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Post by OOD on Feb 4, 2016 18:30:06 GMT
I've always held to the theory that T-birds are so f'n expensive because of the 8 tons of wood they use in the necks. Mahogany baby. The neck is thin as Hell,But that cool looking Headstock has some heft to it. PLUS the fins OR bouts or whatever, ALL mahogany. I use a proper strap,and I don't get the neck dive every fender player bitches about when they try a T-Bird. dunlop strap locks are great for balancing an instrument too. |
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Post by xgator4u on Feb 4, 2016 19:07:57 GMT
Mahogany baby. The neck is thin as Hell,But that cool looking Headstock has some heft to it. PLUS the fins OR bouts or whatever, ALL mahogany. I use a proper strap,and I don't get the neck dive every fender player bitches about when they try a T-Bird. dunlop strap locks are great for balancing an instrument too. Oh I definitely have them on there, I'm telling you,that Headstock hits the floor hard, that thin neck breaks at the nut. I learned that the hard way. |
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Post by Inyourmuff! on Feb 18, 2016 10:41:29 GMT
Wow - what a great thread on pedals!
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Post by Nukes on Feb 18, 2016 10:55:51 GMT
Wow - what a great thread on pedals! Well hey you know i had set up an entire playground for PedalBreeders but then they made me aware of.what a dick they thought i was so... you know... i, well... removed it? I never fought the war, my name was used for propaganda purposes only. |
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Post by Nukes on Feb 18, 2016 14:44:34 GMT
Now...back to building my pedalboard.
I gave this some thoughts.
I think what i want on a pedalboard is as follows:
Tuner
Compressor
Delay
Envelope filter
Leslie emulator.
I have the board, its a PedalTrain Jr.
I have a tuner.
Stay tuned.
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Post by bassist4eris on Mar 9, 2016 1:15:48 GMT
My board:
The signal chain begins and ends with the Radial Bassbone, which is basically a fancy DI for two basses, with a preamp for matching the level of the second bass to the first and making any necessary EQ changes, and an effects loop, so that you can use all your floor warts with both basses, and send them all to FOH or the mixing console. Having all the effects in a loop also allows for a "panic button". If something goes wrong in this complex monstrosity I call a pedalboard, at least I can access the dry signal and the show can go on.
First pedal in the loop is the TC Polytune 2, a tuner chosen mainly for its small size, but a keeper for its accuracy and readability. Why is it in the loop and not the tuner jack? So I can use it as a mute switch too. Then it hits a vintage Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, which I bought almost new in high school. And yes, it sucks that a pedal I bought fairly new in high school now qualifies as vintage, but I'm still younger than a lot of you fuckers, so there. 
After that pedal comes a device that not enough people have looked into, IMHO, an order swapper. Mine is made by Saturnworks. It's a simple, two-loop utility pedal that runs loop A into loop B, or loop B into loop A at the stomp of a foot. Its main function in my setup is to allow me to have filters before the compressor and dirt pedals after, but still be able to "move" the dirt pedals before the filters for certain tones. It has other uses too, the way I've set it up, but I don't want to write a novel here, just a novella.
The first pedal in the A loop of the order swapper is yet another utility pedal, the Boss LS-2 (Line Selector). I use this for two reasons. One is to switch instantly between a fuzz tone and a chorus tone. The other is to switch on fuzz+filter with a single stomp. To these ends, the A loop of the Line Selector is Stomp Under Foot Civil Unrest fuzz => MXR Bass Envelope Filter => EHX Enigma QBalls envelope filter. The B loop is the MXR Stereo Chorus, which I run in mono.
After the LS-2 comes the Markbass Compressore, which completes loop A of the order swapper. Loop B of the order swapper goes from Digitech Bass Synth Wah => Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive => Big Game Bedlam OD => Pigtronix Envelope Phaser. Then after the order swapper it goes to the Boss PH-3 phaser before heading home to the Radial.
The whole shebang is mounted on a PT-Pro, and powered with two (count 'em) Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus power supplies, which are mounted underneath the board.
A fair question: why four envelope filters?
Because I'm funky, that's why.
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Post by Nukes on Mar 9, 2016 10:42:31 GMT
My board:
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The signal chain begins and ends with the Radial Bassbone, which is basically a fancy DI for two basses, with a preamp for matching the level of the second bass to the first and making any necessary EQ changes, and an effects loop, so that you can use all your floor warts with both basses, and send them all to FOH or the mixing console. Having all the effects in a loop also allows for a "panic button". If something goes wrong in this complex monstrosity I call a pedalboard, at least I can access the dry signal and the show can go on.
First pedal in the loop is the TC Polytune 2, a tuner chosen mainly for its small size, but a keeper for its accuracy and readability. Why is it in the loop and not the tuner jack? So I can use it as a mute switch too. Then it hits a vintage Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, which I bought almost new in high school. And yes, it sucks that a pedal I bought fairly new in high school now qualifies as vintage, but I'm still younger than a lot of you fuckers, so there.
After that pedal comes a device that not enough people have looked into, IMHO, an order swapper. Mine is made by Saturnworks. It's a simple, two-loop utility pedal that runs loop A into loop B, or loop B into loop A at the stomp of a foot. Its main function in my setup is to allow me to have filters before the compressor and dirt pedals after, but still be able to "move" the dirt pedals before the filters for certain tones. It has other uses too, the way I've set it up, but I don't want to write a novel here, just a novella.
The first pedal in the A loop of the order swapper is yet another utility pedal, the Boss LS-2 (Line Selector). I use this for two reasons. One is to switch instantly between a fuzz tone and a chorus tone. The other is to switch on fuzz+filter with a single stomp. To these ends, the A loop of the Line Selector is Stomp Under Foot Civil Unrest fuzz => MXR Bass Envelope Filter => EHX Enigma QBalls envelope filter. The B loop is the MXR Stereo Chorus, which I run in mono.
After the LS-2 comes the Markbass Compressore, which completes loop A of the order swapper. Loop B of the order swapper goes from Digitech Bass Synth Wah => Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive => Big Game Bedlam OD => Pigtronix Envelope Phaser. Then after the order swapper it goes to the Boss PH-3 phaser before heading home to the Radial.
The whole shebang is mounted on a PT-Pro, and powered with two (count 'em) Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus power supplies, which are mounted underneath the board.
A fair question: why four envelope filters?
Because I'm funky, that's why.
Wow! A year on the effects forum sacrificed your down payment on a new car. Im either lucky enough or unlucky enough to have zero disposable income right now. All my long socks have holes in them. |
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Post by bassist4eris on Mar 9, 2016 23:47:18 GMT
Wow! A year on the effects forum sacrificed your down payment on a new car. Im either lucky enough or unlucky enough to have zero disposable income right now. All my long socks have holes in them. Quite literally. My car shit the bed a few months ago and it was pretty tight coming up with a down payment. I've put a spending freeze on myself for 2016. It helps that now that I have a car payment, there's precious little extra to spare. |
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Post by bassist4eris on Apr 27, 2016 21:38:08 GMT
Downsize time. A fully-loaded PT-Pro is insanely heavy, and just large enough to be a problem in car trunks and on stages. It was actually starting to suck the fun out of using effects, and it was even starting to get confusing. Scroll up three posts to see the "before" picture. Here I am back to my old PT-2, and while there are pedals I miss (I wasn't really using them though, and I do still have them) I'm really happy about this more compact setup.
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Post by OOD on Oct 7, 2016 21:20:40 GMT
So much has changed.  |
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Post by Nukes on May 27, 2017 16:49:17 GMT
Last night I was in envelope filter heaven. My fretless has an 18v preamp, so it doesn't interact well with the SansAmp. No problem, true bypass FTW.
The bass has a wenge fingerboard and goes mental when tapped through the envelope filter.
Yes I'm pretentious as all fuck, I tap...I have a pedal board, I have a B string.
What I'd like to do is practice to a beat more than I do, I'm considering one of those drum machine pedals. My tapping needs work- and there's only so much room for triplets.
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Post by OOD on Jun 5, 2017 0:52:31 GMT
I'm no longer using a pedalboard. I got a new amp that does all that my board could so I'm enjoying the freedom of bass->cord->amp.
Fits in nicely with my lifestyle.
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Post by Nukes on Apr 3, 2018 19:41:04 GMT
I'm no longer using a pedalboard. I got a new amp that does all that my board could so I'm enjoying the freedom of bass->cord->amp. Fits in nicely with my lifestyle. Lifestyle is such a gay trigger word. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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