Sweet board -- dig how you have all rear-wired pedals in such a tight configuration.
Two Qs: Who makes the Utility Knife? And what's the blue pedal on the far right?
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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
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Sweet board -- dig how you have all rear-wired pedals in such a tight configuration.
Two Qs: Who makes the Utility Knife? And what's the blue pedal on the far right?
I believe Southampton makes the utility knife but the Broughton Audio helped out with it.
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Putting the finishing touches on my Pedaltrain Metro 16. Cioks DC5 underneath. Looks like these things are always a work in progress!!!
The Utility Knife is a joint Broughton-Southampton project, made by Southampton. Really loving it.
The blue pedal is a Southampton Ictineo, and it's basically a clone of the discontinued Zeibek Submarine Designer. Great for manipulating the low end.
The MS-60B has a decent enough tuner in it, why have a dedicated tuner? Just curious.
Also, I would bring the expensive board, lol. It looks amazing.
Dayum! Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy!
Here is my latest, Metro 20, using a OneSpot daisy chain w/o issue.
I cannot give a fair comparison. I love the MXR though. I wanted to add the Ictineo but it had a slight noise when added to my signal chain. Fine for a gig but we are working on the second album and it would not have been OK in the studio. The PO of the Ictineo reported no noise so it could have been my setup. I am in a "good place" right now with my board and bass and cab. I guess I will need to just go play now instead of shopping! Ha!
The 'dedicated tuner' is the Shure GLX wireless - which is a wireless first, tuner second.
It's a lot of fun, but could add stress and near-impossible to replace that germanium b:assmaster.
Compact DIY pedalboard for my electrorock 80's cover band. Into the case, under the pedalboard, there is space for other stuff like cables, power supplies, spare pedals etc
Greetings!
I’m looking to buy a Black bird feather board like yours to house my pedals for my Moog but I wanted how you mounted the on/off switch as well at the light? It looks awesome! I noticed a little metal plate but I really can’t see how you attached it to the board. I’m probably only gonna have about 4-5 pedals and your setup is perfect for what I’m looking to do. Did you put any 1/4” in/out jacks on the side or there not enough room? I would greatly appreciate any help!
Dennis
The aluminum plate is actually the plate that comes with the pedalboard with the Blackbird logo on it. I used a step bit to drill the holes for the switch and light, flipped the plate over and sprayed it satin black, then attached the plate with four black Phillips head screws. With everything crammed in underneath I couldn’t fit any jacks. It was a pita to get everything to fit under there. I took it apart and put it back together many, many times trying to get everything to fit. If you zoom in on the center pic in your post above you should be able to see the Phillips head screws.
Thank you for the reply! Wow good job! “Realistically” (I say that now until the pedal bug really hits! Lol) I’ll probably only need 4 pedals. I’m gonna take my time and order all the parts to build it within the next couple of weeks and I’ll post some pics. I’m gonna try my best to get 1/4” jacks in there. It is pretty tight based on your pic but since I’ll just have the power supply underneath without the relay, I think that might give me the extra space I need. Will keep everyone posted. Thank a million!
Welp, I have an audition tomorrow for the first time in awhile and this is what I’ve got on the board right now (Gator aluminum small size, about 16x8?)
The green one is a Bass Synth Wah - I got it with the wrong footplate (previous owner says the original had broken a tab so he put the plate from a different digitech on it) so I cut the paint back to the bare metal and gave it a wire brush treatment. Might leave it, might repaint, dunno yet if I’m even keeping it. Zip tie on the polytune keeps it from rolling to the side, zip tie on the multicomp is because it has foam on the bottom which I doubt holds velcro too well.
The B:Assmaster is an old one and the ass volume knob is loose on its pot shaft (LOL); it’s #22 and was autographed by Paul Barker inside, to someone named Steve.
Anyways, I may not need any of the bottom row of ‘effecty’ effects, the top row is the utility stuff that generates the tone. I am enjoying the Multicomp (new to me) and the BDDIv2 is the entire preamp, bypasssing the pre on my Rumble and running straight into the FX loop. Nice and fat.
One thing that is baffling me though is that, unlike running through the rumble’s preamp, this rig makes my Jazz type bass sound more authoritative and powerful than the P. All good but unusual for these two basses.
The green one is a Bass Synth Wah - I got it with the wrong footplate (previous owner says the original had broken a tab so he put the plate from a different digitech on it) so I cut the paint back to the bare metal and gave it a wire brush treatment. Might leave it, might repaint, dunno yet if I’m even keeping it. Zip tie on the polytune keeps it from rolling to the side, zip tie on the multicomp is because it has foam on the bottom which I doubt holds velcro too well.
The B:Assmaster is an old one and the ass volume knob is loose on its pot shaft (LOL); it’s #22 and was autographed by Paul Barker inside, to someone named Steve.
Anyways, I may not need any of the bottom row of ‘effecty’ effects, the top row is the utility stuff that generates the tone. I am enjoying the Multicomp (new to me) and the BDDIv2 is the entire preamp, bypasssing the pre on my Rumble and running straight into the FX loop. Nice and fat.
One thing that is baffling me though is that, unlike running through the rumble’s preamp, this rig makes my Jazz type bass sound more authoritative and powerful than the P. All good but unusual for these two basses.
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Here's my current gigging rig - pretty straightforward. PolyTune > Tsar Bomba (Russian Bigmuff clone) and a DI for when the sound guy inevitably hands me the duct tape covered monstrosity and say "plug into my DI."
Playing through an SVT head and SVT 810 cab, so tone is on point.
After 6 months off, coming back with fresh ears, my compact pedalboard is done. Tone comes from the board. Bass head is generally in the flat area. The Gator pedalboard/bag sits on top of the rig with everything I need. No need to touch any pedals, except for tune/mute.
My present pedalboard setup. The new Boss Bass Comp and Bass Driver, and the Boss Noise Suppressor to keep my Jazz Bass 60-cycle hum at bay, and to mute everything between sets. Works perfectly for playing with our Tom Petty tribute band. I keep the board on top of my amp so it's easier for me to reach. The pedals are on all the time, so all I need to do is tweak the amount of grit I need, and to mute.
I do the same thing. Put the board on my amp and switch and adjust by hand if need be.
