New little board I put together... I really put it to for my band but decided to use it at church this morning ...
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Worship Bass Pedalboards
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New little board I put together... I really put it to for my band but decided to use it at church this morning ...
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On my pedalboard this morning - TCE Polytune Noir tuner, and a Radial Stagebug SB-1 to the house. Sorry I forgot the obligatory pic 
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I would have went with the clip on tuner and just packed the Stagebug in my bass case, but couldn't find it. I know it's around here somewhere as I was using it earlier this week.
Passion - Bigger Than I Thought
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
Crowder - How He Loves
.I would have went with the clip on tuner and just packed the Stagebug in my bass case, but couldn't find it. I know it's around here somewhere as I was using it earlier this week.
Passion - Bigger Than I Thought
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
Crowder - How He Loves
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This weekend setup. The Cusack was just along for the ride. It didn't get used. I was messing with it and didn't take off board. Just tuner comp and TH. And a well loved P bass
Hi guys, here's part 2 in my new 3-part series called SOUNDS BEHIND THE RECORD where I talk about all the bass sounds on the album Pursuits in 1ife. There's Boss ES-8, H9, Mobius from Strymon, Zeus and Titan from Red Witch, B7K from Darkglass, Cali76 CB from Origin Effects and so on
Have seen quite a few of the H+LPFs in this thread. That light is SUPER bright. Wanted to share that I "fixed" mine with a little square of blue painter's tape (masking tape). Now it looks just like a light of normal brightness and is blue. Seems to be holding up. I've had it on there for a month now with no ill effects that I can tell. If you find that your H+LPF light is too bright, maybe this will help you. Beats what I was originally thinking , which was to take apart the pedal and solder in a resistor to dim the light down, which would have worked too I guess...
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I debated on where to post this and landed here. This is about a worship bass pedal board, but not quite in the typical terms. It's for church, but it's for an upright, and there aren't any effects. I guess it's more about the package. NYC Pedalboards is just the best. This is one of the smallest and carries the name Lunch Box. While slightly larger than my previous lunch boxes, it is quite a tiny board in comparison to its predecessors. I highly recommend NYC Pedalboards for quality and service. OK... here are a few photos.
Very cool! Great looking boots too!
What kind of tuner pedal is that if you dont mind me asking? I like the display.
Best wishes,
Brent
I haven't tried the deluxe, but I use a Beta as an always-on pedal with the gain down to the point that it just starts to break up when you dig in. I go ampless regularly. It's got the Motown vibe baked in, so that's gotta be what you want if you go that route. I use it regularly with P and J basses, but I don't use it with my G&L L-series as they're too hot of a signal that I can't dial the drive out. So the newer ones with the switchable drive circuit (including the deluxe) intrigue me. Not sure I'd really use the boost side on the deluxe, but maybe I'm just saying that because I don't have one available to me now.
I had the super drive, but I sold it. I loved the gain on it, just not the baked in cut. The DLX sounds like it has more mids and upper, but its always the same guy with the same flats playing the same things. So its a little hard to tell. The demos lead me to believe I can get what I am looking for with this one. I have the LM308 as well, but its just a bit too much "drive" I like it though.
Very cool! Great looking boots too!
What kind of tuner pedal is that if you dont mind me asking? I like the display.
Best wishes,
Brent
It's the kliq, it tunes pretty good and is easy to read but the switch can be a little finicky... for $25 I can't complain though.
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No, but I have tried countless others. After a few years now of searching for the right combination for my ampless board, the key for me is it has to have a blend knob to blend in the clean signal, and you need a speaker sim of some kind to cut out the harshness. I've tried a bunch that didn't have a blend and felt that the drive took the signal over way too much to where it was nothing but fart-city (nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there). Of course, which pedal you settle on depends on what kind of drive you want and what kind of "baked in" tone you do or don't want, because most of them have one. And the "right" overdrive is an incredibly personal and subjective thing.
I know you didn't ask for other recommendations, so I'm hesitant to give one. Because if I do (or even if I don't) others might, and this will get off-topic and out of hand in a hurry. But here we go. Proceed at your own risk:
I used an OCSD for a bit and loved it. But I felt with my passive basses I still needed a preamp pedal before it for gain and EQ capabilities. I primarily use a compact pedalboard where space is critical. When it came time to raise some cash to fund other purchases, I sold it. I settled on (among other things) a Tech21 VTBassDI at the end of my chain. Set to clean, or maybe very . . . VERY . . . little breakup when you dig in. If I want any kind of drive at all, I use my MXR M80+ DI before the VTBassDI. I realize it's a 2-channel preamp/direct box, and a DI running into a DI, but it makes for a fantastic 1-channel distortion pedal. You can blend in as much or as little of the gain as you want, it has a gate for the noise, and a 3-band EQ. I can get just a little "hair," all of the way up to full-on grind. And the distortion does not color your tone (unless you EQ it to). When the drive channel is engaged, it does cut the mids, but if you boost them back with the EQ, you don't notice. Of course, cut them back again with the EQ and it sounds a little more vintage and "ampeg-ish." The combination with the Tech21 is awesome. So if you have a bass (bass) tone you're happy with and want to just add some drive to it, it's worth trying. If you want the baked-in Motown thing, the Solid Gold is probably a good choice, but ampless I would be afraid to try it without a blending pedal. But I can also get that with the VtBassDI.
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I had the VTDI first. Traded for the deluxe but didn't like the drive on the deluxe. Sounded different. I then tried regular BDDI, didn't like that it made all my different bass sound the same. I want my pb63 to sound like a 63. So I traded the deluxe for tone hammer. I love the tone hammer. And I love the sound of the gain on it. Its just its on all the time because of volume boost. The super drive sounded good but it just was to motown for me. I wanted to keep that woody sound of my different p bass I use. Tried agro, too agro. Tried pork loin just wasn't there. Tried that jhs morning glory but to thin. I like the Lm308 but it's just a little to distorted. I wouldn't mind trying a MKll beta or the dlx.
Guess I wish I could just roll the svt in every time
I had the VTDI first. Traded for the deluxe but didn't like the drive on the deluxe. Sounded different. I then tried regular BDDI, didn't like that it made all my different bass sound the same. I want my pb63 to sound like a 63. So I traded the deluxe for tone hammer. I love the tone hammer. And I love the sound of the gain on it. Its just its on all the time because of volume boost. The super drive sounded good but it just was to motown for me. I wanted to keep that woody sound of my different p bass I use. Tried agro, too agro. Tried pork loin just wasn't there. Tried that jhs morning glory but to thin. I like the Lm308 but it's just a little to distorted. I wouldn't mind trying a MKll beta or the dlx.
Guess I wish I could just roll the svt in every time
Noble preamp? Broughton SV-PRE?
HX Stomp? If nothing else, Line6 can SVT with the best of them.
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I had the VTDI first. Traded for the deluxe but didn't like the drive on the deluxe. Sounded different. I then tried regular BDDI, didn't like that it made all my different bass sound the same. I want my pb63 to sound like a 63. So I traded the deluxe for tone hammer. I love the tone hammer. And I love the sound of the gain on it. Its just its on all the time because of volume boost. The super drive sounded good but it just was to motown for me. I wanted to keep that woody sound of my different p bass I use. Tried agro, too agro. Tried pork loin just wasn't there. Tried that jhs morning glory but to thin. I like the Lm308 but it's just a little to distorted. I wouldn't mind trying a MKll beta or the dlx.
Guess I wish I could just roll the svt in every time
Welcome to the rabbit trail. The never ending quest for the right direct drive tone. If you want your bass to sound like your bass, I'd think you definitely want something that has a clean blend which leaves your original tone intact, and then just add a little hair on top, if you have a solid core sound you like. That was something I struggled with for a while in trying different drive pedals. Most of them are meant to emulate something. But I already had the amp sim down and I wanted my bass(es) to sound like my bass. So if you have a bunch of amp sims in a row of one kind or another, it just sounds like mush. For example, at one point I used a Darkglass VMT into the Tech21 VTDI, into the OCSD, just because I had them all. Not because I necessarily would have bought them originally intending to use them together. But the VMT dialed to ampeggy greatness into the VTDI Ampeg sim (speaker sim bypassed), into the OCSD 8x10 sim was just too much. That's why I dialed things back and simplified. Got a good amp sim sound I like (the VTDI in my case, maybe the ToneHammer in yours), and then added a clean drive before it that did not alter my tone dramatically. Just added hair to an already solid fake amp sound. Depending on what kind of drive sound you're after, the VMT also works really well direct when dialed in minimally. I often combine it with my M80+ to sculpt the EQ before the VTDI with great results.
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Another thing that matters is how you're monitoring your sound. I found investing in some multi-driver in ears made a big difference. If I had the money I would have gone with Westone, Shure, Sennheiser, etc. But I got some KZ ZS5, and they sound pretty great. Monitoring it through a Rolls PM50 also made a difference. It gives me (I think, at least) a solid, unaltered mix to hear exactly what the signal I'm sending to the board sounds like. I used to practice with the OCSD's headphone amp, which works great, but I feel colored the sound a little, so it wasn't giving me a true representation of what I sounded like. So that when I then plugged into an amp at church or sent the signal to a board, it came out sounding different than I expected. (Disclaimer: Yes, I realize you will sound different through headphones than through an amp or PA). The Rolls has been a little more predictable when trying to dial in my sound at home.
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