Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[Dandolin]

very interesting, I'm gonna check it out further - thx!

[MaxMaps]

This is what I am working with lately. Pedalboard layout has mostly settled into this setup. I have more modulation I can bring in if I need to, but mostly I just want delay and reverb these days.

This is what I am building up too on my board. I like this a lot

[coldbrightsunlight]

^^^Great board matthias!

hearing that a perc is kinda dark is very strange, didn't seem so from the demos.

I've played a couple that were (1st gen Champion Leccy Divvy--Wooly has since built brighter takes) or could be (MK Ultra F--made by ILF's D Rock), petty pretty dark.

Also played supa bright ones (the ultra-rad Dirge) and lots in-between.

So I certainly agree that the circuit, especially when built close to the OG schematic (though there's been some argument over what that entails over the years) tends to be bright, but it's also clear somebody can produce a darker version if that's what they want....

This is pretty fun!

Nice!
what're the two on the upper right?

I found the perc I tried pretty dark.

Top right two are Orange Kongpressor and Catrina Engineering Salt Box.

[Dandolin]

nice thx

[goosekevin]

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constant flux but here is where it fell today. playing emo shit in a band and both quiet and noisy things at home.
fuzz probe will possibly leave again for a bit commander/driving notion combo which is probably more overall useful.
wanna maybe swap the tafm for a muff (wanted a tym op amp but missed out yesterday due to shitty site) but mostly just bc i have used to forever and wanna change maybe. will maybe add my context 2 or rrr for reverb up the front. who knows!
love the flint and the tensor and the shallow water which are all newer acquisitions. cant seem to shake the rainbow machine before dirt as a slappy delay with no magic and washy chorusy reverbish delay with magic on.

[codetocontra]

I’ve always thought that we tend to think of harmonic perc as bright because our first exposure to it was with Alu neck guitars. So much clang.

The Intersound IVP is more responsible for that legendary clang rather than the HP. At least in my experience. IVP is very powerful for tone shaping. HPs do seem to vary wildly in what they produce. My favorite is actually the one that D Rock made and sent out in a tourbox to some of us.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah the reason people think harmonic percs are bright is because everyone hears "Steve Albini uses a HP" then listen to Shellac. But AFAIK he only ever uses it for the real crazy stuff which is LESS CLANGY and like you say, 99% of the time when you're listening to that band his tone is just the IVP preamp.

[qersty]

I thought the IVP was more a big black thing, back when clang was screech. I think the big deal was that he could run it DI and avoid speaker roll-off. Now he seems to rock bassmen and similar, which probably is what the IVP was meant to sound like

[qersty]

Speaking about IVPs: Dubkitty, are deadheads as hyped about surveyors and IVP-based pedals or is it purely an Albini fan thing?

[coldbrightsunlight]

I thought the IVP was more a big black thing, back when clang was screech. I think the big deal was that he could run it DI and avoid speaker roll-off. Now he seems to rock bassmen and similar, which probably is what the IVP was meant to sound like

When I saw him last year I'm fairly sure he was using an IVP / preamp. Didn't see any amps.

But I'm sure he uses a variety of gear and still sounds like himself.

[qersty]

I think he uses it and a bassman when he can. Both are in big metal boxes. I think the only real key to his sound are single coils and a not-too-crunchy amp with a scoop

[goroth]

To the one true gear God above
here is my prayer.
Not the first you've heard
but the first I wrote.
(not the first, but the others
were a long time ago...)
There are two pedals here
and I want you to kill them.

[dandy13]

This is pretty fun!

Nice! I’ve always wanted to try the Sonar but never pulled the trigger

[KingNed]

Added a Cali76 Compact, Electrofoods Lil Pig, and Freeze to my board.

Sick board

With all those sweet pedlols, it's gonna sound weird when I ask this...
But how do you use the mxr eq pedal? It's used to "fix" something when one/some of your other pedals pedals are in action, is it an 'always on' kinda thing cause your amp is lacking something, is it there to even out certain frequencies when you switch guitars, etc...?

So many different ways and reasons to make good use of an eq pedal, and I can't seem to find a good excuse to put my MXR 6 band eq on my board

I'm using it as a 'solo' boost. Just doing a midrange hump to push my guitar further forward in the mix. The way I tend to run my board and amps means there isn't really headroom left, and when I added a straight boost it just adds more gain and doesn't push me forward. If I want to get 'louder' the only way I found to do that was with an EQ.

[coldbrightsunlight]

This is pretty fun!

Nice! I’ve always wanted to try the Sonar but never pulled the trigger

Sonar is good! The secondary/hidden functions take some getting used to but it sounds great and does everything I need and is tiny.

To the one true gear God above
here is my prayer.
Not the first you've heard
but the first I wrote.
(not the first, but the others
were a long time ago...)
There are two pedals here
and I want you to kill them.