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Worship Bass Pedalboards
- Thread starter Cshanks5
- Start date
Adamixoye
A PT Pro is cool for worship, right?
- Apr 9, 2012
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- Occasional Beta Tester for Confusion Studios, Singular Sound, and Source Audio
Just finished rearranging my pedalboard!
Lots of good stuff, but I'm really triggered by that upside-down Cali!
I've seen people do a mod like that. You can paint some 1/2" plywood, and it will screw right into the frame of the Pedaltrain. And I agree, with all points. But, right now I'm compromising to fit the pedals du jour.
I have a 2nd board for rock gigs - Thump, my smaller Polytune, a Boss CS-2, Bearfoot Blueberry, a Big Muff (a Tall Font Russian), and a phaser. I can get a great Roger Waters tone with the phaser, and a big distorted Spanish Castle Magic muffed out sludge, and the Blueberry is awesome for Geddy Lee grind. I think I like the CS-2 compressor is my fav for rock too - harmonics just blow up. The Thumpinator is being put to it's most practical purpose there ATM. Totally agree that its great for church - but I developed a serious Echoplex habit so it lost it's spot!
Just finished rearranging mine too...
Polytune >
Accountant >
Octabvre (just had Spencer mod to Tim Tuned..1st time using, bumped the OC-2) >
John K Pork Loin clone (1st time using, bumped the VMT) >
Corona >
Echoplex >
Noble DI
Polytune >
Accountant >
Octabvre (just had Spencer mod to Tim Tuned..1st time using, bumped the OC-2) >
John K Pork Loin clone (1st time using, bumped the VMT) >
Corona >
Echoplex >
Noble DI
if your using a fair amount of drive it would probably sound better with a cabsim, unless it has a built in low pass filter
Just finished rearranging my pedalboard!
Also, Very Nice! Just too BIG for me
(at this time)
I'm redoing my Nano+ a little. Constants for me are my TU-2, Radial JDI and Rolls PMS50 for my wired IEM's. That's for church and the cover band. I have an MXR Bass Filter for a couple tunes with the cover band. I'm going to take my MXR Compresor off. After trying some different settings I find that I don't need it. My playing seems to be consistent enough where I don't need one. I may replace it with an octave as that's something I think I could make use of in more situations.
I was running out of cables! And only had a couple short one! Life and it's compromises! hahaha
Not sure if the size is right for your needs, but check these out;
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GPBBAKOR
I got the small one to replace a Nano and I am really happy with it. It's more $$, but the angled board leaves plenty of room underneath for power, and the bag is really nice. I have a Zoom MS60B and a B3n mounted on it with room to spare.
I have a Classic Jr already. What I should have gotten is the Pedaltrain Metro 24, instead of the Metro 20. One good sized pedal bigger. I really wish that Pedaltrain had the raised front legs, like on their bigger boards, on the Metro series as well. It wouldn't have to be as large of a leg. As it is, I need to look at drilling out the rubber foot, and replacing it with a taller one. Temporarily, I am using a stick on rubber foot.
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I was able to get taller rubber feet from Amazon, drill out the rivets and attach the taller feet with machine screws. I used the 1" tall feet and have enough room for the power supply under the board. I'll build a couple of brackets sometime but the power supply is held on with zip ties right now.
Dan
Yes, my plan as well - except I only need a little more clearance for the microThumpinator, so the rubber feet will/may be shorter. The Noble is also my pedal's power supply.
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Just finished building my new pedal board, for worship its mostly just the Le Bass, Iconoclast M87 Bass Comp then the Graphic EQ, Light Comp, and Slow Gear on the MS-3
So what does the Tight A**e do... I'd Google it but that might not be advisable...Just finished building my new pedal board, for worship its mostly just the Le Bass, Iconoclast M87 Bass Comp then the Graphic EQ, Light Comp, and Slow Gear on the MS-3
Its a 30Hz High pass filter, not really needed on this board due to the iconoclast, but it works well as a input patch bay, ie if the jack in that gets damaged from constant plugging in and unplugging or because someone trips over the cable I don't really care.
I don't know....beta tested a few pedals as I mentioned. Field reports:
-the John K Pork Loin was very nice, but IMHO my long-standing champion the VMT still reigns supreme. The John K might have more usefulness on my secular board, so it will do up against the BFBBB. I LOVE the BFBBB and it's only downside IMHO is the lack of a blend.
Next time, I'm going to put the VMT up against my SolidGoldFX Beta drive I got from @MTN.bass72 - especially if it's a P with flats week.
-I had Spencer do the "Tim-tuned" mod on the Octabvre. It's got a LOT more headroom now. I noticed it was pushing the Pork Loin into distortion when I had it on, so I started the song with the drive off and towards the end during the climax I engaged it for level 2 synth bass. So, while its a big improvement, I still miss the Boss OC-2!!
So to sum it up for the quick readers, my OC-2 and the VMT remain undefeated!
(for reference this week I used a Fender P with old TI flats)
I'm finding the VMT to be a very special pedal. To be honest, I wasn't that impressed for the first 30 minutes of trying it out. But, I clearly needed to give it some time and experiment with the settings.
My next prediction (that I'd be replacing it with the VU) was incorrect also. The VMT creates an OD tone that I can't duplicate with my VU to date. BOTH are awesome, and work very well together...not kicking either one off my board, in the foreseeable future...
The challenge (and fun) for me lately, has been playing with the settings to achieve a cascading boost level of great OD flavors, with both (VMT and VU) pedals.
So here's a quick Q for you pedal fans... I'm seeing a lot of Reverb pedals on boards these days. How are you guys using them in practice. I've always avoided reverb on bass having come up from the 80s with a "make the bass punchy and solid" kinda ethos to tone. While I do like a touch of chorus and trem, anything that deliberately "washed out" and "unfocused" the tone seemed like o no-no.
Really interested to hear your perspective. Is it for creating pad-like washes, for adding ambience (which always seemed odd to me), always on or for specific tones/applications.
Really interested to hear your perspective. Is it for creating pad-like washes, for adding ambience (which always seemed odd to me), always on or for specific tones/applications.
