I'm in the process of altering my pedalboard setup. Since my last band ended, I no longer need to provide octave up to fill in between bass and violin so off goes the octaver. In its place, I'm getting a pedal tuner from a friend, so on goes a Korg Pitchblack Advance. A bit of fiddling around this evening proves to me that I really do just need a compressor, bass friendly chorus and preamp with a drive circuit. As such, my setup is now Pitchblack tuner - Wampler Mini Ego, EHX Bass Clone, MXR Carbon Copy Mini - Tech 21 VTBass DI. Okay, so I do occasionally have use for a delay.
I did play around with settings and realised I was overdoing the rate of the chorus and pulled it back from 12 o'clock to around 7 o'clock but keeping the depth all the way up. Drive is at about 9 o'clock for my core tone but I do like to sound of the drive at full - not sure when I'd use that much though.
Very minimalist setup but if you don't need something, why have it?