sofamusician's Country Pedalboard

The EHX Bass9 provides excellent tracking and a realistic bass sound. I have used it successfully with both a guitar and a ukulele.

This pedal has been useful to both record bass backing tracks to use with a looper, and to use the bass as an additional layer doubling the main instrument to achieve a thicker sound. The later has been useful to get a much richer sound with a fuzz pedal (the Deluxe Bass Big Muff, in my case). With the ukulele, in some situations, removing the dry signal completely.

The pedal has two outputs. One keeps the original signal and the other provides the effect signal (where the bass and the original can be blended to taste). Having these two signal paths has been useful in combination with an ABY pedal. The original signal can go through some gain stages to be combined in the ABY pedal with the bass signal as an optional layer that can be enabled with a tap.

I have been mainly used the P-bass option, but there are a good number of options to experiment further.

The Lead foot ABY is a simple ABY pedal. Feels solid and the foot switches placement and style make it usable. I use footswitch toppers for extra surface and color coding.

I use the ABY pedal to combine together two signal paths that were split with the EHX Bass9. In this way, I can optionally add the pitched-down bass sound to the main overdriven guitar sound. It has worked quite well for my purpose, without noises or glitches.

This ABY pedal is mechanical, which makes it basically equivalent to switching patch cables on the fly. Depending on the application a more advanced solution (buffered line switchers) may be preferred.

The size is ok, taking less vertical space than other pedals. The access to the battery is not the easiest but fortunately the battery lasts long since it is only used for the LED lights.

In my experience, the main inconvenient is that the lights only turn off when there are no jacks connected to the A and B inputs. This makes it a bit inconvenient to use on a fixed set-up on a pedal board since you have to remember to connect and disconnect those jacks every time if you don't want the battery to drain when the pedal board is stored. An on/off switch or 9V connection would have been preferred.

Great tuner with big and clear display despite being compact. You can connect your instrument directly (for better results), or just place it nearby to use the incorporated microphone (supporting acoustic instruments). More precise than most apps, clip-on, and pedal tuners.

This is not in the pedal format, so it is not possible to silence the signal while tuning. If you really need that, Korg has a pedal tuner with a similar display, for twice the price.