With 'New Pedal Day' comes intensive scrutiny and if you are lucky a few settings that just hit the spot... or maybe this spot, no this, no, no the fir.... Oh Bollocks...!
Yes if you are on it like a car bonnet - you will record the optimum settings - but how do you do yours?? it always amazes me when you see Rig Rundowns how bloody childish the pros do it - often with knobs off and masses of tape like the nerdy kid with the lazy eye's NHS speccies...!
Billy Duffy does his like this...
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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
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If you just set them by ear and don't make a conscious note of what you are doing, you may end up chasing that sound again forever.
I very much doubt it's Billy Duffy himself setting up his pedal board at each gig, so isn't the tape markers there just to make it easy for the tech/roadie/whoever to make sure it's all set right each night?
Mind, i'd struggle to call Billy Duffy a proper musician...but that's just my personal opinion
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It kinda reminds me of the old gag about two Irishmen fishing on a lake, they catch loads of fish and one turns to the other and says:
"This is a good spot, we've caught plenty 'o fish - we should mark it so we can come back tomorrow"
"Tis, I've put a cross on the side of the boat so we won't forget"
"you fecking ejeet!!! ... how do you know we'll get the same boat tomorrow?"