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My first board was, literally, a weatherboard I had lying around in the garage. Screw some rubber feet on and you’re good to go. Eventually it ended up painted metallic silver and had fancy bits like holes for cables drilled into it.

I picked up a boss ms-3 second hand recently. Not physically too large, sounds good (but not quite as good as my analogue pedals which cost 3x as much and take up twice the space), includes a tuner, and has 200 patches to store into. I’m going to give it a gig as my only pedal this weekend to see how it goes in the real world. My only real criticism would be that I only found 1 compressor that sounded good to me.

Oooooo massive! My tipis to include handles so you can pick it up 😇

What’s the feel like on the elixirs? I find that normal round-wounds chew through the finger tips on my right hand, so I’m using semi-flats which feel good but loose a little top end.

I think they have it have it easy in Oz! It’s not hard to get good gear here, but the selection can be limited. Auckland and Wellington = more people = more musicians = more music shops and selection.

I use a boost regularly, but I use it when I need to sit up front in the mix. For filling in space, have you considered introducing modulation? I put chorus on over an od when our guitarist is soloing and that seems to fill the gap nicely.

Thank you all for the warm welcome. Good to see that NZ is on the map

Sorry to hear abou5 your ears, Bill. Active noise cancelling would reduce your noise exposure a lot. They can be got as headphones or ear buds. You will need to send them some sort of audio feed, of course. Good luck.

Hi all, long time lurker, but now I’m all out in the poem, as it were

My search for the best clean boost ended with the creation audio 4.23. I had a spark mini - sounds ok but adds a title top end bite. Xotic bass bb works as a clean boost, and has eq and dirt options.

I can’t comment specifically on the tone lab, but I suspect i5 will run just fine on a bass except for the distortion sounds. Some guitar pedals (mostly distortions) have a low cut filter built in to reduce unwanted noise. Guitar Choruses and the like tend to be fine on bass. Guitar Compressors are also a mixed bag; many of them just don’t seem to work well on bass.

For me: Wireless >> chorus >> distortion >> compressor >> boost. My compressor is on most of the time to help me sit in the mix. It also evens out the fluctuation in volume that the chorus tends to introduce.

Hi OP, if if there is a loss of beef when switching from one style to another then a comp pedal might even it up a bit. The dirt pedals you are using will be compressing things a fair bit anyway, so I would (initially) try the comp before your dirt pedals so that they get a more consistent feed. Seeing as you’re not a big time tweaker of Fx pedals, find a well regarded comp with 2 knobs or less. I guess that you’ll never know for sure until you try. have fun!

And, my baby board . . .

My every weekend No1 board . .. Wirelss > Chorus > Agro > Comp > boost. Much happiness!

Here he is . . .

Why thank you for admiring my bass collection. Is two basses really a collection. Maybe I need more . . . 😋

I recently started gigging my old Schecter 004 again. Now that I am older and wiser, I appreciate it's subtle nature and high qualities. Also, quite distinctive to look at - I have not seen another one around.

Resurrecting an old thread, I know, but I thought I would offer up a bit of review on the Laney Nexus SLS (the smaller one). I have been gigging one of these steadily for the last six months. It replaced a GK MB500 which was my previous No.1 head simply because I felt like a change. Background: I play either a Schecter 004, or an Ibanez SR1200, and pair the nexus with an Eden D210xst cab. Our covers band is doing pubs, weddings and corporate functions in Christchurch, New Zealand. Laney Nexus Pros: Sounds great (I like a nice clean sound), enough EQ to get you by, powerful enough (300 / 500W) for what I do, Tilt EQ superb for adapting to dark / bright room, built-in effects sound good (Very usable chorus, octave and compression if you leave your pedals at home), still small and light enough to be easily portable. Speakon and DI outputs are professional touches. Footswitch controllable FX and mute. Laney Nexus Cons: Not much really. Not as light and compact as the MB500. Pre-shape very subtle. Does not cover my wrong notes or make me coffee in the morning 😉 I will admit to being a bit of a Laney fan. I had an RB9 for a while and it was a good cheap amp, although the cabinet that came with it was pants. I hope someone finds this helpful. Definitely a good gigging amp IMO,and also has studio features. Cheers, A.