Turned up to tonight's gig without my pedals!

jimmyguitar

Anyone ever turned up to a gig without their pedal board? I feel naked yet strangely free!! Only real issue is tuner but have a budget non-pedal one... Set amp to a light drive and going to ride the volume / pickups on the guitar... Wish me luck!

jd0272

You'll be fine. Punters, booze, talent = result.

HAL9000

I find myself using pedals less and less these days. I set the amp's gain where I can clean things up by rolling back the guitar's volume pretty much as you're saying.

andyoz

It will be good for you. A lot can be done with just the guitar volume..

richardhomer

A drummer in a band I used to play in turned up without his cymbals once....

p90fool

I've gone back a tuner on too of the amp and that's it.

I'm using my hands to make the appropriate noises.

usedtobe

I don't use pedals.

jimmyguitar

I'm coping well, not a bad rig to be 'stuck with'

andyoz

Matchless!!... I don't feel sorry for you at all..

thermionic

But how will you accelerate and brake on the drive home?

Maynehead

Look on the bright side, it's better than turning up to your gig without a guitar!

GavRichList

Yeah, this thread's not for me

John_P

Hope it went well :-)

I had a similar problem a couple of weeks ago when I had left the foot switch from my evh at home so could switch in the fx loop.   I run it in 4cm so I had a huge pedal board used just to switch the very dry channels by midi.  At least I had a clean/dirty choice - I doubt the audience could tell any difference but I could.  Felt a lot better the next night when it was back to normal. 

IvisonGuitars

richardhomer said:

A drummer in a band I used to play in turned up without his cymbals once....

A drummer I played with once turned up without his sticks and stool....luckily there was a bamboo plant in the corner of the room and we had to fashion him some out of that! I shit you not. It was his last gig with us.

@jimmyguitar Nice rig, how do you find the Clubman?

Sarge

I just hope you're not doing U2 covers........

jimmyguitar

It was a really good lesson. I coped fine, guitar sounded great straight to amp and I had more time to play and less time tap-dancing. This was a function gig with a huge variation in styles so usually I would need a compressor, OD and a bit of slap back delay but I didn't miss them. Sound guy said it sounded awesome so I may forget my pedals more often!

thomasross20

Size of that amp, why mic up!?

Sarge

Liberating aint it?
Well done that man!

richardhomer

Sarge;635637" said:

I just hope you're not doing U2 covers........

If you're doing those, the most vital thing is to know where the stage finishes.

GazLion

thomasross20;635678" said:

Size of that amp, why mic up!?

I was thinking that, then I saw that they had a sound guy for the gig

jimmyguitar

GazLion said:

thomasross20;635678" said:

Size of that amp, why mic up!?

I was thinking that, then I saw that they had a sound guy for the gig

yeah, big venue and 6 piece band so needed it mic'd up!