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My gig board evolves pretty slowly and the core of it remains consistent. I occasionally swap something in from my pile of spares just to keep things interesting.
in 2016
The chain is Polytune > EQ A > Timmy > TD-X > Cali76 > EQ B > DD-500 > Deco > Flint. All mounted on a Rockboard 3.1 and powered by a single Strymon Ojai plus a Gigrig Isolator.
The Deco and DD-500 can cover chorus and flanging when needed
The MC3 controls the DD500 and EQ-200 - the latter is set up so that one EQ is before the drives and one EQ is after the compressor. I have made my own Patchbay for the board which makes it really easy to set up with amps with or without effects loops.
If I'm using an amp with no effects loop, the guitar plugs into the metal jack on the left and I plug a cable from the green jack to the amp input and all pedals are in series as per the routing above. If I want to use an effects loop, guitar goes in the metal jack and I connect into the front of the amp with the red socket. The yellow is the effects loop send and the green is the effects loop return. In this case, everything up to the compressor goes in front of the amp and everything after the compressor is in the amp's effect loop. Switching jacks take care of the routing depending on what is plugged in where.
TU-3 -> weeping demon -> helix, and i have a tempode for stabilising the tap tempo (although this isn't really needed since the 3 firmware)
Especially drive pedals, I’m as easily hyped up as the next person when you see a YT video by Rabea etc.
What stopped me was that they were always into loops and or a clean amp and that’s never been how I used any drive pedal.
So I’d use it for a bit into clean then be straight back to my amp for the driven tones and it would never be switched on again as I’d be back to my old faithfuls for shaping the driven tone I already had as I was no longer looking to hit a specific band sound more what I liked that was in the genre ballpark.
Zoia I’ve wanted to try and last year when I was trying loads of random pedals I couldn’t get hold of one.
Mood your thoughts mirror mine, one minute I felt it was amazing and we were making progress then the next day it was just impossible to get something out of.
Automatone again was on my list thinking it would replace my drive pedals but then you start thinking about stacking and pedals I’d miss so would likely be an expensive fuzz/ts.
Definitely more pedals in my future, but I'm trying to stay away for the time being.
Although I did buy a knock off Klon job from Wish a few weeks ago, and a Big Muff a couple of weeks before that. And a Danelectro FAB Fuzz not long before that...
I also am a bit of a collector, so I have some that will never sell unless I really have to.
Right Sidecar for lower gain, Left for more, Fuzz for contrast, Boo Boost for volume increase. Plethora does more than Ill ever need…Quartemaster selects the pedals. (bypass, low gain, higher gain, fuzz, solo boost (Boo stacked with either bypass or selected pedal))
Electric guitar is a noise generator. If i want to learn a song I often start with an unplugged arch top. When I'm ahem composing I've got a bunch of whacky pedals.
Play guitar, learn theory scales modes, learn how to bend notes and where but also add glorious noise.
What would hallelujah sound like without 3 reverbs?
One of my perennial favourite albums