Doubt pedalboard Skunk Anansie

[Togomi]

Hi,

 

If you have to play in a Skunk Anansie tribute band, you'll think about single pedals or to get a digital multi effects pedalboard?

 

I prefer analog sound to digital, but maybe with single pedals I have more work and cost.

 

It will depend on songs, of course.

I will need compressor, chorus, overdrive, fuzz, delay, envelope filter...may a multi foot switch to active more than one pedal at the same time...

 

At this momnent, I've got some pedals: compressor, synth wah, envelope filter, OD and fuzz (Shock Attack), octaver, chorus...not delay, not power supply and not switch controller. 

And a new HX Stomp.

And not experience with effects.

 

Did anybody play SA music and can share his/her experience?

 

Thanks in advance 

[LukeFRC]

Dunno 

I’ll leave this here, there seems to be parallel paths which the hx stomp should be able to do 

 

 

[tayste_2000]

Yeah I’d go multi as doing it with single pedals is a lot of pedals.

 

Huge sound and I love Cass Lewis

[Togomi]

It's my first time with a digital multi effects processor.

Are there presets of Cass effects?

Of pedals or full songs?

 

Thanks

[tayste_2000]

I came across this at the weekend.

 

 

I could spend ages picking out fx here, there’s definitely octaver use, I always felt the EHX Bassballs was a big part of the sound, a big part of the pedalboard was an old Korg G5.

 

With a multi you’re going to have to programme it in, picking out the sounds and effects in use. Other than that it’s well over a grand in various pedals I’d say to get the various textures going on.

 

I found this picture which looks simpler than his older board

 

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCassLewis/photos/pb.100063918541965.-2207520000/1972539592847681/?type=3&locale=pt_BR

 

But there are definitely a bunch of pedals under the Digitech Synth Wah and the Korg G5.

[tayste_2000]

Rabbit hole now.

 

So if I was doing this with single pedals you need a blend, a fuzz maybe two, a filter, a fuzzy filter like the EHX Bassballs or a synth pedal and I feel like a phaser and I’d run all of that into a fairly gritty Sansamp.

 

There is fuzz all over stuff, I’ve never really known where he uses the G5 but then I’ve never been able to get the swirly squelchy sound of Twisted. Which is always where I hear most of the fx.

 

If I had to do it with a small board I’d grab an EHX Bass Big Muff - the new MXR Bass Synth (with a switch for the presets) or a Digitech bass synth wah (depending on budget) - MXR Phase 95 - Sansamp.

 

Big board (no budget) I’d have a split going into a boss or source audio programmable eq pedal into a sansamp or the qstrip for clean and a ehx pog - digitech drop - jhs crimson or a wren and cuff box of war - jhs bender - digitech bass synth wah - digitech synth wah - mxr bass synth - analogman mini chorus - into a gritty sansamp then blend them back together and run that into a Neve DI or your choice of clean di box.

 

I’d probably use the gigrig wetter box and have the expression pedal for controlling the blend. I’d also likely shove my Subdecay Noise Theory and a Mojohand 442 or Dod 440 in there.

 

Grab a Stingray, that would do me and be hella fun to play. 

 

If I was doing it with a multi, I could cop the tones with a Zoom MS60b+ (it has a g5 emulation in it) but wouldn’t give me the switching I’d need live so I’d be on the HX Stomp or Anagram.

 

I could probably do most of it with the MXR Bass Synth from what I’ve seen.

 

I’m enjoying this thread too much.

[dave_bass5]

One thing to consider with effects, is the correct order to get the tone you want. It's not always obvious what goes first etc, even if you know what effects are used. In this case something like the HX Strop is a lot easier to swap the order of the separate effects than a wired pedal board. 

Personally id try and do it all in the Stomp first. 

[Togomi]

On 08/07/2025 at 01:29, tayste_2000 said:

Rabbit hole now.

 

So if I was doing this with single pedals you need a blend, a fuzz maybe two, a filter, a fuzzy filter like the EHX Bassballs or a synth pedal and I feel like a phaser and I’d run all of that into a fairly gritty Sansamp.

 

There is fuzz all over stuff, I’ve never really known where he uses the G5 but then I’ve never been able to get the swirly squelchy sound of Twisted. Which is always where I hear most of the fx.

 

If I had to do it with a small board I’d grab an EHX Bass Big Muff - the new MXR Bass Synth (with a switch for the presets) or a Digitech bass synth wah (depending on budget) - MXR Phase 95 - Sansamp.

 

Big board (no budget) I’d have a split going into a boss or source audio programmable eq pedal into a sansamp or the qstrip for clean and a ehx pog - digitech drop - jhs crimson or a wren and cuff box of war - jhs bender - digitech bass synth wah - digitech synth wah - mxr bass synth - analogman mini chorus - into a gritty sansamp then blend them back together and run that into a Neve DI or your choice of clean di box.

 

I’d probably use the gigrig wetter box and have the expression pedal for controlling the blend. I’d also likely shove my Subdecay Noise Theory and a Mojohand 442 or Dod 440 in there.

 

Grab a Stingray, that would do me and be hella fun to play. 

 

If I was doing it with a multi, I could cop the tones with a Zoom MS60b+ (it has a g5 emulation in it) but wouldn’t give me the switching I’d need live so I’d be on the HX Stomp or Anagram.

 

I could probably do most of it with the MXR Bass Synth from what I’ve seen.

 

I’m enjoying this thread too much.

 

Too complicated for my knowledge about that.

 

Now I've got a HX Stomp and almost convinced to do it with it, but firstly I wanted to do with pedals.

As I mencioned, I've got some pedals.

Exactly, ebs comp, ebs dphaser, ebs chorus, digitech synth wah, ebs basiq, boss octave oc2, After Shock Distortion and two more I was going to sell like Mooer Mooer Envelope Analog Auto Wah and Boss Octave OC3. I've got them but not worked with them. I gradually bought them second-hand at a good price. I only use the multicomp with another band. Skunk Anansie project is still starting.

I don't have a Samsap or similar. And I don't know if I would need a multi switch controller to turn some pedals on or off at the same time.

 

But a friend said to me that it was going to be more practical to do it with a multi, so I've got hx stomp and trying to learn.

And I think to sell the pedals less some of them like comp, octave and a wah.

Do you think I could try it with the pedals I've got and a small board?

EHX Bass Big Muff > After Shock Distortion?

Digitech bass synth wah > I've got it

MXR Phase 95 > EBS Dphase?

No SanSamp

 

Probably I would need the Digitech Drop you mencioned, becuase maybe 2-3 songs must be dropped.

But If I get done presets for the hx stomp, I wouldn't complicate my life, due to my experience with effects.

 

Thanks to all for the help

Edited yesterday at 09:45 by Togomi

[dave_bass5]

The HX Stomp has the Sansamp emulation, and I found it quite close to my 'real' one at the time. 

You can also do drop tuning with the HX. It's not fantastic, but I used this a few times in the past where a singer would want to change key and I couldn't be bothered to try and transpose on the fly. 

[Togomi]

1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

The HX Stomp has the Sansamp emulation, and I found it quite close to my 'real' one at the time. 

You can also do drop tuning with the HX. It's not fantastic, but I used this a few times in the past where a singer would want to change key and I couldn't be bothered to try and transpose on the fly. 

I actualized to 3.80 with the first turn on and was reading about update and it's true, ZeroAmp Bass DI is based in SansAmp.

I tried two drop pedals as well.

Another thing I forgot is I need a delay for Secretly.

So, drop, delay, preamp...maybe switch controller... better to work with the HX Stomp.

 

I don't find a pedal for Twisted, wah or synth. Do you know?

 

Thanks 

 

[dave_bass5]

25 minutes ago, Togomi said:

I actualized to 3.80 with the first turn on and was reading about update and it's true, ZeroAmp Bass DI is based in SansAmp.

I tried two drop pedals as well.

Another thing I forgot is I need a delay for Secretly.

So, drop, delay, preamp...maybe switch controller... better to work with the HX Stomp.

 

I don't find a pedal for Twisted, wah or synth. Do you know?

 

Thanks 

 

Line 6 have lists of what effects are included, you should be able to find what you need in there. No idea what Twisted is/does, but there are Wah's. 

[tayste_2000]

Sorry ignore my suggestion of the Digitech Drop, I should have written Ricochet.

 

https://digitech.com/dp/whammy-ricochet/

 

This will allow you to do what he does with the whammy but in a smaller pedal.

 

The HX Stomp can do it with a momentary setting or with an expression pedal/footswitch. I’m not quite sure of the specifics but plenty of people have done it.

 

The stomp is definitely the way to go as trying to do it with single pedals whilst fun is less flexible and far more expensive.

 

Twisted to me is a blended signal maybe with a light octaver on it into a filter and then a phase or chorus just to give it more warble. I could imagine that the G5 might be doing this and it’s a really easy sound to get with one of these but 🤷‍♂️

 

But listening to

 

You can cop these tones easily with the HX