Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
I realized sometime late last year that if I'm playing guitar or bass, I'm going to be playing some shitty screamo/hardcore. I realized playing bass live that basically no effects actually carry over well on a bass except for the Ct5, but I don't have many uses for that. Might think about swapping out the PS-3 for a Phaser or something, but maybe I should find people to play with first.
Now my guitar set up is:
Melx Fuzz 2 -> PS-3 -> RV-3 -> R.Attack -> In Limbo II -> Tuner
Bass is:
Unknown Muff variant or something (haven't gotten this far) -> Tuner
Now my guitar set up is:
Melx Fuzz 2 -> PS-3 -> RV-3 -> R.Attack -> In Limbo II -> Tuner
Bass is:
Unknown Muff variant or something (haven't gotten this far) -> Tuner
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
To get by comfortably I'd need:
Pretty Years or RML 432k for versatility of OD
I like fuzz too much so would at least need one... probably Fuzz Mutant
Depending on the project I could get by with no modulation or other projects may need two or three
Nemesis delay for versatility
Empress reverb for versatility
Pretty Years or RML 432k for versatility of OD
I like fuzz too much so would at least need one... probably Fuzz Mutant
Depending on the project I could get by with no modulation or other projects may need two or three
Nemesis delay for versatility
Empress reverb for versatility
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I play as a one man band and have already cut my pedalboard in half over the last few months, but I reckon I could get completely by with just
tuner > Rat > TAFM > Nemesis > RM-1N(!!!!) - looper.
If I had one frivolous pedal to add on it would probably be a bitquest.
tuner > Rat > TAFM > Nemesis > RM-1N(!!!!) - looper.
If I had one frivolous pedal to add on it would probably be a bitquest.
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I use chorus and a slap back delay mostly to thicken my clean tone, with gain it becomes too subtle to matter for me.actualidiot wrote:Why does the dirty amp make make up for no chorus/delay?WayToHip wrote:With a clean amp, I'd need two dirts, a chorus, flanger, and delay.
With a dirty amp, I need a decent guitar and a flanger.
Bass is light dirt and a compressor.
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
all i use live is a volume pedal & a boost. sometimes i wish i could scale that down! 
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I could get by with nothing at all except my bass and amp. I know right?
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
^almost all my bass gigs are bass-amp, the only pedals I tend to use are either tafm or Pharaoh if any songs need fuzz. Hopefully starting a new band where I'll use more, but yeah realistically I don't need any pedals to be happy playing bass.
Guitar, just give me an amp that's nearly breaking up but not quite, and Fuck->Suneater. That's almost always the only stuff I take to gigs where I play guitar.
These are both dependent on the style of the band I actually gig with though, if I were in a different type of band the pedal requirements would increase (but never decrease!)
Guitar, just give me an amp that's nearly breaking up but not quite, and Fuck->Suneater. That's almost always the only stuff I take to gigs where I play guitar.
These are both dependent on the style of the band I actually gig with though, if I were in a different type of band the pedal requirements would increase (but never decrease!)
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
I don't know what I'd do for the live stuff I'm doing now, but it has been on my mind a bit since Oslo (which I wasn't entirely happy with although it came out all right). Laptop + QuNexus is cheating, I take it?
As far as Bass goes I was down to Badascan + Pitchblack for the infrequent outdoor jams of 2015/2016 (think substandard Colour Haze sonics), but I'd use that in combination with a singing tree and a PDF if I had the space and time to bring them. Still pretty minimal for ILF standards, I think.
As far as Bass goes I was down to Badascan + Pitchblack for the infrequent outdoor jams of 2015/2016 (think substandard Colour Haze sonics), but I'd use that in combination with a singing tree and a PDF if I had the space and time to bring them. Still pretty minimal for ILF standards, I think.
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all I really need is a tuner, mini (or buzz/super puzzle), hamalith (could sub for a muff), dd-500, space and rc-3. you can do -so- much with the dd500 and space alone utilizing the hotswitch and assigning ctrls. can even use them for dirt (mangledverb/SFX mode). I couldn't really expand on this for a while because $, but that helped me figure out exactly what I'd like to get next. the buy/try/flip cycle gets old.
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i know its not the same at all as what u guys are talking about but gimme an MPC500 or SP404 or OP1 and i'm golden. don't even need the power outlet 
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Well if we're talking a non-guitar context than just give me my laptop.
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
Tink I could get by with:
Crash oscillating fuzz
Wizard of Pitch for weirdness
Futureman boost/od
Nimbus reverb
For guitar, bass or synth, headstock tuner maybe, into a clean SS amp like the HH IC100.
Crash oscillating fuzz
Wizard of Pitch for weirdness
Futureman boost/od
Nimbus reverb
For guitar, bass or synth, headstock tuner maybe, into a clean SS amp like the HH IC100.
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1) Bass -> 4046-M -> amp
2) Add drummer
3) Maybe put a Reverb pedal between a mic and a PA
4) Congrats,you just recorded a sick electro-punk album
2) Add drummer
3) Maybe put a Reverb pedal between a mic and a PA
4) Congrats,you just recorded a sick electro-punk album
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I'm with this guy, I'm starting to like Norwegians.ognoy wrote:But with my main rocknroll band I could do a gig with a Rat and a delay which could oscillate. And a tuner.
Ideally I could rock with a Jazzmaster, Rat and a Twin Reverb, but I'm already there so it's not funny.
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Re: Bare Minimum Set Up You Could Use?
I think I could get by with an RV5 a Rat or Heavy Fuzz and a delay with modulation like my echobox or the timebender
probably could do RV5 RAT with clipping choices and Timebender and be pretty happy
maybe I need a tuner like a pitchfactor type tuner
I did do a 4 song a few weeks ago with just a G3 and I felt like I got good tones but needed way more cable between my guitar and amp
Sounded like Icepicks to me, AC15 was not designed for a direct signal
probably could do RV5 RAT with clipping choices and Timebender and be pretty happy
maybe I need a tuner like a pitchfactor type tuner
I did do a 4 song a few weeks ago with just a G3 and I felt like I got good tones but needed way more cable between my guitar and amp
Sounded like Icepicks to me, AC15 was not designed for a direct signal
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