turnbullac wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 4:38 pm

Garth wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 9:29 am

losthighway wrote: Boss DD7- I tried all kinds of snazzy analog and digital delays. This one has two features that were almost impossible to find in well qualified Earthquaker and Keeley delays: It's true stereo- the echos ping pong left and right which creates way more depth than splitting a mono signal between two amps, and it trails off *after* you disengage it, which allows for some nice transitions where a clean guitar can introduce a new part with the halo of the chaos before decrescendoing in the distance.

JFC this all day. Why more pedals don't have the switch behave in this manner is beyond me. Or make it selectable if you want it to chop. Sure, you can do this with something like an LS-2 but then you're doing 2 pedals and not just one.

I think the Hardwire delay does this too and I prefer this slightly more than the Boss but haven't figured out how to replace the switch on mine yet which has rendered it unusable for the most part.

A couple of Chase Bliss pedals have switches that let a person control the trails. Maybe too bleep-bloopy for a lot of people though. Used MOOD MK1s are maybe $250ish on Reverb and TBH it’s a lot of bang for the buck b/c it’s almost like 3-4 pedals in one box.

Lots of delay pedals have trails, switchable or otherwise, but with a couple of exceptions it’s just digital delays. I have no use for a delay or reverb pedal that doesn’t do trails. I know analog delay has a specific sound that some people can’t live without, but I don’t like a harsh cut off, unless it’s done intentionally for a specific affect. The analog delays that have trails usually involve some sort of buffered bypass workaround, but there is often some noise bleeding through, which is why at least one of them has the option to switch to true bypass/ no trails after the trails run out.

Bright Onion Pedals used to (not anymore) sell a buffered Trails Looper that allows a delay pedal to have trails. In practice I think it always allows the output of the pedal to go through and just switches whether it allows input to go through it when you switch it on or off. I had one when I had a Deluxe Memory Man with Tap Tempo that sounded amazing but didn’t have trails.

Oh, and now that I'm back in the pedal rabbit hole a little hot take:

All of the cork sniffy, Klon clone, Westwood "a little boost with just a pinch of gain" pedals and videos feel a little silly to me when I'm in the studio and I just turn the gain way down on any decent overdrive pedal.

Here's a small board I've thrown together for a new band I've joined with other PRF members:


Here's my bigger at-home recording pedal board. This has most of my current favorite pedals on it:

losthighway wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 6:11 pm Oh, and now that I'm back in the pedal rabbit hole a little hot take:

All of the cork sniffy, Klon clone, Westwood "a little boost with just a pinch of gain" pedals and videos feel a little silly to me when I'm in the studio and I just turn the gain way down on any decent overdrive pedal.

Klon clone madness is insane. Now, if you like Klon-style clipping, there's plenty of good ones that don't get stupidly hyped for no reason.

defendyachtrock wrote: Thu May 30, 2024 5:34 pm Bright Onion Pedals used to (not anymore) sell a buffered Trails Looper that allows a delay pedal to have trails. In practice I think it always allows the output of the pedal to go through and just switches whether it allows input to go through it when you switch it on or off. I had one when I had a Deluxe Memory Man with Tap Tempo that sounded amazing but didn’t have trails.

One Control make a very nice, compact, loop switch with a clean blend, switchable tails, and a switchable buffer.

This is my main bass board (I have another compact bass board for a specific project, will share that later) and it does everything I need a bass board to do: the Pitch Box gives me sub bass and its detune function is the best chorus I've ever heard. The Providence is a very good compressor with a very necessary blend knob. The faded blue double pedal in the middle is an early version of the Wilson Dual Lotus that I'm always on about, because it's superb on bass as well as guitar. The Mooer Shimverb Pro has useable reverb and a switchable Shimmer function which is just a pitch shifter applied to the wet signal, with various intervals available. And the other "Pro" pedal is the Soundblox, but I only use distortion on 1 of its 6 presets; what it excells at is that you can set a different graphic EQ for each preset and you can fade from presets 1-3 to. presets 4-6 with an expression pedal, so I use it as sort of a wah: for example, Preset 1 is bass heavy with rolled off highs, and Preset 4 brings in the highs and tames the lows a hair, so I can go from dubby to sparkly, and it doesn't have any quackyness like a wahwah pedal. I have channel 6 tuned to its most disgusting octave fuzz setting for noisy freakouts, but mostly I use it for a palette of EQs. Bassists, get one of these if you can, because it's an amazing secret weapon. The distortions are cool but most are not to my taste, YMMV. Think of it as a 6-channel preamp with a powerful blend/fade function, as well as a bunch of multiwave and other distortion options.

my bass pedal board.
pitch fork presets with 5th, octave up, octave down.
boss flanger
alpha omicron
boost enables the boost of the TS 50B preamp, Tuner mutes the korg rack tuner
the fx loop switcher has a built in 1:1 buffer. it really keeps the high frequencies alive! makes a huge difference in the bass sound.

Set this up last night, plugged it in, immediately knocked it over and my power supply, which was mounted underneath, caught fire. Neat! Everything still works (except the power supply).

Also have a small bass board with a tuner, a Diamond bass comp, a Dr Scientist Elements, a DM2w and a Basic Audio Muff.

frighteners wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:45 pm

Set this up last night, plugged it in, immediately knocked it over and my power supply, which was mounted underneath, caught fire. Neat! Everything still works (except the power supply).

Also have a small bass board with a tuner, a Diamond bass comp, a Dr Scientist Elements, a DM2w and a Basic Audio Muff.

What's the blue one on the upper left?