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Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:38 pm
by Shadoweclipse13
Love it! Nothing like a homemade board with really clean wiring and cabling :? :? :-*

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:03 am
by MechaBulletBill
Fredric Scrambled Brains! Good choice.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:23 am
by JSett
MechaBulletBill wrote:
Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:03 am
Fredric Scrambled Brains! Good choice.
Yeah, I had it before I got a real one and it's bang-on accurate really.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:14 am
by Sid Nitzerglobin
Threw this one together last night to screw around w/ the Mystery Brain that came in much earlier (and sparklier) than I was expecting:
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guitar > Fatboost > Xenogama [loop 1{Mystery Brain} > loop 2 { Vintage Rat > Modele B } > loop 3 { Carbon Copy > Monument > Boing } ] > Buffered Splitter > amp(s)

I'll be reshuffling this one a bit still (the FatBoost feels pretty redundant, I may replace the Carbon Copy and/or Boing w/ something else fun, and potentially replace the ISO5 w/ an Ojai or DC5 and downsizing the board a step) but damn this is sounding pretty great w/ the Filtertron type pickup guitars so far ;D I'm particularly loving the Brain > Rat > Modele B, seems to be a really flexible combination of drive pedals.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:14 am
by mynameisjonas
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Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:32 am
by StevenO
Jonas wins.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:03 pm
by JSett
StevenO wrote:
Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:32 am
Jonas wins.
Yep, indeed he does. I tried to convert mine to an all-Boss board but couldn't get close enough to the Scrambler sound with a Hyper Fuzz so gave up.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 3:53 pm
by Grey
Fuzz.

Hyper Fuzz.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:27 am
by mynameisjonas
johnnysomersett wrote:
Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:03 pm
StevenO wrote:
Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:32 am
Jonas wins.
Yep, indeed he does. I tried to convert mine to an all-Boss board but couldn't get close enough to the Scrambler sound with a Hyper Fuzz so gave up.
Hehe, thanks guys.

I feel I have to point out that most of my Boss pedals have gone through modifications to get them sounding the way I want. I absolutely love the form factor, but sadly, not many of their pedals sound great out of the box. I Think the only two pedals I haven't modified are the TU-2 and the DM-2w.

The FZ-2 took just a couple of cap changes to turn from ok to great (I think I have a thread about it here somewhere). It now basically sounds like a Superfuzz. More string separation, and a more open sound in general.

The FZ-3 is probably the one I've done the most severe mods to. In stock form, it has really low output, it's muffled and farty and completely disappears in a mix. I had one many years ago and I hated it. I actually went back to the shop to swap it for another unit because I thought it was broken (it wasn't). But this time around I bought it with the intent of modding it. The circuit is basically a Fuzz Face with an additional gain stage and a tone control, so I knew it had to be possible to make it sound good. I removed a couple of caps that filtered out high end, and upped the values of a few other caps to boost the low end, and then I removed the Tone circuit altogether and turned it into a gate control (wired in a similar way to the Gate control on a Zvex Fuzz Factory). It's now super loud, and it cuts through like a knife.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:46 am
by StevenO
Damn, those sound like great mods! ....Sound clips? :whistle:


I don't really use pedals anymore, but for a little while I was trying to do an all BOSS board for my guitar and synth setup but quickly abandoned it for no good reason. Todd, I think, has a great all BOSS setup going right now.

I still want a Boss RV-6, even though it's super close to the TC Hall of Fame reverb I have been using.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:57 am
by CHILDISHGAMBINO
I use this with my Squier Bass VI. The Gnomeratron has been sold and the board is torn down right now waiting for new Christmas pedals. Digitech Obscura, Dubrek Sonik, and Pickletech Megaberkatron incoming. The Zoom is on the floor beside my board with an RC-30 looper.

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Music:

https://soundcloud.com/childishgambino

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:01 pm
by CHILDISHGAMBINO
Sid Nitzerglobin wrote:
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.
Beautiful board!

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:49 am
by Sid Nitzerglobin
CHILDISHGAMBINO wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:01 pm
Beautiful board!
Thanks man!

I wound up reshuffling this one a bit w/ an Empress Compressor replacing the MXR box, a couple of OneControl single bypass loop boxes replacing the Little Lehle (which thankfully has seemed to fix the LF feedback issue I was experiencing), and swapping in the BB Preamp, Tractor Beam and MXR M108 replacing the Monarch, Data Corrupter, and Randy's Revenge on the Orange "side" of the board. Here's the pretty much current setup of that board (I wound up adding a pedal riser doohicky under the ARP-87 so the tap was a bit easier to access):
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It's going like so :
instrument > PolyTune 2 Noir > Compressor > Ditto > True-Path ABY-ST
A > MF Boost > Classic Bass Preamp > left 1Loop Box [ Julia > ARP-87 ] > Mute Box > PF-50T
B > Bellows > BB Preamp > right 1Loop Box [ Tractor Beam ] > M--108 Ten Band EQ > OB11--500

I think overall this one is a huge winner for me w/ any of the bass type instruments I've got. Both drive chains/amps seem to provide a great range of clean and driven sounds that I really love either individually or together and the modulation effects are really great and a blast to mess around with.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:18 am
by Sid Nitzerglobin
Here's a couple of boards I've put together primarily for the Filtertron type guitars, but they seem to be working great w/ the Teles and offsets I've plugged into them too.

First one:
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guitar > Polytune 2 Noir > Xenogama Tail Loop [ loop 1 { Mystery Brain } > loop 2 { Vintage Rat > Modele B } > loop 3 { Gravitas > Meet Maude (w/ Supermoon in the FX loop) > Boing }] > Buffered Splitter > amp(s)

Really loving this setup as it seems to cover the full range of subtle seasoning through over the top noise making particularly well and is turning out to be very easy to use in a band setting for me.

Just got the other, more minimalist Brain based board put together last night:
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As pictured I've got the Brain > Ubangi but I think I'll be sticking w/ this signal path:
guitar > PolyTune Noir > Ubangi Stomp > Atomic Brain > Ekko 616 MkII > Sonar > Little Black Buffer > amp(s)

So far this seems like a really great combination of pedals w/ a very surprising range of sounds on tap from 4 fairly straight forward pedals (well, the Sonar and 616 actually have a lot of options to them, but aren't exactly massive, multi-algorithmic affairs). Seems to work great w/ the AST Pro, Maz Jr. and Class 5 so far.

Re: your effects setup?

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:27 am
by CHILDISHGAMBINO
Sid Nitzerglobin wrote:
Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:49 am
CHILDISHGAMBINO wrote:
Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:01 pm
Beautiful board!
Thanks man!

I wound up reshuffling this one a bit w/ an Empress Compressor replacing the MXR box, a couple of OneControl single bypass loop boxes replacing the Little Lehle (which thankfully has seemed to fix the LF feedback issue I was experiencing), and swapping in the BB Preamp, Tractor Beam and MXR M108 replacing the Monarch, Data Corrupter, and Randy's Revenge on the Orange "side" of the board. Here's the pretty much current setup of that board (I wound up adding a pedal riser doohicky under the ARP-87 so the tap was a bit easier to access):
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It's going like so :
instrument > PolyTune 2 Noir > Compressor > Ditto > True-Path ABY-ST
A > MF Boost > Classic Bass Preamp > left 1Loop Box [ Julia > ARP-87 ] > Mute Box > PF-50T
B > Bellows > BB Preamp > right 1Loop Box [ Tractor Beam ] > M--108 Ten Band EQ > OB11--500

I think overall this one is a huge winner for me w/ any of the bass type instruments I've got. Both drive chains/amps seem to provide a great range of clean and driven sounds that I really love either individually or together and the modulation effects are really great and a blast to mess around with.
Nice! What happened to the Data Corrupter? I was really interested in one but eventually I realized that I can get really close to a lot of those sounds with things I have/are coming. I've tried the split signal path thing before and for me it doesn't work because I don't like dedicating things to only use in on loop. It's a great idea. Just not for me.