The Smallest Bass Pedalboard I've Ever Built

The Smallest Bass Pedalboard I've Ever Built | The Janek Gwizdala Podcast

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Ай бұрын

This episode of the podcast gives an in-depth look into the new mini touring bass pedalboard for my show in Morocco with the Brecker Brothers next week. It's small but mighty, and ended up being something completely different from what I imagined it would be.
The signal chain includes the MXR Vintage Bass Octave, MXR Bass Envelope Filter, Line6 HX Stomp and MXR Bass Preamp.
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@mingus152 Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your process.

@hoot7588 Ай бұрын

Love this style of video janek. You have kept me company while i polished my work shoes!

@JayJollyMusic Ай бұрын

You've got to try the Walrus Audio Kangra filter/fuzz. Highly underrated and has got the warmest envelope filter. Switch the envelope off and turn the filter all the way counter clockwise with the fuzz on (vintage no mid boost) and you've got an epic sub synth. Took it off the board only to put it back on.

@hoot7588 Ай бұрын

And i really hope you can do some more vlogs, loved those! Fizzy water, tennis, flights, good times!

@reisselpud Ай бұрын

Lots of videos lately ! So cool ! Thanks Janek

@lindaj2k Ай бұрын

Just made myself a small board with the HX Stomp, Cioks dc4, and and a Bass DI! Love how simple and nice it is. Great video btw

@zulufrog 15 күн бұрын

Janek, with your other-worldly playing, the pedals are just gilding the lily.

@mrclyde678 Ай бұрын

Can't wait to see you play at Essaouira with the Brecker Brothers Janek !

@jakecrowe3797 Ай бұрын

Love this style of content. Technique is great, but there’s so many other pieces to making music it’s great to see how you approach it. Also, would love to see footage from your Morocco journey! Would be cool to see how you tackle set-up/sound check in these types of gigs.

@noahmast4888 Ай бұрын

Thanks for going over the power for your HX stomp! I have that same "Y" power cable and I now see how I've been using it wrong, four minutes in and you're already solving my pedal problems😅😅

@Belman5 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing all this with us Janek. I've never used pedals in the past, but you're giving me some great ideas. I think I'm slowly becoming a convert :-)

@AmilcarBaxo Ай бұрын

JG It is a great encyclopedia of how to use pedals as musical tools for us bass players throughout all these years for free. I just thank you!

@billyjay1 Ай бұрын

Great Janek !!

@zulufrog 15 күн бұрын

Also, your stream-of-consciousness narration on this is actually quite entertaining.

@AmilcarBaxo Ай бұрын

We have subtitles 🫶🏼🙌🏼! Some time ago I had the Seamoon Funk Machine thinking about that sound of the Brecker Brothers; Some Skunk Funk. But where the sound of the pedal is most prominent is in Roxy Music's song on Disco Avalon's The Main Thing track.

@turfinteractionsgolf Ай бұрын

Love the Podcast Janek! Regarding your Temple pedalboards comment. I have 2 different Temple pedalboards and love them! But I am NOT a fan of their screw on pedal mounting system. Your comment wasn't specific but I assume you ruled it out because of the mounting system. Firstly I found the adhesive from the mount to the pedal is almost permanent so after almost ruining 1 pedal I immediately abandoned that system and I just use dual lock on top of the board. That also allows me to be a little more accurate of my pedal placement vs the mounts. The boards are lightweight and I'm a big fan of their patch bays for i/o and power, makes life so easy. On the other hand the Mono Tick is such a high quality convenient little bag, as you've done here it almost pays to build the board around how you are going to carry/transport it.

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

Totally right about why I chose not to use the Temple board. It's the mounting system that I'm not crazy about. Again, it's not that it doesn't work, it's a personal preference, and I feel I can be way more creative with the positioning and design with using dual lock. I can also see why Temple's add-ons like the I/O module are very attractive for people, it's a great idea.

@rafito1280 Ай бұрын

Janek. People don't know how well the M81 works with multiFX I've been using one for a year now and I'm really happy.

@groovinonfunk Ай бұрын

Yes, Neil Jason was very involved in the new Seamoon pedals... In fact, he's the owner of the company. Seamoon and Manhattan Basses, too.

@AlexisPardoBass Ай бұрын

Could you leave the subtitles option on your KZfaq channel activated so that those of us who speak Spanish can better understand the content of your videos, greetings Janeck

@EnriqueMendoza-tm8cn Ай бұрын

@conorlarkin1111 Ай бұрын

I believe that the HX Stomp’s outputs are actually TRS balanced outs, so you should be able to run a TRS-XLR adapter and not have noise, bypassing the need for a DI. I prefer a DI to an adapter cable every day of the week, but when trying to scale things down that’s always an option and then I just keep a couple spare adapters in my gig bag.

@elambassist Ай бұрын

Cheers Janek!! I just made a similar battery powered flyboard. The ghost fire board on the Bezo site was $50. So convenient!!

@thierry18 Ай бұрын

I love my ghost Fire board! It's the only board I've found that's actually reasonably priced! $100+ for a metal frame is a scam, but $30 for a metal frame and a bag is tolerable.

@AndyA1234 Ай бұрын

My pedalboard consists of a Fishman Pro EQ & a UA 1176 Compressor. Sometimes use a Sansamp Bass Driver DI.

@stubrakon9683 Ай бұрын

Great video thanks! Im going to talk through with my therapist the lack of a Boss product on the board. In a few months i will probably be able to find a place of acceptance. 🤘😀👍😎

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

hahahaha. Yeah, it's a weird one to look at, but quite functional.

@canbarkerhq2387 Ай бұрын

Man, love your content! Just needed to point out that those little phrases in spanish sounding surprisingly native 👀👀

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

😂 my wife is half Cuban and I try and speak to my daughter in Spanish as much as possible in the house.

@EnriqueMendoza-tm8cn Ай бұрын

Janek Please leave the Spanish subtitles activated, your videos are the best

@luigi.zanini Ай бұрын

Subtitles/Auto-Translate/Spanish

@glenj99 Ай бұрын

Hey Janek! Thanks for taking the time to show your build. Love your intentionality with everything you do. Just out of curiosity what camera set up are you using these days? Cheers!

@christophercheney1006 Ай бұрын

Yep, the details underneath, that's the tricky part!

@xquesmuah Ай бұрын

I use the Temple Duo 17 with the 3m dual lock

@craigsi16 Ай бұрын

34:52 just flip the placement of the first 2 pedals so the octave is on top with the input going up away from you instead. It would mean a slightly longer cable run from the filter to the stomp, but it's not too bad

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

I considered that, but I need to access the octave way more than the filter so it's a little more convenient to on the front. I'll use a right-angle instrument cable into the octave to avoid catching it with my foot.

@sixstackjack Ай бұрын

i could not afford the "helloy duo" or whatever its called, so i had a friend 3d print one shaped like an L , and then i built it myself and but it on the side of the HX stomp so i still have the acces to the Send and return ports, coasted me like 3euro insted of 50 euro that the Duo coast :P

@jbhopper2827 Ай бұрын

Great vid! I love small boards like this. Quick question about your Mattisson, do you think the 32” scale sacrifices anything in the lower positions? I love the idea of a more ergonomic instrument, and im curious if the 32” works well for all registers or if it’s just better for solo playing. You’re an inspiration man!

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

I think it's amazing in the lower register. I play all scales of basses on a regular basis and I never feel I'm lacking with low-end punch on the 32".

@joebaiza3598 Ай бұрын

How does the HX Stomp screen do in direct sunlight? If you've run into this problem before, you know it can be more than just an annoyance, it can change your overall performance.

@steverendall8284 Ай бұрын

Did you arrange the octave and envelope pedals so their switches were close to the Stomp for a reason? Like ease of getting power to them? Or keeping the switches close together? Having feet like flippers myself, I'd have been minded to arrange the octave and envelope switches so they were at the edge of the board so it'd be less likely to catch the Stomp's switches inadvertently. Would be interested to know the design decision on that front

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

The layout was all about the location of the power inputs plus the ease of using one small patch cable between the octave and the filter. It keeps the cabling neat.

@merdashuta4891 Ай бұрын

Don't know if you already thought of this, but if you want a preamp you could start the signal from the hxstomp with the preamp you like and then use the send/returns for the octave and envelope, i use that exact setup and for me it works amazingly. The only problem i find is that i would like to use an analog compressor since i don't like the stomp ones, do you use in the stomp that works well for you?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

There are major issues with the AD/DA conversion in the send/return on the HX Stomp. It destroys the natural sound of the bass when you have the block bypassed. I don't know why more bass players aren't experiencing this when they use the feature...

@merdashuta4891 Ай бұрын

@@janekgwizdalaI haven't noticed any changes on my tone, but i might have to check again just in case. Thanks for the tip!

@ulfgj Ай бұрын

gee wiz gwizdala! moving again??!! can u easily just copy any settings and patches u created on the white hx stomp to the black one?

@wren23_bass-synths Ай бұрын

I’ve been looking to make a smaller pedalboard myself and was looking at the HX Stomp. Could you give the link for the aux switches for the Stomp? Thanks.

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

pedalnetics.com/product-tag/hx-stomp/

@wren23_bass-synths Ай бұрын

@@janekgwizdala thank you!

@theoforde-stiegler Ай бұрын

Why did you not place the foot switch of the envelope and octave to the outside of the board? Would that not make foot switching access easier? (As in octave on top, filter on the bottom of the board.) Or did that make the cable connectivity a mess?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

Connectivity would have been a little bit more complicated that way, and I need access to the octave pedal way more than the filter so I like that one closer to my right foot on the bottom of the board.

@theoforde-stiegler Ай бұрын

@@janekgwizdala gotcha - I guess you are a more experienced and nuanced pedal dancer than most! 😄

@jameshieatt4184 Ай бұрын

Hey Janek, could I ask please what are you using to give power to the Cioks unit?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

It has its own power cable, I just didn't have it plugged in in the video.

@flyoverbassin8959 Ай бұрын

Show us some cable soldering!

@serjkirsanov4128 Ай бұрын

HX Stomp has balanced outputs, so why do you need a DI? For EQ, you can use hX stomp for that as well, just curios

@cdcgb1 Ай бұрын

XLR out I imagine, just easier for sound techs

@serjkirsanov4128 Ай бұрын

@@cdcgb1 my band mate has short cable TRS to female XLR on his HX Effect. The only thing is DI’s has ground button. I was contacting Line 6 about it, try to figure it out - they said you don’t need it, it will adjust your impedance and you already have balance output 🤷🏻‍♂️ But everyone on KZfaq is using DI’s with their HX Stomps 🤷🏻‍♂️

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

Because I still need to rely on a DI pedal to go to the front of house, and I'd much rather have control over that, especially with the added bonus of EQ that the MXR Bass Preamp gives me. I could use the EQ in the Stomp, but that means using an EQ block on every preset. I like to have EQ separate from the multi fx, just like the octave and the filter. The Stomp is amazing for certain things, but in some areas it's still in its infancy.

@smalchsmalch7378 Ай бұрын

@@janekgwizdala You can go straight from HX to FOH. HX has Di built in. The only difference - its TRS output (Stereo Jack) instead of XLR. You can get TRS/XLR adapter and your good.

@theoforde-stiegler Ай бұрын

Why not put the TDI on it's side?? Looks like it would have fit almost perfectly?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

Besides being pretty ugly... It actually sits a little too high on the board.

@jamesgrant3343 Ай бұрын

Tell you what - you’re dead right about the PedalTrain flight case handle. It’s horrible and I’m concerned it’ll eventually bruise my hand on the way to a gig. I’m gonna drill it out and replace it.

@spinomarxist2688 Ай бұрын

Ho, where can we find the playalongs videos linked in your books? The Janek studio doesn't exist anymore right?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

The bass studio closed its doors to new members some time ago now, but some of the courses are available at my website. You can find all the videos and play alongs at my website also.

@JCFelis Ай бұрын

What about the Hx with the TH/DI by Aguilar ?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

If I didn't need any other pedals outside of the Stomp, I could have chosen literally any DI in my collection. Anything from the MXR to the Noble. But there wasn't space for anything bigger than the MXR Bass Preamp on this board as I needed the octave and the filter.

@craigsi16 Ай бұрын

could you not fit the dc7 under that board? Yes you'd have 2 unused spots but at least then you don't have to use a splitter

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

The output of each power spot on the cioks is so powerful that using a splitter is way less of an issue than you might think. The DC7 is also significantly heavier and almost twice the size of the 4, so it's a space and weight saving thing too.

@musahenderson Ай бұрын

Would you try putting the teletronix on its side. It would be tall on the board but not that tall.

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

It was a possibility, but it sits too high on the board to be comfortable, and kind of ugly looking too... The pedalnetics add-on for the Stomp is the highest I want to go.

@steverendall8284 Ай бұрын

I genuinely started to feel anxiety watching you get the Velcro off; just waiting for another hand injury. The relief was palpable . . .

@jarczan Ай бұрын

Why the MXR Bass Preamp?

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

Did you watch the video…? I’m guessing not

@jarczan Ай бұрын

@@janekgwizdala i've missed that moment ;)

@skiphoffenflaven8004 22 күн бұрын

Does it ever dawn on folks just how rich lots of people who make YT videos for music and art actually are? I view YT more and more as a way to show this divide. Sure, we do bridge this divide, but dang…some folks just seem to have endless supplies of cash and that happen to make YT channels and videos for it.

@janekgwizdala 22 күн бұрын

@@skiphoffenflaven8004 is that aimed at me? Or just a general statement? I’d love you to point out exactly where I have all the cash stashed if it was directed at me. I can’t find it anywhere.