Pedal board V1 for the Bass VI. More info in comments.
Posted Jul 18, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC
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Looks great!
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Thank you!
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Nice set up, few questions to fire at you, is your wah a bass or guitar wah? What is the Digitech pedal controlling and what is the Blower Box?
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Thank you. The wah is the EHX Cock Fight controlled by the expression pedal, which also controls the Harmonist, and I'm not sure if it's marketed toward guitar or bass. The digitech pedal is controlling the 720 Looper. And the Blower Box is my favorite bass drive. I got the Source Audio Aftershock to replace it since I figured it could mimic it plus anything else I wanted. But I can't get it to sound good with my rig and the Blower Box just does its thing so well.
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I getcha, I thought the expression pedal was the wah, didn’t realise you were controlling those two from it.
I’ll check out some bass blower demos, at the present I’m using a Rat as my main source of bass grime and then a Metal Zone for eq’ing it and some extra boost/snarl/chaos, but always on the hunt for new toys.
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Then I'd say the Blower Box is worth a look. It's a Rat clone but really made for bass. It's meant to capture the sound of Blacky on the Nothingface album by Voivod but made for bass to really shine with it.
With how it's set up, it could quite possibly cover what the Rat and the Metal Zone do for you. Maybe not quite as extreme since you're doubling up pedals if the MZ is used to add and more dirt, but I'd wager it would hold up to them.
I play a pretty wild rig with a Bass VI and my bass dirt has to play nice with the 6505 drive I'm also pushing through the guitar chain, and that's some serious heavy to contend with. I picked up a Source Audio Aftershock because it should be able to do so much they say. I figured I could clone the Blower and also have tons of other stuff. But I can't get a good tone to play nice with the 6505 side, yet the Blower does it's one thing perfectly and they play so great together. The Aftershock is good for regular bass, but not my super-mega heavy rig.
Sorry to gush, not a shill but just a metal head pedal fiend and it's rare to find the perfect anything, let alone dirt. And the Blower Box just cannot stay off my board, and I've actually tried.
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MM That "Freeze" in there is definetly a nice idea, always wondered how that would hold up at bass frequencies...
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I just got it and am loving it so far. I use it in the guitar chain on the board and the pedal handles the low end well. I keep the volume on it lower than my playing level and use it for chords and such as an ambient sound filler. With that and the looper, it really helps to thicken up our sound since it's just me and a drummer right now.
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Thanx, saving for the addition of a "Freeze" now!
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Here's my first version of the pedal board I'm building for my Bass VI that runs to a dual amp rig. I posted my Ibanez SRC6 a couple weeks ago when I broke it and some people really liked the custom setup. Since it was a lot of fun talking gear, I decided to post this now that it's useable and presentable.
I have a lot of plans for it, but right now this is 2 pedal chains: one for guitar and one for bass. There's a few more pedals in my effects chains on the amps as well. Once spacing and everything is done and I make a new one where I take the bottoms off the pedals and screw directly to the board after hardwiring the pedals. I want to have switches/dials so I can alter the pedal chain order or swap pedals between the guitar and bass chain with a switch or dial setup. It's powered by an MXR 10 pedal psu with 2 pedals on batteries.