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Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
pantherairsoft replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
You know it’s bad when you look at images of boards you were using on gigs, or in the studio, and you think, “what the hell is that pedal?” Or “I have no memory of that!” -
Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
pantherairsoft replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
During a rather sleepless night last night I decided to make a list of all the pedals I’ve owned over the years. I thought it would be an interesting post, maybe even its own thread, a “what stuff have you owned” type affair. But as the list grew, and grew, and I checked photos of old boards and gigs to make sure I didn’t miss anything, I realised this was not a very good idea… in fact, it ended up being a painful wake up call to the financially crippling power of GAS! I think I ended with 205 pedals on the list, and while many of them were trades and not purchases as such (and specifically only stuff I’ve owned, not tried, borrowed, etc), assuming I paid for even a quarter of them at RRP makes me want to cry. I love pedals so much, but I really can’t recommend this exercise! -
Very tempted. It reminds me of aspects of some other pedal's I've loved over the years, most namely the Tech 21 Red Ripper, and the Fuzzrocious Croak, but certainly has its own flavour. I sense a purchase incoming.
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Only one low gain OD!? Lightweights. Anything less than three stacked drive pedals and it’s not really bass
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This is an update on the famous Subdecay Noisebox, offering much of what the original did, along with a gnarly gated fuzz. The mix control lets you blend between the fuzz side and the noise side, to tailor the sonic destruction accordingly. I have way too many synthy noise makers so am moving this on. Boxed, great condition, Velcro underneath. Asking £120 posted in the UK. Payment via bank transfer, or PayPal if you cover the fees. -
Up for grabs is the most powerful expression pedal ever made. Three analog outputs, two midi and on SA sensor out. Programmable range for each output, plus LFO generators on each. If you don’t know what it is, do some googling! IMPORTANT - The pedal has a slight annoyance, which as I understand it, is very common on these units. If you calibrate the pedal to a full sweep, when you leave the pedal to rest to heel or toe position (take your foot off it), there is a slight movement in the treadle, meaning that heel or toe position will move a tiny bit as you remove your foot. Thankfully the pedal has a calibration process that lets you set dead zones at either end (maybe due to this reoccurring issue). As such, it is currently calibrated with a small dead zone at each end, equal to that small movement. As a result, the pedal functions perfectly, but if you run a full calibration again, you’ll need to compensate for it again. If you don’t touch the calibration you’d never know about this, but I wanted to be upfront about it. Pedal itself is boxed and in perfect condition. Last one on Reverb sold for £270 earlier this year. Asking £220 shipped within the UK, payment by bank transfer, or PayPal if you cover the fees. -
There’s this - https://robertkeeley.com/product/30ms-automatic-double-tracker/ But the idea here is to make it simple to do this with a single input.
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There are plenty of good options on here, but I’d suggest going for two pedals if your budget allows. Stacking overdrives has many benefits, but also gives you three options - pedal A, pedal B, pedals A+B. Having one at a low gain and another at a higher gain gives you lots of options. You also get a few other dynamic options, if you want to be creative, by having other pedals between them. For example, if you put a chorus between the two drive pedals, as well as having your three drive sounds, you also now have drive into chorus and chorus into drive. Most importantly though, there are many incredible sounding drive pedals that don’t have two stages of gain, meaning it’s way easier to find two great tones and stack them than it is to find one pedal that has two drive tones you really love.
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Lots of folk run parallel effects chains, and I’ve done it a lot in the past. My most common application was to run one long chain of pedals, then have an octave down in parallel so you can ‘kick in’ the sub under a line. Blending dirt pedals together in parallel is also very common. There are loads of blender pedals out there, but the most easily accessible is the Boss LS-2, which does a million things and everyone should own one, just for trying crazy routing options out when an idea like this hits. Though you have two outputs, I think using them for two chains will be less flexible that just using something like an LS-2 or other blender to split one output, due to the fact that most blenders will let you swap between just A, just B, or A+B mixed at the press of a button. I assume the value in your dual output is really to run one to amp and another straight to DI and FOH.
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Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
pantherairsoft replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
Awesome. I’ve had my eye on it for a while. Really appreciate the sound clips! -
Let us know your thoughts. I really like the aesthetic of these - has that old school vibe nailed.
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Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
pantherairsoft replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
Super cool! Stunning tidy work. @admiralchew how is the Lutz on bass? -
I’ll dig a little deeper into the side by side specs. I have more expression pedals and expression splitters than I know what to do with, with I’ve always use pitching on its own pedal and typically, I’ve found great use for the built in extra of stuff like this. I do think the presets will be a game changer, but maybe I can live without them. Either way, I’m fairly certain one of them is getting added to the collection.
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This is epic helpful. I’m away at an event in London for the next few days, but if I’m still this excited about it when I get back, I’m ordering an XS-100!
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(withdrawn, sorry, bad day)
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Purchased a couple of pedals over the last few months from Mike. Awesome comms, well looked after gear, quick postage etc etc. Super happy. Thanks!
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Purchased a pedal from Jeremi, no problems, great comms, quick postage. Can't ask for me. Thanks!
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Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
pantherairsoft replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
As you're already rocking the XS-100, can you confirm if it can do two detuning AND still have the dry signal (so, sweep from unity to +2 Octaves and -4th, and still hear the unity dry), or does the dry (no sweep) need to be one of the two 'voices'? -
Hearing lots of good stuff about this at the moment. Very close to pulling the trigger on the 100.
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These babies showed up… Oscillator Devices Trash Pandas. Incredibly powerful expression pedal splitters. I had planned on these being able to do what my Expressionator AND Source Audio Reflex could do… and you know what, they can… BUT… silly me had not realised that to access the LFO engines you need to control them with midi, which isn’t part of my setup and I’m not going down that rabbit hole again, so I guess these need to be moved on. After paying £50 in tax and duty, plus having to pay the same on return to get a refund, returning them is not an issue. Urgh. Expect them to be for sale soon. If you use midi, or don’t care about the LFO functionality, these are badass!
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I once had an OC2 modded by Max @ sfx, to increase the output gain. It overcame the slight signal drop you get from the OC2 when the -1 octave was solo’d. It was a great mod. It still didn’t compare to the full on output of modern alternatives though.
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Very keen to hear the feedback (particularly on pitch up swells).
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I’m very keen to try the 100. I liked the bass whammy, but the tone suck from the pedal was pretty noticeable. My fav pitch shifter for bass was the Eventide Pitchfactor, with an expression pedal. That was a great whammy. I assume the H9 does it just as well. The PF was funny about which expressions pedals it liked though, which was annoying. I think it was the only pedal I’ve ever used that wouldn’t work with a Moog EP-3. From the guitar pedal demos, it seems to have that hifi clear reproduction of the Eventide, which really appeals to me, as I use it after dirt and modulation for a more synth-like pitch shift. Its not cheap, but if it sounds good, I’m very tempted.
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No bass demos yet, but general guitar feedback seems to be that the tracking is insanely good. Maybe just marketing, but there is a ‘best whammy ever’ vibe floating about at the mo.
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BIN Though ‘bine inch nails’ doesn’t work. So abbreviation only. Nine Inch Snails has a good ring to it though if you prefer the long form… though that breaks the rules. Sorry.
