Hey fellow TBers.
I’ve been doing lots of research on building a super flexible, mostly guitar-centric pedal board and was originally planning on expanding my bass pedal board just a little more for some experimenting but found it’d be a waste trying to tack on ‘verb and modulation when I just don’t need it for my applications, namely church bass and fall or spring orchestra concerts when time permits. After refining my compact bass board over the years, I ended up with this:
JHS A/B (for DW Combustion 5-string and Warmoth fretless P-bass)
DG MT Infinity
SA C4
SA Lunar Phaser
And what I’ve found is thusly:
I originally wanted a great all-in-one bass solution with some drive options (that I evidently don’t use) when I really want a flexible compressor and EQ independently.
I wanted to try some pad fill-in when I’m playing without a keyboardist but don’t have the know how and often, the need to do so.
And I really wanted some Casiopea bassist phaser sounds and Rush chorus sounds when I use neither regularly.
In my research to build a guitar tone-sculpting machine with MIDI capabilities, I’m finding it would make way more sense to just sell all of this and then dial in a preset/scene for when I’m playing bass and still have the possibility to audition some bass ambience on the side. So far, I’m looking at something like this:
So, my question then is this: would I be missing anything running my bass through this (and eventually, a Torpedo C.A.B. M+) compared to my current setup? My future plans are to get a bigger board and add an HX ONE so I’d have the option of using one-off effects for whatever I want, no matter what I have plugged in. If I sell my current pedals off, I’d be able to scoop up an EQ2 and Atlas at the minimum which would cover my bass tone needs easily.
I’ve been doing lots of research on building a super flexible, mostly guitar-centric pedal board and was originally planning on expanding my bass pedal board just a little more for some experimenting but found it’d be a waste trying to tack on ‘verb and modulation when I just don’t need it for my applications, namely church bass and fall or spring orchestra concerts when time permits. After refining my compact bass board over the years, I ended up with this:
JHS A/B (for DW Combustion 5-string and Warmoth fretless P-bass)
DG MT Infinity
SA C4
SA Lunar Phaser
And what I’ve found is thusly:
I originally wanted a great all-in-one bass solution with some drive options (that I evidently don’t use) when I really want a flexible compressor and EQ independently.
I wanted to try some pad fill-in when I’m playing without a keyboardist but don’t have the know how and often, the need to do so.
And I really wanted some Casiopea bassist phaser sounds and Rush chorus sounds when I use neither regularly.
In my research to build a guitar tone-sculpting machine with MIDI capabilities, I’m finding it would make way more sense to just sell all of this and then dial in a preset/scene for when I’m playing bass and still have the possibility to audition some bass ambience on the side. So far, I’m looking at something like this:
So, my question then is this: would I be missing anything running my bass through this (and eventually, a Torpedo C.A.B. M+) compared to my current setup? My future plans are to get a bigger board and add an HX ONE so I’d have the option of using one-off effects for whatever I want, no matter what I have plugged in. If I sell my current pedals off, I’d be able to scoop up an EQ2 and Atlas at the minimum which would cover my bass tone needs easily.
