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Today’s pedal line is from Ricky Wilson. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Hi, my name is Ricky Wilson and I am a bass player and I occasionally play guitar for my own projects. I play a Peavey T40 bass, with an Ampeg 8×10 cab and a T.C. Electronic Staccato 51′ amp.  I recently put this pedal board together in order to make it more efficient for me to set up for shows.  I built the pedal board within a two week period.  It has 8 outlets wired into it as well as a power switch and an IEC power inlet for a C19 connector (which delivers the power from an outside source).  The pedals on the left pedal board are mostly powered by the light blue power strip at the top and the pedals on the right pedal board are powered by their own adapter.

My main pedal board (The one on the left hand side) is as follows:

1. Morley Volume Pedal:  I use this pedal mostly with my delay to make swells or if we end a song by letting the note ring out I will usually use this pedal to drop out a bit quicker.

2. Digitech Whammy: I use this pedal mostly for the detuned effect when I play with my band.  When recording my own stuff I use this pedal on the 4th/5th setting alot. All around great pedal.

3. Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah: I use this for typical wah effects.  I like to use this pedal with my Boss Flanger on the Gate/Pan effect with a high depth.

4. Source Audio Soundblox Bass Envelope Filter: I use this pedal if a few songs of ours to get a bass funk vibe.

5. Digitech Bass Synth Wah: This pedal has some really cool options.  I use this pedal mostly for more sustained parts that I want to sound really weird.  It drops the volume a bit but not enough to worry about.

6. Ibanez PD7 Phat-Hed Overdrive:  I have tried a few overdrive pedals (not a lot) but I always come back to this one for some reason. Sounds great

7. Boss OC-2: Sounds great with the PD7 pedal. Custom paint job on this one

8. Boss Temolo/Pan: I use this pedal with the depth all the way down and on the tremolo setting with the rate going fairly fast.  I only use this pedal in a couple of songs.  Sounds amazing

9. Boss Flanger BF-3: I mostly use this pedal on the Gate/Pan mode with a high depth and a somewhat quick rate.

10. Behringer Ultra Vibrato UV300: This pedal is pretty cheap but the sounds you can get out of it sound really cool.

11. Strymon Timeline Delay:  Just recently bought this pedal and it is an amazing delay.

Pedal Board on the right hand side is plugged into my amp as an FX Loop

1. Boss Bass Chorus CEB-3: I use this pedal on a lot of our songs

2. MXR Blowtorch: This pedal is used to give my signal extra overdrive

3. Way Huge Swollen Pickle (fuzz): Used in some heavier parts of our set

4. Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter:  Used throughout most of our set.  Has a smooth quality to it.

5. Moogerfooger Bass Murf : I use this pedal mostly for the Modular synth type sounds you can get out of this pedal.  Usually during a weird Jam session.

6. Boss Slicer: This is another pedal like the Bass Murf that is used during jam sessions that just sounds really trippy.

Here are my current projects:
www.facebook.com/musclebeachwreckingcrew
www.soundcloud.com/musclebeachwreckingcrew
www.soundcloud.com/Ricky-Wilson

Past Projects:
www.myspace.com/sigmoidargonaut

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A few days ago I got a Facebook message from one of the members of Preacherz of the Savage Truth showing me a photo of their bassists board. The board is for Matth Mullet who plays some pretty mean bass, and I thought it would be cool to if I could break down this board. Preacherz of the Savage Truth is a band out of Toulouse, France. For those of you that don’t know me, I am/was/will be a pretty big Cure fan, and these guys sucked me in a with a cover of ‘Cold’. I’ll present the video further down in the post.

Matth definitely has crafted a great board with a lot of tonal ranges for his bass. This is the breakdown of pedals. Like always, if you see anything incorrect, missing, or just want to comment, please do so by commenting below!

Dunlop Bass Wah 105Q
Source Audio Bass Envelope Filter
Source Audio Expression Pedal SA161
Digitech Bass Whammy
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9B Bass Tube Screamer   
Xotic Bass BB Preamp  
Devi Ever The Wolf Fuzz
MXR Script 90 Phase CSP-101CL
Tech 21 NYC AR3-B Footswitch
Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher
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Alien Hate Fuzz
Homebrew Electronics Hematoma Bass Overdrive
TC Electronic Polytune Mini Noir
TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
Line 6 DL 4 Delay
Rothwell Love Squeeze Compressor
Line 6 Wireless G30 Relay

As I mentioned above, here is the video by Preacherz of the Savage Truth covering Cure’s Cold:

To learn more about Preacherz of the Savage Truth, please check out their Facebook page!

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The fine fellows over at Source Audio came up with a great new product – the Hot Hand 3 controller. They had the Hot Hand previously, but those were controllers dedicated to their own lines of pedals. The Hot Hand 3 Universal Controller is taking their hand controller and giving that control to other pedals by different manufacturers! You can now control pedals with the Hot Hand if the pedal has an expression input!

The Hot Hand is a ring that fits on your finger that is connected wireless to the Source Audio Hot Hand interface which allows you to affect the 3-axis accelerometer to translate that motion to an expression signal! With the Hot Hand 3 Interface you can control the ‘Depth’ and ‘Smooth’ controls – which controls the effect amount and ring sensitivity. Simply connect the Hot Hand 3 interface to your pedal via 1/4″ mono plug.

You can currently pick up the Source Audio Hot Hand 3 for $149.00 at Amazon!

Below is a great demonstration video by sourceaudioeffects showing how this can be used with a variety of effects:

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Today’s pedal line is from Andy Jetking. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Soundblox bass envelope filter
Boss line selector
Made by Mike fenderblender
Made by Mike saltstorm od into 78 ic muff
Fishman bass powerchord
Artec big dots
MXR M80

Line selector used to balance clean and dirt from the madebymike pedals. Check him out on YouTube. Fishman pedal rocks – finally have closure after losing my old Akai UniBass!

The big dots is great as I’m an old man…

M80 is used with the colour setting engaged.. sounds really sweet.

Cheers!
Andy

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The following is a guest review by Chad Beeler of BassEFX.com . If you are interested in guest posting, please contact me!

As electronic musicians, bass players and guitar players alike, we’ve all been drawn to the “next coolest thing” or heard of “this one dude making insane ___________ boxes!” That dude, of course, is the modern boutique pedal builder, who is passionate about giving us a fresh perspective about what’s possible for our tone.  It’s what we gravitate toward, that gourmet sonic ingredient. That, which will create thee sound.  For most of us, including me, there is the romantic notion of a hand-crafted analog pedal, painstakingly soldered, numbered by hand, individually painted, blessed by Tibetan monks.  (Maybe not that last part, but you get the idea.)  For this, all boutique pedal builders are to be commended for pushing the sound and design envelope which has stoked the creative fires in a huge number of bass players, including me.  Thank you!

But, there is a passion for tone pushing the sound and design envelope from another direction; using the science of sound and cutting edge digital technology to get to the end result.  That’s the mission of digital pedal builders Source Audio.   Chief Scientist, Bob Chidlaw, brings a vast musical knowledge to Source Audio with over 40 years of effects and amp building and 20 years as Chief Scientist at Kurzweil.    And colleague and engineer, Jesse Remignanti, brings cutting edge digital signal processing innovation to the design and execution of the Source Audio lineup.  It’s their combined passion for musical science and technology that has pushed pedals like the Pro Classic Distortion, Bass Envelope Filter Pro, and the other worldly Hot Hand products to the front of modern guitar and bass pedal design.

One of their latest offerings is the Source Audio Programmable EQ, and it too is digital. You may be an analog guy or not.  Regardless, the Programmable EQ is simply a great tool to have in your arsenal.  It’s rugged, silent, intuitive, flexible, MIDI capable, and it also has an interesting “X Factor” as well, more on that later.

The Source Audio Programmable EQ for Bass Guitar

The Programmable EQ has 7 band range with +/- 18dB capability.  You also get an additional 8th band at 62 Hz, which can be programmed with the Octave Extend Backpage function.  This gives bass players additional flexibility, especially for creating a scoopy slap sound, fat and dubby reggae tone, etc…  The “Band Select Buttons” are clearly marked with left and right arrows.  Once a frequency is selected, you use the grey encoder knob in the middle of the pedal to boost or cut dBs.   The Programmable EQ lets you save up to four presets.  Simply push the “Select” button to scroll through the presets.  Each preset has an LED indicator and the saved EQ curve is visible above as you scroll through your presets.  When you have a curve you like, just press and hold the “Save” button for two seconds and you’re done.   The overall output for each preset is controlled by a brightly lit blue knob, which actually glows brighter the higher the output is set.  That way you have some idea of the output of each preset as you scroll through.  Smart.  The output is automatically saved along with the chosen preset.   The footswitch is true bypass and also functions as a preset selector.  Once you engage the footswitch you can press and hold it to scroll through your presets, just release the pedal when you’ve found the preset you want and you’re ready.

In addition to the EQ functions, it has four “Backpage Parameters” which you access by pressing both the “Left” and “Save” buttons simultaneously:  Octave Extension, to access the extra 62 Hz band; Switching Speed, to control how fast or slow you want the Auto-Scroll function to operate; Auto-Scroll, either on or off; and MIDI Channel, which will allow you to control functions of the Programmable EQ with other MIDI sources. This brings us to the “X-Factor” I mentioned earlier.  When the Auto-Scroll mode is on, and the switch is pressed, the preset scroll will automatically continue scrolling even when the footswitch is released.  This can create very cool sequencer-like and modulated effects.  I created some tremolo sounds using this, however the presets need to have fairly wide and varying degrees of output levels to get a radical tremolo effect.   You may or may not use this, but it is very cool to play with and yet another example of Source Audio using technology as a creative tool.  (FYI, I’ve included some of Source Audio’s demo clips so you can check the functionality of the Programmable EQ.)

The NEW Programmable EQ pedal by Source Audio

Though not technically an effect, an EQ pedal does make valuable contributions to creating tone and there are many EQ pedals available.  Whether you like the idea of using an EQ with state of the art DSP, 56-bit processing , and 24 bit converters or not, you gotta like the extra thinking behind it.  Digital or not, a tool like the Source Audio Programmable EQ this is certainly worth consideration.  And you don’t have to boot any of your state of the art, hand-crafted, boutique beauties to use it.

About the author:

“I created BassEfx.com because the bass community clearly needed a place that would consolidate all the best effects pedals in one place.  BassEfx.com  gives bass players – and only bass players – a resource that showcases what’s available, offers the best advice and gets you the right effect.  My background: I co-founded Bass Northwest, the world’s largest bass-only retail operation, and ran it for 15 years, (1994-2009.)  In 30 years as a bass player, I’ve seen, heard, and played just about every amplifier, bass, cabinet and effect pedal imaginable.”

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I’ve been on a little reverb kick these days. I’m guessing it’s coinciding with my increased listening to Explosions in the Sky as of late. I’m super excited to see these guys in a few weeks here and that is a band that does it right. Another band that I’ve mentioned before that uses reverb really well (again, my opinion) is Foals. Good stuff.

Anyways, I came across an interesting video showing Jake Cinninger of Umphrey’s McGee taking a Soundblox 2 Dimension Reverb for a little test drive. The Soundblox 2 series is great change in my opinion to the original Soundblox. They’re smaller for one, and the housing is cast aluminum. The original Soundblox were made with a  plastic enclosure.

The Soundblox 2 Dimension reverb has 12 styles of reverb, which include 6 reflectivity styles of verb, two plate, two spring, a modulation reverb and an echo. You can adjust wet/dry mix, time/resonance, bass, treble, pre-delay, diffusion, output level, modulation rate and modulation depth. You can also include a Source Audio Dual Expression pedal (I really liked the use of the expression pedal in the video below) or MIDI. The pedal uses a 56 bit Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and uses 9 volt power.

You can pick up a Source Audio Soundblox 2 Dimension Reverb for $189.00 at Amazon.

Here is the video submitted by sourceaudioeffects:

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A while back I was on the look out for a small footprint EQ pedal for my Schecter Ultra VI guitar and ended up purchasing the 6 band MXR EQ, but after checking out Source Audio’s Programmable EQ, I’m thinking I purchased the wrong unit. The Source Audio Programmable EQ is housed in a single unit aluminum enclosure and allows you to store presets. You can store 4 presents, and the EQ is a 8 band EQ ranging from 62Hz to 8kHz. It is equipped with MIDI in and has a cool LED/knob for output. The more gain (up to 18dB) the brighter the knob lights up.

There is a very cool auto-scroll mode that will scroll through the presets giving a tremolo or sequencer like effect. Basically scrolls through each preset, you can adjust this sweep. You can pick up the Source Audio Programmable EQ for only $149.00 at Amazon.

Now, here is a great video showing Will Cady of Source Audio showing the various EQ settings that can be achieved with the Source Audio Programmable EQ. The auto-scroll feature is pretty cool and interesting. He also demonstrates how the EQ can be used to overdrive the amp.

As you can see and hear, it’s a pretty cool EQ unit. For more information about Source Audio, please check out their website!

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I mentioned in the past that I picked up a baritone (and a Schecter Unltra VI). For the Ultra VI, I needed to boost signal so I’m using a MXR micro amp, but the baritone I need to make some adjustments to the EQ. Little too much bass, scoop the mids a bit and turn up the highs  a little. But I hate doing this to the amp. I know I’ll forget to switch it back when I switch to guitar. I figured a A/B switch with a EQ in line with the baritone might be the ticket.  So now, I’m on a ‘loose’ hunt for a footswitch EQ. Been looking at Boss GE-7 or the MXR 6 Band, but I saw a video yesterday that’s may have added another player to the group. That pedal is the Source Audio Programmable EQ.

I’ve dealt with Source Audio in the past. They’re great people, making great stuff, so I was pleasantly surprised to see them working on a programmable EQ (actually.. not surprised). With the EQ being digital, it means that it can now store presets. This is potentially great for me with the Ultra VI and Baritone, since they both need tweaking through my guitar amp. The EQ is a 8 band EQ (1 band for bass guitar frequency). You can store 4 preset including output level. To switch preset you can push a select button or ‘long press’ the footswitch to page through the presets.

Here is the official description of the Source Audio Programmable EQ:

A one-of-a-kind compact graphic EQ pedal that holds four savable presets, 18 dB of adjustable gain on 8 separate bands of EQ. Bonus functions include the tremolo-like Auto-Scroll and MIDI compatibility.

Here is a video by HarmonyCentral interviewing Source Audio at NAMM 2011 about the Programmable EQ:

If you’re interested in the Source Audio Programmable EQ, you can pick it up for $149.00 at Amazon.com

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A few days ago I saw SourceAudio tweet a link about a video they posted. This video was a interview with Aidan Mullen who is the bass tech for Rick Savage of Def Leppard. I love these videos to see some the gear the big guys are using and hearing input from their techs. This video focuses on the Source Audio Bass Distortion Pedal, but there was s glimpse of Rick’s pedal tray:

The set up is pretty simple (I’m sure there is some serious stuff in regards to rack gear). Items on the pedal tray: Source Audio Bass Distortion Pro, Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler and SansAmp Bass Drive DI.

Below is the video by sourceaudioeffects:

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This has been a great give away with a ton of entries. So without further ado, the winner of the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger Give Away is George DesRoches of Rhode Island! Congrats George, the pedal will ship tomorrow, please let us know what you think.

I would also like to send out a special thank you to Source Audi0 for sponsoring this give away and letting us take it for a test drive! Please check out Source Audi0 for their other products also follow them on Twitter and Facebook too!

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