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Worship Bass Pedalboards

My second Sunday with the larger Mono board. I was actually up at 6am still moving a couple of things around! But I did memorize all my songs and the service went well.

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So now that the Tech 21 XB Driver has finally been released, I am serious thinking about just moving my Cali76 Compact Bass, Aguilar Tone Hammer and Darkglass Vintage Microtubes and replacing them all with the Tech 21 unit. Anyone have any thoughts? Seems like a good idea in my head.
The new XB driver really seems like a Swiss Army Knife type preamp. Even has a compressor built in…. Honestly 99 percent of church players would be fine with an XB driver, and tuner, with nothing else. That preamp is so versatile it seems like it should adapt to any bass and any room quite easily. A lot of knobs so you may want to take a photo of your favorite preset or something… aside from that, I cant see why this wouldn’t be a good idea. It would certainly simplify your signal chain. Less things to go wrong. Fewer patch cables is good.
 
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@MikoFX turned me onto this delightful device. I use it for delicate intros, down verses, etc. It's very cool with octave pedal and volume swells for a nice synth layer, which I used for Brooke Ligertwood's Ancient Days this morning.
Very cool. I use a Helix swell delay for a similar purpose. I used to really like the dispatch master for guitar. Great sound.
 
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Very nice! I've been playing my P Bass more again too. I like the Stingrays ability to cut easier even when playing finger style. But I personally prefer the P Bass for adding heavier drive/picking style.
Stingray, Gibson and jazz bass got sold. I have officially gone all in on the P bass and I don’t regret it one bit. One is standard tuning and one is BEAD.
If you told me a year ago I would switch from analog pedals and active 5 string basses to digital modelers and passive 4 string basses I woulda laughed really hard and not believed it. But here I am.
 
Stingray, Gibson and jazz bass got sold. I have officially gone all in on the P bass and I don’t regret it one bit. One is standard tuning and one is BEAD.
If you told me a year ago I would switch from analog pedals and active 5 string basses to digital modelers and passive 4 string basses I woulda laughed really hard and not believed it. But here I am.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
 
I just bought a Lusithand Ground and Pound from a fellow TBer. I was very impressed with the Alma so I thought I’d give it a try. I’ll report back.
Well, this thing sounds massive. The EQ, extra comp and blend are great features.

I love the tone at 50% blend and about 75% gain. Huge. For lower gain I realized I’d rather use a drive without blend. I think it’s too subtle otherwise.

Will it go on my board ? Not sure. It’s not going to replace the special cracker for light OD. I could use it instead of the Bit Commander for big sounds that are not synthy. They are just very different. We’ll see!

It may work well for some folks at the end of the chain to add a bit of dirt and comp to give it a bit of an amp feel.
 
Not really. You can modify the feet, but the rails won't work well with something the size of the Khan. Here's a Khan beneath my Mono Lite+:
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The Mono Lite+ is the same size as a Pedaltrain Nano+, but more thoughtfully engineered. As a result, you have a lot more you can do underneath. Here I am using feet designed and printed by @moorebass.


A good suggestion, height-wise. I use an Aero 18 for my bigger board (18" x 12.5"). But I dislike the fact the Aero LITE 18 is 7" wide. That's just too much extra material for a one-row board.
Where did you get that little power Y cable. That would be handy.
 
Where did you get that little power Y cable. That would be handy.

It really helps in cable management. I have one for my Khan and Powersupply also. I got mine on Amazon... but mine is a little different than @Erithon. Search for C14 to Dual C13 Adapter or splitter cable. Hope this helps.
@erayser has it right: search for C14 to Dual C13 splitter and a bunch of options will come up.
 
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Has anyone used either the walrus canvas tuner or the Pigtronics one with the top jacks? Trying to get my new board together, would love to not have my tuner separate anymore.

I liked the Canvas a lot. I just wish they had top mounted the power jack. Ended up going with a Peterson Mini instead because I could power it via the USB port on the DC7.