Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[goosekevin]

that's fair enough! theres a bunch of stuff people pump the hell out of on here that i didnt like at all

any links to your band?

Just think like if the chick from Hiatus Kaiyote fronted Tame Impala but Kevin Parker was still in the band somewhere. On stage there are 2 guitars, 3 synths, Bass, Vox, BV chick, drums and a boatload of pedals between 7 peeps. It's fun.

Shit yeah! That sounds like something I'd probably be into
Hiatus Kaiyote are really cool
Let me know if you play any Sydney shows and I'll try and make it to one

[samzadgan]

that's fair enough! theres a bunch of stuff people pump the hell out of on here that i didnt like at all

any links to your band?

Ha links exist but fuck dat, the only recordings we have are a tad juvenile. We've come a long long way since they were done and they are kind of no longer representative of us as a live unit. Just think like if the chick from Hiatus Kaiyote fronted Tame Impala but Kevin Parker was still in the band somewhere. On stage there are 2 guitars, 3 synths, Bass, Vox, BV chick, drums and a boatload of pedals between 7 peeps. It's fun.

In the interest of keeping this thread on topic, here come roar boards.
My band's other guitarist's board. He has since added a mission dual exp and an idiot box stutter is incoming.:



Keys.The mini is mine though, he had borrowed it for a guitar gig, but otherwise it's the same.



I don't have a pic of the bass player's rig but it's just a wooly mammoth clone, an a/B switch to bring in a Bass station II and a channel swimmer so no stress.

Pedals are mad.

no pedal related...but what are those Valvetone amps like?

i'm moving to oz in the next week and I'm buying an amp as soon as i land...but I want something fender. I had a look at the EB amps (which is the same builder) and they seem cool and similar price to fender, but not sure if they are more marshall/vox sound or fender...specs make it look like vox/marshall.

[Ev_O)))]

no pedal related...but what are those Valvetone amps like?

i'm moving to oz in the next week and I'm buying an amp as soon as i land...but I want something fender. I had a look at the EB amps (which is the same builder) and they seem cool and similar price to fender, but not sure if they are more marshall/vox sound or fender...specs make it look like vox/marshall.

HEY MAN! Welcome to the sunny side of the world!
That particular valvetone is a 45w Hiwatt DR style and through that EB cab it is so stupidly fucking loud, even for a 45w through a 112. SOunds beautiful too. Thick as hell. It belongs to the other guitarist in my band and I have only played it a handful of times.
I've never played one of his fendery ones but compared to his vox and marshall ones it sounded louder and fuller and nicer.

I am 100% certain he (Darryl I think his name is) could whip you up whatever you want. That one was about $900 for 45w. The 18w version goes for about $650. You could definitely get something nice and fendery for that price range. The EB cabs are real tight too man. The fenders in that price range here in AUS basically limit you to Hot rod stuff and maybe second hand deluxe reverbs or the 210 virbros if you are lucky.
Valvetones are all super compact too. This one was carried home in one hand across the city (Melbourne) after purchase.


That said, there are a plethora of nice builders here in Aus and depending on locality and budget I can help you find something awesome! Chuck me a PM or something if you need a hand.

[frigid midget]

Starlights seem really cool but just thought I'd throw in the suggestion for a bitquest - the ultimate 'fill a pedalboard hole' pedal

Step flange is sick though so the subdecay would be great too

EDIT:excellent board too. Super huge gas for Maude, rm1n and warped vinyl

Call it heresy but I have played the bitquest like 3 or 4 times for probably an hour and a half and couldn't gel with it at all :shrug:
Some cool settings, some crazy awesome settings, but like nothing that really struck me as awesome. Just a heap of not bad/whack shit.
But that's just me. I know so many people here love their bitty..

Not just you. I'm just basing this on a ton of online demos I seen, but I haven't heard anything that seems remotely useful to me
Dispite Dr S. being awesome that is, totally dig all their other peds.

[goroth]

Starlights seem really cool but just thought I'd throw in the suggestion for a bitquest - the ultimate 'fill a pedalboard hole' pedal

Step flange is sick though so the subdecay would be great too

EDIT:excellent board too. Super huge gas for Maude, rm1n and warped vinyl

Call it heresy but I have played the bitquest like 3 or 4 times for probably an hour and a half and couldn't gel with it at all :shrug:
Some cool settings, some crazy awesome settings, but like nothing that really struck me as awesome. Just a heap of not bad/whack shit.
But that's just me. I know so many people here love their bitty..

Not just you. I'm just basing this on a ton of online demos I seen, but I haven't heard anything that seems remotely useful to me
Dispite Dr S. being awesome that is, totally dig all their other peds.

Dudes, I don't understand this at all.

Rather than labouring the point, PM me with what sounds you think are useful/good (including an example, as everyone's idea of good is different) and I'll demo it for you. I can pretty much guarantee that it'll nail those sounds or at the worst sound rad. It is that good. Ring mod stands up to Randy's Revenge, flanger with positive flanging is freaking awesome and kicked my Boss BF-2 off my board (never thought that would happen), infinite reverb sounds top notch, down sampling is really nice, delay can do everything from clean to rainbow machine to random glitch.
Demo queue is Copilot Tourbox, Frazz Dazzler, then I'm super happy to make another BQ demo.

[goroth]

Edit: fixed images.
And back on track...

My new board!

Fancy photo that doesn't actually show anything:


The plan:

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The reality:

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The underside:

NSFW: show

Been planning this for ages - went through over 20 iterations of the board over the past few months in Inkscape. Did pedal shootouts in the rehearsal room, revised stuff, made a list of sounds I was after and how to get them. I'm super happy with this board and hope that it'll last a while (not least because I fucking hate redoing my board). Thankfully I'm not as fickle as some of our fuzzy friends here

[Disarm D'arcy]

Fap.

[mathias]

What'd you use to plan that out? Just a graphics program?

[goroth]

What'd you use to plan that out? Just a graphics program?

Inkscape. It's a vector graphics program which makes doing stuff to scale easy. I just chose 1px=1mm. Made grey coloured squares after the standard dimensions of hammond boxes (common ones like 1590B, 125b, 1590BB etc), made various types of hardware that are close enough. Then I'd just Google a front on picture of the pedal, crop it and scale it, then copy and paste hardware on top using the image as a guide. Then I'd delete the image leaving a vector representation of the pedal.
Did a lot of the pedals when I was up late with young children in the house. Now I've got so many standard shapes and stuff I can mockup a new pedal pretty quickly - 1 minute or so.

[UglyCasanova]

Fapx100000000

Cray-Cray board, goroth!!

[elevenstrings]

What'd you use to plan that out? Just a graphics program?

Inkscape. It's a vector graphics program which makes doing stuff to scale easy. I just chose 1px=1mm. Made grey coloured squares after the standard dimensions of hammond boxes (common ones like 1590B, 125b, 1590BB etc), made various types of hardware that are close enough. Then I'd just Google a front on picture of the pedal, crop it and scale it, then copy and paste hardware on top using the image as a guide. Then I'd delete the image leaving a vector representation of the pedal.
Did a lot of the pedals when I was up late with young children in the house. Now I've got so many standard shapes and stuff I can mockup a new pedal pretty quickly - 1 minute or so.

Crazy dedication. I just choose pedals that are all the same size (125b) with top jacks. Keeps my gas in check and makes things easy to move around.

[sylnau]

Crazy awesome board Goroth!

[Eivind August]

Edit: fixed images.
And back on track...

My new board!

NSFW: show

Bringing it over to this page because this is beautiful.

[goroth]

What'd you use to plan that out? Just a graphics program?

Inkscape. It's a vector graphics program which makes doing stuff to scale easy. I just chose 1px=1mm. Made grey coloured squares after the standard dimensions of hammond boxes (common ones like 1590B, 125b, 1590BB etc), made various types of hardware that are close enough. Then I'd just Google a front on picture of the pedal, crop it and scale it, then copy and paste hardware on top using the image as a guide. Then I'd delete the image leaving a vector representation of the pedal.
Did a lot of the pedals when I was up late with young children in the house. Now I've got so many standard shapes and stuff I can mockup a new pedal pretty quickly - 1 minute or so.

Crazy dedication. I just choose pedals that are all the same size (125b) with top jacks. Keeps my gas in check and makes things easy to move around.

Thanks everyone who has fed my fragile ego with nice comments
But if I put aside attention whoring... Jean your board was and is an inspiration for how I'd like to set stuff up. I really wanted to keep everything top mount and either 125B or 1590BB but there were a few key pedals I just couldn't do without that were side mount, and at the moment I don't have the cash to rehouse. Boss dd-7 is perhaps the most interesting on there as it is kind of my jack of all trades delay - I don't do a lot of looping but in one or two tunes I'll loop some stuff, and the dd-7 is good enough for that. Don't use reverse delay that much but every now and then. Don't need a clean digital delay but sometimes... so it all adds up to being indispensable. But it is now at the point where the board is petty modular - the cabling is such that I can swap any 1590B for a top mount 125b. Swapping out 1590BBs for 125Bs is less fun.

I'll put up a post tomorrow with the signal path and some other info tomorrow: despite its appearance the board is actually pretty practical. In as much as a larger board can be said to be practical.

[UglyCasanova]

Please tell me you had the amp on when you took the picture with all the pedals engaged... Just a simple touch of a string...