Behold my massive board of pedals

citizen68

Latest incarnation - used this last night with the intention of using the Timmy for rhythm parts, zen for leads & klone for boost but ended up using the klone & tweaking guitar volume most of the night! Magic pedal that I think lives up to the hype in a gig situation..

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k405/citizen68/37E6AE76-0633-460D-90B3-2156D662EB67.jpg

spacecadet

Updated main board. Not sure the Sunface is working with the current amp rig. http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af135/roscoe2911/810CC6E4-AF93-4FF5-978F-7FB9DD55E7D2_zpsghrvrfsr.jpg

Gassage

Good to see the old Music Radar forum back in a new guise. HNY, and here's my first post as a total FX head!!

EricTheWeary

Gassage said:

Good to see the old Music Radar forum back in a new guise. HNY, and here's my first post as a total FX head!!

Hi Gassage - this maybe my mind playing tricks on me again but I thought it was your board that had a Source Audio Orbital Modulator on it? But not there anymore? I've either got the wrong person/ board or it didn't work out?

Gassage

Eric- yeah dead right. I swapped it out for the TC. The Orb Mod is a good allrounder, but the TC is better. As it happens, I am thinking of a Mobius. I miss not having a Vibe, and I'm intent on one PP2 power supply.

A new addition to my rig is the EC Twinolux. OMG! What an amp.

dogload

Oh yes! I remember that big old MXR. Mind, it's almost dwarfed by those Cornish things!

eventhelosers

Gassage said:

Good to see the old Music Radar forum back in a new guise. HNY, and here's my first post as a total FX head!!

That there Badger Schism, which effects are you blending and is it any good? How's the service from Badger? Nice board by the way!

ThePrettyDamned

Gassage said:

Good to see the old Music Radar forum back in a new guise. HNY, and here's my first post as a total FX head!!

Wow.  

What's that mxr rack mount thing?

Gassage

PretyDamned and Even;

1. Badger- yeah really top notch unit. Using it to mix the MXR only at the moment. It has an op-amp buffer, ground lifts and stuff like that which sets it apart. Service was fabulous- the guy ran out of knobs when I ordered mine, and bless, he sent me about 25 options from RS and offered discounts (which I refused)!! I was hugely impressed. Took about 10 days to make, 10 to ship. You might look at the Wounded Paw and the Xotic as alternatives. I max out the MXR in terms of mix and level, then control the parallel mix off the Badger. Worth noting that this works best if there's a dry defeat on the delay you're using, so you only mix back the trails.

2. MXR System Delay II- it's one of the greatest delays ever made IMO. It is Gilmour's number one delay since 1980, and it's the CNumb delay unit. Edge also has one and uses it as one of his staple delays. It's very warm (and deadly accurate) for a digi unit, notoriously difficult to find a good one that works (they'll fetch c. £400-500 on the bay and then some 'creep' timewise, some just die.)  Mine was serviced by Charlie Chandler and we found some original EPROM chips for it, so it's a nice one. Anorak Corner: the guy that designed the algorythym and chips and who was a shareholder in MXR (Keith Barr) founded the Alesis Corp based soley on the technology he developed for the unit. It's NOT MIDI compatible- just pure ol Line or Instrument Level, a stomp box in a rack unit, basically. If you google the Great Delay Shoot out (Gigrig) you can here my unit and my TES against each other. I would take the MXR everytime. You can also get chorus and flange sounds using the sweep and time functions.

http://www.alesis.com/keithbarr

HNY Guys.

ThePrettyDamned

Very, very cool. Nice one for keeping it in shape!

xHymnal

I picked up a delay system ii locally from a guy who obviously had no idea what it was worth for £50 earlier this year and then flipped it for £300; happy days! 

Seriously great delay though i just didn't want to lug it around

digitalscream

Right, new incarnation:

You'll notice that I've got a Pedaltrain Jr - this is because it's the only way to use the LS-2 without cables running up and over pedals, which I really don't like.

Signal path is a little different - this board is designed to plug into the effects loop return of any given amp:

Polytune Mini

Mooer Ninety Orange

Boo Instruments Boost

Boss LS-2 (Loop A: AMT C2, Loop B: AMT P2)

TC Flashback

The idea is that this gives me three channels where the amp's preamp would normally be: the P2 gives me clean and dirty rhythm, the C2 gives me lead (I tried it both ways round, but the P2 just ain't my kind of lead sound even though there's an obscene amount of gain there).

It sounds pretty damn ace, actually - I've been mucking around with it into the return of my JCA50H + Montage 1x12" cab, great fun

Also, those AMT pedals take a boost really well - they behave exactly as you'd expect an amp to. Bonzer.

ThePrettyDamned

digitalscream;120960" said:

Right, new incarnation:



You'll notice that I've got a Pedaltrain Jr - this is because it's the only way to use the LS-2 without cables running up and over pedals, which I really don't like.

Signal path is a little different - this board is designed to plug into the effects loop return of any given amp:



Polytune MiniMooer Ninety OrangeBoo Instruments BoostBoss LS-2 (Loop A: AMT C2, Loop B: AMT P2)TC Flashback

The idea is that this gives me three channels where the amp's preamp would normally be: the P2 gives me clean and dirty rhythm, the C2 gives me lead (I tried it both ways round, but the P2 just ain't my kind of lead sound even though there's an obscene amount of gain there).

It sounds pretty damn ace, actually - I've been mucking around with it into the return of my JCA50H + Montage 1x12" cab, great fun

Also, those AMT pedals take a boost really well - they behave exactly as you'd expect an amp to. Bonzer.

Blimmin awesome setup.

If you ever get the chance to plug them into a solid state amp into the effects loop, let me know how you get on

digitalscream

ThePrettyDamned said:

Blimmin awesome setup.

If you ever get the chance to plug them into a solid state amp into the effects loop, let me know how you get on

That's probably not going to happen in the near future...however, I'm pretty sure my dad's still got my old ADA solid state 200W power amp kicking around somewhere. It's got a pair of preamp valves in there, but I'm 90% positive they're just there for glowy showy goodness.

I'll see if I can grab hold of it

Gassage

Hymnal said:

I picked up a delay system ii locally from a guy who obviously had no idea what it was worth for £50 earlier this year and then flipped it for £300; happy days! 

Seriously great delay though i just didn't want to lug it around

Wow! Did you try it? It's a sweet sweet unit eh? I am considering selling mine to get a timeline

hubcap2000

Here's mine. I just got the Tim and used it in the studio this evening. Blew my head off; sounded amazing.

edenfield99

It's finally finished..no, really it is...

http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af262/edenfield991/E372FEFF-D2EE-4871-A30D-1314F5E15DFE_zpsehwnsv9f.jpg

samzadgan

digitalscream said:

Right, new incarnation:

You'll notice that I've got a Pedaltrain Jr - this is because it's the only way to use the LS-2 without cables running up and over pedals, which I really don't like.

Signal path is a little different - this board is designed to plug into the effects loop return of any given amp:

Polytune Mini

Mooer Ninety Orange

Boo Instruments Boost

Boss LS-2 (Loop A: AMT C2, Loop B: AMT P2)

TC Flashback

The idea is that this gives me three channels where the amp's preamp would normally be: the P2 gives me clean and dirty rhythm, the C2 gives me lead (I tried it both ways round, but the P2 just ain't my kind of lead sound even though there's an obscene amount of gain there).

It sounds pretty damn ace, actually - I've been mucking around with it into the return of my JCA50H + Montage 1x12" cab, great fun

Also, those AMT pedals take a boost really well - they behave exactly as you'd expect an amp to. Bonzer.

@digitalscream...hey man, do you run that phase ninety into the front of your amp? how does it sound?

digitalscream

samzadgan said:

@digitalscream...hey man, do you run that phase ninety into the front of your amp? how does it sound?

Yup, that I do - it's a warmer, more subtle effect than putting it in the loop

samzadgan

digitalscream said:

samzadgan said:

@digitalscream...hey man, do you run that phase ninety into the front of your amp? how does it sound?

Yup, that I do - it's a warmer, more subtle effect than putting it in the loop

But you still cleary hear the effect right...you still get the full sweep...just lose a lot of the high end harshness right?