...pedalboards,lets see them!!

punchdrunk

okay folks wanna see what you guys have!
let's see those photo's...

Karl Hungus

Hmm, I don't have a board to put the pedals on. Am I disqualified?

punchdrunk

nah! show us anyway!!

Owen

I'm going to cheat. Here's my Behringer FCB-1010 - although, I do have it modified to run on Phantom Power, so no additional mains cable has to be run. Sorry for the blurry cameraphone photo, I'll eventually get decent pics of my rig.

TelePaul

The messy lengths I go to for good tone.

Karl Hungus

punchdrunk wrote:

nah! show us anyway!!

Well ok then...



Not exactly on a Pedalboard, but they're pedals... on floorboards.

From left to right:

Line6 Pod XT Live
ISP Decimator
ENGL Z4 Footswitch
Morley Mark Tremonti Power Wah

david

I switched the position of the echo park and vibratrem since because i like tremming my oscillation and when i hit the Stone i messed up the settings on the delay (Stupid tall ugly bastard of an echo park). Much better now . Not pictured are my ENGL channel switcher, NYC Muff which is on loan from a friend (dreadful thing!) and a WH-4

-=al=-

Im workin on making a new fancy one nearly got all the parts... thats the old setup,

Voodu Child

Im happy enough to let my Boss GT8 take care of reverbs, delays, chorus, noise gates, compressors, EQs & all that malarky. Id take a photo but it would be even more boring than Karls

Its by no means high end stuff, but IMO is better than 8 or 9 pedals, tonnes of crappy patch cables, and cheap maplin powersupplies. So the A/D and D/A probably suck a bit of tone, but all my tone suck is contained and limited to the one box. With the MIDI & relay switching capabilities, its probably the best bang for buck gizmo ive ever bought.

Only stompbox i use at the moment is a mxr zakk wylde overdrive. Have a bunch of other ones lying around but theyve pretty much been consigned to the junk jard.

Tazz T

Some of these set-ups are mad lads. Why on earth would you want to deal with so many effects pedals when there are so many decent all-in-one units out there.

-=al=-

i like em, + ^^ thats why im making my new one... for a good proper, sturdy reliable pedalboard with quality parts thats all set up nice n easy

I just got the pedals over the years and they build up... i never bothered gettin multifx units, never really liked em..


If i was to dump most of the pedals I would get a G major and a midi floorboard :cool:

John

Boo-urns to all in ones. Too clunky and you're stuck with one brand's version of all effects. Granted most of my stuff is Boss but I don't like Boss distortion and I love Holy Grail reverb so it makes more sense to me to buy separates. Plus like having everything there ready to tweak mid song. I'll take a picture when I'm home this weekend (no board, the floor is good enough for them).

feylya

I love multi fx units for the ability to switch on and off multiple effects.

John

I have two feet and rarely use more than two at a time

feylya

I can imagine multiple scenarios where I'd want to change delay, chorus, preamp and distortion.

punchdrunk

some nice work there lads,keep them coming!
have to say though i'm in the single pedals camp...

Parsley

Mine here, sorry bout the phone camera quality! From far to near: Boss LMB-3 Bass Limiter/Enhancer, Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive, Morley Dual Bass Wah, Ibanez digital delay. All stored in and powered by the Boss BCB-60 board!

Dord

i've only got two pedals at the moment
an Electro Harmonix NYC Big Muff and an Electro Harmonix Russian Bass Balls.

i dont even use the bassballs anymore, imo its not a very usable sounding pedal. maybe just for playing around with.

i have plans to buy some BYOC kits (build your own clone) first off is a compressor.

fish-head

I'm in the single pedals camp too, sitting by the campfire playing cowboy songs with John on our Gretsches.

That's right.

I ordered one! Money is being sent out tomorrow..

Creamy Goodness

freakonaleashx wrote:

I switched the position of the echo park and vibratrem since because i like tremming my oscillation and when i hit the Stone i messed up the settings on the delay (Stupid tall ugly bastard of an echo park). Much better now . Not pictured are my ENGL channel switcher, NYC Muff which is on loan from a friend (dreadful thing!) and a WH-4

i've a serious disliking to anyone that has a micro synth pedal purely because i can't afford one :sad:, because i'd love to be able to muck about with one. ohh my day will come soon

Asiaprod

I only use two, PodXT Live and a Carl Martin Hot Drive’n Boost MK3.

Geek Nose

People who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behind.

I use distortion, and a WAH.

John

fish-head wrote:

I'm in the single pedals camp too, sitting by the campfire playing cowboy songs with John on our Gretsches.

That's right.

I ordered one! Money is being sent out tomorrow..

High ****ing five! Which model?

Geek Nose wrote:

Peopel who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behind.

Not everyone hides behind effects though, they can be used subtly to great effect (pun intended, if it even counts as a pun). I get your point, a lot of players use them as a crutch, I know I have in the past but really a large pedal board does not equal having poor technique.

-=al=-

Geek Nose wrote:

People who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behind.

I use distortion, and a WAH.

But it will sound that lil bit better

DeadSkin

Yep, me only has two pedals aswell
MT-2 Metal Zone and Digitech Grunge pedals.
Was lookin' into a multi effects, but will wait til the funds are available before I do anymore diggin', still like the thought of a pedal board though.

Karl Hungus

How's the Metalzone working out for you DeadSkin?

Geek Nose wrote:

People who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behind.

I use distortion, and a WAH.

You know, up untill last year I was strictly no effects, and even now I'll run a dry signal most of the time, just plug the guitar straight into the amp. This doesn't mean I can play well though.

DeadSkin

Karl Hungus wrote:

How's the Metalzone working out for you DeadSkin?

Alot of tweakin goin on!!!!
Still prefer the digitech at times, but I think that's cos I have been messin with that for the last 9 months or so.
Only messin with the Metalzone for the past week.
But what I really do like about it though is when I play in Drop D, crank up the amp and swwweeet!!!

fish-head

John wrote:

High ****ing five! Which model?

I ordered a 6120SSLVO on a MONSTER deal. A whole grand off normal retail price.
Good ol' Candy Apple Red guitars..

Actually, he's got a TR for just over a grand at the moment, ex-display. It doens't have the Filtertrons, but Hi-Lo-Trons are very highly spoken of. Hell, if it's good enough for George Harrison.

Karl Hungus

DeadSkin wrote:

Alot of tweakin goin on!!!!
Still prefer the digitech at times, but I think that's cos I have been messin with that for the last 9 months or so.
Only messin with the Metalzone for the past week.
But what I really do like about it though is when I play in Drop D, crank up the amp and swwweeet!!!

Yeah, the Metalzone can be annoying to dial in at times, one little nudge of a knob can affect the tone a lot. Glad you like it though.

Voodu Child

Geek Nose wrote:

People who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behind.

Complete rubbish IMO.

If you said some people who can play well use less effects it would be fine. Name the best of the best in most genre's, and you can be pretty sure at least half of them have decent sized pedal boards.

The Freeman

Geek Nose wrote:

People who can actually play well, usually need less pedals to hide behindQUOTE]

what?

so that means that tom morello, dave gilmour, jimi hendrix and the likes are just o.k. musicians then ya?

explain yourself man?

fish-head

I think it's safe to say that Geek Nose is a silly billy.

Karl Hungus

The Freeman wrote:

so that means that tom morello, dave gilmour, jimi hendrix and the likes are just o.k. musicians then ya?

Well, I suppose they're not bad...

Steoob

TelePaul wrote:

The messy lengths I go to for good tone.

lol.. you're boss's bitch

ferdi

only pedals i would maybe want to add at some stage in the future are a volume pedal, a big muff and an akai sb1 deep impact bass synth.

punchdrunk

christ...
if the less pedals you have=more talent you got,
then in theory i should just about able to pull off a C chord....

Karl Hungus

punchdrunk wrote:

christ...
if the less pedals you have=more talent you got,
then in theory i should just about able to pull off a C chord....

I don't even know a C chord.

fish-head

Karl Hungus wrote:

I don't even know a C chord.

I think it's one of them things you plug your guitar into your amp with.. but I can't be sure.

John

fish-head wrote:

I ordered a 6120SSLVO on a MONSTER deal. A whole grand off normal retail price.
Good ol' Candy Apple Red guitars..

Actually, he's got a TR for just over a grand at the moment, ex-display. It doens't have the Filtertrons, but Hi-Lo-Trons are very highly spoken of. Hell, if it's good enough for George Harrison.

Very, very nice. What a way to start the new year, eh?

fish-head

It's the only way to start a new year!

david

punchdrunk wrote:

christ...
if the less pedals you have=more talent you got,
then in theory i should just about able to pull off a C chord....

Don't wanna sell me that headrush back do you . I miss it already, How do you like AD-9's? Worth €129? I need a new delay, the echo park has issues...

The Freeman

fish-head wrote:

I think it's one of them things you plug your guitar into your amp with.. but I can't be sure.

thought that was a capo:rolleyes:

punchdrunk

freakonaleashx wrote:

Don't wanna sell me that headrush back do you . I miss it already, How do you like AD-9's? Worth €129? I need a new delay, the echo park has issues...

sorry mate,the headrush is like my garfunkel,or gerome or...you get the idea!
i'm using it alot to write at the moment it's much easier to get a loop going and play over it than to my brother to tears having him play three chords over and over again while i try to work out something over the top

i loved my vintage AD-9 until i left it in a taxi

david

Aaaagh i want another one, ill just buy it again i suppose... Thats the second time this has happened, i bought two whammys and im just after selling the second one yesterday, ill probably buy another one in a few months lol. Did you tweak the AD-9 trimmers for longer delay time? Do you know how long of a delay the reissues have? Is it 300ms or 500ms?

punchdrunk

yeah i hate when you regret selling pedals,sold an original rat that i sorely miss,the reissues are crap by comparison i opened both up and the original circuit looked nothing like the reissue :rolleyes:

the delay time on my original was around 300 ms apparently,i didn't tweak cause i loved the sound the first time i plugged it in,instant huge neil young reverb/delay sound (i used it on quite a short time setting) done great spaceship sounds too! also able to do the coldplay chimey delay thing
i miss it so! :mad:

-=al=-

i got a dd-20 on tueasday, great lil pedal add that to my list... but theres no dd-3 in there anymore

david

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John

Freak, please keep buying and selling off the forum. Thanks.

-=al=-

here's the whole lota them now in the best configuration and setup i can think of.. tis practical and the pedals are in the best way to fit on a custom board

what ya think

John

Two questions:
1) Why do you have the tuner so deep in your chain?
2) Why do you have the Super Shifter after the delay? I find that it works best when it's the first effect in your effects loop, especially when using the harmonist function as you get a lot of unwanted glitches when you've got other effects on the guitar signal going into it.

-=al=-

well i had to compromise too i dont want to have to lug around a huge pedalboard, i know its gona be big, but they fit nice that way, so the tuner jus ended up there


I only arranged em like that today, but u got me thinkin... i could have the

fx loop send > super shifter > Phaser > chorus > delay > fx return

that would make more sence, i havnt wired em that way yet, or tried em out but i know i wanted delay last for best results..