The Best Bass Pedalboard Ever? | The Janek Gwizdala Podcast  

I'm about to move to a new studio, so one i have it all dialed in I'll definitely be making a video about it.

@@janekgwizdala congrats and looking forward

That's a complicated set of parameters... With essentially three multi fx units on the board, it will be tough to choose where each one goes. But as a general rule, I run Octave/pitch, fuzz, modulation, delay, reverb, looper, DI as my chain. I do use a parallel switcher though (EQD Swiss Things currently) which allows me to run a pre amp and compressor on the "clean" output when neither A or B are engaged, and then I can split up my chain in two sections with the A/B channels and it gives me some more routing and pedal combination options. Sounds like your board will maybe work well going: MXR - LVX - H90 - QC. Just depends on how much you want to switch the role of each multi fx unit.

@@janekgwizdala thank you so much for the reply, you are always very helpful and precise, it's not for everyone and it's not the first time you've helped me. I have been following you for a long time and it is an honor to be able to receive simple but important advice from you, thank you again for your time, for your artistic production and for what you represent for this generation of bass players, in the hope of being able to meet you one day I send you the my regards. Soon

I use the DMC micro pro but can't get it to do anything other than preset changes. Any resources you have on setting up the pedal to do other functions would be extremely helpful. I can't get them to do stomp or tap tempo functions.

Same here! HX Stomp is the brain of my pedalboard but the Micro Pro is absolutely the heart!

@@Energy_from.the_Sun I currently have it set up to switch between Snapshot and Stomp box mode and bypass on Utility 1 short presses. long press on button 1 is tuner (Which acts as a mute for the whole board). Long press on button 2 switches to Utility 2 which has tap tempo and bypass. Another long press on button 2 switches to Preset up and down. I use the midi connection from the stomp to the DMC micro I used the DMC micro manual and the HX stomp midi command codes to get it set up. It’s a bit fiddly but worth it in the end.

I'm using a Miura M2

Interesting...

Yeah it means for you you’re not saturating the one channel with a huge low in to the PA that the FOH then turn down in the PA. It means FOH can tame the Hulk or Meatbox separately without messing up your other effects signal. There’s a YT with Tim explaining it.

I’ve had an ES-5 for many years. I totally agree that it’s a fantastic pedal, I just found the form-factor for the exact size and application of my rig to not be quite right.

All shall be revealed soon!

I will! That just came in yesterday.

Right now it's a 0.30, but I'm going to have some C's custom wound that are 0.32-0.35 just to check out a hight gauge for a change.

It really depends on the situation. If I have the luxury of two amps and two cabs, then that's great. That is also really only about stage monitoring though for most venues, and I'm possibly switching to in-ears for some upcoming projects where I'm going to be running stereo and playing some huge sounds. The plan going forward is to monitor onstage with a mono send to the amp, but send a stereo pair to the house possibly using the Stereo Canvas from Walrus Audio. I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard really good things about it. At home I have an incredible setup with two Caveman Audio BP-1 Compacts for recording in stereo. It's as close to an old Neve console sound as I can get without having to spend half a million dollars.

Nothing in Canada planned right now, although I'm always open to suggestions.

It's called Ship To Shore from my album Night Watch. It's available on all streaming platforms.

Let's see...

For the big DI video I'm probably going to plug straight into the HI-Z input of my apollo X8 with no preamp as the control sound, and then highlight how all the DI's sound against it.

@@janekgwizdala can't wait for it. I'm a preamp junkie. As a side note: I have a SansAmp RBI rack unit to record stuff at home, and by chance stumbled upon a Behringer BDI21, which is a ripoff of the SansAmp circuit. It works pretty well, and for less than $30 you can have a clean D.I. and a decent preamp that gets close to my RBI if needed. Not a fan of ripoffs, but this was a surprise.

I've been getting into experimenting with that more and more these days in the studio.

@@janekgwizdala @OdhranWAR I acquired a few filters from Broughton Audio for this purpose, they are really great, but the Resonant filter one (to cut unwanted sub-end but perceptually focus the hearing on the resonant bottom) blew me away !! this can emulate a cab sim, but with a fat analog sound and without sacrifying too much frequency bands like IR tend to do IMO

I don't have that one in the lineup for the video.

Appreciate you guys making the drive down to see us! too bad i didn't have more time for 🦷. 🤣

@@janekgwizdala totally Janek! seeing you live was definitely a dream come true! and if you ever need anything 🦷related - hit me up😄

This one is the "Travel Lite"

@@janekgwizdala thanks! I really enjoy your channel.

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) part of the sound of the REDDI comes from the large custom transformer they're using, and with the way they're using it in the circuit you just can't get the same sound with a smaller transformer.

​@@sushiboxfx I've also been wanting to try your More or Underground Accelerator. Maybe that's the correct route for me then : )

@@edwardmooneyhan1928 Well I obviously won't try to stop you there ;) I'm really looking forward to Janek's thoughts on my Finally D.I.

I'm in the middle of production on the video now. I can honestly say I've never had this much fun with sounds, pedals, and video.

@@sushiboxfx @edwardmooneyhan1928 Recently got my hand on a sushibox MORE to tube the shit out of my beloved Jad e freer CAPO and that couple rocks beautifully ! thanx !!

A good set of pedals?

@@ethanlocke3604 obviously, its a video on his pedal board.

@@charlescdt6509 Your phrasing was not clear. First pedal I would recommend would be an octave pedal. Something like the mxr vintage bass octave or oc5 or smth like that. Then for the average bassist I would recommend a compressor and a distortion, something like the Earthquacker devices Blumes is a great option for like 80 used on reverb. If you want to do weird stuff like Janek, IMO best budget option after the octave would be to get the EHX ring thing. Pricey new, but used I got for like 140, and its not exactly a beginner pedal, but its probably the cheapest way to be able to do the most different Janek stuff. It can do the harmonizer or octave up thing, and if you crank up the ring modulator to the high frequencies and run the octave into it with only the octave down turned up you can get some of the Janek/John Davis synth sounds. Not exactly the same, since its ring modulation instead of sample rate reduction, but cool stuff regardless. It'll take awhile to really get a handle on what all the pedal can do, but its a lot. Then if you want to dive more into the janek stuff get a delay and a reverb.

I like his soothing voice

What is too distracting?

@@janekgwizdala Love your playing! Can't take the asmr aspect of the audio. Maybe there's a way to process the audio different for YT

@@bassplayerrm 🤷‍♀ Podcasting is about as close as it gets to what radio broadcasting has been for over 100 years, and this is my take on that sound and that format. I'm not about to change anything in my setup as it takes a serious amount of vocal cord workout to sit and talk basically non-stop for an hour. This is the sound of my voice. I get that it's maybe not for everyone, but that's the beauty of there being 5,000 other podcasts out there to listen to. You can't please everyone. I learned that a really long time ago, and have long stopped putting importance on what other people think. I don't mean that in a callus way at all. It's not an F you, it's just a way of saying "this is what it is. You're more than welcome to hang out, but no one is going to be bent out of shape if you don't".

@@janekgwizdala your voice sounds great you definitely have a broadcast quality voice, it's the inside of the mouth aspect of the audio it's too close that's it , listen to any broadcast quality programming the audio is never like this and for a reason. I realize you get this comment so maybe consider this perspective, or not do you, but it has nothing to do with your voice you honestly could do voice over work imo.