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Worship Bass Pedalboards
- Thread starter Cshanks5
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In the past, I have used an Echoplex for just a touch of slapback delay, just to make it sound more "live room" like the mains bouncing off stadium bleachers. And I've used reverb (Afterneath) for intros and ambience to simulate keys playing pads, on weeks we have a tiny team and there's no one else to do it. Both with excellent results.
Just tore all the nasty Velcro off my board (and all the cat hair that was stuck to it!) last night, and replaced with Dual Lock. Love it!
Alright TB brethren, I'm wanting to start a smaller pedal board and need help and suggestions. I currently have a RNDI, Polytune Pedal Tuner, Line 6 G30 and Spectracomp Compressor. What would be a good pedal board that would be neat and have built in hidden power? I'm a complete newbie to this stuff.
jacoby75
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I recently decided to downsize and wanted a smaller board. I didn't have much money to spend, but knew that I wanted a hard case. I picked up a Rockboard Duo. I think it's the 2.1. I'm very happy with it. It's fantastic. And it was only $99 new. I had a coupon of some kind when I bought it, so it was like $85. No built in power, but I use a one spot and Eden flat patch cables, and it works great. There is a spot underneath where I think you can mount a power supply, but I haven't tried.
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Gator small aluminum board!
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I use the Rockboard Quad 4.1. They are some of the best made boards out there! I also have the MOD 1 patch bay installed and I have it maxed out for what I use it for. Good choice!
It's getting to where I'm using everything on my board now, all the time, as we've lost a full time LG and our KB player is kinda limited my signal is PolyTune-M87 Compressor-TC Corona Chorus- TC Hall of Fame- TC Delay - Tech 21 VTDI (set to SVT for the most part). I'm mostly playing fretless but even on fretted I will tone down to very minimal delay and already pretty light reverb and chorus. I had I kinda negative comment from a 77 year old trumpeteer last weekend(3 days of music at almost 9 or so hours of playing) who said he loved what I was playing but wasn't a fan of the "modern sound" with effects. He caught an almost 4 hour long set of fretted 6 for the first hour and a half, and then I switched to the PentaBuzz. Everyone else was super positive. I did find I needed to boost my highs as our FOH now has 2 blown mids that need to be replaced, so my top end gets lost some.
jacoby75
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I was very pleasantly surprised. The board is perfect for my needs. And the case is surprisingly heavy duty for the price. It doesn't have the huge twist latches like the ATA Pedaltrain stuff, but I'm not flying anywhere . . . ever. It will suit my purposes just fine.
Here's mine, a nice compact setup. Absolutely love the Cali76 CB compressor, the 'dry' knob really makes it. The Tone Hammer let's me add a bit of hair to our direct-to-desk setup, and the Aftershock lets me dial in some subtle overdrive - and indeed, much more, but want to stick with its softer drive sounds for now. Now I just have to stop GASing and do more practicing!
Nice!! The Source Audio stuff is so versatile! I've not seen that MultiDrive SB2 pedal. I've got 6 of their pedals on my big board that I haven't taken to church in a long time as it's on a PT-3 with their ATA case which has wheels. But, I still don't like schlepping it around and my little board is pretty much perfect for me right now.
I'm in the process of re-do'ing my board for a split signal setup. This is kinda where it is right now, but probably not where it will stay. I think I'd like to try to replace the Nimbus/Darkglass with a Bass Microsynth, I think it should fit.
The signal path runs TU3w->RNDI that's under the board, the XLR out goes to the XLR passthrough on the Rockboard 3.1 module, so that it's easy to connect up, then the Through goes back to the signal chain->Diamond Comp->Cali Comp->TS9DX->Microtubes->Nimbus->Boss Volume->Noble. (Diamond comp is for passive Fenders, Cali is for my Active Musicman, I have them both so I don't have to switch on the board when I switch basses). Everything is powered via the Noble.
The idea is to get a pretty clean tone to the RDNI. The sound guy can then blend it into the dirty tone if he wants. I can also bring the dirty tone down with the volume, just leaving the clean tone. The one weird thing is the volume pedal can't do swells if the clean tone is blended because the clean comes out of the chain before it. I don't know how I feel about that yet. I'm also debating whether the RNDI should be pre or post compression. My gut says pre, but I can also see an argument for post.
The signal path runs TU3w->RNDI that's under the board, the XLR out goes to the XLR passthrough on the Rockboard 3.1 module, so that it's easy to connect up, then the Through goes back to the signal chain->Diamond Comp->Cali Comp->TS9DX->Microtubes->Nimbus->Boss Volume->Noble. (Diamond comp is for passive Fenders, Cali is for my Active Musicman, I have them both so I don't have to switch on the board when I switch basses). Everything is powered via the Noble.
The idea is to get a pretty clean tone to the RDNI. The sound guy can then blend it into the dirty tone if he wants. I can also bring the dirty tone down with the volume, just leaving the clean tone. The one weird thing is the volume pedal can't do swells if the clean tone is blended because the clean comes out of the chain before it. I don't know how I feel about that yet. I'm also debating whether the RNDI should be pre or post compression. My gut says pre, but I can also see an argument for post.
@JoshC
How do you like your RNDI? I have do to arrive today to use for the house signal at our church. I'll use my Genzler Stack for the stage volume. Heard good things on the RNDI.
How do you like your RNDI? I have do to arrive today to use for the house signal at our church. I'll use my Genzler Stack for the stage volume. Heard good things on the RNDI.
I haven't used it live yet, just at home, I'll maybe try it this Sunday if I like where the board is sitting. Sounds real nice though. Has kinda a similar pleasant harmonic vibe that the Noble does without the EQ. Makes fret noise sound nice, more coloration then my JDI, but it's desirable coloration imo. For the price it seems like a real quality bass DI on par with anything else if you can get your EQ needs met elsewhere.
@JoshC
How have you found the TU-3w? Any noticeable improvement over a standard TU-3? Given I have my comp up front I like the option of true bypass, but given that my board only consists of 3 pedals I don't think it would actually make any noticeable difference for me!
How have you found the TU-3w? Any noticeable improvement over a standard TU-3? Given I have my comp up front I like the option of true bypass, but given that my board only consists of 3 pedals I don't think it would actually make any noticeable difference for me!
I've never owned the normal TU-3. This one has a real nice buffer though. Maybe it's my ears tricking me, but I prefer the buffer sound from this one over the other buffers I have, other Boss pedals included. I like the TU3W, tuning is fast and easy, it's bright, not a whole lot else to say, I never use it in True Bypass mode, always buffer.
What do you think of the kliq? I love mine, I've heard they are great with support if you have any issues...
