Stereo effects pedals that work well with Bass and Keyboard

[SumOne]

Any recommendations for stereo effects pedals that work well for both Bass and Keyboard?

 

I'm keen to gradually build a pedalboard that could work for both. That means they need to have the option of stereo in/outs for the Keyboard (it has built-in stereo effects like Leslie speaker), not be too Bass specific (e.g. Bass compressor) and be able to handle line in as well as instrument in signals. It'd be good if they had presets that could be easily changed from Keyboard to Bass.

 

I think the Source Audio stuff would all be good. e.g. Atlas compressor, Collider delay, Gemini Chorus (which I unfortunately sold recently). Perhaps the Boss RE-2 or RE-202. Any good stereo distortion? (distortion is one thing I'm not so keen on with the Source Audio pedals, doesn't sound as good as analogue to me)

 

Perhaps multi-fx like the Boss GT Core. My reservation with multi-fx is I enjoy the jam band improvising type approach to all apart from the 'bread and butter/always on' effects, especially with keyboard e.g. if I instantly decide I want one section to have distortion and chorus I can easily press both on with individual pedals and easily change their parameters, I can then decide to add some delay and click that pedal on - as opposed to trying to do all that with multi-fx by scrolling through effects blocks and parameter menus or presets to find one pre-planned for that exact eventuality.

Edited yesterday at 12:07 by SumOne

[dave_bass5]

First thing that comes to mind is the Helix Stomp. I know there are many other options out these but ive used the Stomp for both bass and keys (not at the same time or even in the same band), and it worked well. Especially good when using the midi function to change Stomp patches with keyboard patches. 

If you set up a chain of blocks covering the different effects and have them turned off, you can just enable them rather than needing to scroll through anything. This is how the cheaper multi FX like the Valeton's work.

[LukeFRC]

Zoom ms70cdr is quite well regarded in the synth world it seems.

 

if you want flexibility would something like hx effects with lots of footswitches (or LT aren’t silly money any more secondhand)

[SumOne]

I have owned a stomp and some Zoom pedals before, but not used with keyboard so perhaps I should re-consider them.

 

My issue with pretty much any multi-fx I've tried (and I have tried most of them) is they lack that immediacy/improvisation of individual pedals chained together.

 

The Stomp for example, say I just quickly decide while playing keys that I want to turn on a Phaser and increase its rate and then after a few seconds turn on distortion and gradually increase that:  Perhaps I'm doing things wrong but I would usually figure I need to have a 'Phaser + Distortion' preset to scroll through to that'd have Phaser assigned to one FS (to turn on first), 'phaser rate' assigned as something I can easily/quickly edit with the knobs, then 'Distortion' on another FS to turn on and distortion amount assigned to knobs to increase, and what if I then decide I want to add a delay for the last notes of the song and I don't have that as a FS in the preset?  I dunno, but that sort of scenario never seems to have worked out for me with multi-fx in the same way as if I just had them as individual pedals, I'd end up needing a massive list of presets to scroll through to cover every eventuality, or a big long effext chain I scroll into to activate the specific ones I need, or different footswitches assingned for different eventualities. For me, multi-fx are great for pre-planned sets with presets, and 'always on' type things (amp/cab sims, compression etc), but much less so (and less fun) for live on-the-go improvisation.  

 

..but yeah, I conceed that I should probably re-consider how I use multi-fx as they are probably the more sensible option.

 

The Plethora X3 looks pretty decent to me as stereo effects and the sort of hands-on features of individual pedals. Annoying it doesn't have any distortions though.

Edited 19 hours ago by SumOne

[dave_bass5]

You can add a multi switch foot pedal to the Stomp and have them assigned to different blocks. 
I get what you are saying, i too find the multi FX stuff as being less accessible, but i also realise if im playing with two hands i wouldn’t be messing with knobs anyway. 
it’s just dining what works for your mind set. 
Maybe you’re over thinking the need for a long list of effects though. It might not be as long as you think.