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My pedal board is still in the building stages, but my current pedal lineup I've been using for a bit is Darkglass B7K Ultra, amazing pedal, it's almost always on -> ZVex Basstortion, only use it for heavy grind -> Boss BF-3 Flanger, for a slight chorus-y effect, like in 46 & 2 by Tool -> Amp
The foot switch for my amp has a tuner out jack that I use for my tuner
 
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BklynKen said:
Compressor is something I’ve never understood the need for. Not that I don’t like it; I just don’t totally understand them. And it saves me money. :)
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I use it because it tames my attack when getting all excited. I don't like very much of it, because it damps down the dynamics. If I mean to rip a string off the bass, I want it to sound like that. But, it can't be overpowering, which it sometimes is without a little compression. It makes for a bit more sustan. That's not a problem with a 'Bird, and it's not anything you want with the upright, because it has a tendency to feed back. Feedback and sustain are a bad combination. I don't always remember to step on the switch when I'm playing the 'Bird, and it's subtle enough that I only remember it's not on when there's some really noisy transition that usually gets tamed by the compressor. Not having one isn't much of a problem. I don't do the slappety poppety thing (mostly because I never learned how), but even if I did, I'm not sure what a compressor would do to make that work better.
 
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kat888 said:
Technically none of those is -- apart from the comp maybe -- really an effect. They are all tools: cable replacement, feedback eliminator, preamp.
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Pretty much. They are mostly tools to make the upright useable in a high volume situation and tame piezo honk when there's an impedance mismatch. And to allow me to do stupid things like spin the bass and jump and stalk around the stage without getting hopelessly bound up in a cable snarl. Wireless is my favorite habit forming substance.
 
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kat888 said:
All depends where you have your tuner.

If the amp tuner out is not footswitchable, or if there is no tuner output, then you're probably going to have your tuner inline and .... one thing leads to another.
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Next thing you know you have a dirt box, a comp, a chorus, 2 more dirt boxes…
Don't get a pedal tuner!
 
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