Country Pedalboard

[Frakentele]

hello, im a country guitar player that likes to model my style after Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Brad Paisley, and many other Nashville players.I have a Furman pedalboard and a Fender blues Deville 4x10 reissue.
Im trying to accomplish the best country pedalboard possible. So if everyone could tell me the essentials such as the best compressors, clean boost, overdrive, wahs, delays, reverbs, trmelos, and noise supressors, which ones are the best?
Here is kinda my idea, but im not sure. possibly boss cs3 comppression sustainer, keeley katana clean boost, eden analog nashville, ibanez ts9(more for the blues), delays i have absolutely no clue because there are so many and same on reverbs. I dont know much about tremolos or noise suppresors.
Help is greatly appreciated.

[DblStop]

Heres some of the toys on my board.For compression i've been using the Barber Tone Press for a few years now and it's one of the best out there in my book,it has a blend knob so you can blend the origional signal with the compressed signal very cool feature check one out.My overdrive is the origional Bardber Direct Drive great overdrive pedal it's been on my board for a few yaers now,it's not what I would call a high gain pedal,it can get into Marshall territory if you want.It also has a push pull pot one the tone so you can get that Dumble tone if you want that,that's a killer feature on this pedal makes the pedal reallyjump out in the mix.I just purchased a MXR Carbon Copy Delay,I'm lovin' this pedal just got this pedal last week at Guitar Center.It's analog so it has that GREAT warm tone for the Mason Chicken Pickin' stuff which is a big part of my style of playin'.I'm using the Carbon Copy for the slapback Chicken Pickin'.I alsohave the T Rex Replica Delay I use for longer delays,it also has tap tempo on it so you can tap your delay times in.It's Digital but it has a switch that you can engage which they call the brown switch which simulates analog,I usually leave the switch in the up position,it's pretty warm for digital.It's pretty pricey I gave almpst 400 for it but it's a cool pedal.I also have a Retrosonic Chorus pedal which is analog I love the way this pedal sounds warm and sweet.It has 2 sides to it,one side is Chorus the other side is vibrato,you can use each side seperatly or use both sides together.That's about it for my board hope this helps some.Hey by the way what part of Tennessee are you in,the wife and I are relocating to Nashville soon.Take care and cheers Mark Moree aka DblStop

[Big John]

I use them so little i don't even have a 'board' but in my gig bag are the following :-

Visualsound Route66 - Comp and distortion or just clean boost
Demeter tremulator - Just sounds wonderful
Danelectro 'Dan Echo' - Seen by some as unreliable but fingers crossed ..... it has a good delay range and can emulate tape echo real well.

Anything i can't cover the studio can and to be honest, i'm not the kind of player if you want a wall of Adrian Belew type sound.

[Teleman]

My current pedalboard has these pedal on it:

Boss TU-2 tuner
Barber Tone Press
Barber LTD
Barber Direct Drive
Arion SCH-1 chorus
Boss DD2 delay
Boss CE-3
BBE Boosta Grande -excellent clean boost!

I find between the Boss CE-3 and the Tone press that I get different "flavors" of compression for chicken pickin', slide, and clean solos etc...

[gillibi]

Originally Posted by Frakentele

hello, im a country guitar player that likes to model my style after Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Brad Paisley, and many other Nashville players.I have a Furman pedalboard and a Fender blues Deville 4x10 reissue.
Im trying to accomplish the best country pedalboard possible. So if everyone could tell me the essentials such as the best compressors, clean boost, overdrive, wahs, delays, reverbs, trmelos, and noise supressors, which ones are the best?
Here is kinda my idea, but im not sure. possibly boss cs3 comppression sustainer, keeley katana clean boost, eden analog nashville, ibanez ts9(more for the blues), delays i have absolutely no clue because there are so many and same on reverbs. I dont know much about tremolos or noise suppresors.
Help is greatly appreciated.

What pedals do you already have?

[Wardpike]

Hey brother, don't forget to check out the Show Us Your Pedalboard topic!

Currently, I'm quite pleased with my set-up-
Furman pedalboard loaded with:
JMI Mister Crybaby Super
Vox Valvetone 810
Boos Sd1
Keeley Comp (4 knob job)
EH Deluxe Electric Mistress
EH LPB-1 booster
Line-6 MM4 (chorus, flange, phase, weirdisms)
Line-6 DL4 (delays, multi-taps, modulated delays, backwards guitar, sampling and looping)

I have a Fender 4x10 Blues Deville out on loan, and have played these effects with the Fender amp, and my tele's, and I'll tell you straight-up. The Keeley with the two channels of the Blues Deville and a tele is 90% of thew way there. A good slapback echo really helps for some applications. Chorus, and delays aren't really essential to country sounds...a good mild overdrive is nice to have, and I have been blessed with 2 of them.

I hope I've been helpful.

Ward

[scrapyardblue]

Originally Posted by Wardpike

Hey brother, don't forget to check out the Show Us Your Pedalboard topic!


I have a Fender 4x10 Blues Deville out on loan, and have played these effects with the Fender amp, and my tele's, and I'll tell you straight-up. The Keeley with the two channels of the Blues Deville and a tele is 90% of thew way there. A good slapback echo really helps for some applications. Chorus, and delays aren't really essential to country sounds...a good mild overdrive is nice to have, and I have been blessed with 2 of them.


Ward

When you say "Keeley with the two channels", to what are you referring? The BD has a clean channel and a drive channel, but not sure how both are on at the same time?

[teleguitarist]

I could tell you what Brent and Johnny are using right now on their pedalboards :D

In fact, Brent and I are finishing up the final touches on a boost that he flipped over.

bw

[Jaxson612]

So Brian, tell us already! Inquirering minds want to know!