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Worship Bass Pedalboards

#13,122
I used this today:
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The RevivalDrive was great. It’s a bit more ‘amp like’ than my other ODs.
 
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I made an important discovery with my Bass Microsynth this week. I've been using it in services for a few months with good feedback. But I've felt engaging it is a bit jolting and I fiddle with the faders working to get it to sound better. This week, I took the back off and trimmed back the gain pot a bit since my P Bass is pretty hot. The BMS suddenly engaged much better and smoothly blended in. The instructions discuss this gain trim pot but I never got around to fiddling with it. Lesson learned, trim the BMS gain to the specific bass you are playing. Less is more with this device, I think.
 
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I’ve been using the Aguilar emulations on the stomp for a couple of years. This week someone noticed that I had an actual TH on the board and immediately everyone started commenting on how the tone was great etc lol

I mean, I love it and I do think I do a better job of getting a good tone out of it this way but I’m sure it 95% placebo.
 
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TaylorJ said:
Nice board! You like to run the OD after your compressor? I’m adding a vintage microtubes to my board this week. Was thinking I would run it before the Cali76. But maybe not?
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Thanks. I like to have the compressor before everything—well, except for the wireless receiver. I would say try it both ways and see what works best. I tried the comp at the end of the chain—even after the preamp. It’s a cool option, but I like to use the compressor as a combination of compression and tone shaping. I think that is part of what I like about the Cali76–it has some color.
 
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projectapollo said:
I made an important discovery with my Bass Microsynth this week. I've been using it in services for a few months with good feedback. But I've felt engaging it is a bit jolting and I fiddle with the faders working to get it to sound better. This week, I took the back off and trimmed back the gain pot a bit since my P Bass is pretty hot. The BMS suddenly engaged much better and smoothly blended in. The instructions discuss this gain trim pot but I never got around to fiddling with it. Lesson learned, trim the BMS gain to the specific bass you are playing. Less is more with this device, I think.
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The newer version of the BMS or the older version?

I had no idea there was gain pot to trim!
 
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NickyBass said:
Thanks. I like to have the compressor before everything—well, except for the wireless receiver. I would say try it both ways and see what works best. I tried the comp at the end of the chain—even after the preamp. It’s a cool option, but I like to use the compressor as a combination of compression and tone shaping. I think that is part of what I like about the Cali76–it has some color.
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Thanks for the info! I’ll try it both ways.
 
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TaylorJ said:
Thanks for the info! I’ll try it both ways.
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I like it before the Compressor when the overdrive is touch sensitive. You control the gain based on how much you dig in, which I really enjoy. If it’s high gain, it’s likely not touch sensitive and more likely to be noisy so I put it after.

In my current board I have my mild germanium based distortion before comp and my RAT after comp.
 
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I just started playing bass at church again. I have an Empress Effects Bass Compressor > Vintage Bass Octave > HX Stomp > Aguilar Tone Hammer > Sushi Box Neptunium.

I see many worship bassist using a Moog Synth keyboard on stage.

Has anyone been able to recreate the Moog sounds on bass with pedals or a HX Stomp?

Just trying to not jump into the synth keyboard space and spend unless absolutely necessary.
 
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I used some of IMA’s synth presets. They are good. I went back to my Yamaha MODX6 as it just does synth better. The band also likes it better. More expense. More to haul around. 🤷🏼‍♂️

On the bright side, learning/playing a 2nd instrument is always a good thing.
 
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I play a Moog with my WT. Before I got it, I was using a combination of an octave pedal, overdrive and maybe some chorus. In the Stomp, you could pull up some octave patches and try it out. Then build out a nice block with overdrives and modulation.
We used to do songs with just a few bars of synth, and I didn't see the need to haul around the extra gear. But, once I started bringing the Moog, the song list has moved more in that direction. There are services where it might be 50/50 bass and Moog.
I'm not a fan of bringing more and more gear, and setup and breakdown takes a bit longer--but, when I get to play it and hear it, I'm happy to have it.
But, I have gotten pretty good results from the pedals too.
 
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SteveC said:
I used some of IMA’s synth presets. They are good. I went back to my Yamaha MODX6 as it just does synth better. The band also likes it better. More expense. More to haul around. 🤷🏼‍♂️

On the bright side, learning/playing a 2nd instrument is always a good thing.
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At first, I was thinking that at least I can go with a smaller bass board without the octave and chorus pedals. But that is negated by my Moog CV controller board. :)
 
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