Let's Build a Budget Bass Pedalboard! - Everything You Need to Know for Your First Bass Pedalboard!

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 What are We Doing Today?
» 1:02 First Thing You Will Need is a Case & Power Supply!
» 3:20 Firstly, Let's Get a Tuner!
» 4:45 Up Next, We Need a Compressor
» 6:10 Let's Add a Preamp Pedal
» 7:36 Let's Add a Chorus Pedal
» 8:21 Finally, We Need Some Fuzz!
» 9:13 Let's See What Each Pedals Sounds Like!
» 19:15 How Much Did We Spend?
» 20:55 Outro Jam on the Pedalboard

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[akkunzero]

trinity of bass pedals

- Tuner
- Compressor
- Preamp/DI

[Heivang]

This is great, but I'd put a bit more into a propper power supply. Don't skip on stuff that makes noise you don't want.

[Jaques]

Heads up fellow bassist - the behringer DI is amazing. I use it as my main overdrive, and it’s changed everything for me

[scareyme]

I don't think I've ever made a pedal board that was not modified as my needs changed. Most times I've just bought the basic to get the sound I wanted, then added as the need arose.
Another informative video from the bass boys. Good job. 👍

[patrickbrogan]

Nice vid! I currently have the EHX Bass Big Muff and the Behringer BDI21 on my board!

[jamesatkin]

At that budget I'd just be tempted to go the extra £30 and get something like a TC Plethora or maybe a Bass Fly Rig. You'd get way better build quality, much smaller size, more fx and less faff. That said, your beginner with limited funds would probably not buy everything all at once.

[billybaru]

Awesome video. Great info on how to setup a pedal board for a bassist and at an affordable price. Well done. We need more bass videos

[TheJuggernautv]

The lads do bring the best Bass content. Thanks for remembering your brothers in the rhythm section Lee!

[bldallas]

Greetings from Dallas, Texas! Always enjoy Anderton’s YT content; especially the affordable gear reviews. This is the first bass pedal video I’ve seen anywhere, super interesting. Thanks!

[terrymiller]

The bass jam is like 60% JPJ-influenced, about 15% Jamerson-influenced, and 25% miscellaneous. Great stuff.

[felipevasconcellos]

Great episode! You should do a synthy bass pedalboard, including fuzz, envelope, octave…

[joseph]

I keep a Behringer BDI 21 as a backup in my gog bag. Sounds really good in a pinch. People worry about it being made of plastic, but I have had mine for over 20 years. $29 to save a few gigs over the years and go to jams or save space when you have to without an amp and go straight through the mixer.

[MarkPJordan]

I'd always put the compression on the end of the chain. Found it was better at dealing with noise gathering.

[deangullberry]

I put a "budget" effects chain together for my kid recently.
For a few more bucks, you can put together a pretty badass practice/ budget board, that will work fine in a jam band.

Everything listed below is the cheapest I could find, that still works satisfactorily.
When it gets to the octave pedal, it's the cheapest I could find WITH AN UP-OCTAVER.

(Optional) Behringer Wireless
$69

Behringer Tuner $35
Behringer Compressor/
Limiter $29
Behringer EQ $29

Into
EHX Switchblade +
Line Selector $56.30
Channel B out:
Straight to straight to
Fifine 4 Channel
Line Mixer $26.99

Channel A out (line selector)
to
Donner Octave Pedal $55.99
Behringer OD/Distortion $29
Behringer Noise Reducer $29

Into line mixer
Line mixer out to
Behringer Chorus $29
EHX volume/
Expression pedal $60.80

Total, w/o Wireless system= $380.08

[RadityoPramAdi]

+1 on the preamp pedal/DI. Lesson learned hard... especially when the venue needs to change the bass amp. TWICE!! Their DI doesnt help too.. LOL.

[mattgilbert]

That Bass preamp/DI is a great choice it really earns its keep when going direct. The guitar version is awesome as well, the V-Tone. It's basically a SansAmp.
The Dr. J Sparrow is another good affordable Bass DI/Pre.

[PingPongPix]

Great video! I'd like to see the same thing but with a budget of £1000, on pedals alone.

[williamcubillos]

Muchas gracias Andertons!

En muchos eventos no contamos con amplificador de bajo, por lo que tenía que ir directo al mixer. El Behringer BDI salvó muchos conciertos gracias a que hacía un acople de inpedancia (como cualquier caja directa) y me ofrecía una simulación de cabina y un drive bastante decentes.

Ya no es mi preamp/DI de cabecera, pero es un pedal que aprecio mucho y sobretodo por su bajo costo, lo recomiendo sin dudarlo.

[oblivionzerokyle]

I would love to see you guys tackle a modern hard rock bass rig.

[alanthorne]

I have had that Behringer DI/Amp modeller for years and never let me down and with great drive tone through my Mark and Eden bass amps.Retired it for a Sansamp but it’s there as a back up.