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Mine's got a Roberts tuner, a SansAmp, an Aguilar octave divider, a Space Echo, a Boss NS, a Boss overdrive, a Boss Auto-Wah (actually I want the SYB-5 synth pedal, so that's just a filler there) and a Boss chorus.
Patch/interconnect cables can be a challenge; I have a mix of ones I wired myself with "pancake" jacks (ie. as flat as possible), some Fender branded ones and some straight & dogleg jack-jack dual plugs.
Have you seen the layout app on the Pedaltrain website? It can be handy figuring out where things might fit.
I also want to put a patch panel on mine: 1 jack input & 2 jack outputs (as I split the signal to 2 amps); that way I won't be connecting outputs directly to pedals.
Tempted by a synth pedal, and also by a decent compressor and EQ.
The Corona chorus is apparently good on bass - if not I may swap that out. I guess it's a case of suck it and see!
Looking forward to the challenge of patching this up.
Oh, and yes the voodoo power supply was very spendy, but I wanted to avoid issues with grounding and signal noise from a chain..
The other essential bass pedal imo is the Dynamic Filter, it gives the attack more variation.
This is the current line up, works with guitar and bass, Dynamic Filter is first (out of shot) and a DD-7 last, set to hold function to build loops -
I'm gonna need a bigger board.....
Here's mine
http://i.imgur.com/yFN2CT5.jpg
But I do want a good pedal comp for position in the signal chain.
Any suggestions for a good bass compressor (apart from the markbass compressors which is huge and very spendy!!) ?
I'm trying to keep it relatively simple, honest!
Have you tried a Darkglass Vintage yet? They're phenomenal with a Precision for all sorts of sounds from light grit to roaring overdrive.
In fact, I've got to be careful I don't just end up buying every decent drive or preamp out there. I'd like to try the Tonehammer pedal, the Mesa Subway pedal, a whole bunch of Darkglass and others..
I will acquire them a bit at a time so I can try out each one properly - otherwise I will just sit there going "oooh shiny things!"
Supersymmetry compressor, or the Empress.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
I want to try the Mesa DI too.
Damn you, gods of pedal GAS!
I figure it would work with bass pedals, where you just hit and hold a note, but then you'd probably have them MIDI connected to a synth anyway.
Digitech BSW is far better, and tracks perfectly.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
Agreed. I found a work-around with the SYB-3 was to run it in the loop of a LS-2 set to parallel blend, but it was a bit of a sticking-plaster solution that just disguised how badly the SYB tracked really…
I also had a Synth Wah - not even the bass one - which was miles better.
The original two-knob one is brilliant - it's not subtle, and it's rather touchy about the settings, but it's got a really great growl at the bottom end as it sweeps down. The later three-knob one should be better on paper since you can control the blend, but it just doesn't sound as good.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Or again, go for the BSW as it does a good standard Envelope filter too.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator