Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[Paul_C]

Looks like an EHX Mod Rex Polyrhythmic Modulator but I might be wrong!

You might, thanks to my shoddy photography making it hard to see what anything is, but you're not.

It is an EHX Mod Rex.

[Dandolin]

ah - cool, I thought it might be

[cosmicevan]

does the locust star live up to it's name?

It's a Rat and sounds amazing on bass. Has a real bite to it with a low noise floor. I'm a big fan of Broughton Audio which is largely a talkb.ss phenomenon but the guy makes really incredible stuff, just a bitch to get ahold of.

Lookin nice man!
Reminds me of when I had my behemoth board with dual power supplies etc. I also had stuff written down to see what went where

What're the micro ghost whatever thingers=

gotta write it down. When something goes wrong it's a disaster.

The micro.ghosts send MIDI over USB. One for the Tensor, the other for the Particle. Everything controlled by the ES-8.

MIDI NIGHTMARE!

Not quite a nightmare, but yeah...close to it. I actually have been procrastinating programming the ES-8 based around this new setup. I planned out a few banks of synth patches from the Future Impact already and have solid MIDI patches from my last setup for all my other MIDI devices, but the Context is totally new to this setup and I also came up with a conceptual continuity that I want to roll out based around taking over all the footswitches for each patch...so I've got my work cut out for me. It'll be glorious when it's done and will allow for a lot of experimentation and happy accidents to discover. What can I say? I'm a glutton for pain and in the opposite phase of the ZEN phase for gear.

[qersty]

does the locust star live up to it's name?

It's a Rat and sounds amazing on bass. Has a real bite to it with a low noise floor. I'm a big fan of Broughton Audio which is largely a talkb.ss phenomenon but the guy makes really incredible stuff, just a bitch to get ahold of.

Lookin nice man!
Reminds me of when I had my behemoth board with dual power supplies etc. I also had stuff written down to see what went where

What're the micro ghost whatever thingers=

gotta write it down. When something goes wrong it's a disaster.

The micro.ghosts send MIDI over USB. One for the Tensor, the other for the Particle. Everything controlled by the ES-8.

MIDI NIGHTMARE!

Not quite a nightmare, but yeah...close to it. I actually have been procrastinating programming the ES-8 based around this new setup. I planned out a few banks of synth patches from the Future Impact already and have solid MIDI patches from my last setup for all my other MIDI devices, but the Context is totally new to this setup and I also came up with a conceptual continuity that I want to roll out based around taking over all the footswitches for each patch...so I've got my work cut out for me. It'll be glorious when it's done and will allow for a lot of experimentation and happy accidents to discover. What can I say? I'm a glutton for pain and in the opposite phase of the ZEN phase for gear.

I like their overdrive, I used to use it as my tone for a while. It was way too dark with my bass tho but the masses loved it

[HorsSujet]

Hey hello ! Not a complete picture yet (that'll come), but here's my updated version of the signal's path.
I managed to give the Stamme[n] a good spot where the pedal can be at the begining of the chain (so I can use the bloopers/ct5/ditto X4 to sample it), or at the end, where sampled things from bloopers/ct5/dittox4 can go into the Stamme[n] to create evolving cascades of loops.

[goroth]

Looks simple enough.

[Dandolin]

only six things i don't know/can't figure out

[HorsSujet]

Oh probably the bare enclosures ones? I tried to count them but I only have 5, so I'll include the You're & Your.
Just in case, here they are (from top to bottom & left to right) :

-Holy Fuzz of Antioche (a massive fuzz made by someone on a french gear forum to thank all the people that were around that forum before it closed)
-Bigg muff modified & recased
-You're & Your (from Montreal Assembly)
-Order reverser N°1 (to be able to have the Count to Five after the Ditto X4, or the opposite)
-SHO Clone made by Crust pedals
-Order reverser N°2 (to be able to switch the Stamme[n]'s position in the effect loop).

[Dandolin]

nice! thank you - i love order switching

[Dowi]

Last board iteration of 2020.
Upgraded the Tensor for 9s of looping time.
Added the Mecha Feta recently gifted by cbs (it's KILLER, even more when being fed with some dirt) , and the Pladask Elektrisk Feber i secretly acquired despite secret santa because y'all know how much I wanted a freq shifting thing - and is absolutely AMAZING (detailed post will follow in the next days).
Taken is here temporarily, came from a trade. Tbh I really like it and it sounds soo nice and subtle when left on the edge of oscillation, wraps everything in a warm ambience, but it's not what I need right now.

[MaxMaps]

Last board iteration of 2020.
Upgraded the Tensor for 9s of looping time.
Added the Mecha Feta recently gifted by cbs (it's KILLER, even more when being fed with some dirt) , and the Pladask Elektrisk Feber i secretly acquired despite secret santa because y'all know how much I wanted a freq shifting thing - and is absolutely AMAZING (detailed post will follow in the next days).
Taken is here temporarily, came from a trade. Tbh I really like it and it sounds soo nice and subtle when left on the edge of oscillation, wraps everything in a warm ambience, but it's not what I need right now.

this board makes me happy in the swim suite area.

so much.

oh bby

[coldbrightsunlight]

It is pretty snazzy for sure!

[goroth]

How do you like that Young Hearts delay thing Dowi?

I tried to read the instructions for it and it blew my brain apart.

[ognoy]

Sweet board Dowi!!

[dubkitty]

i'm reconfiguring again. the last iteration was deliberately kind of vanilla because i put it together for a Gretsch Pages jam and those people have just caught up to Bowie, but it's not versatile enough for looping. this isn't complete...the space on the upper right will get an Ibanez PM7 i got for $110 on eBay, and the big space on the left will be filled by a Fender MTG Tube Tremolo from Sweetwater, where i have $100 in Bonus Bucks from buying the Lead II.

i realized that it makes more sense to keep the Black Finger by the amp since it's the end of the chain, and is also absurdly large for a pedalboard. the Hi 5 is my favorite clean boost pedal, but i run the amp (usually an AC15) dirty enough that its low amount of grit is kind of irrelevant. and the Flashback just won't fit on the board because the Fender tremolo is so big, not even run sideways like the Tall Font and Tone Bender. i was going to sell the Tall Font, but discovered that it + the Lead II = the Burma sound. (Roger used a "Big Muff on steroids" and a similarly described tremolo pedal, both built by Boston scene maven Lou Giordano. the Fender trem is adjustable enough that it should be able to cop the Vacu-Trem's rather unique waveform.)

i had a TC phaser like the one shown upthread, but it got rained on (don't ask) and died. it was really nice...a little too nice. it has a very clean sound, but i've discovered that i like my modulation a bit more chewy. the Fender tremolo is surprisingly good; it has a wide variety of waveforms and you can adjust the duty cycle of the square wave setting to get the Vox Repeat Percussion effect. the only drawbacks are that the enclosure is oversized at 5" x 4" and that it draws 200mA of current at 9V.

the concept is that the fuzz and modulation run into the RV-3 so i can do mini-loops with Feedback all the way up, and then into the tremolo so i can feed drones from the RV-3 through the trem to slice and dice them. the fuzz is arranged in ascending order of wackitude. i like to run the signal path in relatively straight lines because it's way easier to troubleshoot than the kind of Situationist street map i used in the early 00s.

i need to get a Nano to do a "stunt board" for things i have to run at the front of the chain but seldom use: an EH Octave Multiplexer for bass notes and an EH Attack Delay i got for Christmas i'm using for backwards tape simulation and Slow Gear shit (not to mention Slowdive shit). maybe i'll run the Flashback up there so i can run delay through the fuzz and modulation. i have a Fairfield Operator to put the stunt board in a switchable loop.

for now i'm sticking with the Head Rush 2 and Ditto+ for looping, but plan to switch to a pair of the new Dittos that let you store and call up loops. i use an Ernie Ball volume/pan pedal to crossfade the loopers, and will get a Lehle ABY to sum them to a mono output and use my little Solidgold buffer (it's the size of a half-stick of butter) to rationalize the signal.

signal path:
MXR Distortion+ (3d or 4th version enclosure, c.1978)
Wren & Cuff Tall Font Russian (center right, ironically enough)
CMC Effects MK II (Tone Bender)(center)
FuzzHugger 3-knob Great Wall (next to D+ on bottom tier)
LAL 46 Sooper Fuzz
EMMA Discombobulator envelope filter
Mojo Hand Villanova (optical Uni-Vibe)
TC Electronic SCF chorus/flanger (used as flanger)
Fairfield Circuitry Randy's Revenge ring modulator (center left)

(cable crosses under board from center left to upper right)

(Ibanez PM7)
Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
(Fender MTG Tube Tremolo)
Earthquaker Ghost Echo reverb

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