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Worship Bass Pedalboards

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Guess I meant brands of pedals. I know what to do with them. :thumbsup:

Lots of my jazz stuff is outside or in rooms where you don't always get that room reverb. Not sure it's worth it to spend/have on the board, but sometimes when soloing it'd be cool to have a little "room" feel to it.
 
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SteveC said:
Guess I meant brands of pedals. I know what to do with them. :thumbsup:

Lots of my jazz stuff is outside or in rooms where you don't always get that room reverb. Not sure it's worth it to spend/have on the board, but sometimes when soloing it'd be cool to have a little "room" feel to it.
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I use a 3Leaf Mini Octabvre for octave and a Walrus SLO for reverb (I really want to try a Shift Line Astronaut also)
 
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No matter what you choose for pedals, you seriously won’t regret obtaining a DC7...
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I definitely agree with this. I've got the DC5, DC10 and a Voodoo Labs ISO5 from previous boards. The DC7 is the first power supply I've owned that feels no compromises. It can power anything (more then my DC10) with the right adapters and is small enough to fit anywhere. It's pretty much an end game power supply.
 
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After adding reverb to my rig, I don't want to go back to not having it. I don't use much for effects, but a little chorus and a little reverb is really tasty and gives me what I want. My reverb of choice is the Mad Professor Silver Spring. It's the best reverb I've ever used that didn't have a spring tank. I actually got it to use with my guitar rig, and I tried it on bass and was blown away.
 
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SteveC said:
Any filter users here?
Reverb?
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For many years I had a Morley Dual Bass Wah which has a very filter-like funk mode setting. However, got an Eden Californiwah a few years ago. First one I tried that I liked. 15v power supply though, which is a pain in the proverbial! With any filter the key is finding one you get on with and which you like the way it opens, sweeps and closest then dialling it in for your bass. Tried so many o es that I just couldn’t get on with or find the right fell/tone with. All good pedals... EBS, Boss, MXR... but didn’t click with me.
 
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SteveC said:
No one here uses their small head as a DI Do they? Like on a small shelf? I saw a picture of that somewhere but I can’t remember where.
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I've used an Ampeg PF-20T several times at church. Bass > PF-20T > FOH. It just sat directly on the stage floor. Using the transformer out of course :)

You can run DI only with no speaker load on these without harm.
 
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As I've said before, a bit of my diliema with the board is that I only want one. The way it is now works great for worship. Clean, solid bass tone. The problem is the cover band. I'd say for 90% of the stuff we do, that works great. There are a couple tunes that could use some dirt. another couple maybe some filter, maybe chorus for one or two. Yet, I always think back to the Jesse Reeves video talking about effects and bass. No matter what effects you run, in the house, it sounds like bass. I agree with that a lot. I think effects can really get lost for bass in a band with guitar and synth/keys. No one has ever said I must have this or that. On occasion they say something like the bass i really grindy on that tune or something like that. I've never felt presur eto use effects, yet the uitar payer and keyboard guy try to emulate the original pretty thoughroughly.
 
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SteveC said:
Yet, I always think back to the Jesse Reeves video talking about effects and bass. No matter what effects you run, in the house, it sounds like bass.
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I agree, to an extent. If you are looking for a "touch of chorus" or "bit of hair" then yes, the audience probably wont specifically detect those effects ("that overdrive on that bass sounds good").That isn't to say that adding a touch of this or a bit of that doesn't improve your overall bass tone ("no matter what, it sounds like bass"). They may not detect "chorus" but the bass tone is improved (for some reason the listener is unsure of). And of course, the "improvement" is subjective.

Now, if you add a much more wet effect, I think it is definitely heard in the audience. Geddy's overdriven Ric/Jazz is heard and is black/white vs. a pristinely clean Ric/Jazz tone. An envelope filter is distinctly heard if it is wet enough. Same with a phaser.
 
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MascisMan said:
I agree, to an extent. If you are looking for a "touch of chorus" or "bit of hair" then yes, the audience probably wont specifically detect those effects ("that overdrive on that bass sounds good").That isn't to say that adding a touch of this or a bit of that doesn't improve your overall bass tone ("no matter what, it sounds like bass"). They may not detect "chorus" but the bass tone is improved (for some reason the listener is unsure of). And of course, the "improvement" is subjective.

Now, if you add a much more wet effect, I think it is definitely heard in the audience. Geddy's overdriven Ric/Jazz is heard and is black/white vs. a pristinely clean Ric/Jazz tone. An envelope filter is distinctly heard if it is wet enough. Same with a phaser.
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And I agree with you as well. Subtle things get lost in the full band mix. I think we get lead astray for lack of a better term, when we listen to "studio" recordings and try to make that happen live. Even the bands themselves don't recreate the the studio sound live. And of course listening to myself in GarageBand with all the things is very different than how it will sound live. That's why I've held to my simple and fairly clean set up. Although thet tube compressor does help a lot.
 
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SteveC said:
And I agree with you as well. Subtle things get lost in the full band mix. I think we get lead astray for lack of a better term, when we listen to "studio" recordings and try to make that happen live. Even the bands themselves don't recreate the the studio sound live. And of course listening to myself in GarageBand with all the things is very different than how it will sound live. That's why I've held to my simple and fairly clean set up. Although thet tube compressor does help a lot.
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Yep, there are so many more (and different) variables in a live environment than at home or in the studio.

Speaking of, I remember one of my first times recording in a studio. The band asked the engineer to add a little treble to the lead guitar track (while listening back). He instead made a very significant boost at first (not jarring, just very evident), then A/B'd against the initial take. His reasoning was that if he just made a subtle "bump" we wouldn't hear what he was actually doing (or what we were requesting). So he would make an audible change, we would A/B, then dial back from there.

This kind of reminds me of that experience. Almost as if, in a 4-5+ person band mix if you want your bass to be heard as if it were "just a touch of X" or "just a bit of Y" you need to dial in more wet than you think you do. And of course, many of us playing in Worship bands often deal with very dense mixes. I know at our church, including singers and instruments, we will have 11+ signals going (not counting the multiple tracks for drums).
 

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