Swiss Things By Earthquaker Devices for Bass! 

As an improv bass looper artist (live from my living room... haha) this is a clutch product! I've learned how to get around the time it takes me to click on/off pedals. I do this usually by adding more captivating parts of a tune to initial loop to keep the listeners hostage (something like a adding a simple sonar pong w/ the reverb trails to my "drum" percussive sounds that I create on the bass )... bc who wants to listen to "bass guitar drums" for 30 secs while I set the next loop parts up? Another thing I do is make exaggerated movements when making adjustments ... almost like the "salt bae" dude does w/ sprinkling the salt on the steaks. I figure that's just adding "me" to the show in a way where the listeners aren't aware that they are literally in a waiting room. But this would be SUPER cool addition to my home/studio board. The pedal is kinda big to take around live... I mean I even hate the fact that the DG Infinity and Aeros looper are on my board, and I'm sure most would say that those are "small" pedals. I'll def go to the Earthquaker Devices channels and make the suggestions for condensing this pedal! Cheers Janek - you're a madman with your improv show!! You've unplugged yourself in the sense that you see potential in more "sounds" as music --- where I think I am still listening to a lot of pedals and going "well that's not very musical"... I'm still "plugged in" and that's not a good place to be. I'm working on getting free.

I emerse myself into your books and videos. They keep me motivated and encouraged. Thanks for sharing 👍🏿

Great video as always, but commenting to say how much I love the stop motion animation pedals in the intro.

brainstorming a new board myself, perfect video at the perfect time!

Couldn’t play without my boss Es5 once you deal with the fact it’s big! But stopped me tap dancing turning on the wrong pedals etc also midi is awesome!

The stop-animation is ridiculously good. Great job, Janek! Going from strength to strength!

Amazing video as always ❤👏

Also “old blood signal blender” solves all those qualms you have

Amazing video as always Janek ! I use the Boss LS2 as a blend knob for the Wolly Mamooth Fuzz. there is so much to do with an effect loop pedal, love your approach !

Rad video as always!

I could definitely see this going on my board if it gets smaller (work your magic with EQD, Janek) thanks for another great video!

Because you wanted comments 😇 if you used a small midi loop box like the Morningstar Ml5 or ML10x you can do everything you’re doing here but with more options and flexibility. Mount it under the board and take up no space and then use the HX Stomp to do the midi switching so that the whole board becomes a full multi fx. This was you don’t have to sacrifice the footprint of the Swiss Things. Not that I have anything against the Swiss Things, it would be my preferences as I prefer analog everything and never programming anything if I can avoid it.

Thank you so much for sharing all of your wisdom, I’m just blown away by what you have going on here!! I have a question and if this is something you’ve already discussed, maybe in another video or podcast, let me know but how do you wire everything? How does this pedal board connect to your amp, do you use the fx loop or do you run into the front of your amp or are some split and sent different ways?!! So many questions. I obviously don’t expect you to answer in a comment but if you haven’t made any videos explaining this already it would be amazing to learn about that. Thanks again, you’re a real inspiration

They could name smaller versions of the Swiss Things after different Swiss cities and villages! "Swiss Things: Zurich Edition" or "Swiss Things: Lucerne Edition"! :D Since I double on double bass and bass guitar (or triple with double bass, bass guitar, and synth bass), I usually always have an A/B switch (Radial Big Shot i/o; also has a mute switch, and a tuner out so I don't have to have a tuner in my signal chain) on my board...but I'm in the minority there. *EDIT* I didn't realize the Swiss Things' A/B function was for *output*, yeah, that's less of a bass feature to go to 2 different amps. I guess you could leave output B unplugged, and then use it as a mute? But you could also just plug in an expression pedal as a volume control, and heel down... Great video!

Game changer!

1st like and comment, thanks for your videos ❤

Welcome to the fold brother have fun having a surprisingly hard time, explaining it to your friends on the gig

Similarly to this set up, I use the HX Stomp to switch all my effects at the same time. I utilize the two effects loops and the option to program parallel paths. I set up the state of the analog pedals for each song beforehand, then I use snapshots to turn everything on and off at once.

Janek! Great video. Have you heard of the Two Notes OPUS? It's a amp/cab sim with balanced outputs, very cheap and sleek on the board. I'm very curious to see your review of this piece of gear. It seems like a great pedal for recording and touring.

I've been considering one of these for quite some time. I've been putzing around with the "wet/dry" thing for years. I primarily do so when recording, so nice to blend clean and "dirty" signals when necessary. I do it live sometimes as well, but dragging multiple amps to a gig is a royal pain! As always, great video Janek! Damn I wish I could get my hands on some of that Iron Ether stuff..but they seem difficult to obtain.

Been watching the channel for a good while, now. Very informative stuff; learning plenty both from a gear, and musical perspective! Appreciate you doing what you are doing. Love my FMeron, btw, it's a great alternative synth sound to the octave pedal! Just curious (and sorry if this has been mentioned previously), how come you've moved from your old OC-2 to the MXR octave?

I use an old Boss LS2 with A and/or/mix B and none, with boost on A and B, it’s nice.

Please make a video of how you put together this pedalboard, if possible ofcourse

Hey Janek! You should check out the new Fender Looper Switchboard. It pretty much covers what you suggested for improvements to the EQD. I think it will be right up your alley! Cheers from Victoria BC 🍁 James

Hello Janek, bass player, and new subscriber here, love your sound, and the idea put forth on the use of this pedal in this video. My only concern is that you had to use two fingers, spread wide apart, to toggle both switches, and so how would you do this standing up with your foot? There is a third middle switch. That looks very close as well. Sorry, I just wanted to physically see how you would switch this on the fly standing up.

Janek, I have a question about blending two distinct signals. Wouldn't something like the Gig Rig wetter box be of great use when you can combine one type of sound with another through an expression pedal? I'd love to see you try that. Maybe have multiple such boxes which combined with expression pedals will allow you to blend in sounds on the fly. That would sound really interesting, I assume.

Nice video!! ( what do you estimate the value of your pedal collection to be..? )

Just from a space saving perspective I think the HX stomp can do the same thing with its dual loops via a TRS to mono cable. Maybe I'm wrong and it doesn't accomplish everythig, or you're already out of blocks? Doing it through the stomp would give you the flexibility to place effects within each loop and you could alter the chain more significantly on the fly.

Sounds like a no brainer to me but defo needs to be smaller. I’m using a JHS Booster and SFX Thumpinator mounted under my board. I can’t load a picture unfortunately

How are the damaged pedals are you getting them fixed?

Would you recommend the Spark for pure clean boost?

Did the title music change?! Love the animation either way.

Capo

Me again. I have a MXR Deluxe octave pedal. I cannot get the consistency I hear on your videos, regardless of the bass I use, alway get glitches somewhere on the neck. I've got a range of basses; precision, stingray, bass collection, shergold. Actives,passives,fretless, fretted, 4 & 5 string. It would be interesting to hear your approach to octave pedals to get the best out of them. I understand that there's a difference between analogue an need digital pedals, but I expect more from the MXR! :)

Great presentation and enjoyed the playing at the end of the video!😄 ETA Your presentations get right to the point. I truly appreciate that, as there are, unfortunately, too many meandering, verbose pedal demos on YT with the added bonus of, um...truly shitty playing...Carry on!😎

If you only need 2 loops and a master bypass, This could be done with a much smaller pedal. A 2 button QuarterMaster would allow for a master bypass and you could switch those loops in one click. All in the size of an MXR pedal