u/Chapla1n

So follow up to my previous post... after a bit of research, I present the...

Stupidly-Full-Of-Expensive-Minis-Just-Buy-An-Anagram... board.

But there may be some ideas in there for someone!

Note:

• main pedals are shown on the board, apart from the power block and DIm stick which would be slung underneath.
• then some possible alternatives around it, roughly next to the pedal they'd replace.

Chosen pedals on the board, alternatives around it.

Flow:

• Swiff Audio C20 Tuner
• Broughton HPF
• Pigtronix Philosopher Bass Compressor (wrong image shown)
• MXR Vintage Bass Octave
• Wampler Belle - always on warm OD
• One Control Hooker's Green Bass Machine - tube amp / transistor amp, OD, boost
• One Control Minimal Mosquito Expressio Blender - Effects loop
  • Darkglass DFZ - Duality Fuzz
  • TC Hall of Fame 2 - Reverb
  • Malekko Phase V2 - V2 model can be configured for lower frequencies
  • Donner Yellow Fall Delay - MXR Carbon Copy for half the price?

>Back to Mosquito

• TC Ditto 2 Looper

• MXR Thump Preamp/DI

• Pedalnetics DIm Stick - 'cos the MXR Thump doesn't have a DI

• Powered by an Effects Bakery Hoden Sentai Donuts, 10 x 200ma

• Plus a Dunlop DVP4 Expression Pedal

Alternatives that are meant to work well with bass:

Compressors:

• Wampler Mini Ego 76
• Xotic SP

OD/Boosts:

• Xotic EP Booster (Janek mentioned having this as an always-on pedal slung under his board)
• Coppersound Gravity Bomb V2 - Boost with Burr Brown op-amp for a clean OD
• Aguilar DB316

Blender:

• The "expressio" allows you to add an expression pedal for the effects chain.
• There's a "trails" version, which swaps the expression pedal with allowing effects to persist when you switch it off, as you play your clean signal over the top.

Effects Loop...

• Coppersound Ion - space laser fuzz!
• Coppersound Renegade - two position bias switch for classic or modern fuzz
• Joyo Space Verb
• MXR Phase 95
• MXR Carbon Copy

Preamp:

Rather than the MXR Thump/Pedalnetics DIm Stick combo, you'd probably ditch the mini aesthetic and get a combined preamp/DI pedal, so Darkglass Element pictured, which also has a headphone socket.

Power:

Probably wouldn't use the Effects Bakery, as it'd be nice to have something with the option for 12v for some of the pedals.

Honorable mentions: (Not shown)

Electro-Harmonix Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine.

Casio DN-SE10 Dimension Shifter

• Uh, imagine an expression pedal in your guitar strap. Yep.

TC Mimiq Mini Doubler (shown)

• 'cos why play as if there's only one of you?

Electro-Harmonix - Pico Deep Freeze

• Freeze pedal for sustaining effects

Hi there, I see FiiO is putting out firmware updates for the Disc pretty regularly, and I was just wondering if anyone's upgraded, and has the Artist > Tracks issue been fixed?

AFAIK, originally if you clicked on an Artist, it would list all their tracks, and not give you a step inbetween to select an album.

In v1.76 they mention "Added play by category—switch between albums and all tracks under Artists."

Does this mean you can now get Artist > Album > Tracks?

Firmware updates are here:

https://forum.fiio.com/note/showNoteContent.do?id=202601311712087234434

Hi, bought a Hiby M300, which is lovely, and wanted to setup something similar to the guy on Super Reviews using GDrive and MetaCtrl's AutoSync to "set-up-and-forget" syncing of music to a microSD in the Hiby.

AutoSync (and other sync apps) says it needs root folder access to the SD card, and therein lies the problem: pair folder sets up fine, initial folder permissions set up fine... but half way through, some process (I'm suspecting Android) steps in and rescinds the permission to write to the card, often unmounting it in the process.

Anybody hit their head on this and found a solution?

I'm using a SD card adaptor on my PC instead at present, but would have thought wireless delivery of files would have been sorted by now. Will probably just connect via USB in future.