Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[guitarslinger21]

Current board this week:

[guitarslinger21]

Going simple, this weekend.

That's almost everything one needs. Excellent choices. I wish my Diamond Comp wasn't yellow.

[space6oy]

god that is p0rn.

[resincum]

god that is p0rn.

is this what you use for the metal stuff, Goroth? this some serious shit!

[fcknoise]

Goroth, that board is magnificent. Do you have any shows in Uppsala/Stockholm soon so I can see it in action??

[goosekevin]

Killer goroth
Wild love to play through that

[elevenstrings]

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.

aw shucks. thanks. definitely makes the big boards less of a hassle when things are easily interchangeable. I've got 2 pedals with side jacks now - I added the Miku Stomp to my board recently, Dan W tried to rehouse it in a 125b but the Miku PCB was too wide to fit. The DD-7 is a great pedal - a single DD-20 was the only pedal I used for like 5 years lol. The days when my entire pedalboard fit in the gig bag.

[goroth]

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...

Not as such. Initially I had the amp on. Turned on everything in the "synth loop" - pretty much all the middle row - and even though the whole loop was bypassed, it still made enough racket to bleed through and cause everything to feedback and go crazy. While bypassed. That scared me into turning the amp off haha.

is this what you use for the metal stuff, Goroth? this some serious shit!

Yep!
Long answer is long:

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I mean, it's metal, so a lot of the time I'm using the Elements and nothing else. But the board grew out of the fact that we wanted to get into some more textural stuff (the guy who started the band was bigtime into Dream Theater and wanted keyboards but we couldn't find a keyboardist so I started getting into weirder sounds. Thankfully he left the band and we've never played DT style prog crap, but the textural idea remained). And ILF has influenced it a lot - not just in terms of what gear I use, but also in what I listen to, so a lot of the textural stuff that I play has a gaze/indie influence that is directly from the music thread here, or from boards that I've seen in this thread and I'll arrange some stuff and try it out just to see what has got you guys jazzed. The RRR pre-dirt is one off the top of my head that is a total ILF-ism. But now it is a fairly standard sound that I'll use. But I guess the basic premise of our sound is rhythmic/polyrhythmic riffs, which I will either join in on with the Elements, or I'll do something totally different, which is where the pedals come into play. Sometimes the "different" sounds that I'll do are more background stuff, for example keeping the riff the same, but indicating the chord changes with the bass and with my guitar, and sometimes the effecty stuff is the focal point and the other guitarist will riff along to keep a certain feel, but it's pushed into the background. The other guitarist does Les Paul>JCM800 with a delay for solos and chorus/flanger for clean bits, so he has a really traditional sound. I think the combination works pretty well. If nothing else it's pretty good fun

Goroth, that board is magnificent. Do you have any shows in Uppsala/Stockholm soon so I can see it in action??

Not at the moment. We're currently auditioning drummers, after yet another bandmember has left...
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Our band is like fucking spinal tap. Since we started in 2006 we've had 6 guitarists, 7 bassists and our drummer (who cofounded the band) has just left. It's been a bit depressing - every time we get the ball rolling, get a few shows, book some studio time, someone leaves the band and we have to start the whole thing again. Because of the way the music is, we need two guitarists - I can't sing and play half the riffs we do at the same time, so we haven't been able to just keep slogging it out when the guitarists have left. And we've played a few gigs without a bassist, but everything sounds shit without a bassist. And we don't play a lot of riffs where the bass and the guitars do the same thing, so splitting the signal and running a micropog or something to a bass cab doesn't work. We did one gig like that but it was even worse than the gigs without a bassist. But anyways, we have a new bassist and are jamming with a drummer on Sunday so fingers crossed.

Again, thanks for the drool guys

Oh yeah. The signal path.

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Everything is controlled by the Looper, so I’ll follow that. The signal path flows left to right in the looper.

1st switch: Master bypass. Good for debugging things, and bypassing the whole freaking thing in the event of catastrophic failure.

2nd switch: Kill switch. All of Road Rage’s encolsures are predrilled and we had a switch over, so yeah. In hindsight I should have made it a feedback loop and had the whole board feedback on itself. I will eventually mod it to do this.

3rd Switch: Tuner. Having it in its own loop is good as I don’t have to turn off anything to get a clean signal to tune.

4th Switch is an A/B switch. It selects the “synth loop” and the “pre-disortion loop”. In the days before I had the Elements I always ran an MXR EQ before my distortion and one after, so this was designed with that in mind. The Elements made tye pre-distortion loop pretty much redundant, so I’ve now got a green ringer in there (no knobber, second row, 1st from the right). Which is cool, because I don’t like it clean and I don’t like it post distortion, so that works well. It’s getting replaced by a custom that Turnipfarm is building with a fixed wah and a green ringer, which is going to be awesome.

Synth loop goes Frazz Dazzler>Ct5>Empress Trem>Henretta Orange Whip—Green Zapper>Copilot Mantis ii>Subdecay Noisebox>Randy>Xerograph>Dr Sci RRR

Next switch turns the fuzz on or off, and also engages the post-distortion loop, which used to contain an MXR EQ, but now is the Penny Pedals Radio Deluxe.

The actual fuzz section consists of two loops arranged in A/B and they are controlled by the next switch. Loop B is my main distortion - the Elements. Loop A is overdrive and fuzz. Velcrobot does mammoth wall of fuzz in normal mode, and then honky saxophone zippy noises in bot mode (good for solos). And the ID is set up to get into similar crackly territory to the Fuck OD, but it kinda crackles through the whole decay of the note, rather than envelope controlled. And you can stack either of the velcrobot sounds into the ID for more crackly fun.

Next is the mod loop - Cosmi (zombies - set for cheesy fusion chorus)Hummingbird>Revolver ii>Cosm (astro - 100% wet for pitch vibrato fun)>BitQuest - usually the flanger or the sample rate reducer

Last is the time loop which is routed super weird. Meet Maude>No Memory>DD-7. Meet Maude is my main delay, DD7 for looping, reverse delay and clean delays, and No Memory for long filthy delays. My No Memory misbehaves a fair bit - sometimes the delay time changes radically when I engage it (it will randomly add a second or two to the delay time indicated by the knob position) and sometimes it just won’t do anything. It sounds super awesome though, but I don’t think I can gig with it with any confidence, so I’ll either replace it with whatever delay Brian cooks up, or the Caroline Kilobyte. I just really like the sound of an overextended PT delay.

Live I just select what pedals I need for a given song before we start (or while playing the first riff) and then mostly control everything with the looper. It allows me to do some pretty complicated changes with at the most two or three taps, all of which are within a few centimetres of each other. The nice thing is that switching is mechanical, so if anything breaks down I can just bypass it and resolder it later. It would likely be a bit easier to do this with midi switching, but that just seems like a can of worms.

[mathias]

I enjoyed the long explanations, goroth! And I think it is great that they're true bypass!

[fcknoise]

Shit man, sad to hear about the trouble with band members. Our drummer left us more or less without a word, but since we are recording now we get by. Pretty soon we will have to get a drummer for live playing this summer

[Sparrow]

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:

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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

Dude. i haven't checked the pedalboard thread for a few ..........................

[mathias]

New life goal: See goroth and his band live to see this board in action.

[JonnyAngle]

Are there more guitar boards or bass boards being posted? I'm pretty new, so I don't know all of y'all

[ateah]

[quote=goroth]da fuq[/quote]

gad dang

[goroth]

Are there more guitar boards or bass boards being posted? I'm pretty new, so I don't know all of y'all

I think its a pretty even split. Some boards do both. Got some bass vi dudes as well.

@mathias: this too is my life goal haha