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!

[Byo]

On 20/07/2025 at 10:15, krispn said:

Added a Genzler 4OTF Classic bass for an always on sound to warm up the clean preamp which hits my two LBA 2020s transformers hidden underneath before the input stage on the Basswitch. 

Hey @krispn,

I bought a couple of these LBA 2020s a while back to do something similar, but still haven't had a chance to build a new pedalboard (sadly no gigs atm, only a few remote sessions).

How do these x2 LBA 2020s sound, and is it noticeable enough?

Cheers!

[Sibob]

A couple of changes to my home/desk practice setup:

 

 

Dedicated tuner allows me 5x separate effects readily available on the HX Stomp.

The Element then acts as my Bluetooth/Headphone interface for practicing and learning tunes, as well as a DI/Cab sim for FOH if I gigged it. Can’t reach the amp out from the Element in this layout (because it’s located in a silly place), but I can just take the amp out from the HX Stomp anyway, so I’m sorted.

Pedaltrain Nano and powered by a Cioks Sol.

 

Si

Edited 1 hour ago by Sibob

[krispn]

4 hours ago, Byo said:

Hey @krispn,

I bought a couple of these LBA 2020s a while back to do something similar, but still haven't had a chance to build a new pedalboard (sadly no gigs atm, only a few remote sessions).

How do these x2 LBA 2020s sound, and is it noticeable enough?

Cheers!

I’ve had them in place so long now they’re just part of the baked in tone. Initially I’d got them to add to the signal chain of a different unit but then ended up with an all tube pre amp with a Tx in the DI.
 

How I use them now is having them in line after a drive unit or preamp (or both) sounded best as they’re adding some colouration and need a wee bit of signal driving into them. 
 

I did get the next model after these  it it lost some lows while adding more colouration but the 2020s models were the right mix. I’ve seen on TB one guy had about 5 or 6 2020s unit in line beneath a Nano board. 
 

I had one initially and it wasn’t so noticeable. Ended up with three 2020s’ but two was the sweet spot for me. 
 

If you’re reconsidering using them definitely try them after a drive or preamp to get the most out of them. 

Edited 56 minutes ago by krispn