Baloney Balderdash

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Yes, it's an amazing compressor pedal, insanely tweakable. You can basically get any possible compression sound out of this. Though in my opinion it does require of you to take the time needed to dial in your own custom settings in the Toneprint editor for this pedal to be worth anything, I didn't like any of the pre-made basic templates as they were or artist Toneprints. If you do though it's one of the absolute most versatile and customizable compression pedals on the market. The Toneprint editor really allows you to tweak every imaginable useful parameter to exactly how you prefer it, making it possible to get the exact spot on compression effect you desire.

Les Claypool, from Primus, and John Lennon’s son, Sean Lennon, and their psychedelic progressive rock project :

Opener from Low's album "Secret Name" :

From Low’s album “Secret Name” :

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware of that. But guess the reasoning being that with such a narrow board people would only have a single line of pedals? Sucks regardless though. But good you found a solution to the issue.

I've had no problems with raising the feet at the back end of my pedal board to a fitting angle, I think you might be doing it wrong. The idea is having the nut tighten against the lower ledge of the back of the pedal board, holding the bolt that the feet are attached to in suspense and fixed where you set them. Works perfectly fine. You just need to tighten the nuts instead of the bolts, the bolts doesn't have to go all way in bottomed out. Hold the bolt at the length you want it and then tighten the nut while keeping a form hold on the bolt. Sort of clamping the nut against the lower back ledge, holding the bolt in place where you want it. This is by the way how my Harley Benton SpaceShip 80 looks currently:

So by a whim I decided to order a Mosky XP Booster, which is a clone of the Xotic EP Booster, that I just received with the mail today, but after experimenting with different placements in my signal chain, as well as minor adjustments of the gain of my other always on pedals, including trying out how leaving some out all together, to counter the slight volume boost that comes with this pedal engaged, even with the boost knob at minimum position, I concluded it was no good for my setup. I mean the thing is everything it is advertised to be, seriously fattens up the tone and adds a certain extra vibrant dimension of presence and life to it, just that in my case it worked something like drowning a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate mouse in the middle in chocolate sauce, just turning everything into a mush, a delicious sounding mush for certain, but non the less mush, just drowning any sense of definition and articulation in the process. To let people know the context I already send the signal from my 28.6" tenor bass, tuned to G standard tuning, 3 half steps above regular 4 string E standard tuning, though following always on secret souse units: a TC Electronic SpectraComp, dialed in with a customized Toneprint to add extra punch, snap and bite, but without effecting playing dynamics much, and mixed with parallel clean signal, then going into a Boss LS-2 that mix parallel clean signal with a low gain overdrive from a Joyo Orange Juice, stacked into another LS-2, that mixes another Joyo Orange Juice, dialed in to a low gain overdrive, with parallel clean signal, and then into my Zoom G1Xon with an always on patch consisting of a very subtle plate reverb stacked into a subtle spring reverb, then after that an EHX Black Finger, used as a tube preamp stage, with the optical compression circuit practically dialed out of the equation, dialed in to mild tube breakup, and finally into an Art Tube MP Project Series tube preamp, also dialed in to a mild tube breakup. I don't really know what I expected to happen, I was already extremely satisfied with my tone, and it already sounded gloriously full, vibrant and present, I guess I just hoped I could somehow take that up yet another nudge, without even being able to imagine what that nudge could possibly be, and I do think the Mosky XP did in fact deliver just that, it's just that adding more air to a perfectly inflated balloon doesn't equal an even more perfectly inflated balloon, but in fact rather in best case a way too bloated balloon, in worst case a balloon blown to pieces. Adding yet another always on secret sauce pedal just happened to be what tipped the balance from deliciously tasty to obnoxiously nauseous. Simply too much of the good stuff. Of course this is a horrible analogy of what really happened, I guess what actually happened was the signal getting over saturated and cluttered with added and enhance harmonic content, in other words an already perfectly full sounding signal getting too fat and bloated. However I can still absolute recommend the Moksy XP Booster to anyone who actually are in need of fattening up their signal and adding an extra vibrant dimension of presence and life to their tone. One should probably be aware though that what it adds is pretty far from as subtle as the various YouTube demos featuring it might otherwise suggest.

Opener to Coil’s album “Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1” :

I got that one too, Valeton Aquaflow Vintage Chorus, it's based on the Boss CE-1 circuit. One of the few clones of that legendary circuit, to my knowledge for some odd reason, considering it is such an iconic chorus, there are very few clones of this, and to my knowledge this is the only budget one of those, though sadly it has been discontinued. And yes, it is doing a good job replicating that sound and sounds great, and sounds amazing for bass.

For full signal chain description check my profile : https://www.basschat.co.uk/profile/50585-baloney-balderdash/?tab=field_core_pfield_1 Ibanez Mikro Bass, which I name "Dud Bottomfeeder" TC Electronic SpectraComp - TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini - Boss LS-2 - Joyo Orange Juice - Boss LS-2 - Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz - Mosky Black Rat - Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger - Joyo Orange Juice - Boss MT-2 Metal Zone - Behringer VP1 Vintage Phaser - Boss TR-2 Tremolo - TC Electronic Shaker Mini - Artec SE-EQ8 Graphic Eq - Zoom G1Xon - NUX Tape Core Deluxe - Danelectro FAB Metal - NUX Tape Core Deluxe - Zoom MS-70CDR - EHX Black Finger - ART Tube MP Project Series 4 string 28,6" scale Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass (equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket, and strung with gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .034 D'Addario XL nickle plated roundwound hex steel core strings, tuned in G standard tuning, 3 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning) + The Box Pyrit 10A (250W active full range PA speaker with 1x 10" woofer/mids driver + 1.4" high frequency tweeter horn, just 30.5 lbs)

For full signal chain description check my profile : https://www.basschat.co.uk/profile/50585-baloney-balderdash/?tab=field_core_pfield_1 TC Electronic SpectraComp - TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini - Boss LS-2 - Joyo Orange Juice - Boss LS-2 - Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz - Mosky Black Rat - Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger - Joyo Orange Juice - Boss MT-2 Metal Zone - Behringer VP1 Vintage Phaser - Boss TR-2 Tremolo - TC Electronic Shaker Mini - Artec SE-EQ8 Graphic Eq - Zoom G1Xon - Danelectro FAB Metal - NUX Tape Core Deluxe - Zoom MS-70CDR - NUX Tape Core Deluxe - EHX Black Finger - ART Tube MP Project Series

This absolutely astonishing beautiful instrumental, with one of my absolute favorite guitarists, Bill Frisell :

From the, in my opinion, best album Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) ever have released, "Viva Last Blues", from 1995 :

I use the biggest Harley Benton SpaceShip 80 board, and as you say it's a great, solid, and all together well constructed and not too heavy pedal board solution. I wish it would have come with a greater quality carrying shoulder back though, I would have been willing to pay more, which would still have kept the price bellow any competitors, for a higher quality properly padded bag and shoulder strap. Not that big of an issue though, I just pack the board into a rug before placing in the bag and use a more comfortable shoulder strap from a gig bag. Here it is: (I since this picture was shot removed the Joyo American Sound from the board, as well as I swapped out the Behringer UT100 Ultra Tremolo with a Boss TR-2)

Stina Nordenstam - "Parliament Square" (The Knife remix) :

Stina Nordenstam :

The Danish band Kliché from their 1982 album "Okay Okay Boys" :

Matt Elliott, the guy behind “The Third Eye Foundation” :