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Ultimate Metal Pedal Board

#21
demonmalfas said:
My metal pedals are:
MXR bass compressor.
B7K

And now I'm buying the Big Muff bass deluxe...
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I've got a similar rig, but with the B3K. Can't say I liked the Big Bass Muff Deluxe; however, YMMV etc. I prefer the MXR Bass Fuzz Deluxe for my fuzz needs, and have taken my Muff off the board. Maybe it'll return, maybe it won't. What I use now, is the GK Diesel Dawg. Love that going into my B3K. A little-used pedal around here, but it's great. Only drawback is its size. Got mine rehoused to be manageable, and voila! Amazing. Also cheaper than the Muff Deluxe on GK's website. Anyway, I'm done ranting. For now.
 
#22
Big Muff, Morley Power Wah Boost/Fuzz(Depends on song and my mood), Behringer CS400 Compressor, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer. I add some pedals for more prog style songs like the digitech bass synth wah and i take off the compressor and wah for example, I almost always use the Big Muff no matter what.:bassist:
 
#24
My board:
MXR Bass Compressor
GK Diesel Dawg
MXR Bass Overdrive
MXR Bass Fuzz Deluxe
B3K
MXR Smartgate (Borrowing a friend's, getting one soon!)

I've got all the dirt on relatively low distortion, with the Dawg basically giving everything a bit of a smoky flavor for the OD and Fuzz to work on. I can crank them all on, and it's pretty quiet surprisingly. Basically, I've got them each tailored for a specific part of my signal. Dawg does a bit of everything, OD for the mids, Fuzz for the highs, and B3K for a tube like growl and rounding off of the harshness of the other pedals. And, should I ever need all of them on at once, the Smartgate keeps it whisper quiet while not playing. Gets me a tone I can't stop loving out of my GK rigs.
 
#26
Snakeman1066 said:
Depends on what kind of metal we are talking about here......lol you have to be a tad more specific...lol

Thrash or Speed i would want a bright articulate clean sound with just a hint of bite..no need for heavy overdrive or fuzz as it would just get lost competing with down tuned 7 string guitars..lol

i currently play in a three piece outfit (power-trio) that if you can possibly imagine this sounds like Iron Maiden, Sabbath, and Rush had a love child...sort of a Stoner/Doom/Progressive Sludge...

for that i use....(see below)

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but i also split my signal into two amps and two cabs...one amp and cab stay clean except for things like chorus, flange, delay, wah, and phaser...

the other head and cab get all the dirt...and i have two distinct dirt channels (as i pretend to be a rhythm guitard player during solos with the help of the octave up)...

two separate dirt channels with different voicings, as my guitard player favors a Mesa TRIPLE rectifier...which also has two dirt channels (with that many options i don't get lost in the mix)
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True
There are MANY versions of Metal. But I think the tone of the bass in those genres are pretty consistent. What I mean IMHO , is that most players want the crunch with clarity to cut through with guitarist who turn down or have 7 and or 8 string guitars.

Or, in your case its a three piece band and you're looking to fill space ( sonically) when the guitarist takes a solo .

As far as your rig? It's awesome! I am sure you cover a lot of space.

Could you please show the signal flow on your board?
 
#27
For now the only one that has become a must for me is the Darkglass B7K. I am still pondering whether the others really add what I am looking for, i.e. Darkglass VMT, MXR Compressor.

The metal "style" is something like Metallica combined with Deep Purple with relatively clean bass. So not everyone's metal. :)

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#28
hosebass said:
Just put up my Empress MultiDrive to sell and fund a B7K
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Yeah buddy!! Its about time!! haha.

I think the B7K and or the B3K is a great place to start for a metal board. I have to say the ODB3 as well, but it has to be running through the B7K with the blend anywhere from noon and up. Smooth grind city right there. I also think a some type of bass wah and maybe a volume pedal too. Definitely need an octave, probably the OC2 is what I would go with. Then there is fuzz. Im not a huge fuzz know how guy but I think a "wall of sound" type fuzz would suffice, maybe the el grande by MXR, Ive heard those are crazy. From what Ive heard the TA fuzz machine would be a good one too. I have a bass bloom and an MXR el grande on the way and I have heard that the bass bloom is a very versatile pedal so I cant wait to use that one. And some type of boost pedal like the MXR micro amp for when the guitarist goes into lead work or a solo. Im forgetting something Im sure.
 
#29
bjelkeman said:
For now the only one that has become a must for me is the Darkglass B7K. I am still pondering whether the others really add what I am looking for, i.e. Darkglass VMT, MXR Compressor.

The metal "style" is something like Metallica combined with Deep Purple with relatively clean bass. So not everyone's metal. :)

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This right here is my idea of a perfect board. Its compact, neat and hits the essentials of great tone without wasted filler. IMO of course. I love my Boss Cs-2 comp. But im very interested in trying something more bass specific. Plus, I need a buffer, and everything else is true bypass. Great board though. Cheers.
 
#30
As I was thinking about this, I realized that I have basically everything a metal bassist would need. Dwarfcraft ECT, Tall Font Russian, B7K, Verellen MS pre, and Fuzzrocious Demon. Perhaps I would add a Rusty Box. I would also pick up a Warwick 6er with the bubinga and wenge. There is something about that bass that fits metal brilliantly.
 
#31
franksgbass said:
This right here is my idea of a perfect board. Its compact, neat and hits the essentials of great tone without wasted filler. IMO of course. I love my Boss Cs-2 comp. But im very interested in trying something more bass specific. Plus, I need a buffer, and everything else is true bypass. Great board though. Cheers.
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Thanks frankgsbass. I am considering swapping the MXR comp for something which isn't quite as clean. We're planning a compressor metup soon with a bunch of bass players where I live to compare notes. Bass nerd heaven. :)
 
#34
In-line

Line6 x2 wireless
Boss tu-2
Bbe opto stomp for normal comp.
Mxr deluxe bass fuzz
Mxr analog chorus
Boss bf3
Ibanez wd7 (weeping demon)
Mxr m80 (cleans always on) and di. And added dirt.
Boss lmb3 for slapping' metal.
ISP decimator.


In efx loop w/ 100% blendable wet/dry blend knob.

Ehx analog mltifx tone tattoo. (Metal muff, small clone, memory toy)

Getting the tone tattoo, bbe stomp and mxr fuzz in the future. Everything else I already have... :) I live my board. I also wanna get my ampeg svt610hlf and hartke ha5500 back to run all my effects and use my current ha3500 and 2 svt15e rig for good clean lows.
 
#36
Gonna solder up some clones for drive stacking experiments (I still need a heavy/non-fuzz distortion sound). The B3K gets me all the grind I could ask for, I just need... more anger from the twanger (what I sometimes call my Thumb bass).

Still, this set up gets all kinds of metal, I'm parallel blending the two fuzz pedals, so I can do a Black Sabbath/Master of Reality -slash- Electric Wizard face melting kinda thing. Still want to through a Triple Wreck and Megalith into that mess though.

I play fast, so I still need to articulate my notes better than the fuzzes allow at high speed. Which is why I'm drive/stack experimenting.

Anyway... Thumb Bass 5 string > vvv-this board-vvv > Mesa M9 = METAL!!!
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