Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[Uncle Grandfather]

Breaking in the new pedals with some buckers. The Gretsch Playboy Harmon Booster might be my favorite new od. Lot of range and gets fuzzy. The jmi studio 2 wem pep rush box clone is just bonkers, notes decay so crackaliciously. i love gated buzz fuzz. Was setting up to record with a sennheiser e906, which is backwards in the pic, off axis at the edge of the cone.

Snazzy FX Tracer City > Gretsch Playboy Booster > Vox 68 v828 Tone Bender > Jmi Studio 2 > Systech OD > ehx rams head > Maestro mpf-1 > Maestro Stage Phaser > Ear ad4096

[Mudfuzz]

if I go superfuzz, im not messing with anymore clones.

From everything I've been told, and researched....I don't want clones if an original is available too....

meh.. no octave toggle… no blend… next you guys are going to start texting on rotary phones….

[univalve]

this thread go a bit the "post everything you have" attitude the last 30 pages...

[Uncle Grandfather]

meh.. no octave toggle… no blend… next you guys are going to start texting on rotary phones….

what? you don't like my original shin-ei fy-6, and now you have a problem with my phones?

[Schlatte]

this thread go a bit the "post everything you have" attitude the last 30 pages...

qft.

I'm kinda tired of clicking through endless pages of random ever changing pedal lines with vintage pedals what so ever to find the good boards of the good ol' peeps here on the forum. Especially now, when I only get internet on the weekends.

[univalve]

Yeah, i liked The pedalboards that had a purpose or Musical goal. Best one in The last Pages was The Double tgd board. There sb Went for creativity.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Yeah, i liked The pedalboards that had a purpose or Musical goal. Best one in The last Pages was The Double tgd board. There sb Went for creativity.

sometimes I use my pedal train to steady the unsteady leg of a table, or to fry eggs without burning them bottoms.

Edit: actually that's not a bad idea. post your pedal train and explain why the pedals are in their order, and maybe some bit about what all pedals you'll use at once for certain sounds, and how each pedal contributes to that overall sound. neat idea

[goroth]

Firstly, wtf with only being able to post pics that are 700 px wide. Whatever.

I have a scale diagram of my board that exists because
a) I hate rewiring my board. With a passion. Which means that I want to know where to put everything and how to route it before I sit down to do it.
b) This is what you do when you live in a tiny apartment and your wife and son are asleep - you listen to pedal demos with your headphones on and make stuff in Inkscape.

I made these two diagrams now (while my son is asleep, meaning I'm not busy playing with cars) to show how everything is connected.

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The looper is the key to the whole thing. It's the best part of the rig. Road Rage custom. They were awesome to work with.

The master bypass is a useful feature. If the looper or anything else fucks up I just bypass it and run straight to the amp. The output of the looper is connected to an opamp buffer under the board that is always on. I built it into a 1590b encolsure and put a couple of locking jacks on it, so that is my input/output interface.
Kill switch is there just in case and because I needed a 10 loop looper and had a switch over.
Loop 2 or 3 are always on in an A/B configuration. Loop 2 is my "synth loop", coloured red in the diagram below.
Loop 3 used to have a pre-dist EQ in it to tighten up the bass and goose the mids, but this was made redundant with the purchase of the Elements. Am currently building a green ringer and a couple of boosts into a 1590BB which will go in there, allowing it to goose any of the following fuzzes, without fucking up the synthy pedals.
The next loop is actually in the chain the 6th loop - it is a post-distortion loop. Again, it used to have an eq there to bring back the bass and tame some highs, but again the Elements made it redundant. Going to chuck something in there for stacking fun - considering DIYing a Zvex Machine, or maybe a fuck. Dunno. Unused at the moment, but when it is off the distortion is also off. So it's not only a post distortion loop, but a master for the fuzzes in the loops below.
Loop 4 and 5 are always on in an A/B configuration.
Loop 4 is my main sound fuzz - The Elements. Coloured orange in the diagram below.
Loop 5 is my alternative fuzz loop. The fuzzes are just arranged in series, allowing stacking or not. Coloured purple below.
Loop 7 is modulation fun.
Loop 8 is for delays and shit plus an Arc Flash at the end for good measure.

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It's a really practical set up - I can pretty much select all of my sounds before each song and then steer everything with the looper. Nothing takes more than a couple of taps. It is kinda like a manual way of having midi presets for stuff, except that I actually understand this, and if anything goes wrong I've got shit loads of build in redundancy, and I can just solder it back together myself after the gig.

Will post a new pic in the spring once a few things arrive and I have time to make some new cables - been planning and saving and digesting some advice from PT-pro zen master Behndy (no I'm not going to etch everything, unfortunately).
As much as I fucking hate soldering cables, and rewiring my board, it's going to be a good spring...

Anyone got a demo of a Zvex machine after fuzz?

[Glenouille]

After the latest comments, I feel a bit uncertain about posting an incomplete pedlaboard but the thing is that I have been concentrating my efforts on putting together a back row for my board. These pedz will be on their own support, just a touch higher than my board, a kind of hybrid concept between a modular synth skiff and a pedalboard. So for the past month or so, I have been playing solely with them.



RH-301 will also sync the other pedz but I'm still working on this.

[Uncle Grandfather]

awesome

all that koma and snazzy.
you go on and post what you want.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Anyone got a demo of a Zvex machine after fuzz

thanks for the info
really smart looper

machine after fuzz is interesting, but you lose the synthy tones and the sweep. can still get those sputtery sounds affecting the fuzz...maybe. its just like everything else with that pedal, you just have to try it out and turn knobs until you know what's what.

[Tristan]

@goroth:
Wow, that's a very interesting and smartly setup board!
I wonder though, don't you play clean at all?
As for the Zvex Machine I don't know, I'd like to try one too but on the other hand I think a Copilot FX Caracol or a Fairfield Circuitry The Unpleasant Surprise kinda do the same, for those I know they work really well after a distortion.

[Jwar]

Uncle Grandpa, get a god damn pedal board!!!!!!!!

There I said it so you guys didn't have to. Wait...I think you already did.

Cool shit though the last several pages. I have to take a pic of my ever changing board.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Uncle Grandpa, get a god damn pedal board!!!!!!!!

i tried
But all my pedals are too big

Also, I'm working on new material and trying out different combos for new sounds and textures utilizing these new pedals i've been buying and posting about in the GAS thread. Aside from writing, there's been lots of experimentation on the pedal front, recording and listening back. I don't use a "board" anyways. For alot of performances I have a table set up and I'm sitting in a chair with guitar in lap and there are pedals arranged on the table for easy access, with other pedals on the floor etc. Or, I've got the pedals semi-circled around me on stage.

[Doctor X]

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