Yep! I agree completely with that chart, that’s how I would do it. The only change I would make is that it might make sense to put the looper immediately after the tuner for use in just looping the raw bass so you can tune all the effects while it loops.
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@howard ha! Yeah!! Looper!! Ive been workin on dialin these in without one, i can definitely see the advantage of pickin one up for that reason alone. Thank you!
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Depends if you want the effects in your loop or not. Early in your chain is a nice way to test out different tones.
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the boss chart is always a good place to start. however, messing with pedal order can sometimes give you some crazy glitchy unpredictable results. years ago, these would be considered “wrong”. these days many bands have built their sound around them. have fun.
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Yeah. Multiple compressors is nice, for example, and can do cool things in different places.
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yeah, I like to use 3 or 4 compressors (with light settings obviously). I’ve been more about 4, and now I’m more about 3 … still a lot of compressors 
I don’t really use my Dod FX84 any more (still a really excellent compressor), I’m more into the very early LA-2A model from Line 6 (an incredible warmth in the midrange) and the two historic comps included with Reaper : ReaComp (sounds fat, dark and a bit dull) and ReaXComp (sounds very lively and bright).
but yeah I agree, @howard. that’s how you get that nice color stacking from every comp.
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bought a mooer prime P1 for the mini pedalboard (i’m at work/too lazy so you get a stock vid instead of a pix):
have played with it a little bit. you control it with an app on your cellphone. sound quality seems to be good. has a dedicated bass setting, so you get a bunch of bass cabs and amps, and i found 3-4 that sound pretty good for my preferred tone. there is a pretty good cross section of effects available, but not nearly the depth of say my HX stomp or even a zoom box (which you wouldn’t expect and it’s literally a billion times smaller than those). you can make your own preset chains like on a big boy multi-effect. i did notice some things that were missing that i would have liked, there’s no POG type polyphonic octaver, for instance. but truthfully that’s usually missing from multi-effects, it seems to be difficult to emulate those types of pedals. there is also some overall weirdness that you can usually expect from a chinese pedal (i don’t really know how to phrase that without sounding like a racist dick which isn’t intended, i have no problem with chinese goods in general but there always seems to be a learning curve involved). just figuring out how to register it took a while. the bluetooth always turns itself off when downloading anything and you have to turn it back on and restart the download. not deal breakers. the main drawback (for me, which i did not know when i bought it) is there is no IR loading function, which is disappointing. but again, it won’t make me send it back. there is an optional wireless footswitch that i cannot find on the actual mooer site 
but you can find youtube vids of and it looks actually like a pretty cool setup. the P1 is really small, reasonably priced for what you get, and pretty damn cool. i have heard of people attaching them on their bass straps and getting a cellphone clip for their mic stand and having a pretty slick wireless onstage setup.
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Thanks for the review @itsratso ! Seems like a cool little unit but the lack of cab sims is a deal breaker for me. Good polyphonic effects cost a lot of DSP, so in that regard it makes sense that they keep it out in such a small device.
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it has a bunch of cab sims and they sound pretty good. you just can’t add any of your own by IR.
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Oh sweet I just assumed they were lacking because I couldn’t find anything about it on the Mooer site (just by scanning quickly). Okay, so it made it back to my gear list again lol 
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Feeling better finally from this damn covid and something overtook me to redo my pedalboard. I had half cobbled it back together after selling a few and buying a few ans couldn’t get them to all fit. So in a moment of clarity and patience I ripped everything off, disconnected every last cable and starred from scratch. Also took time to really mess with the Bigsby and the Lore. I’m really digging what all these things can do in concert (well not all, but a few at a time!).
The main board
The “extended” board with Bigsby and preamp selector.
Chain is:
Tuner-Bigsby-C4-MRX Envelope Filter-IE Xerograph Deluxe-Compressor-OC5-Ravi Sitar —>
out to preamp selector of: BassRig/Super Beatle/VT Bass DI/B7K—>
back to: Plasma-Phase90-Lex-Chorus-Lore-Flashback Delay-Light Reverb-Looper
Expression Pedal controls:
- C4
- Gamechanger Light Reverb
- IE Xerograph Deluxe
- Lex or Ravi - haven’t decided or set up yet, still playing around
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Really nice. I see you got a few enveloppe filters. Don’t you want to have some OD early in the chain? Could be cool with synths
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Yeah I would ditch the MXR cause I can do what it does in the C4 but you get nothing for them so I just leave it there so that it can sit and be set as an old fashion funky effect. The IE does a whole lot more than just filter effects. It’s very “chompy”. I had it post distortion prior but decided this time to put it up front too.
I can always use the “Bigsby” exit to go to the preamps if I want I suppose too.
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I would love to have a Xerograph. They are hard to find/get and are quite expensive too on the used market.
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It took at lot of persistent searching and nabbed this one from Israel on Reverb. I’ve only seen one other Xerograph Deluxe used since. They only make a handful at a time and the wait is years at this point.
I paid $350 which want too much more than new $305 (that you couldn’t get anyway at the time or now for that matter).
There’s a version 1 on Reverb now for $185. Has a few less bells on it
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In Europe there is a v1 for 410 euros on Reverb 
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Nice, got more pics of different angles?
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Amazing setup. Really dig the idea of a preamp selector!
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