Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[rwillett]

43 minutes ago, basexperience said:

I needed some weird reverbs and noises, so I took a £50 punt on the M-VAVE ANNBLACKBOX and I've got to be honest, it's better than I expected. I need to repair the FI again though, the output level pot has died just like last time. I'll have to take it off the board, the pot isn't solid enough to survive being in the bag. What synth do you think I should replace it with? Wish I could get one of the 3D printed recase kits to turn it into the mini version, then I could pull it into the board a little and off the back edge, which would protect that pot... replacing the pot is a complete ballache as well.

 

What does that monster weigh? Is it on wheels and motorised?

[mikebass456]

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

 

What does that monster weigh? Is it on wheels and motorised?

Reckon it would even make Dave Gilmour wince.......😆😆

[basexperience]

6 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Why can't you?

The fella who made them just stopped doing it, sadly. 

[basexperience]

5 hours ago, rwillett said:

 

What does that monster weigh? Is it on wheels and motorised?

Christ, that’s a good idea

[rwillett]

6 hours ago, rwillett said:

Wish I could get one of the 3D printed recase kits to turn it into the mini version, then I could pull it into the board a little and off the back edge, which would protect that pot... replacing the pot is a complete ballache as well.

Let me know what you need. Do you have a model to work from? Printing is the easy bit...

[stewblack]

[Si600]

48 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Printing is the easy bit...

Ain't dat da troof!

[rwillett]

56 minutes ago, Si600 said:

Ain't dat da troof!

Oh yes 😊

[basexperience]

On 01/05/2025 at 09:24, Woodinblack said:

 

Why can't you?

As it turns out, I can! I didn’t realise there was anyone still making them - but there’s a fella on Facebook who’s in the Future Impact group, and I’m now in touch. Yay!

[ordep]

@GisserD is the man for FI enclosures

[Salt on your Bass?]

Managing to get reasonably similar outputs across both boards now for songs, but also different flavours which is cool. 

 

[nilorius]

My current pedal bag.

[admiralchew]

I think today’s the logical day for showing this one. May the 4th be with you, and all that!

 

 

I’ve added a delay since last year and a more fully-featured drive pedal. The drone, a multi-chorus and a fuzz have made way. I’m happy with the functionality of what is essentially a novelty board though. In particular, the bass chorus and reverb both sound right up there with some of the best of that type of pedal.

[TeresaFR]

6 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

I think today’s the logical day for showing this one. May the 4th be with you, and all that!

 

 

I’ve added a delay since last year and a more fully-featured drive pedal. The drone, a multi-chorus and a fuzz have made way. I’m happy with the functionality of what is essentially a novelty board though. In particular, the bass chorus and reverb both sound right up there with some of the best of that type of pedal.

I bet that AT-AT stomps *hard* live!

[BabyBlueSound]

You may fire, when ready!

[Salt on your Bass?]

1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

I think today’s the logical day for showing this one. May the 4th be with you, and all that!

 

 

I’ve added a delay since last year and a more fully-featured drive pedal. The drone, a multi-chorus and a fuzz have made way. I’m happy with the functionality of what is essentially a novelty board though. In particular, the bass chorus and reverb both sound right up there with some of the best of that type of pedal.

 

Dude that's incredible! Top work!

[BabyBlueSound]

What's the top left pedal? And what's the signal chain here? Any of these do the brass from the intro? 😁 

[bassist_lewis]

2 hours ago, admiralchew said:

I think today’s the logical day for showing this one. May the 4th be with you, and all that!

 

 

I’ve added a delay since last year and a more fully-featured drive pedal. The drone, a multi-chorus and a fuzz have made way. I’m happy with the functionality of what is essentially a novelty board though. In particular, the bass chorus and reverb both sound right up there with some of the best of that type of pedal.

Anyone see Beetronics' drop their Star Wars custom shop pedals? Some really cool designs there.

[basexperience]

On 02/05/2025 at 23:52, ordep said:

@GisserD is the man for FI enclosures

Yep! I wound up finding him on Facebook via the FI group there. Blue case coming this week!

[dannybuoy]

37 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

Anyone see Beetronics' drop their Star Wars custom shop pedals? Some really cool designs there.

Also IdiotBox:

[nilorius]

58 minutes ago, dannybuoy said:

Also IdiotBox:

Cool!!!

[admiralchew]

3 hours ago, BabyBlueSound said:

What's the top left pedal? And what's the signal chain here? Any of these do the brass from the intro? 😁 

The top left pedal is a Dark Father preamp from VVCo. They sadly seem to be in the process of closing down owing to a death in the team. It’s a weird one but sounds quite good once it’s dialled in.

 

The chain is:

 

T-65 (Octave) > Grand Tarkin (Fuzz) > Resurrector (HM-2 Hybrid) > Han Taun (OD) > Dual Knightfall (Distortion) > Tarkinfall (Distortion/Fuzz Hybrid) > Destroyer (Fuzz) > No Moon (Dirt Galore) > Royal Jelly (OD/Preamp) > Hyperspace (Chorus) > Darth Fazer (Phaser > Rebel Rebel (Delay) > Blue Harvest (Reverb) > Dark Father (Preamp)

 

T-65 effects loop: Boba Fuzz (Fuzz)

3 hours ago, bassist_lewis said:

Anyone see Beetronics' drop their Star Wars custom shop pedals? Some really cool designs there.

The big pedal at the front is their Darth Jelly from last year. I have a similarly themed Harmochorus from the previous year too which isn’t on this board.

[iamtheelvy]

Had a shift in focus for the bigger board. New band requires more heavy tones, so tweaked to add more drive. 

[nilorius]

48 minutes ago, iamtheelvy said:

Had a shift in focus for the bigger board. New band requires more heavy tones, so tweaked to add more drive. 

It's a very ok.

[krispn]

 

 

Slightly changed things up as I’ve added the Pork&Pickle and Taurus Servo to my board.

The Pork&Pickle is doing low gain duties as my always on drive and it’s first in line (after the tuner). I did try the Pork&Pickle after the preamp but it just sounded better before it. I’d placed a MojoMojo there recently and as good as it is the Pork & Pickle is more pleasing overall and it stacks really well with my heavier drive - they do sound glorious together! There’s very little going on settings wise but the tone control sounds great across its sweep and I’m hearing more in the midrange - maybe because  it’s a bass specific pedal but it edges out the Mojo for me! After my first gig with it (I didn’t tell anyone I’d changed things up) the drummer commented that my bass was sounding great in the mix. I’ve not really tried the fuzz settings with the band but I have fuzz later in the chain. I have used it stand alone messing around at home and it’s classic muffy fuzz!

 

Side note

I’ve said this before (I’m sure) but having the Funkulator in the signal chain means I can instantly add in that classic 800hz scoop and it’s like every drive pedal takes on a second voice. It’s no different with the Pork&Pickle and it sounds great with the slight scoop and supportive lows and highs. The Funkulator is a real sleeper pedal on any board and not just for slap tones!

 

The Taurus Servo replaces a Hyper Luminal compressor on the top row which is basically my FOH/IEM pathway (the blue box is my preamp which goes to both FOH and amp).

 

The HL is great and BUS mode adds nice punch but I wanted to add some more character overall to the signal chain for IEM and FOH and toyed with leaving the comp as I’m routing the Pork&Pickle first in the signal chain. Hearing the Servo in this spot ticked all the boxes- some compression and the right amount of saturation in a tiny box! It adds exactly what I wanted right before the CabM+ which just sweetens things before hitting the ears and pa. I’ve the punch switch in position 1 which throws in some bump around 100Hz-300Hz and thickens things up. I did try this standalone into the amp and it’s a powerful unit with the punch in position 2 but again for my needs it sit perfectly in its new spot. 

At last week’s gig I could really hear the added oomph kicking on the boost side on some tunes and felt the added weight coming out the subs. No one seemed upset by the added low end but I’m always conscious of being too bass heavy in the mix and due to some timing issues everyone was late last weekend, my phone wasn't connecting to the desk for my IEM mix etc so I hope to dial in the IEM sound with levels etc. more closely this Friday - at home playing along on the IEM mix it sounds great. I think I’ll generally keep the Taurus on the ‘blue’ side (not boosted) with punch engaged in position 1 with the Pork&Pickle in low gain settings as described.