Worship Bass Pedalboards

[wolffire99]

Messing around and put together a mini board tailored to my flatwound bass. I’ve always thought the sushibox UA does a great vintage-y high gain but still clean sound with the treble rolled back (my settings not pictured) and has a soft quality to the tone I can’t really describe any other way but just “soft”. Powered by a one spot with no issues at all.

 

[TaylorJ]

Messing around and put together a mini board tailored to my flatwound bass. I’ve always thought the sushibox UA does a great vintage-y high gain but still clean sound with the treble rolled back (my settings not pictured) and has a soft quality to the tone I can’t really describe any other way but just “soft”. Powered by a one spot with no issues at all.

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I bet that sounds nice!

 

[MikoFX]

That Super Pre looks cool. It only has eq, comp, tuner and drives? It seems like it could be useful as a stand alone unit for the bulk of my services. How is the DI?

@NickyBass Yeah, the Super Pre has been an absolute game-changer.

It’s a full-featured digital preamp with analog feel, not just EQ and drives. You’ve got:

A 4-band parametric EQ (each band fully sweepable for frequency and Q)

Three drive engines (Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz) with blend, crossover, and drive-path LPF options so you can shape how the dirt interacts with your clean tone. Definitely my favorite digital dirt so far.

A FANTASTIC compressor (serial or parallel)

Variable High-Pass, Low-Pass, and Feedback Filters

A Bright filter, a very accurate tuner, and 21 savable scenes.

Dual DIs (Pre and Post) that sound fantastic — both transformerless, dead quiet, and 48V-protected

Loadable Bergantino Cab EQ voicings

Aux In & Headphone Out for silent practice

So, yea, it can absolutely serve as a standalone rig. I’ve used it direct & the DI quality is stellar. Easily FOH or studio ready.

 

[NickyBass]

@NickyBass Yeah, the Super Pre has been an absolute game-changer.

It’s a full-featured digital preamp with analog feel, not just EQ and drives. You’ve got:

A 4-band parametric EQ (each band fully sweepable for frequency and Q)

Three drive engines (Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz) with blend, crossover, and drive-path LPF options so you can shape how the dirt interacts with your clean tone. Definitely my favorite digital dirt so far.

A FANTASTIC compressor (serial or parallel)

Variable High-Pass, Low-Pass, and Feedback Filters

A Bright filter, a very accurate tuner, and 21 savable scenes.

Dual DIs (Pre and Post) that sound fantastic — both transformerless, dead quiet, and 48V-protected

Loadable Bergantino Cab EQ voicings

Aux In & Headphone Out for silent practice

So, yea, it can absolutely serve as a standalone rig. I’ve used it direct & the DI quality is stellar. Easily FOH or studio

Well, every pedal you've recommended in the past has been a winner, so now I’m stalking Reverb…

 

[projectapollo]

Well, every pedal you've recommended in the past has been a winner, so now I’m stalking Reverb…

Me too. I used to have their b-amp which had the digital pre in it. A lot of the same functionality as the super pre. I took it to churches used as my pre and took a DI out. It sounded pretty darn good. This was all before I fell into the pedal board vortex.

 

[projectapollo]

@NickyBass Yeah, the Super Pre has been an absolute game-changer.

It’s a full-featured digital preamp with analog feel, not just EQ and drives. You’ve got:

A 4-band parametric EQ (each band fully sweepable for frequency and Q)

Three drive engines (Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz) with blend, crossover, and drive-path LPF options so you can shape how the dirt interacts with your clean tone. Definitely my favorite digital dirt so far.

A FANTASTIC compressor (serial or parallel)

Variable High-Pass, Low-Pass, and Feedback Filters

A Bright filter, a very accurate tuner, and 21 savable scenes.

Dual DIs (Pre and Post) that sound fantastic — both transformerless, dead quiet, and 48V-protected

Loadable Bergantino Cab EQ voicings

Aux In & Headphone Out for silent practice

So, yea, it can absolutely serve as a standalone rig. I’ve used it direct & the DI quality is stellar. Easily FOH or studio ready.

Where is the effects loop in the super pre? Analog or digitized like the stomp?

 

[MikoFX]

Where is the effects loop in the super pre? Analog or digitized like the stomp?

It's a fully DSP-based preamp, so everything inside the unit (drives, compression, EQ, filters, and the effects loop routing) lives within that digital architecture. So the Effects Loop isn't a purely analog insert like you’d find on a traditional head.

According to Bergantino’s manual and what Jim himself has shared in a few posts, the effects loop sits after the EQ section but before the final filters (HPF/LPF/Feedback Filter and the Cabinet Voicing). When the loop is enabled, it’s included in the Post DI path, and you can still choose whether or not the Cab Voicing is part of that DI chain (Pre-Profile vs Post-Profile).

That said, the Super Pre's A/D/A converters and internal routing are really transparent, so you don’t get the “digitally sterile” feel that some modelers have. It still responds and sounds incredibly natural, which is part of why I’ve stuck with it for so long.

 

[Blille]

Todays’s board.

Smallest addition: a very handy @Pedalnetics switch to go through the presets of the bass synth. Highly recommend. It’s a a significantly different height so I was able to squeeze it under the P&P.

 

[projectapollo]

Today's assemblage:
DCX edges out the Tone Hammer. Dispatch Master nudges the HX One. Octamizer gets the call over the MXR Bass Synth.
A simplified pedal collection for a piano-led less aggressive set.

 

[Blille]

Today's assemblage:
DCX edges out the Tone Hammer. Dispatch Master nudges the HX One. Octamizer gets the call over the MXR Bass Synth.
A simplified pedal collection for a piano-led less aggressive set.

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What kind of revolution is this?! Lol

How did the Dispatch Master do? You use it for ambient-ey low moments?

Btw is that a mono lite or lite plus? I’m considering one for my EG board to put the DI underneath.

 

[wolffire99]

Today's assemblage:
DCX edges out the Tone Hammer. Dispatch Master nudges the HX One. Octamizer gets the call over the MXR Bass Synth.
A simplified pedal collection for a piano-led less aggressive set.

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Would love to hear that dispatch master being used in worship context!

 

[projectapollo]

Would love to hear that dispatch master being used in worship context!

I really like doing volume swells with the delay/reverb/modulation during soft sections. Why should guitar players get to add all the layers? I have used the HX One for this purpose. @MikoFX turned me onto the Dispatch Master as great alternative.

 

[projectapollo]

What kind of revolution is this?! Lol

How did the Dispatch Master do? You use it for ambient-ey low moments?

Btw is that a mono lite or lite plus? I’m considering one for my EG board to put the DI underneath.

It's a Mono Lite+. @moorebass made me the elevated feet that allows a Khan to fit underneath. I have a Radial Stagebug that fits under there nicely, but used the Pulp and Peel today for DI.

 

[Blille]

It's a Mono Lite+. @moorebass made me the elevated feet that allows a Khan to fit underneath. I have a Radial Stagebug that fits under there nicely, but used the Pulp and Peel today for DI.

Very cool! Good to know

 

[wolffire99]

This is why I can’t quit the stomp. The octave -> chorus is so good.

(I messed up towards the end but I’ve learned to stop worrying about making perfect videos)

 

[rcmbass]

This is why I can’t quit the stomp. The octave -> chorus is so good.

(I messed up towards the end but I’ve learned to stop worrying about making perfect videos)

What a great video and sound!
Please share your HX Stomp settings.

 

[TaylorJ]

It's a Mono Lite+. @moorebass made me the elevated feet that allows a Khan to fit underneath. I have a Radial Stagebug that fits under there nicely, but used the Pulp and Peel today for DI.

How sturdy are the feet? No worries about them breaking in the middle of a set?

 

[projectapollo]

Informative video from Tanner on the effect different basses have on his signature tone. The active vs passive is pretty significant.

 

[projectapollo]

Bryce Vaughn demos his Anagram presets. Nice.

 

[NickyBass]

Informative video from Tanner on the effect different basses have on his signature tone. The active vs passive is pretty significant.

I liked the P bass the best. Though, I think he misspoke about the finish. I don't think an original '74 P bass would have a nitro finished body. Maybe the headstock/neck but I don't know if Fender was using nitro bodies in the '70's.
The active/passive comparison is significant, but I think a Music Man would be a better comparison that an MTD with Barts. (But, I get that he was using basses he already owned.) I like the P Bass in a worship setting, but I also used a Music Man with good results.
Effects certainly 'act' different with different output basses. I have to adjust when playing my passive J.