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  • What If Your Pedal Board Was Gone? (p.4)
2017/11/07 20:58:09
Bajan Blue
Oh by the way, the picture is not of my actual pedals, just one I found on the internet - also its missing one of my favourites, The Ring Stinger!!
 
2017/11/10 22:44:14
LLyons
I would do the same again - get rid of the pedal board.  Its not what you may be thinking.   I use a pair of amps (Evil Twin, Marshall).  The effects I use are an H9 for each amp loop, and an H9 that splits to the front end of the amps.  Instead of a cable, I use a ULXD.  I cannot tell the difference between it and a cable..  
 
Instead of pedals on a board - I went voodoo. Ground control pedal and GCX switchers in a rack. SMALL rack has a pedal drawer, a power conditioner, and a strobe tuner. The GCU controls switching between amps,  switching the preamp controls on both amps, kicking in\out pedals, changing H9 settings, and a silent mode..
 
The GCX has 8 true bypass audio loops.  I dedicate two of the loops for dirt pedals, and two for compressors.  I'm pretty happy with the Keelly 4 knob and Wampler Ego - haven't desired to change them out in a few years now.  The dirt pedals are subject to change.  I save and buy a few a year.   
 
Net Net.  Really short cable runs very low noise,  takes a total of 5 seconds to swap in pedals,  can configure the gcu to kick in\out pedals, change amps and change H9 settings with one button - greatly reduces tap dancing.  AND with an iPad to control the H9's - I don't have to kneel unless its for prayin'.
 
Take care....    
2017/11/12 16:41:41
BassDaddy
That's why I started the thread. I wanted to see what people do and what they would redo if money was not a concern.
2017/11/13 05:28:43
Cactus Music
I like to collect the odd pedal just like any red blooded guitar player. Over time I've owned a lot. I had one of the first Fuzztones back in 196?? They come and go. Only one I've kept is my Mutron Auto Wah.  I'll play for a few year without anything other than a Delay pedal and My tuner. . Then all of a sudden I find myself with 8 of the buggers strewn across my floor.  I always return to the basics. 
Overdrive, Delay and TREMELO.  
So what I'm using right now  for a pedal board is what you see below , a hard shell Attache case. Sorry in this shot it's a mess of stuff after a gig. But the pedals just sit in there. I will change what I take depending on the gig. I also will set it up for my acoustic. 
I have been loving these little inexpensive Mooer pedals. 
I have the Echolizer, Trelicopter and Green Mile. 
I have a bunch of different OD peadals that I like and use sometimes,  to many to list and hell if  I can  remember the brands,,  I mostly use the Green mile which is a Tube screamer knock off. I also use an old Boss chorus for acoustic. There's also my Tonebone and somewhere I have a crybaby but  I would rather use the Mutron or my  MXR auto wha. 
 

 
This is a picture of my live set up for gigs, The little Yamaha mixer, my Netbook for playback, the Xkeys footswitch, and I'm using the Blackstar now as the Princeton needs to retire after a hard life. I could use the effects in the Blackstar but I will need the footswitch. My pedal board is doomed to be replaced by something like the above mentions line 6. I would like to have Sonar changing things song to song via midi like I did in the 80;s. 
 
 
 
2017/11/13 15:36:48
BassDaddy
The first pedal I ever had was  some type of fuzz something and it was make out of wood. No kidding, the case was wood. We got together to play at a friends house and it was about 150 yards from the local radio station tower. When I would click the fuzz box on the radio station would come through my Epiphone amp. The fuzz box was made of wood and covered with a Tolex like vinyl just like an amp. 
2017/11/13 16:02:36
tlw
I’ve had the experience of an EHX nano-muff, a lowish gain 2 transistor fuzz with the “muffled” treble-cut quality which gave it and the Big Muff their names, combined with a Strat with Lace Sensors picked up a local taxi company’s transmissions loud and clear.

But only if the pedal was on and the Strat’s volume turned almost or completely off.

The downside of some of the early fuzz designs is that their interaction with the guitar pickups and pots, which gives them their character, can also make them a tunable radio receiver.
2017/11/13 18:21:00
Cactus Music
That's so funny because I remember listening to the AM radio through my Fender Bassman. 
 
I was just looking for a picture of my Fuzztone but I now realize it was this.

 
I can't find a picture of my Vox Wha Wha It was something like this but it was silver and had sound effexts built in. It did a siren, a surf and a few others via side footswitches. It would have been around 1966. 
 

2017/11/13 22:49:57
BassDaddy
The Vox looks like it was made out of repurposed old style milk cans. Gotta love galvanized Music gear.
2017/11/13 23:33:00
kennywtelejazz
If money was no concern I would ditch my cheap a$$ed pedal board and play my guitar out of a Dumble
 
Kenny
2017/11/14 00:12:15
Cactus Music
My son was just showing me his latest toy a Line 6 pod HD500X , tempting but kinda overkill for what I do. I was looking at the lower priced models and then realized I already have the Blackstar,, So I'm going to order the IDFS1o footswitch and I'll have 128 presets at my feet. 
Only $100 much better than the $500 for the line 6. 
So maybe my pedal board is history soon!
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