Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[Al Krow]

11 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

Really nice board. Great pedals and very clean.

 

Agreed! Clean does look really great and very satisfying too! But having engaged the wrong effect at the wrong time mid song and getting justifiably disapproving looks from bandmates, I've come to appreciate the need for adequate spacing for my large feet with gigging boards!

[pantherairsoft]

On 10/10/2025 at 21:07, Lunoxx said:

Do you want to start a new thread with your list? Would be cool to see how much overlap there is between people, especially those who have massive collections. I'm happy to provide my list as well. 

 

On 10/10/2025 at 21:20, admiralchew said:

Same. I actually took a group shot of my pedals earlier this year for posterity but it’s not seen the light of day yet. A lot have since been sold but I wanted to catch it at before I started the big sales.

 

On 10/10/2025 at 23:39, LukeFRC said:

The journey was fun though right @pantherairsoft?! 
 

 

 

On 11/10/2025 at 10:17, jimbobothy said:

… just don’t price up boards, keeps things more manageable in my book 🤪

 

On 11/10/2025 at 10:54, tayste_2000 said:

It’s a combination of things, we live in the golden age of gear, it’s never been so abundant, available and to a degree cheap. When I started collecting pedals I was having to get custom buffer/blenders made to use fuzz pedals with active basses.

 

There was a time when I sold all my pedals for a Line 6 M13, it was easy enough to cop decent fx from multis. The issue was amps, but as PAs got bigger and better a lot of us could go ampless. Which made the pedalboard more and more important and bigger and bigger.

 

But until the Anagram the right combination of tone, fx, form factor, method of power and inputs and outputs just didn't exist at least for me. The Quad Cortex came close but it’s still a pretty big device if you've been running a pedaltrain nano for years.

 

In between owning the Quad Cortex (which I hated) and the Anagram I built the board you see (along with additional things) for sale currently.

 

This is where the problem became apparent, that board had like 3 core rigs, 3 sets of pedals I could take to a gig and get through the gig. So practice became this endless loop of comparing them and switching between them, the equivalent of going this song really needs and SVT, ah but this next one needs a Fender Bassman. Then on top of this you have more esoteric sounds that I wont use on a gig but I enjoy having, playing with, using on random songs I learn etc.

 

So the board ends up being pretty large, you pull a few things off to do a gig, realise that no one cares and then comes a long a box, 2/3s the size of your smallest pedalboard, that you can power with your phone charger, that not only does all the combinations your current board but also any crazy signal chain you can imagine, has enough io to run a clean and dirty DI in the studio or work as an IEM mixer live.

 

Then you look at your board and spares, price it up like Shep has, realise you've got 3+k sat there and even if/when you sell all that you’ll still have enough left over to build 2 nanos 😂….. well you end up where I am now.

Okay, I found a few things missing from my list, then started a thread.

 

 

[Light Grenade]

Simplified even further. Big clean tone with a bit of modulation. Happy days. 

 

Running into an RNDI which sits off board. Trace Elliot DI acting as backup. 

Edited Monday at 14:39 by Light Grenade

[0175westwood29]

latest edition 

[pantherairsoft]

15 hours ago, 0175westwood29 said:

latest edition 

 

How are you getting on with the XS-100? I see the Harmonist is still there as well...

[0175westwood29]

16 minutes ago, pantherairsoft said:

 

How are you getting on with the XS-100? I see the Harmonist is still there as well...

Harmonist is there so I can do dive bombs whenever I feel like it basically, the 100is really cool 

 

have it set up as whammy +1 Most of the time! 
 

but also of a fuzz preset ( blast radius) I have it doing a octave up under the standard sound as you can set the balance/blend

 

and works great as an octave down 

[pantherairsoft]

2 minutes ago, 0175westwood29 said:

Harmonist is there so I can do dive bombs whenever I feel like it basically, the 100is really cool 

 

have it set up as whammy +1 Most of the time! 
 

but also of a fuzz preset ( blast radius) I have it doing a octave up under the standard sound as you can set the balance/blend

 

and works great as an octave down 

Does it do the dive bombs as well as the Harmonist? I'd hope so, but worth asking given you're still using both rather than hopping between patches to do octave up and dive bomb! Thanks.

[0175westwood29]

6 minutes ago, pantherairsoft said:

Does it do the dive bombs as well as the Harmonist? I'd hope so, but worth asking given you're still using both rather than hopping between patches to do octave up and dive bomb! Thanks.

Oh yeh it can do -4 octave dive-bombs…… but obviously that takes up the whammy and I use the dive bomb a fair bit on a few sounds for fun so for ease kept the ps-6 aswell 

[pantherairsoft]

4 minutes ago, 0175westwood29 said:

Oh yeh it can do -4 octave dive-bombs…… but obviously that takes up the whammy and I use the dive bomb a fair bit on a few sounds for fun so for ease kept the ps-6 aswell 

Cheers! I'm torn at the moment between getting the 100 and the 1. In the past, whenever I've used pitch effects, I've always had them on a dedicated expression pedal, so the 100 feel like the natural choice for me, and the presets in it are an added bonus that I am likely to make use of. On the other hand, I have more expression pedal splitters than I can shake a stick at and it's not big issue to have the expression on my board also be used for pitch when I need it, so the XS-1 is temping for space saving and less money. Decisions, decisions.

[0175westwood29]

24 minutes ago, pantherairsoft said:

Cheers! I'm torn at the moment between getting the 100 and the 1. In the past, whenever I've used pitch effects, I've always had them on a dedicated expression pedal, so the 100 feel like the natural choice for me, and the presets in it are an added bonus that I am likely to make use of. On the other hand, I have more expression pedal splitters than I can shake a stick at and it's not big issue to have the expression on my board also be used for pitch when I need it, so the XS-1 is temping for space saving and less money. Decisions, decisions.

Also depends if need the +4-4 range tbh…..

[pantherairsoft]

5 minutes ago, 0175westwood29 said:

Also depends if need the +4-4 range tbh…..

Honestly, I don't think I'd ever need more than +/- 2 octaves - I never have before. It's the presets, especially being able to switch between different presents with ease during a track that's really appealing.

[0175westwood29]

4 minutes ago, pantherairsoft said:

Honestly, I don't think I'd ever need more than +/- 2 octaves - I never have before. It's the presets, especially being able to switch between different presents with ease during a track that's really appealing.

That’s honestly why I got it tbh the midi and presets 

[Balu]

My “unobtanium board 😎

pretty simple but straight to the point and can do oretty much sny gig with it. Love it to bits

[pantherairsoft]

10 hours ago, Balu said:

My “unobtanium board 😎

pretty simple but straight to the point and can do oretty much sny gig with it. Love it to bits

The Immerse is seriously good! I have the older version and it rocked. I not have Wet V4. Neunaber really do make the best reverb for bass! This trumps my Source Audio Collider and even the Iron Ether Nimbus on bass IMO.

Super cool little board.

[neepheid]

Pedalboard iteration number who knows...

 

[Al Krow]

15 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Pedalboard iteration number who knows...

 

 

Congrats on the new XS-1! When did that make its first appearance?

[neepheid]

10 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Congrats on the new XS-1! When did that make its first appearance?

 

Bought it on the way down the road to the SW Bass Bash on Saturday.  Tried it out in the Guitarguitar in Birmingham and really liked it so I decided to carpe that diem - not getting any younger!  Was too busy to do anything with it until I got home on the Monday - played around with it on the Monday night, put it on the board (replacing the TC Electronic Brainwaves) last night so I thought I should issue this update in the thread where people care about such things

 

[Al Krow]

22 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Bought it on the way down the road to the SW Bass Bash on Saturday.  Tried it out in the Guitarguitar in Birmingham and really liked it so I decided to carpe that diem - not getting any younger!  Was too busy to do anything with it until I got home on the Monday - played around with it on the Monday night, put it on the board (replacing the TC Electronic Brainwaves) last night so I thought I should issue this update in the thread where people care about such things

 

 

Enjoy! I'm already liking mine a lot!

 

Have got it connected up to an expression pedal for a bit of whammy fun which doubles up as a more accessible on/off on my board.

 

I bought it primarily for detuning duties but, as others have said, it's very probably the best octave up pedal currently around (certainly for the price) and is opening up 8 string opportunities with my crew ("yeah you can stop doubling up the bass line now!") which should allow us to fill out the sound further.

[eude]

46 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Congrats on the new XS-1! When did that make its first appearance?

Oh, very cool. Is it useful to avoid having to detune then?

[Al Krow]

1 minute ago, eude said:

Oh, very cool. Is it useful to avoid having to detune then?

 

I personally don't de-tune strings mid set - too much "dead air time", so it's been a case of learning songs in a different key or using a pitch shift pedal, which I've generally tried to avoid until now as I've found they had too much warble/latency and the XS-1 certainly does a better job than my multi-fx. Hopefully opens up more of our set for our alto lead vox to have a crack at (the other two who front the band are mezzo sops).

[neepheid]

5 minutes ago, eude said:

Oh, very cool. Is it useful to avoid having to detune then?

 

Yes - I use a pitch shifter all the time to cover off singer requests to "do this one x semitones up/down" - I ain't relearning songs, and I'm no getting a 5 string either!

 

[Balu]

2 hours ago, pantherairsoft said:

The Immerse is seriously good! I have the older version and it rocked. I not have Wet V4. Neunaber really do make the best reverb for bass! This trumps my Source Audio Collider and even the Iron Ether Nimbus on bass IMO.

Super cool little board.

Thank you so much man! Yeah the neaunaber is lovely. I use the wet or the tune down (chorus) and it sounds amazing so it isnt going anywhere 😎

[eude]

35 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Yes - I use a pitch shifter all the time to cover off singer requests to "do this one x semitones up/down" - I ain't relearning songs, and I'm no getting a 5 string either!

 

 

35 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

I personally don't de-tune strings mid set - too much "dead air time", so it's been a case of learning songs in a different key or using a pitch shift pedal, which I've generally tried to avoid until now as I've found they had too much warble/latency and the XS-1 certainly does a better job than my multi-fx. Hopefully opens up more of our set for our alto lead vox to have a crack at (the other two who front the band are mezzo sops).

Looks like that's going on my Xmas list then!