolutely prefer a multi solution.
I play in a Chili Peppers tribute and we fly to most of our shows, so a compact board is a must. I'm on the fence about bringing what I consider expensive pedals in checked baggage...fearing loss, theft or damage - instead choosing a less expensive, possibly less good sounding board with me on travel dates.
Here's what I'd like to bring:
Here's what I think I would be okay losing on the road:
B1On would be in the LS-2 loop and cover all OD/DIST/FUZZ/ENVELOPE, and the MS-60b is my always-on limiter, high-pass filter and noise gate.
Love to hear your thoughts on travel dates.
PS - If Zoom made a B3 with an expression pedal or a B3N with expression - or the Tech21 Bass Fly Rig didn't have some issues - or a Fractal FX-8 wasn't completely overkill...I would absolutely prefer a multi solution.
DIG the cutting board! My pedalboard up until recently was a plastic clipboard with strips of dual lock on it
Seriously, get a board big enough for your MS60b a B3n w/an expression pedal and there’s no tone you couldn’t get!
