Ed Obrien's PedalBoard Build

gjonesy

I imagine its this:

http://www.thegigrig.com/acatalog/PedalboardTape.html

hotrox sell similar (I think)

ThePrettyDamned

Wow, that's a great video.

I really enjoyed the run through of that fella with rhcp too - very, very detailed and proper nice chap.

citizen68

Cracking video - what a board!

damodai

I love the fuzz , where might I come upon something similar ?

RaymondLin

damodai said:

I love the fuzz , where might I come upon something similar ?

http://thekingofgear.com/post/91195790630/here-is-the-video-of-dan-of-thegigrig-explaining

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showpost.php?p=18194571&postcount=32

damodai

RaymondLin said:

damodai said:

I love the fuzz , where might I come upon something similar ?

http://thekingofgear.com/post/91195790630/here-is-the-video-of-dan-of-thegigrig-explaining

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showpost.php?p=18194571&postcount=32

Cheers mate! Now  I'm on a quest

jeztone2

I like Radiohead, but I guess what annoys me is that they are guilty of all the same stuff that maybe gets thrown at the likes of Roger Waters, but journalists lick their arses. Never quite got that. But brilliant system & Kudo s to Mr O Brien as the client for allowing us too see it all.

Kebabkid

Great vid and nice guys and those G2s are very impressive. I think we have a couple of forumites who have them.

Dan is also a pleasure to deal and despite his busy schedule, he always has time for people.

Re: the pedal board tape holding things and enduring world tours etc..you'd hope so if Dan gives it the thumbs up and he must have lots of client experience to base that on. Pat Metheny gigs over 300 days a year and for a long time had a toothbrush holding in his guitar strap in on his favourite Gibson semi.

 

Wazmeister

Great video, and I'm close to ordering a G2... It's the individual isolation which I love...

As an aside, I use 3M Dual lock stuff as my velcro. That stuff does NOT move, and I've just nicked a wooden spatchular from the wife. To help when i do need to unlock them !

Live this G2 video... From one of own forumites I do believe...

iseverynamegone

Great video . But Why do you need a battery simulator rather than just DC current to make a fuzz work?

spacecadet

iseverynamegone said:

Great video . But Why do you need a battery simulator rather than just DC current to make a fuzz work?

Fuzz will work with a regular power supply but it will sound better with a battery. The virtual battery emulates the current of a cheap shitty one therefore making fuzzes sound the way God intended them to.

iseverynamegone

I call unicorn horn .

JDE

Battery "sag" honestly does make a difference to me. Can't say I notice it so much with Tonebenders, but Fuzz Faces definitely sound different to me, as do wahs. I think wahs running off a psu sound far worse than ones with just a battery. I'm a total non-corksniffer but ears are ears.

iseverynamegone

When you gents are saying sag do you mean a battery at the end of life giving reduced voltage (rather than any voltage droop as load is applied?)

jeztone2

It's to do with zinc carbide batteries, remember the Eric Johnson quote that he could hear the difference between Ever Ready & Duracell. Well I think he means Zinc Carbide & Alkaline. I tried an old Ever Ready blue in my SD-1 years ago and it sounded lovely

iseverynamegone

Really ? Surely DC is DC, of course you can have a bad battery but current is current. I guess a PSU may have AC ripple but hearing differences between battery types? Maybe a difference if discharged to a lower voltage. I'm not being difficult (ok maybe a bit) I just don't understand how components would behave differently based on the technology used to supply DC current at a set voltage - unless in fault condition .

JohnPerry

Duracell Power Plus for me, matured to within 17 months of their use-by date. Before that they sound stiff to me.

It's important to buy them singly too. The multi-pack versions have too little bloom.

hotpickups

I think because some old fuzzes only take batteries to power them

iseverynamegone;301746" said:

Great video . But Why do you need a battery simulator rather than just DC current to make a fuzz work?

iseverynamegone

[quote="hotpickups;302120"]I think because some old fuzzes only take batteries to power them

Is that simulator then ultimately just a connection box To allow a pp3 type connection to be made to the regulated DC? That's not how I saw it. It sounded like it was adding some special sauce to a DC signal

JDE

I can't really hear the difference between zinc and alkaline - to be honest, I just buy the cheapest multi's from poundland.
When I say sag, I mean a drop in voltage from a battery that's had a good bit of use.