My Latest Pedal Board

[lbpesq]

In my seemingly never ending quest to reduce size and weight, with convenience as a guiding factor, here is my latest pedal board.  The folding board is made by Mooer, as are several of my pedals.   The power supply presented an obstacle as most power supplies deliver 9v at 100mA to most of the outlets.  Several of my pedals consume more than 100 mAh and there just aren't many power supplies out there that provide numerous 9v outputs at more than 100 mA.  On this Caline model, the 9v outputs are mostly 300 mA with a couple adjustable for different voltages and more than 300 mA.   I've tried using battery power, both the Pedaltrain Volto and the Sanyo Pedal Juice, but found they lasted far shorter than advertised.

Bill, tgo

[David Houck]

Nicely put together.

[cozmik_cowboy]

That's right spiffy!  But I'm overdue for new glasses; what are the various & sundry pedals?  (Name and function, if you would please, as most stompboxes these days don't have logical names like "Phase 100" or "Distortion +")

Peter

[lbpesq]

Reading the pedalboard in the Hebrew manner, right to left:

T.C. Electronics polytune 2 Mini tuner
Dunlop Crybaby Mini
Valeton Katfish Envelope Filter
Mooer Slow Engine volume swell
Mooer Tender Octaver (EHX Pog clone)
Mooer Mooergan (EHX B-9 organ pedal clone)
Power Supply
Valeton Coral Amp 2 channel preamp
Hotone Xtomp Mini (loadable with over a hundred effects, amp models, cab models, even an F-2B model, by bluetooth with a phone in about 10 seconds)

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

Love my TC Electronics PolyTune 3. It lives on Bill's last pedalboard nowadays.

~Gregory (who hopes desperately NOT to venture any further down the rabbit-hole of effects pedals while on this recent guitar adventure)

[mario_farufyno]

Bill, you've just shown me the power supply I need (with 2x 12V out). Thanks, man.

[David Houck]

... who hopes desperately NOT to venture any further down the rabbit-hole of effects pedals while on this recent guitar adventure

Generally speaking, guitars require (at a minimum) five times as many effects as basses.

[cozmik_cowboy]

... who hopes desperately NOT to venture any further down the rabbit-hole of effects pedals while on this recent guitar adventure

Generally speaking, guitars require (at a minimum) five times as many effects as basses.

My effects chain consists of a cord & the amp's reverb.....

But then, I have enough trouble just trying to make a decent sound that way; add a bunch of other things to figure out?  Thank you, no.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

... who hopes desperately NOT to venture any further down the rabbit-hole of effects pedals while on this recent guitar adventure

Generally speaking, guitars require (at a minimum) five times as many effects as basses.

My effects chain consists of a cord & the amp's reverb.....

But then, I have enough trouble just trying to make a decent sound that way; add a bunch of other things to figure out?  Thank you, no.

Peter

To both Dave's and Coz' points... (I meant to reply to this the other day and then got busy, so the thoughts I had organized got scattered)

For me, it's a developmental thing. I have recognized that to improve upon myself, I need to first learn how to coax all there is from purely the guitars' electronics and the amplifiers' controls. That is a huge step for me, just right there. I had no idea how big of an idiot I was.

As a bass player, the volume controls on my bass are basically an [ON/OFF] switch. A Telecaster lesson I found out pretty quick... there is a lot of tone in that dadgum volume knob, especially when you're stuffing it's output into the input of a tube amp. So then it became; how do I transpose what I've learned over to a Les Paul type circuit? I mean...visually and mechanically at least, it ain't all that different from how Series electronics work. But now you have two volumes to feather on the verge of breakup, or dial-in just the right amount. Once I figured it out... wow, did the lights go on. For me, it was a Les Paul Special, with P-90's, plugged into a Fender Princeton Reverb '68 Reissue, with the gain at about 7, input 2, the bass at 4 the treble at 6, and a little reverb. I twiddled those controls for a minute and those P-90's starting singing. And the more I played around with different guitars with different electronics, the more I realized how many variables there were just within what I had already. I have no idea yet where the ceiling is.
 
So the short of it is, I am not the slightest bit opposed to effects pedals. But it'll be a good while before this hard-headed old bass player is ready for any.

[lbpesq]

I prefer to use pedals as opposed to adjusting the amp as the former is a lot more convenient and repeatable while on-stage at a gig.

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

I prefer to use pedals as opposed to adjusting the amp as the former is a lot more convenient and repeatable while on-stage at a gig.

Bill, tgo

I can see how this would be so. Like a set of preset sounds? So, for instance, what amp settings would you typically choose so that you can pedal-in what you need for this or that? (F-2B > Poweramp, right?)


The only effect I ever have used on bass with any regularity (and it's one that is almost always on) is chorus. Even that is in moderation.


The other thing that I'm working on right now, is to remember this is not an acoustic guitar, and to not try to play every single thing on it that way. I'm finding there is some carryover, just like there was from upright bass to bass guitar, but it is a very different instrument. I'd like to see for fun how much ground could be covered if I had about two months to woodshed with it, and not think about anything else. Just too many distractions. By the time I sit down with a guitar at night, I just want to empty my head and play something - I don't have any more work ethic to spend.     

[lbpesq]

I set my amp for my preferred clean rhythm tone and then use pedals for lead and effects.  When I use a two channel amp like my Quilter MicroPro200 I set the second channel for a lead tone.   

My “big rig” is a TC Electronics Hall of Fame mini (reverb) > F-2B >Carvin DCM200L (1 space stereo) > two 1x12 cabs loaded with JBL K120s.   I plug into channel A on the F-2B, “jumper” from the second channel A input to channel B on the F-2B, and run each through its own channel on the Carvin and then each channel to a JBL.  I adjust one channel of the F-2B to accentuate the highs and the other to accentuate the lows.   Then I mix the two F-2B channel’s volumes relative to each other to get the tone I want.   Over the years I have added and subtracted my SF-2 several times.

Bill, tgo

[goran]

here is mine, finally went to midi

[StefanieJones]

Nice boards! Both Mine weighs a ton and needs a roadie to move around, lol.