The Pedal Board Thread

[Sarge]

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Maxon AD999Delay
ISP Decimator
Timmy
Keeley Compressor
Korg Pitch Black
Dr Scientist Radical Red Reverberator
Analogman Mini Chorus
FOXROX Aquavibe
Foxrox ZIM
ZVEX Box of Rock
Teese Wah
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Wired with Lavacable ELC

I am really happy with this board. I can get any sound i want out of it.

I have another pedalboard full of BYOC stuff I out together and Boss pedals, so don't think I am a tone snob!

Breasts,
Sarge

[Coyote]

Man, that's a big board in comparison to mine...



A Gator Case Gig Box Jr.

In order of the signal...
Boss tuner
Behringer HellBabe wah (cheap, but essential for those disco tunes)
Ibanez Compressor II (100$...)
Phase 90
Digitech Chorus Factory (7 chorus pedals in one)
Line 6 Echo Park

Not connected: DigiTech Bad Monkey and a Yamaha Flanger

All this powered by a One-Spot and a Boss wallwart. And it's STILL not enough juice...

PedalPower 2, coming up!

[GAR]

I have about 60-70 pieces in my trunk, and I have 2 pedalboards with power, the SKB-PS15.

It holds 6 or 7 fullsized pedals or about 4 to 5 big ones such as EH.

I like the PS15's because they come with adaptor pigtails of every configuration battery you could want to replace with walwart supply. I like that its' base is Velcro loop-piled, and comes with the hook-pile component tapes you just cut peel and stick to the bottom of your boxes..

SO that's why I have a pedalboard or two but don't: because the velcro lets me rip on off and plop another one down as a nobrainer reconfig if I want to play the chain-the-boxtrain game.. which I hardly ever do anymore.

By now in my life, I know which box works after which box in order of the chain and having seen the Pedaltrain setup I knew immediately that's the future single replacement for the two SKB's.

Like I stated before though, I'm pretty much a straight input guy yet sometimes I just gotta have a little pre-input boost, but I've almost always had my Ampcrazy modded wahs somewhere in the chain even if there's no pedalboard.

I also have a Roger Mayer-Northstar Audio modded Vox circuit in one of my Dunlop wahs of which I have 3: one stock GCB-95, the Northstar, and a Dunlop Bass Wah.

I'm fairly proud of the others: 4 Thomas Organ Sepulveda wah's (2 with the chocolate TDK square inductor I prefer, two with red Fasels I snatched out of a shit Silvertone electric organ). 1 is a stock TDK, one is a modded TDK, one has the standard weak Fasel and fourth one is a modded Fasel.

As you could probably guess I've been fascinated with gain stages my whole life, so I've played around quite abit experimenting with the magical interaction of increasing the levels of gain before it hits the inductor. You can graph it, you can plot it, you can look at it on a scope and see what you calculate will actually show up as but nothing can replace the ear. And nothing you have modded can be calculated to determine how that gain interacts with all your possible amp combinations and settings, the ear does that best and we all love wasting hours and hours walking that path to find out - myself especially!

I just have to feel that filtered "quock" sound, best expressed in the way you hear on UFO and MSG recordings (not that I'm anywhere near Schenker in proficiency) but there is absolutely nothing like that growl. Love it: "bruahhhhhh.." its like an old tractor idling.

I rarely Disco-rock the wah, but if it's on I usually leave it rocked forward 70% travel to get like a 2db gain along with the growl from the filter cutting the mids that way like a tone control.

[GAR]

No ADA or MXR flangers, Sarge?

[Sarge]

No ADA or MXR flangers, Sarge?

I have the EVH flanger but it isn't on the board.

[Reverberator]

I have no big pedal board anymore , got an old Boss Distortion and a new metal zone left.

I now use a Digitech gnx4 for everything.

[GAR]

"Timmy" is awaiting your comments!

Is that a homebrew, GGG or smallbear fuzz face partskit clone I see?

[jhale667]

Here's mine...



It's actually pretty simple... two effects and a tuner in front of the amp, three modulation effects running in the effects loop. The amp is still seeing a relatively clean signal coming in...

Boss TU-2 tuner
MXR Micro Amp
Vox Wah
...these are run in front of my amp's input. Out of the amp's effects loop, I run into in the following order:
MXR EVH Phase 90
Line 6 MM-4 Modualtion Modeler
Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler
All running off a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2
the other two pedals are the channel switchers for my amp....

Though I think I want that new MXR Delay too...sounds killer, but means I'll have to expand to a larger board, too...

And btw, one of my rock star bosses toured with a Digitech GNX3 running in front of two rented Marshall stacks...

[Sarge]

It's actually pretty simple... two effects and a tuner in front of the amp, three modulation effects running in the effects loop. The amp is still seeing a relatively clean signal coming in...

Boss TU-2 tuner
MXR Micro Amp
Vox Wah
...these are run in front of my amp's input. Out of the amp's effects loop, I run into in the following order:
MXR EVH Phase 90
Line 6 MM-4 Modualtion Modeler
Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler
All running off a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2
the other two pedals are the channel switchers for my amp....

Though I think I want that new MXR Delay too...sounds killer, but means I'll have to expand to a larger board, too...

And btw, one of my rock star bosses toured with a Digitech GNX3 running in front of two rented Marshall stacks...

I like the line 6 stuff.
My teenage son has the MXR Carbon copy in his room and it's killer.
What pedalboard is that?

Breasts,
Sarge

[jhale667]

It's a Rockcase I got for like $20 when I worked at West LA Music briefly...think it was the demo model...lol. It's served me faithfully for almost 6 years, but I'm out of room on it if I'm going to add the MXR Carbon Copy...there a company up the street here who's name escapes me at the moment that makes pretty cool ones too. And their version's surface is on an angle, so it's easier to stomp on them on cue as well as easier to see them in general...
Probably going with one about one and a half if not two times the length of my current one for expandability...which still seems odd to me since I plugged straight into the amp for years....then I decided I liked tons of colors on the palette...

I like the Line 6 stuff too...I've got three echo presets: a tube Echoplex, a Roland Ducking Digital, and a Reverse delay; and four modulation mods: a Chorus, Rotovibe, MXR Flanger and Vibrato preset, all without taking up too much space on the board...but I'd like room to add an Expression pedal on the MM-4 to be able to control the speed of the Rotary preset on the fly as well...

[jhale667]

And oh yeah, I wanna trade out my standard Vox wah for the Vox Clyde McCoy model with the Fasel inductor...they sound bad ass!

[GAR]

Dunlop sells the Fasel inductor..

http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/item.asp?pid=18850&pg=44996&id=2175310

If you can change a pickup, this is even easier.

[jhale667]

Dunlop sells the Fasel inductor..

http://www.mojomusicalsupply.com/item.asp?pid=18850&pg=44996&id=2175310

If you can change a pickup, this is even easier.

True, and could easily modify the current one, but would rather have the new version...believe it has a hardwire bypass circuit in it too...I'll keep the other one as a spare...

[GAR]

You could actually wire the input sides together, DPDT toggle-switch 'em, and run both if you're willing to drill a hole in the side of the case!

Yes you have choices.. Yes You Can.

[jhale667]

Thanks, but no.

You could actually wire the input sides together, DPDT toggle-switch 'em, and run both if you're willing to drill a hole in the side of the case!

Yes you have choices.. Yes You Can.

I'm not willing. Going for the Clyde eventually, and will throw the old one in the spares box with the old Block-logo MXR Distorton + and Phase 90, and the A/B switch I keep around for a rainy day.
I like my choices just fine.