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Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:04 pm
by Big Mon
This is too easy

Used Arc Flash-75-90.00. OD, Dist., and Fuzz
used Phantom Octave-eh, gonna say about 70.00
DOD fx25 used-these have gone up a bit on the used market, but 60.00 sounds right
Used Digitech Hardwire DL-8-100.00
Rocktek Chorus-Mine cost 15.00 and it's BBD, analog yumminess
Used EHX Holy Grail-60.00
105.00 under budget/ quarter of dat dank for inspiration.

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:56 pm
by The4455
Dunlop Rotovibe: $120
Ibanez weeping demon Jr. Wah: $80
EHX Big Muff: $80
Delta Labs Digital Delay: $50
EHX Nano Holy Grail: $120
EHX Nano LPB: $40

And with $10 to spare.

To me you can create more interesting, varied, and applicable tones with time based and modulation pedals as apposed to a board of all Fuzz or Distortion pedals. Especially to the common listener, the difference between a fuzz face and a big muff perhaps will be lost, but the difference between a big muff and delay+ rotovibe+reverb is one that you cannot miss.

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:58 pm
by sylnau
Fairfield Circuitry Four Eyes
Dr. Scientist The Elements

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:00 pm
by spacelordmother
Hrmm, well I would miss a looper and volume pedal, but:

Green Muff 200
Used Bf-2 50
Used SMMH 150
Used RV-3 100


M9 is really tempting to work into this equation though...

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:37 am
by Ghost Hip
LED mod MXR Dist. + - $50
ss/bs TAFM - $175
Malekko 616 - $150
Spend the rest on a used EQD Ghost Echo.

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:21 am
by goroth
spacelordmother wrote:Green Muff 200
Used Bf-2 50
Used SMMH 150
Used RV-3 100


I like this. I'd prolly change the muff for a cheaper version and add a filter of some sort, but yeah. Good!

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:08 am
by TheQuietWilds
MXR Phase 90 -> MXR Dist+ -> DD7 -> RV-5

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:09 am
by GardenoftheDead
Way Huge Swollen Pickle Mk II $130
Boss BF-2 $60
Boss DD-3 $140
Boss RV-5 $170

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:33 am
by univalve
modernage wrote:ElCap ($300), 2 in 1 Rat+ICBM built by myself ($100), and $100 in my pocket when I meet up with Dev and Uni at the bar. First round's on me guys!

i would love to really meet and hang out at the bar. Fucking long distance sucks. hard.

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:41 am
by Fuzzy Picklez
uhhh....

DM-2
Turbo Rat
Small Stone
Algal Bloom
Digiverb

maybe

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:56 am
by julius_deane
1st off, this reminded me how bullshit some new prices are compared to used, so I'll do it both ways.

Used
Verbzilla $95
AB-Synth $100-20?
Memory Boy $85
Digiverb $60
DL-8 $100
rest for a tuner

New
Crystal Dagger $245
DelayLab $230
Rest for a tuner

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:38 pm
by modernage
univalve wrote:
modernage wrote:ElCap ($300), 2 in 1 Rat+ICBM built by myself ($100), and $100 in my pocket when I meet up with Dev and Uni at the bar. First round's on me guys!

i would love to really meet and hang out at the bar. Fucking long distance sucks. hard.

You're in Germany right? There might be a slight possibility my wife and I will be visiting next summer. :idea:

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:50 pm
by Toonster
Boss OC-2 $80
EHX Micro Bass Synthesizer $215 (I guess)
Bazz Fuss diy $30 (bit high, but it is just a guess, forgot what it cost me to build it)
DOD FX72 Bass Stereo Flanger $30
Boss RV-2 $130

$485 total, but most of these pedals can be had for cheaper.. But that is the basics of what I use on my bass board in my bands..

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:28 pm
by bigchiefbc
Behringer BSY-600 - $45
Tone Machine clone - let's say $80 from whichever builder
EHX Flanger Hoax - $110 (that's how much I got mine for used)
EHX Deluxe Memory Boy - $125 (about what I could get it for used)
older full size EHX Bass Micro Synth - $140 (that would be a decent used price)

= $500 exactly

Boom

Re: Build the best board you can for under $500! GO!

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:19 pm
by julius_deane
EHX Micro Synth is a good call for this challenge.