What pedalboard would you build with this collection?

[polvo]

I've been acquiring random bass & guitar effects pedals for a while, basically buying up anything interesting that I find being sold cheap second hand. I've played around with various different combos, but I'm interested to hear what other people would do with this.

 

So treat this like a box of lego - what are you gonna build? And what's it gonna sound like? Bonus points if you can point me to a recording of the kind of sound you're aiming for. You can also add in one or two missing pedals if you think there are others I should be adding into the mix here.

 

Pedals include:

• Sansamp BDDI
• MXR blow torch fuzz/overdrive (NOT PICTURED)
• EHX bass big muff
• Boss ODB-3 bass overdrive
• MXR sub octave bass fuzz
• MXR blue box octave fuzz
• EHX octave multiplexer
• Boss OC-3 super octave
• 'Dumble' homemade overdrive*
• TC Electronics skysurfer reverb
• MXR smart gate
• Neewer noise gate
• Marshall ED1 compressor

 

(*Seller's description of the Dumble: Based on the NE5532 chip. Can go from full distortion to light overdrive with the drive knob. Has a smooth sound that works with single coils and humbuckers. Mid-focused overdrive tone.)

 

[ezbass]

For me, as a general gigging board:

 

'Dumble' homemade overdrive* - MXR blue box octave fuzz - Marshall ED1 compressor - TC Electronics skysurfer reverb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

On 19/02/2024 at 05:25, polvo said:

I've been acquiring random bass & guitar effects pedals for a while, basically buying up anything interesting that I find being sold cheap second hand. I've played around with various different combos, but I'm interested to hear what other people would do with this.

 

So treat this like a box of lego - what are you gonna build? And what's it gonna sound like? Bonus points if you can point me to a recording of the kind of sound you're aiming for. You can also add in one or two missing pedals if you think there are others I should be adding into the mix here.

 

Pedals include:

• Sansamp BDDI
• MXR blow torch fuzz/overdrive (NOT PICTURED)
• EHX bass big muff
• Boss ODB-3 bass overdrive
• MXR sub octave bass fuzz
• MXR blue box octave fuzz
• EHX octave multiplexer
• Boss OC-3 super octave
• 'Dumble' homemade overdrive*
• TC Electronics skysurfer reverb
• MXR smart gate
• Neewer noise gate
• Marshall ED1 compressor

 

(*Seller's description of the Dumble: Based on the NE5532 chip. Can go from full distortion to light overdrive with the drive knob. Has a smooth sound that works with single coils and humbuckers. Mid-focused overdrive tone.)

 

 

All I can provide is my ideal set up if I were using your gear.

I'd get a MIDI controller, put my Overdrives, Fuzz and Distortion in a MIDI programmable effects loop like a Decibel Eleven Loop Expander or RJM Mini Effects Gizmo to activate the pedals individually or combine them thru MIDI Mapping/ Implementation. 

I would use this order of pedals ; compressor, Fuzz, effects looper, Wah Wah ( if used), Eq, Noise gate, Pitch Shifter, then modulation ( Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Detuner) Delay and then Reverb. 

But that just me.