I used electric tape to cover mine when I was using the PPB. Cool pedal though.
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Worship Bass Pedalboards
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As for the censored pedal, yes it is a really awesome drive. The same Germainium circuit is in there gold compressor, which is one of the reasons I bought it. And it rocks too.
Haha, I meant a minor update not a tiny board. I don't think I could lug around a board bigger than this one!
I do enjoy the Sub'n'Up. I haven't used it live yet but it is fun to mess around with at home.
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That's kind of where I'm at with it. It's a fun toy, but I have yet to find a meaningful, regular use for it in a worship setting. Some use octave pedals to add the lower notes to what they're playing on their four-string for added girth, but I have a 5-string, and it don't get much lower than that. At least not audibly. So far I've only used it one time on an intro to a song when I was playing in a small worship band. It was very cool when I did use it for a combined total of about 30 seconds, but that was it. After having it on my board for about 2yrs now, lol. But it's fun to play with/jam with at home. I especially like having the "up" octave so that when I'm playing with overdrive it sounds (vaguely) like I'm playing unison riffs with an electric guitar.
Not sure I'd feel that comfy with a pedal on my worship board that I'd have to self censor or cover up with gaffer tape.
And even if I didn't feel the need to self censor a raving double entendre named pedal or a
pedal with a goats head or naked woman graphic... I'm pretty sure that my wife would ensure it was censored right off the pedalboard and out o f the house!
I just purchased a Forest Green Mad Professor Compressor to add back to my board. I can't wait to try it out with
the rest of the board (I sold the MXR87).
the rest of the board (I sold the MXR87).
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Gah! I was so close to pulling the trigger on one of those but went with an Accountant. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts when you have a chance to check it out.
Will do. I have been dying to find/try a Doc Lloyd Photon Death Ray, but thought this could hold me over.
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If I recall correctly when I was in the market, there was only one demo of the MPFG used on bass on Youtube, and the audio quality was not great. But @scubaduba spoke highly of it.
I like the MPFG overall. If you are going for something in the same range as the Diamond it is a good choice. In some ways I liked it better. It isn't the most quiet of compressors though. Nice and punchy though.
If you'll excuse the AWFUL pun, octave is what you use when you want to play pedal notes.
I find it works really well with long, sustained notes, adding an organ-like quality to the overall sound. And that's a type of sound that's very common in worship music - even modern stuff!
If it's digital (I have the oft-overlooked T-Rex Quint on my board), then the response time is quick enough to add a lot of heft into a slap bass line.
Those are the two scenarios where I use octave down regularly. Not every song, not even every service, but I reckon I use the octave pedal three or four times a month.
Give it a go!
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I have yet to find a real use for the octave-up feature, though.
Now that's food for thought, speaking as someone who's never connected with octave as an effect...
Nice! I like the up as well! I pair it will my Billy Sheehan Overdrive and it sounds pretty gnarly!
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Intriguing. I know that's the idea in theory, but I have yet to use that in reality. I need to try it with an actual sound system. I play a 5-banger anyway, so I can hit the low B without any pedal's assistance. When I use the Sub 'n Up, I find that the sub octave doesn't reproduce anything very audible below the open D string (which is the same as just playing the low D on the B string, of course). But that might be because I'm listening through headphones that aren't equipped to reproduce the low "pedal tones." Perhaps I'd have better/different results actually using it through a PA for thunderous pedal tones. I wonder how low you can go in a live setting to where it's still audible and reproduced at all by the subs, and at what point it just becomes low end rumbly flubby noise.
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I don't know, let's check out your...*checks thread title*...worship bass pedalboard and find out?Do I look like a Jesus-approved pedal kind of person to you?
Glad to help.
Don't forget, sometimes a low end rumbly flubby noise is actually the sound you should be going for...
IME, there are contexts where that is genuinely the ideal sound. It needs careful use of the blend knob to get it right, but then, what bass effect doesn't?
That low rumble is there to give power and fill out the sound, not provide tonal definition. I suppose I think of octave on the bass the way some guitarists consider reverb: to fill out the sound, that's all.
Experiment, it's good for you.
Peace, SoundSupport
Interesting. This and the PW thread are topics of discussion in other threads apparently. I'd post a link, but I think it'd do more harm than good. Always happy to have others drop in for a chat tho.
