Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

[basexperience]

On 14/11/2025 at 21:34, Steve Lawson said:

here's the latest version of my pedalboard, all inside the MOD DuoX  

 

Every purple line is an audio path, and every blue one is MIDI.

 

It's one in (though it could be stereo) 6 out (three stereo pairs). 

 

The parallel audio paths include an ambient path that's all reverb/delay, one that's all pitch-to-MIDI, and one that's glitchy weird sh*t. 

 

it's all controlled via a Keith McMillen Softstep and Quneo, the MOD Footswitch and two Dunlop mini expression pedals. The only additional outboard at the moment is a Dunlop volume pedal, a Dunlop Wah (alternate between the mini bass wah and the Justin Chancellor), and a Nordstrand Starlifter. 

 

 

Dear lord, what's the latency on that?!

[MichaelDean]

6 minutes ago, basexperience said:

Nice solution! Like the patchy - I'm guessing that's your own design? I just made one for my filter board: Gave me an appreciation for guys like Bright Onion - enjoyed the process, but weighing up the cost their service is a damn good one.

Thanks! Yeah, just got a small metal enclosure drilled and wired it. Stereo jacks on the inside so I can be flexible on ins/outs. I also appreciate their efforts. I got it a bit wrong as the sockets broke contact on one of the sides when you put the jack in and had to re-do half of the connections 🙄

[Steve Lawson]

2 hours ago, basexperience said:

Dear lord, what's the latency on that?!

approx 10ms, including the interface. Easily manageable

[Woodinblack]

3 hours ago, basexperience said:

Dear lord, what's the latency on that?!

 

Whatever the A/D latency is in the first place, once you are in the digital side there is no additional latency between effects, so one effect or 100 effects, as long as you have the processing power, it doesn't matter. 

[basexperience]

20 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Whatever the A/D latency is in the first place, once you are in the digital side there is no additional latency between effects, so one effect or 100 effects, as long as you have the processing power, it doesn't matter. 

I've read the specs and that thing has a serious ARM core on it, but there is processing delay, it's not *no* additional latency.

[MrDinsdale]

4 hours ago, basexperience said:

I've read the specs and that thing has a serious ARM core on it, but there is processing delay, it's not *no* additional latency.

I gotta say, I never noticed any noticeable addition to the latency for more complex signal chains with the MOD Dwarf, that’s not to say it wasn’t there but certainly wasn’t apparent.

 

Using the channel routing as an FX loop or utilising their “Portal” blocks which allowed parallel processing to lower CPU usage at the expense of latency however had a huge impact. Was pretty essential though for using the AIDA-X captures. 

[javi_bassist]

My two boards updated:

Board #2: Simple. Peterson Tuner-->JHS Prestige-->Ampeg Opto Comp-->JHS Colourbox v2. I use the Prestige to give a little boost and also to have similar signals from different basses. The Ampeg Opto Comp because I wanted an optical compressor and I kinda like it. And the JHS Colourbox is a really really good clean preamp. I made this board because last time I recorded for a singer, the producer just use a Neve kind of preamp and an LA2A compressor and I just love the sound. The Colourbox is the closer I got in a pedal. The Opto Comp might be replaced in the future, but so far, so good.

 

And this is my main board:
A few days ago Jad Freer uploaded this image. I must admit that it took me some time to fully understand its potential and I think it is a game changer (for me). With the HX Stomp I always had this "internal fight" that if I put the preamp before the HX Stomp (or in the loop) I lose the ability to have a DI, and if I put it at the end, there are some effects that are affected by the preamp. With this solution, I can have the Capo anywehre in the chain inside the HX Stomp and still being able to use the DI. I can even use both DIs out because one would be still totally clean and the other one with all the chain.

 

 

So this is my pedalboard, plain and "not-so" simple:
Canvas Tuner-->Jad Freer Capo
In the loop: HX Stomp
In the loop of the HX Stomp: Cali76
With this pedalboard, I can have the Cali76 and the Capo anywhere in the chain of the HX Stomp. I hace currently a chorus effect after the Capo and it sounds much better after than before it.

 

 

[MrDinsdale]

5 hours ago, javi_bassist said:

My two boards updated:

Board #2: Simple. Peterson Tuner-->JHS Prestige-->Ampeg Opto Comp-->JHS Colourbox v2. I use the Prestige to give a little boost and also to have similar signals from different basses. The Ampeg Opto Comp because I wanted an optical compressor and I kinda like it. And the JHS Colourbox is a really really good clean preamp. I made this board because last time I recorded for a singer, the producer just use a Neve kind of preamp and an LA2A compressor and I just love the sound. The Colourbox is the closer I got in a pedal. The Opto Comp might be replaced in the future, but so far, so good.

 

And this is my main board:
A few days ago Jad Freer uploaded this image. I must admit that it took me some time to fully understand its potential and I think it is a game changer (for me). With the HX Stomp I always had this "internal fight" that if I put the preamp before the HX Stomp (or in the loop) I lose the ability to have a DI, and if I put it at the end, there are some effects that are affected by the preamp. With this solution, I can have the Capo anywehre in the chain inside the HX Stomp and still being able to use the DI. I can even use both DIs out because one would be still totally clean and the other one with all the chain.

 

 

So this is my pedalboard, plain and "not-so" simple:
Canvas Tuner-->Jad Freer Capo
In the loop: HX Stomp
In the loop of the HX Stomp: Cali76
With this pedalboard, I can have the Cali76 and the Capo anywhere in the chain of the HX Stomp. I hace currently a chorus effect after the Capo and it sounds much better after than before it.

 

 

that’s how I set my capo up with the GT1000core, very fun setup!

[Immo]

Pretty much done (yeah, right).

 

I had to modify my pedalboard yet again, this time by adding an external effects loop to accommodate the wah.

[Hugsonic]

14 hours ago, Immo said:

Pretty much done (yeah, right).

 

I had to modify my pedalboard yet again, this time by adding an external effects loop to accommodate the wah.

"had to modify my pedalboard yet again" pretty much the mantra of this thread 😊. 

[Ed_S]

Decided to join in with the pedal riser idea and build a little essentials board. With a bit of judicious wiggling I've managed to get it all flush on three sides, but the DC plugs overhang just slightly at the top. Could be worse.

 

The feet have been harvested from my old Markbass F1 which sadly expired recently.

 

It can be powered from both a standard adapter and also a USB powerbank thanks to an ENGL PowerTap Portable which is the little block under the back edge. As long as the polarity is correct it'll take anything from 5-18v input and send 9v output.

 

For the full wireless whatsit I was considering getting a pair of cheap UHF bugs from the Black Friday sales to go between board and amp. They claim less than 3ms latency, which added to my Fender Telepath on the input claiming 4ms, should still be perfectly acceptable.

 

 

 

The yellow sticker is just 'if lost please call' info, but I'm old-school about putting my mobile number all over the Internet so blanked it, in case you were wondering what/why.