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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:06 pm

Bends down and opens altoids can.......really pulls out an altoid 8)

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by fever606 » Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:42 am

mijmog wrote:
Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:06 am
Top marks for the Pigdog pedal, think the term is "well jealous"!!! Would love to try one of those.
Haha thanks! The Pigdog boost is one of those "I can't see myself parting with it" pedals... it's just a fantastic boost, like a Rangemaster with more range. I'd love to try out some other Pigdog stuff...

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by ThurberMingus » Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:05 am

I’m really glad OSG is mobile friendly now. Expect to see me popping in more often!

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Blue pedal is a Timmy clone and it’s just waiting for a phaser or some other modulation to kick it off. DL4 has the loop mod (footswitch goes between loop and delay modes) and soft touch switches.

Signal chain doesn’t line up with the picture. Everything is arranged so it’s easier to use for shows.

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by O Drones » Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:03 am

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by stevejamsecono » Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:00 am

O Drones wrote:
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This is the way to do it, imo. Love the color coordination too. How's that DM2w? I've been using a DD5 for awhile but I kind of miss the darker repeats.
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Re: your effects setup?

Post by O Drones » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:14 am

Thanks man. I love the DM2. It's my favourite delay I've ever owned. Just great sounding.
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Re: your effects setup?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Thu Nov 23, 2017 10:34 pm

O Drones wrote:
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Thanks man. I love the DM2. It's my favourite delay I've ever owned. Just great sounding.
my bandmate has one of those old RAK dm2 clones. we compared it to a vintage dm2 and one of the wazacraft dm2's. hard to say which was best but even a bad pizza can still be ok..... most times.
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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Grey » Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:37 pm

O Drones wrote:
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Nice. I also like smaller boards.

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by soggy mittens » Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:15 am

those knobs on the big muff are sooooooo much better than the original chicken head knobs, ddaayyuumm!! ;)
If OSG has tort me anything...

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Grey » Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:22 am

Forreal. I love the way these sound but the late-gen Russian ones have some seriously junky hardware, I rewired it with full-size pots and a user here was kind enough to send me these knobs for free that he pulled off an NYC muff.

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:34 pm

Working on a new biggish bass board for a biamp setup w/ a few fun noisemaking toys on it.
The mockup:
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Thinking it'll route like this:
bass > Polytune > Empress Compressor > Ditto > Little Black Buffer (mounted under the board) > A/B box >

into the drive pedals:
A) Bellows > Monarch >
B) Ampeg Classic Preamp > MF Boost >

then into either side of the Little Lehle:
A > Tip loop [Data Corrupter > Randy's Revenge (I'm thinking it will be dialed for ring mod most of the time] > OB1-500
B > Ring loop [Julia > El Capistan] > PF50T/PF500

I'll be waiting for the compressor and Bellows to show up before I have it completed as pictured, but so far the other stuff is sounding pretty cool together.

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Ursa Minor » Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:20 pm

Bart wrote:
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What is that echo pedal!? :-*
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Re: your effects setup?

Post by StevenO » Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:42 am

Seriously. Wow, what a pedalboard. Looks amazing! I love a pedalboard that is aesthetically pleasing. My own? Not so much...

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by Sid Nitzerglobin » Sat Nov 25, 2017 4:53 pm

I ran into a Studio Comp and a True-Path barely used for a song last night while I was picking up stuff to make cables and the Bellows came in this morning so I went ahead and finished wiring up the first incarnation of the biamp bass board:
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Routing is:
bass > PolyTune 2 Noir > M76 Studio Compressor > Ditto > True-Path ABY >
A) Bellows > Monarch > Little Lehle tip loop {Data Corrupter > Randy's Revenge} > OB1-500
B) Classic Bass Preamp > MF Boost > Little Lehle ring loop {Julia > ARP-87} > PF-50T

I haven't had enough time screwing around w/ it to have a solid appraisal, but here are some initial impressions:
The Studio Compressor seems to work very well and the series compression isn't bothering me as much as it has previous times I've tried it. On 4:1 dialed for ~ 7db it's very useful and natural sounding to me, if a bit clinical. The attack and release controls feel very easy to use w/ an effective range. It does kind of remind me of the 1176s I've used in its design and feel overall. While it's not dead silent, it hasn't struck me as particularly noisy until I've dialed the makeup gain way higher than I think would ever be practical for me. The LED metering is a pretty nice and very useful feature.

Both drive sections seem to work really well, by themselves or together so far. I'm not quite there yet but it sounding great regardless. The Bellows seems like a great bass fuzz so far, seems like a sure keeper for me. I definitely need to spend more time twisting the knobs, but I'm thinking it may be a bit fat and loose for what I want on the OB1. At some point I'm gonna try the BB Preamp in place of either the Bellows or the Monarch and see if a bit more hard edge/grind-y boost/drive is the ticket.

I'm really loving the Ampeg drive loop, it works out great dialing the PF50T for saturated clean, the Classic Preamp to push it to edge of breakup w/ a bit more mids and w/ the expression pedal hooked up and the boost switch on, the MF Boost is working out awesomely pushing the PF50T into a fat mild to edge of meltdown OD. The DVP4/Expressionator setup feels very smooth, precise, and natural for dialing its gain. It boosts output significantly in the process and it gets a little noisy about the last 15% or so of the gain range, but up to there it delivers a very fat and tasty grind. I may try swapping order on the preamp and MF Boost at some point too for more consistent output levels across the boost's gain range and better tone shaping.

Unfortunately I'm hitting some sort of a feedback loop issue w/ the Little Lehle that I've yet to be able to diagnose. I've got a pretty annoying level of constant low frequency feedback through the disengaged amp when going "A or B". I've used the Little Lehle in this type of biamp setup before w/o having this problem, next step is trying one of the other ABYs I spose. Would be a bummer to lose the invidually switchable buffers on the True-Path though and it seems like it's built like a tank and doing its job really well otherwise.

The Julia and the ARP-87 seem like a winning combination for PF-50T. I'll probably continue to shuffle some stuff around on the OB1's loop.

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Re: your effects setup?

Post by JSett » Sun Nov 26, 2017 2:15 pm

I have things pretty simple now. One fuzz - scrambler clone (I have a real one in a box in the drawer but I've decided to retire it from gigging), a boost for overdrive. Delay and trem in the middle for occasional colour and the bonus DD-6 tucked out of the way at the end set to the 'hold' function purely for that Melt Banana stutter thing.

Everything has been meticulously measured out for optimum performance live. The trem & delay are perfectly close together as they go on and off together 99% of the time, boost has a bit of extra space to reduce on mis-hits, DD-6 out of the way. Quality cabling, decent power supply...fully gig-proof.

Home-made ply board, spray painted black.

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Also went full-on OCD with the wiring:

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