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Worship Bass Pedalboards
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Praise report - Red Witch Zeus - (no a big fan of the name, but...) best OC-2 clone I've tried. To my ears, exactly the same - even more so that the 3Leaf. Perfect in the mix, perfect level, tracking is outstanding too! Way, way better than the OC-2 itself for tracking, even did long notes that faded to practically nothing, on my least resonant bass. I should say, on my bass with the least sustain (short scale, TI flats). My vetting process is pretty rigorous but this passed with flying colors. The only reason I needed an alternative to the OC-2 was because it introduced noise, even when bypassed. BTW, it also has a fuzz side, with a pretty extreme gate. I honestly don't have a use for it, so technically its taking up space. Now I just need a sweet sticker to cover up the wiccan and pagan stuff!
Praise report - Wren & Cuff Gold Comp. I do like it very much. The input gain to the Germanium transistors is super sensitive, otherwise it goes into a really live and mid over-driven crunch, and it's a tad more agro than I'm used to, but it's very similar to an overdriven Jamerson tone where the peaks are slamming the studio comp into distortion. So, if you want a sweet, mellow tone you need to gain it up and play with a light touch. Which, happens to suit my needs perfectly. I set the comp on medium, and drew out the release time for max sustain, and the volume is set so it overdrives if I dig in but my usual playing level is not. It adds a mid of mid snarl, kinda like a wah pedal when engaged but in open or almost open position. Great for harmonics. Adds thickness to the low end, at least it does through my Noble when compared on/off.
(EDIT forgot to mention, seems like there is no input gain? And no internal trim as far as I can tell, can't really confirm. But, I got just as much distortion regardless of the volume, which seems to be output level only. Hence, light touch means turn the volume up or you'll be fighting the distortion threshold to be heard in the mix)
Basically, you need to be cool with raising your signal level to make this pedal work, in my limited one-day of using, but it's worth it in tone, and also happens to suit my needs here as well. Downstream, I have:
-Red Witch Zeus OC-2 clone - which benefits from being slammed with a strong but even signal, and I currently get very long sustain and tracking with (even with 30" bass w/ old flats)
-VMT which formerly was always on and subtle like a flip top, now used as a crunchier overdrive / boost for louder sections, also major benefits from getting slammed by Gold Comp
-pattern here, the Meatbox just eats up a strong, even signal, to put it mildly heh heh. I get those movie theater style thunder rumbles.
-OCSD, the pedal that needs no introduction here! It is adding lows favoring towards sealed 8x10, and snarly midrange punctuation. It gets me a bright enough tone for rock with flats, and still gets me straight to Motown when I roll the tone off. Ditto for Gary Willis palm muted stuff. It's got it's own little overdriven mids thing going on too, like the coloration from an old Boss CS-2
-Noble DI, which loves strong signals, in fact that's where the magic in this box comes from...
-last, I used the Butt Kicker again today, in order to push the limits on just how long I can get my synth tones to sustain. I could probably get infinite if I touched my bass to the platform
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Next time around try starting with the VPF and VLE all the way off (completely ccw) to start flat and go on from there. Having them both that high has them working against each other. You are simultaneously boosting and cutting highs, along with the VPF also boosting the low end pretty far.
Black Friday sales have altered my board a ton, but I am a fan of these cheaper TC Electronic Pedals. The 3d Dimension is knocking off the EHX Bass Clone, which many consider the holy grail but I have always found to be too subtle even with extreme settings. Still weighing the idea of a cab sim, but I do not have much room to work with; I wish the overdrives on the Spectradrive were more usable, as it could knock out either the rusty fuzz or black haze, but no such luck.
I know this doesn't qualify as a pedalboard, but here is my humble setup. This was my first Sunday playing with the OVNIFX Smoothie (up until now I've been borrowing the guitarist's Boss CS-3 because I didn't have a compressor of my own). I grabbed the "Suave" version from Reverb this past week and ran with the settings that @bongomania suggested in the manual. The other musicians asked which pedal I'm using, and when I said it's call the "Smoothie" they laughed and said, "Well, that makes sense. It's smooth alright. It sounds great!"
It's all the pedalboard you need.
Here's mine:
Here's mine:
"Need" is a strangely flexible word.
Adamixoye
A PT Pro is cool for worship, right?
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And in this case, a quite debatable one
I'm not sure when the next time I will be able to play for worship will be, but this will be coming with me when I do!
I could be wrong, but you like Broughton gear?
Damn, that's a sexy board!
Lol, Ya I like the pedals he makes! I've really started to geek out on pedals and tone-shaping since I started running sound. I've learned a lot about eq and how much you can really control to make tone better. I wouldn't call everything a neccesity, but I have enjoyed exploring this stuff!
Just added the OmniCabSim Deluxe to my worship board for the first time on Sunday. Got the most compliments yet on tone, and not just from the 3 other bass players in the congregation, running my Dingwall NG2 fiver into FOH/monitors only: Diamond Comp-Corona Chorus (Marlowe DK preset)-LeBass-Omnicab on Big 810 setting.
The hush is a noise reduction circuit. I prefer it over a noise gate. I'm not great at explaining that one though. I should really do some more research on how it works so I can explain it.
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Finally had some time to finish ocd wiring up my pb today (LEDs purchased from Temple Audio)... Velcro'd the light controller underneath, so I wouldn't lose it.View attachment 3203439View attachment 3203437 View attachment 3203438
Wow. I need to tidy up my board!
