This looks compelling. I like the CAPO tone, but could not really make effective use of the loops (side jacks were a big issue) and the B-Side drive was not to my taste. This looks simplified, smaller, and hopefully more affordable.
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Worship Bass Pedalboards
- Thread starter Cshanks5
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My humble submission... used yesterday at Easter service. Yellow box is C2CE "Black Eye" (Soldano Supercharger GTO with modified caps for bass, bright/deep switches added) set for mellow distortion. Portal provides some dry mix (GTO on A channel, dry on C channel). IRBox only used for 9-band EQ (easy setup via bluetooth/phone), also helps tame the overdrive (B channel on the portal, A-B in series). Nobelium 1/4" out to RF IEM transmitter (to hear myself without adding to stage noise), XLR to house. Right now, this setup is working well for me. Aclam mini-board sits inside the lid of cheap harbor freight toolbox.
I think the mild distortion helps bass to stand out on builds... worship leader seems to like it. Now if I could just convince the sound guy to turn the bass up!
I think the mild distortion helps bass to stand out on builds... worship leader seems to like it. Now if I could just convince the sound guy to turn the bass up!
Looks like you picked some best-of-breed budget pedals. How do you like the Sonicake Portal? The Amazon page for it has a scary alert-box that says, "Frequently returned item".
So far, so good. I don't think it is a true bypass... it has to have an inline buffer to split the signal 3 ways. It's not high gain, really just a mixer. For that purpose, it works well. Seems clean and uncolored, at least on my rig & thru monitors. I particularly like the flexibility of series/parallel and phase switches, and the small size.
I suspect it is "frequently returned" by people who don't know what they are buying. We'll see...
I'm pretty sure it is Stephen Hill if I remember properly. Super nice guy. He's much more active on Facebook I think.
Decided to try the Capo since they are in stock now.
I’ve only played it at home but to me it sounds like a more modern DCX pedal (with an added DI and a choice of dirty or clean boost).
Both excel at saturated edge of breakup tones but DCX to me is more B-15 vibes and the Capo is SVT or GK.
The drive/breakup of the Capo sounds more natural as the DCX gets static-y and harsh when pushed imo. The Capo is closer to the Tone Hammer’s drive but it won’t go as distorted as the TH will.
The LPF on the Capo is set perfectly to take away harshness of some fuzzes and drives without killing any tone of the bass. I ran a rat pedal through it and greatly improved the sound. I usually hate rat pedal but made it actually sound good.
Overall I still like the DCX for a classic P tone, but the Capo may bump the tone hammer for most P&W stuff because of the ability to volume match both channels, and the amazing lpf.
I’ve only played it at home but to me it sounds like a more modern DCX pedal (with an added DI and a choice of dirty or clean boost).
Both excel at saturated edge of breakup tones but DCX to me is more B-15 vibes and the Capo is SVT or GK.
The drive/breakup of the Capo sounds more natural as the DCX gets static-y and harsh when pushed imo. The Capo is closer to the Tone Hammer’s drive but it won’t go as distorted as the TH will.
The LPF on the Capo is set perfectly to take away harshness of some fuzzes and drives without killing any tone of the bass. I ran a rat pedal through it and greatly improved the sound. I usually hate rat pedal but made it actually sound good.
Overall I still like the DCX for a classic P tone, but the Capo may bump the tone hammer for most P&W stuff because of the ability to volume match both channels, and the amazing lpf.
I also just picked one of these up to replace my EHX Bass Pracher. What do you keep your input and output levels set at?
I really need to try a capo at some point but for quite some time now I have used either the HX stomp or the Quad Cortex.
Though, Easter was a blast with the cali76/dcx bass/khan and I was loving what I was hearing with the Nash mustang.
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Any Sushi Box Neptunium tube DI (Noble clone) users on here? Experience? Thoughts? I'm using the RNDI, but considering this Noble clone. The bass/treble controls may be redundant to the DCX Bass that I currently use as my preamp?
Weird dilemma, I'm going to be swapping out the Tone Mallet. I have 3 options:
1. Go with Tone Hammer V2
2. Go with Sansamp VT DI
3. Go with the Darkglass Infinity and drop the element and compressor with just the Infinity.
I love the darkglass sound btw, and I also love the idea of running all analog. Stuck! Any recommendations?
1. Go with Tone Hammer V2
2. Go with Sansamp VT DI
3. Go with the Darkglass Infinity and drop the element and compressor with just the Infinity.
I love the darkglass sound btw, and I also love the idea of running all analog. Stuck! Any recommendations?
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I really wanted to get a Tone Hammer on my pedalboard, but I'm stupidly anal on how my pedals layout evenly on my pedalboard... I hate my extreme OCD tendencies in everything... not just music related. I could have made the Tone Hammer (V2) work, but I would have to mount it side ways. I just went with the Origin Effects DCX Bass... based on Bryce Vaughn's pedalboard vid since he pretty much uses his DCX Bass like how other CCM Bassists uses a Tone Hammer. I've been very happy with it. I was using Sansamp VTDI previous to my pedalboard update, and I'm happy with tone I'm getting through my DCX Bass.
Do you like the sound/flavor of the Tone Mallet/Tone Hammer? I'd recommend whichever you tonally like the best, but I don't think you can go wrong with any of your options listed.
Well, your board OCD's result in the nicest builds I've seen. I'd be embarrassed to show you the under side of my board.
Agreed.... IME, the THDI and DCX Bass can serve the same purpose very closely. With the DCX gain up around 3pm, it saturates nicely when digging in and even more with a pick. Back off and it's lovely organic clean. The DCX has been earning the spot on the board because 1) I don't need the DI in the THDI, 2) smaller footprint, 3) the bass/treble on the DCX are tuned nicer than on the THDI.
I also find the DCX Bass to be a Swiss army knife doing several different jobs very well.
1) It's a nice cleanish slightly saturated EQ preamp with lovely organic feel, as Bryce Vaughn dials it in.
2) In EQ mode with gain up quite high it occupies the Tone Hammer space. This is how I use it.
3) In OD mode with gain low, the bass/treble control voicing completely changes and it starts to get a little growly. Going OD mode at low drive settings sounds awesome with flat wounds as demo'd by Philip Conrad.
4) Then OD mode at higher gains gives distortion without low end loss.
This Bryce DCX demo is outstanding:
I should mention I definitely prefer to use Cab Sim. I don't like going straight from DI.
I find the eq controls of the DCX to have a wider Q which gives them a softer/warmer quality.
I like to cut treble a lot of the time so it’s nice to have the DCX for that since the neptunium is boost only.
I’ve been boosting bass via neptunium with HPF engaged I find it a little less muddy than the DCX.
