Texture and Ambience Bass Pedalboard Build Guide

Parts/Pedal List

Details

Power slot requirements

About 10

Total stompboxes

11

Style lean

Bass/textures/ambient

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Ambient Bass Pedalboard Build Description

This is a bass pedalboard build that focuses on ambient tones and textures, with a versatile roster of boutique pedals that includes multiple bass synths and multiple delays.

Based on the Twitter embed below, it looks like the board is running off a Pedaltrain pedalboard and CIOKS power supply. 

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Ambience and Filtering

The board relies on filter/synth and ambient effects, running two pedals each for both categories. In the ambient department you have two delay pedals from Source Audio:

• Source Audio Nemesis
• Source Audio Collider

The Collider doubles as a reverb pedal, but combined, you have a ton of ambience at your disposal and plenty of texturing ability. 

Filters and Synths

On the synth/filter side, you have a rather small and expensive box by a company called Banana Effects and then the Xerograph Deluxe by Iron Ether.

This board relies heavily on boutique pedal brands, with the Boss OC-5 essentially the only mainline brand represented, unless you count the TC Electronic Polytune 2. 

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Pitch Shifting

Pitch shifting gets its own dual-pedal category as well, with the following:

• Boss OC-5
• DigiTech Whammy Ricochet

Overdrive and Modulation

Otherwise the pedalboard runs a boutique bass preamp/overdrive pedal, and two modulation boxes: One from from Wampler and a second from Red Panda called the Bitmap 2. 

• Wampler Terraform
• Red Panda Bitmap 2

Finishing up is a strange-looking gain pedal by Dr. Scientist called the "Frazz Dazzler."

Miscellaneous 

For tuning, the signal looks like it ends with the Polytune 2 Mini, though we've listed the newer Polytune 3 Mini, since the 2 is no longer available.

There's also a Moog expression pedal, though it's unclear which pedal it's controlling. 

Expression

On the board, the following boxes all have an expression input:

• Wampler Terraform
• Bitmap 2
• Frazz Dazzler (controls mix)
• Xerograph Deluxe
• Source Audio Collider

Summary

In total it's 11 stompboxes, giving you a massive amount of texturing and layering opportunities. For bass pedalboard builders looking for some ideas, we like the versatility and intensity of this board as a good template to follow.

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We'll see you there.