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Worship Bass Pedalboards

Looking for suggestions on an overdrive for bass. I don't need anything heavy, just want to add some more texture. Playing a mixture of contemporary praise & worship with the occasional hymn, using compressor + chorus + delay + reverb in various combinations.

So, what works for you?
You got a lot of options lol. Samsamp stuff, Soul Food, Source Aftershock or UltraWave, Vintage Microtubes to name a few.

Personally I like the Jupiter Jive for a simple solution or the Source AS for versatility.
 
So… finished my first pedalboard and used it for worship yesterday- it worked well!!
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path:
Tuner > C4 synth (inc diy preset Adafruit switcher) > Omnicomp > irn bru (clone of barbershop) > johnk mini xo > Frog FX1 (diy valve preamp based on alembic showman, with 50s ecc52)> bass boost chorus > shallow water diy clone > Schalltechnik Vong filtrung (diy HPF/LPF ) > colourbox

utter overkill but very very nice sounding


Also posted as recomend barbershop for low gain overdrive.
 
Looking for suggestions on an overdrive for bass. I don't need anything heavy, just want to add some more texture. Playing a mixture of contemporary praise & worship with the occasional hymn, using compressor + chorus + delay + reverb in various combinations.

So, what works for you?

I've had great luck with the Fuzzrocious Cat Tail and a low gain setting. It's very intuitive and can go from a textured clean tone to dirty just with your finger attack.
 
I am reworking my church bass board right now. Nothing major, but I have been studying the pedal power situation as I've run out of spots on my 1 Spot, but realized the supply of mA is much larger than I'm really using, so I've bought a couple daisy chain cables and looked up all the power needs of each pedal on that board.

I also just last night received my new Boss WL-50 wireless receiver that doesn't take much while in use, but takes a lot more during charging operations, so I had to give it one of my 500 mA spots and take the other 500mA spot and use it to daisy chain my Drop and dUg pedals that eat power. In the past I had each one of them on its own 500 mA spot. Now I have 2 pedals daisy chained onto one 200mA spot and the new Boss wireless base has an output spot of its own too that I will use for another pedal. Then all my other stuff will each have their own supply. I generally only use one or two effects at a time, so in my arranging, I made sure to link the ones that I would not use at the same time either so I shouldn't have any weird phasing or anything with the couple that share a power spot.

Will post a picture soon. Need to clean it up a bit.
 
Here's the latest iteration with the new Boss wireless added. I rearranged it all to distribute the power where I can power it all still from my 1 Spot and meet (actually exceed) all the pedal demands, so still just one plug.

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Very nice. To be clear all of that is daisy chained with just a 1 Spot (including the wireless) and you have no noise issues?
 
I use the Ampeg Scrambler for its clean section. I use my Vintage Microtubes for the yummy drive. If you want a one pedal solution, I'd check out the Sansamp stuff. I watched the video on the Revolt and liked the sound of the clean tone, but didn't like the dirty on it either.
As a follow up. I went ahead and ordered a vintage microtubes. Figured I can't really go wrong with it
 
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The current version of my board. I just swapped over to the Magellan Pre and I now have all of my modulation needs with the Terraform. I was looking for something with saveable presets and a tap tempo function and this seems to fit the bill.

There's actually a LOT going on here that you can't see. At church I do not monitor my bass off our Avioms because of gaining problems, so I use the Rolls and combine the signal with the Aviom. The Bass Board is how I feel everything on a stage with no amps.

The Rockboard patch bay has inputs A through E:

A. Bass in (sees the entire chain of effects)
B. Synth in (sees no effects)
C. Aviom/Aux In
D. Dry out to amp (signal from bass and synth that excludes the preamp)
E. IEM's out

The bass and synth signals are summed together and then split in two with one signal going into the preamp and the other going to dry. I have to run this setup into an amp on occasion and I don't want the preamp effecting it, so that's the whole point of the dry out. The Magellan doesn't have an unaffected thru out, so I have to do it elsewhere. The affected out of the preamp runs into the Jay Ganz amplifier for the Bass Board. The DI out of the preamp goes to the Rolls and then to the FOH when I'm using IEM's. If I'm running an amp (Mesa D800) and no IEM's I will instead take the DI from that.


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At church I do not monitor my bass off our Avioms because of gaining problems, so I use the Rolls and combine the signal with the Aviom.

Dude, I've got gain problems with the Aviom system as well. Just got the Rolls PM50se to try and figure something out along the lines of what you're doing but have no clue how to hook everything up. And then your post shows up!

Could you draw a simple diagram out for me? (Pm me if you prefer).
 
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