Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[Immo]

Back to the forum after a long while, I give you my current minimalist pedalboard after refurbishing the board itself with new Velcro and stuff, and putting the ever-faulty Polish Love and Polish Hate aside.

 

Very doomy, but can also go quite funky, but that envelope filter will be replaced because it annoys me.
 

[BabyBlueSound]

4 hours ago, krispn said:

Great question. It’s basically a pre defined eq cut at 800Hz which simultaneously maintains bass and treble at a consistent volume as the cut gets more pronounced across the sweep of the knob. Imagine a bass and treble boost only eq on an active bass which also adds that 800Hz mid cut too for  slap tone but all mapped to one knob. 
 

At lower levels the cut is less evident but can liven up the tone. It’s looks a bit one dimensional on the surface but in conjunction with a drive pedal you can think of it as adding a second eq voicing. I can have a nice drive tone and then engage the Funkulator and immediately get a more scooped voicing which might be preferable on some tunes. 
 

I’ve said in a post about the Funkulator in another thread it’s really quite useful and can enhance a jazz bass’ natural voice, add a

new voicing to a drive pedals as well as tighten up finger style at lower settings. 

 

This sounds pretty funky! Do you happen to have a schematic for the circuit? I'd like to breadboard this one out.

[nilorius]

19 minutes ago, Immo said:

Back to the forum after a long while, I give you my current minimalist pedalboard after refurbishing the board itself with new Velcro and stuff, and putting the ever-faulty Polish Love and Polish Hate aside.

 

Very doomy, but can also go quite funky, but that envelope filter will be replaced because it annoys me.
 

What does ''Prod'' do on Your board ?

[Elfrasho]

On 04/07/2025 at 09:16, YellowLedBetterBass said:

I put this massive board together out of all of the bits I actually use during an average rehearsal. Covers everything I need.

 

I've got it set up so in A/B mode it swaps between a slightly driven SVT and a very distorted SVT. Then for stomp box mode I've got it loaded with a Darkglass Microtubes capture and a Sansamp Bass Driver capture, and I'll test those two captures out and go with whatever I prefer on the day.

 

My setup doesn't need to be any more complex than that.

 

 

I'm really swithering over getting this or the valeton gp-5. I'm the same, i need pretty much  eactly what you're using this for.  My HXstomp is briliant and not exactly bulky but a tonex would pretty much make it a softcase load in which id love.

 

What is the thing the tonex is mounted on. Also, is it powered by the usb cable and is that how you use it live? 

[YellowLedBetterBass]

9 minutes ago, Elfrasho said:

 

 

I'm really swithering over getting this or the valeton gp-5. I'm the same, i need pretty much  eactly what you're using this for.  My HXstomp is briliant and not exactly bulky but a tonex would pretty much make it a softcase load in which id love.

 

What is the thing the tonex is mounted on. Also, is it powered by the usb cable and is that how you use it live? 

It's loaded on top of a passive DI box, only a cheapo Gear4Music one. I do pack a 9v supply usually but in this instance I just had my laptop charger to hand so was using that instead.

[Immo]

11 minutes ago, nilorius said:

What does ''Prod'' do on Your board ?

It is a modified/personalized clone/upgrade of CoT-50 tweaked for bass. It's a booster and overdrive that saturates the sound and adds low to medium dirt to it. The level of overdrive is input-sensitive.

The pots are Level  and Sizzle (reversed bias for Boost mode). The toggle switches the LED color and toggles between no Boost (smaller lighting, blue LED) and Boost (bigger lightning, red LED); the rotary switch selects clipping between no added clipping (I), extra Schottky diode (II) or extra symmetrical pair of Schottky diodes (III). I is most low end and volume, least grit, III is the least low end and volume, but most grit, and II is somewhere in between.

This thing does wonders with the rest of the pedals, adding more "scene" to the sound of other dirt pedals, also pushing them to more oomph, or, if they are properly dialed, gated and nasal tones. On its own it's also really cool, with warm, bluesey drive.

[LukeFRC]

39 minutes ago, BabyBlueSound said:

 

This sounds pretty funky! Do you happen to have a schematic for the circuit? I'd like to breadboard this one out.

Not one I’ve seen traced (I’ve looked) inductor based too

[BabyBlueSound]

1 minute ago, LukeFRC said:

Not one I’ve seen traced (I’ve looked) inductor based too

 

I guess we'll need to dissect one of these and re-build them for the purpose?  

 

https://sound-au.com/project150.htm

https://www.ecircuitcenter.com/Circuits/op_bandcut_boost/op_cutboost.htm

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/filter/band-stop-filter.html

[krispn]

42 minutes ago, BabyBlueSound said:

 

This sounds pretty funky! Do you happen to have a schematic for the circuit? I'd like to breadboard this one out.

No I don’t sorry. 

[Homatron]

Slapped this board together in a hurry as I wanted a battery-powered utility board for a small gig. Slightly miffed I needed to use 2x USB converters to eliminate noise, but it worked well and sounded good in the end!

 

Apologies if the messiness offends anyone!