Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[untilshewokeme]

[D.o.S.]

holy moly someone bought all the pedals

That's definitely how I feel when the larger BILTF threads start rolling out each year.

Also gor-gorz your board is essentially an informal seminar on the state of modern boutique knob-game.

[Chankgeez]

What's the Mondrian?

That's what I was gonna ask.

And the purple handed one too?

[goroth]

Faux-Mondrian is a Makes Sounds Loudly phaser. 6 stage thing, with a stomp to max out the regen for happy good times. With the regen maxed it kinda makes the LFO sound a bit like a flat tire - not sure if it affects the shape or what, and I can't work out if I think it sounds awesome or super annoying. Controls on the side are for LFO shape, width and centre frequency. Expression to bypass the LFO. Top is regen and speed.

The purple duder (see album cover for Somewhere in Time) is kinda a distortion modifier pedal that I had Turnip Farm Nick built. It is pre-dirt. First toggle is for a passive volume cut (set by the left knob) - it's just a pot and a cap. But I hate changing the volume on my guitar, so I've got this set to just get the level of clean-up I want for that one time I want less dirt. Second toggle is a... wait for it Chanks... green ringer. And the third is a fixed wah (Vox, got a nice little inductor and everything). Second knob controls the frequency. At around 12 o'clock you get honky zappa fun, and around 10, 10:30 it brings out the octave in the green ringer. Like, insane amounts of octave. Really cool. So depending on what I want to do in the song I'll have the toggles set a certain way.

Signal path is all kinds of goofy because of the looper thing. But it's pretty similar to how it's always been (also because of the looper). But there are a couple of interesting pedals on there, at least I think. The Zvex replaced a Fuck OD, which felt kinda sacrilegious, but it is running post delay (delay running post everything else). I really love the Fuck, it's one of my all time favourite pedals, but I really needed a clean boost after delay for teh shredz. And there are of course a million and one stupid clean boosts on the market, but I didn't want to give up the ability to crud up the delay. So the two sides being an SHO and the Super Duper (being two stacked SHOs... Zvex knows how to get mileage out of a circuit. BOM is 4 stacked SHOs haha). And they are independent. So I can do the boosty thing, or keep the gain at unison and just smear out the delay. With the gain down low and the tone cutting a bit you do get a little bit of that lofi feeling, but it isn't as orgasmically crapped out as the Fuck. Once I stop pedging, and once Brian stops touring, and once those two events synchronise, I'll have to hit him up for some sort of custom fuck thing with an independent boost.

The other interesting thing is the dirt section up in the top right. The alchemy Elements is my main palm-mute-people-to-the-face tool. And the Mini is always on (but in a separate loop) and that's set as a slightly-more-than-slightly lofi overdrive. The gears Elements to the right is set at less than unity gain, and also always on, stacked into the Mini. I have the expression pedal connected to that Elements, and as a default it is always backed off (ie 100% clean). I can then use the expression pedal to blend in more gain, tighten up the bass a bit, and add a bit of treble. When it is 100% wet (ie a normally stacked combo) it gets a really nice sharp janky distortion that makes me want to kill all consonance.

I guess I use the board in three ways - being in a metal band the alchemy Elements gets used the most. Then there are a few different pedals to add colour to chords and stuff. There are a couple of delays to get into the shred zone, or "look at me I've found some delays and learnt how to tremolo pick" post rock stuff. Then there is some stuff to get into analog synth sorta territory. There is some redundancy in the board, but I've kinda looked at it like ok, sometimes I want tremolo before dirt, and sometimes after. I could buy a fancy switcher and program stuff and whatever, or I could just buy two tremolos that I like and put them in different spots.

RRR is pre dirt.

Because ILF.

[Eivind August]

That's beautiful, Gor. Both the board and your explanation/philosophy. You've got several shelf-boards as well, right?

[hbombgraphics]

Goroth man,
I love every friggen thing about your board

holy crap

so good

and the zip tie work is on point

[UglyCasanova]

Maybe it's time for Norway to wage war on Sweden.

Lovely board, business raptor

[Willem]

Really amazing board goroth! Really like your Dr Scientist stuff.
Who made the finish of your mini?

[Chankgeez]

Faux-Mondrian

So, you're saying that Mondrian didn't really paint your pedal?

The purple duder (see album cover for Somewhere in Time) is kinda a distortion modifier pedal that I had Turnip Farm Nick built. It is pre-dirt. First toggle is for a passive volume cut (set by the left knob) - it's just a pot and a cap. But I hate changing the volume on my guitar, so I've got this set to just get the level of clean-up I want for that one time I want less dirt. Second toggle is a... wait for it Chanks... green ringer. And the third is a fixed wah (Vox, got a nice little inductor and everything). Second knob controls the frequency. At around 12 o'clock you get honky zappa fun, and around 10, 10:30 it brings out the octave in the green ringer. Like, insane amounts of octave. Really cool. So depending on what I want to do in the song I'll have the toggles set a certain way.

NICE.

So, is the fixed wah part before or after the Ringer?

[goroth]

@eivind: Japp!
@uc and hbomb. Hugs all round. And I always love both your boards, but you dudes knew that.
@will: dan w. And yeah, I kinda love dr sci Ryan a lot.
@chanks: I will neither confirm nor deny Mondrian actually painting the enclosure. All I'm saying is if he did it lacked some of his usual compositional elements and was more reminiscent of his body of work at large rather than a being a specific piece in his oevre.
Wah>greenie>fuzz = so much octave. If you are careful with the treadle you'll find a spot where the combination of the resonance and the filtering of the upper level harmonics makes the octave jump out.

I wouldn't use a green ringer without it now! Well, not for octaves. Just for that tasty intermodulation. But that is another kettle of pickled herring.

[Chankgeez]

Yep, can't get enough of that tasty/nasty intermodulation.

I picked up one of these not too long ago and I've been running it before the Green Ringer:



I'll have to do some more messin' around.

[kbit]

I wanna come try that out sometime!

[Chankgeez]

You are most welcome to, anytime!

[sylnau]

Look nice Chank!

[Chankgeez]

I'm diggin' it. Fuzz + filter. What's not to like?

I like stackin' it too. It's good sandwiched between other stuff. Like a Scrambler and a Green Ringer. Or a Scrambler and a Demo Tape Fuzz. Or even before a Ringer and a Demo Tape Fuzz.