Nice board @HowlinDawg. 
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First pedalboard complete!
Boss TU-3 Tuner-- UA1176 Compressor-- tc electronic Octave-- SansAmp BassDriver/DI-- Walrus Audio AETOS power supply… all mounted on shelf from Target.
I never knew I “needed” an Octave pedal until Josh showed one off in his livestream. Haha…
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Thought I’d resurrect this thread! I’ve built me first pedal board:
TC Electronic PolyTune
Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor
Palmer Herrenchor Chorus
MXR phaser
TC Electronic Flashback Delay
All pedals ‘pre-loved’.
The board itself is a plastic-polystyrene composite (about 20mm thick) that I rescued from a window company, when they replaced our windows last month. I’ve cut it to size and works ok…
Room for one more pedal, perhaps an overdrive or DI. I have a cheap Harley Benton Compressor / DI, but I don’t need two compressors…and certainty not one at the end of the effects chain.
Jam night tonight, so it will get its first outing 
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nice. the chorus is interesting, i don’t think i’ve heard of it before.
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Neither had I, but it was a reasonably priced and the guy I bought off is a gigging bassist, so I thought I’d give it a go!
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Wrong, and wrong again!
I have a nine pedal chain and five of them are comps 
Having a finishing compressor at the end of your chain is definitely a thing too, used as a ‘mastering’ style comp to put the final ‘pro polish’ on the sound
Good start anyway, and good work on the board (I started with a chopping board and upgraded to a serving tray 
, there are pics above in this thread of it)
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I think even on one of my simpler mixes I had something like 13, not counting the ones in the synth patches 
Bare minimum of two per instrument or vocal track, usually three (counting the track limiter), plus a master limiter.
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That was super fun, especially with everything turned on (except the tuner pedal, obviously 
) and laying down the foundations for something line The Cult’s She Sells Sanctuary! The guitarist hasn’t really embraced effects - he only had a distortion - so I thought frak it, if you can’t deliver the chorus heavy, shimmering vibe, I can! And what a fun sound that is!!!
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For a pedalboard that is insane
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I worked out my thinking from DAW has carried over
i.e. process signal in some way with a plugin = well better stick a compressor plugin after it
So it basically alternates: not comp pedal, comp pedal down the chain
fyi: the other four are: expander (lol), fixed wah, spring verb, and console pedal (jhs colour box v2)
I tried turning each comp pedal off at points to see if I could cut it down, but I always think tone loses something without them
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yeah I was going to say is that for live pedalboard use or for mixing?
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It is basically an attempt to recreate the tone of my standard bass guitar channel strip plugin setup from Logic in analog pedal form…I would never be able to afford the top of the line pro analog studio gear I would like, but a bunch of good ‘studio quality’ pedals [+ a 30w tube amp] I can do (just)…very happy with the resulting tone so far
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starting to get things together finally. it’s been 2 years since I moved and haven’t really done much bass wise. the practice space should hopefully be finished soon. it could be finished within the month but I’ve developed a spinal cyst that is causing a lot of pain and limiting my ability to do very much. hopefully that’s being worked out soon too. but on a more positive note, I did redo my pedalboards 
. the main changes were replacing my always on and favorite pedal (VMT) with DGs infinity microtubes preamp! and the most obvious visually was moving the ditto 2 looper onto my mini board and adding the Sheeran looper +. next step is covering the board with pretty fairy lights because why not. haven’t played with it much yet, so not a lot of how’s it sound/work info yet. anyways, pix!
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Ooh pedalboards. I think once I add an HX stomp to the bottom right corner I’ll have more than I could ever think to use on here.
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How are you liking the DG Adam?
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I’m struggling with how to answer this, partly because it’s a unique sound and partly because it does so much. I love how it sounds and I think I could chuck everything else off my pedalboard and be happy for playing bass*. I haven’t played with the cab sim/IR part of it very much because I end up using my computer and plugins if I’m playing into headphones, but everything I’ve done with it sounds good to great. The distortion options are all so modern sounding I do actually end up running it clean into the SGT circuit on my ampeg when I’m feeling more classic sounds though, which I wouldn’t have guessed I’d do and don’t think would make sense w/ something like a microtubes.
I need to just get better chops so I can play more metal stuff that uses that sound I do like how it sounds enough that I’d at least try recording out of it though. I’m 99% sure I can set it up to output wet through the DI or left output and clean through the right output or equivalent.
*I’m building this board up as a bass/violin pedalboard (yes, there will probably be 2 separate ones at some point in the future lol), so that’s part of why there’s so much that has duplicated functions.
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my pedalboard and yours are actually pretty similar, especially if you add a stomp
btw I should add if you do go stomp you could easily sell your equalizer and noise gate to save money and space. also if you’re interested I was a huuuge pog guy but found the subnup to be very similar sound wise, smaller, and more versatile. check it out if you like.
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How does the subnup do with tracking chords?
I’d have to try out the stomp/see how much I’m annoyed by setting up extra presets. Part of my thinking now is that I can use the equalizer to adjust for hotter instrument signals, and also that I could use it as a straight boost if I ever wanted to.
For the noise gate I guess it depends how easy the stomp is to adjust.
I don’t actually need the tuner either, but it’s kind of nice having that on it’s own pedal.
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yeah it’s not like you NEED to do any of this, it’s just a. stomps are expensive b. your board is already looking a bit cramped there 
I found the subnup to track at least as well as the pog.
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