Behold my massive board of pedals

Petepassion

soma1975 said:

Some changes.

Wilson Mini Q wah because I needed something I could make sound like a regular crybaby but fuzz friendly. 
New Expresso FX Ge fuzz is a good sounding as the last one I had a few years back. The cleanup on it is unreal. 
Mythos Argonaut ocatve
Castledine Supa-Vibe
Camelfish Ge Treble Booster
Way Huge Green Rhino MK IV
Way Huge Russian Pickle - sounds brilliant but wondering if that space on the board would be better suited to something I will use more often so it's in the classifieds right now for trades
MXR Phase 95
UA Del-Verb which is about 2 features away from being incredible. 

Nice, have you tried the Kingtone si minifuzz? If so, how does it compare to your Expresso FX Ge fuzz?

soma1975

Petepassion said:

soma1975 said:

Some changes.

Wilson Mini Q wah because I needed something I could make sound like a regular crybaby but fuzz friendly. 
New Expresso FX Ge fuzz is a good sounding as the last one I had a few years back. The cleanup on it is unreal. 
Mythos Argonaut ocatve
Castledine Supa-Vibe
Camelfish Ge Treble Booster
Way Huge Green Rhino MK IV
Way Huge Russian Pickle - sounds brilliant but wondering if that space on the board would be better suited to something I will use more often so it's in the classifieds right now for trades
MXR Phase 95
UA Del-Verb which is about 2 features away from being incredible. 

Nice, have you tried the Kingtone si minifuzz? If so, how does it compare to your Expresso FX Ge fuzz?

I have had a Kingtone Si and a Kingtone Ge. They are decent but never keepers for me - the Dunlop Hendrix fuzz face and the Chase Tone BC108c Fuzz Fella are much more affordable routes to a better version of the silicon FF sound for my tastes - and after now owning 10s of them and building 20+ more I maintain that every single time someone tries to improve upon the circuit of a fuzz face they make it sound less like a fuzz face. Which is fine for some applications I guess but not for what I want it for which is kind of a foundational tone thingy.

The Jimmy C fuzz I had at the Fretboard jam was exponentially better than any Kingtone fuzz I have played. 

If you want a fuzz face put up with its shit. That said the Expresso is quiet as anything and still sounds amazing. 

Petepassion

@soma1975 ;
I guess, as you say, it depends what you're after, what's the application. I find at home I get different results to when I'm playing with the band. Probably one of the best fuzz pedals at home was the Jimi C I bought off you, but then in a band mix my Kingtone mini fuzz seemed to hold its own a little better, but obviously style, guitar, amp and other pedals in the line all have an impact.
   As a side note I found the Dunlop band of Gypsies mini fuzz face really good.

soma1975

Yep it's all dependant on the chain as you say. Any time I have needed more cut I'll engage a rangemaster type as well. 

I'm very interested in trying a Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz - of which the BOG is presumably a variant of. 

It's just like univibes really. If you use them for one or two songs there's a ton of stuff that is good enough to get by with. If they are a core part of the sound all the time and you set your amp and signal chain around them you tend to have to look at the other offerings.

Petepassion

For a while I used the Boss LS-2 line selector  with a GE7 and fuzz in a separate loop. That way I could boost the level of the fuzz and also shape the eq to cut through more. Extreme mid hump after the fuzz sounded pretty good.

soma1975

Lots of ways to skin a cat. Sorry to diss your Kingtone

GavRichList

Wazmeister said:

Imagine that board with a reorderable loop switcher and a Morningstar MC6 pro tho 

Neilybob

soma1975 said:

Some changes.

Wilson Mini Q wah because I needed something I could make sound like a regular crybaby but fuzz friendly. 
New Expresso FX Ge fuzz is a good sounding as the last one I had a few years back. The cleanup on it is unreal. 
Mythos Argonaut ocatve
Castledine Supa-Vibe
Camelfish Ge Treble Booster
Way Huge Green Rhino MK IV
Way Huge Russian Pickle - sounds brilliant but wondering if that space on the board would be better suited to something I will use more often so it's in the classifieds right now for trades
MXR Phase 95
UA Del-Verb which is about 2 features away from being incredible. 

Oooh congratulations on the new Expressofx Ge fuzz. Looking forward to hearing that on the next tFB make noise day. 

soma1975

Thanks man. It's a goodun. 

Petepassion

soma1975 said:

Lots of ways to skin a cat. Sorry to diss your Kingtone

No worries mate, all input is good 

Neilybob

soma1975 said:

Thanks man. It's a goodun. 

You gotta try a Espressofx Tonebender! Love it with a Les Paul 

soma1975

Yeah that sounds like it would get more use than my Russian Pickle. 

Neilybob

soma1975 said:

Yeah that sounds like it would get more use than my Russian Pickle. 

I got this one 

Aornic

Due a new lineup post.




Main board. The Nano board on top of the Two Rock is going into the effects loop and has a Kingsley Page DS (Dumble ODS style drive), Dawner Prince Boonar, Neunaber Immerse MK2 (since the effects loop is post amp reverb) and TC Ditto+.



Board #2

I use this with a Vyse Amps Princeton Reverb clone and a Marshall Jubilee combo.

I'd like to think it's most of what I like from the big board, but something I could actually take someplace if needed.

I like the Future Factory so much that I have two of them...



Board #3

So this is a more specialised board, whereas the others are what I generally enjoy but in an over the top vs. more manageable form factor and portability.

This one is purely meant to be 80s/90s tones. Grunge, alt-rock and big chorused sounds. Also the EVH 5150 does a nice metal tone if needed. I use this setup more rarely but I really like how the pedals interact with eachother and all do that era's tones.

digitalscream

Aornic said:

I'm so glad you posted this pic, so that I know there's at least a couple of straggly cables in there.

You damn people with your perfectly-lined-up boards and not a bit of mess in sight. I designed and made the pedalboards and I can't get it to look that neat

Aornic

digitalscream said:

Aornic said:

I'm so glad you posted this pic, so that I know there's at least a couple of straggly cables in there.

You damn people with your perfectly-lined-up boards and not a bit of mess in sight. I designed and made the pedalboards and I can't get it to look that neat

This was my third and best attempt too, but then I compared to the folks posting in the Gigrig Facebook group and felt proper shamed. Cable management just eludes me, but the lid closes and no issues. 

Out of sight out of mind.  

Creed_Clicks

The distortion, fuzz, OD, wah & volume pedals are on another board. There seems be a gaping hole here beside the Context that needs to be filled by something! I was thinking of a red panda particle but only like a few settings, or some glitch type thing like the banana effects mandala, or just a plain old vibrato or phaser. I will probably sell it all for a multi effects next year! 
The Marshall echohead might get bumped off eventually but I like to have it beside the Timefactor which I use for the presets, so at least the Marshall can be used on the fly, with volume up full, it acts like a kind of glitch random thing.

cm01

Been through a huge simplifying process and I’m really happy with this setup.  

Fuzz or OD from the Hurts, crunch / dirt / boost from the Lovepedal, modulation / delay from the Plethora and always on tone colouring / another boost at the end of the signal from the Beetronics. 

 

Gassage

I did a flyrig.

perfect!

Keefy

Latest iteration sees the Muffroom Cloud oust the DIY OCD clone, and the Peacekeeper move to the end of the drive section, where it can function as an almost-clean boost. The Pulse Doppler sits after the Muffroom for that Ernie Isley thing, but before the Colby Fuzz and the overdrives for lovely chewy filteriness. There's a definite @ThorpyFX theme developing here!