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Decided to lean out the board by removing rarely used pedals or pedals with overlapping functions and keep just the ones I needed/used the most often. I knew I wanted fuzz, modulation, delay, reverb, and loops ..but just 1 of each. I wanted to force myself to maximize what i had, especially the timeline, mobius, and space pedals which I've only used in the most basic way. I was aiming for something that was lighter, neater, had a shorter signal chain, and overall just a simpler, cleaner board with only pedals that I knew would get stepped on, but still had lots of options for verb and delay (the 2 effects i use most besides fuzz), and something i could use to add verb and delay to my Eurorack . With the shorter chain, the EGC baritone sounds like a different guitar, more presence, clearer. The board is also much easier on the shoulders now



Also tidied up the tangled mess of cables and labeled the power outlets


Polytune > Megalith > Mobius > Timeline > Space > Infinity
DMC3XL controls Mobius, Timeline, and Space, with expression out to Dunlop pedal via Expressionator.
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This is my current pedalboard. It represents change and insecurity.

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wfs1234 wrote:This is my current pedalboard. It represents change and insecurity.

What's the six knobber off to the side?

goroth wrote:What's the six knobber off to the side?

Custom Wolf Comp I believe

It'd better be. Wouldn't be a wfs board without a wolf computer

tjlong wrote:Decided to lean out the board by removing rarely used pedals or pedals with overlapping functions and keep just the ones I needed/used the most often. I knew I wanted fuzz, modulation, delay, reverb, and loops ..but just 1 of each. I wanted to force myself to maximize what i had, especially the timeline, mobius, and space pedals which I've only used in the most basic way. I was aiming for something that was lighter, neater, had a shorter signal chain, and overall just a simpler, cleaner board with only pedals that I knew would get stepped on, but still had lots of options for verb and delay (the 2 effects i use most besides fuzz), and something i could use to add verb and delay to my Eurorack . With the shorter chain, the EGC baritone sounds like a different guitar, more presence, clearer. The board is also much easier on the shoulders now



Also tidied up the tangled mess of cables and labeled the power outlets


Polytune > Megalith > Mobius > Timeline > Space > Infinity
DMC3XL controls Mobius, Timeline, and Space, with expression out to Dunlop pedal via Expressionator.
Powered with a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 4x4

This is neat and sexy.

I wish I had the time/motivation/money to redo my board as clean and beautiful as this.

goroth wrote:It'd better be. Wouldn't be a wfs board without a wolf computer

Spot on! It's a custom wolf computer deluxe that was rehoused by Danny, and rebuilt by Tom!

Disarm D'arcy wrote:

tjlong wrote:Decided to lean out the board by removing rarely used pedals or pedals with overlapping functions and keep just the ones I needed/used the most often. I knew I wanted fuzz, modulation, delay, reverb, and loops ..but just 1 of each. I wanted to force myself to maximize what i had, especially the timeline, mobius, and space pedals which I've only used in the most basic way. I was aiming for something that was lighter, neater, had a shorter signal chain, and overall just a simpler, cleaner board with only pedals that I knew would get stepped on, but still had lots of options for verb and delay (the 2 effects i use most besides fuzz), and something i could use to add verb and delay to my Eurorack . With the shorter chain, the EGC baritone sounds like a different guitar, more presence, clearer. The board is also much easier on the shoulders now



Also tidied up the tangled mess of cables and labeled the power outlets


Polytune > Megalith > Mobius > Timeline > Space > Infinity
DMC3XL controls Mobius, Timeline, and Space, with expression out to Dunlop pedal via Expressionator.
Powered with a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 4x4

This is neat and sexy.

Seconded. What is that box 3 footswitch box between the Infinity and the Megalith?

That's a midi controller from Disaster Area Designs.

No worries. Thanks jwar.

KaosCill8r wrote:

Disarm D'arcy wrote:
This is neat and sexy.

Seconded. What is that box 3 footswitch box between the Infinity and the Megalith?

Thanks guys!

Kaos, its a MIDI controller called the DMC3XL. They also make them in different versions. It has been so useful. I highly recommend it. More info here: http://www.disasterareaamps.com/

Previously i was just presented with this huge mass of nicely laid out pedals (dual PT2s) with so many knobs and options, that I just got desensitized to it and could not be bothered to really use each of them to their fullest let alone combine them in interesting ways and actually write songs with them. Finding sounds became a chore. I just wanted to play and make cool sounds and all these knobs and switches, instead of facilitating that, just got in the way.
Sure, it made a nice picture on internet message boards but it was heavy to carry around, convoluted, overloaded with pedals that essentially did the same thing (just slightly different), had a lot cool "weird sounding" pedals which just werent that useful for writing, and overall just not practical. It also made any guitar i put into it sound the same (in a bad way) and i wanted the pedals to effect the guitar as opposed to the guitar just being a sound source for the pedals. And the number of times I've had to look for a loose or faulty patch cable after powering up...

The clean slate and minimal setup actually inspires me to play guitar again and to rediscover these few pedals

The only thing i foresee changing from time to time is swapping out that 1 dirt source for another. I've almost always used only the Megalith if I play dirt so that was an obvious 1st choice but I left a big enough gap where the Megalith is so I can swap it out for another dirt pedal (I keep a VST Twosome in the Pedaltrain bag's front pocket)

^ I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My setup went through a similar process, only my old 'big' board still was pretty civilised, even compared to your current downsized board