A little acoustic pedal board

bermudianbrit

Hi all

I play acoustic either solo or in an acoustic trio with another guitar and a bass. I'm thinking of a small acoustic pedal board to enhance the sound a bit. Nothing too fancy. I have a vocal harmoniser already so that will be on there, i was thinking chorus, delay, compression and some kind of string sound, plus a looper.
Any suggestions/things that have definitely worked or that definitely haven't?

Thanks
Matt

mark_jwedge

I just use a tc flashback delay and then a boss cs3 compressor as a solo boost and these both seem to work great and aren't too expensive to pickup, particularly secondhand 

bermudianbrit

oh good, as I own a flashback already lol.

octatonic

I like a bit of compression and reverb on acoustic.
Anything else seems to get in the way.

jimmyguitar

This is mine, a pedaltrain Metro 16 with a harmony singer, headrush looper, hydra boost for solos/fingerpicking and a boss tuner. Powered by a Cioks DC-5 which sits under the board. Radial DI for when I'm using a passive pickup.

bermudianbrit

love it. And love the harmony singer - I have one of those.

edenfield99

I have used.... guitar direct into optical compressor into LR Baggs Para DI. then I've used tremolo and a bit of slapback delay in the loop of the DI. I used the compressor as I was using two different acoustics and switching between finger picking and strumming so it was there to even out the volume.

bermudianbrit

optical compressor? which one as there seems to be quite a few. Any reason it was optical?

edenfield99

Optical because they tend to be quite neutral and not add much to your tone (unlike a dyna comp style). Can't remember the make, it wasn't an expensive one but I think discontinued...it was red/orange coloured. I'll see if I've still got it in the box upstairs later and let you know.

Luminous

I use the zoom A3 into a boss looper...feed to PA...feed to ableton...safety feed to FOH

TimmyO

edenfield99 said:

Optical because they tend to be quite neutral and not add much to your tone (unlike a dyna comp style). Can't remember the make, it wasn't an expensive one but I think discontinued...it was red/orange coloured. I'll see if I've still got it in the box upstairs later and let you know.

Aphex Punch Factory?

edenfield99

That's it!!