Show us your Pedal board.

[KeepSwinging]

It's lot lighter then a piece of wood the same size and was cheap but it slides around the floor with the slightest amount of pressure, And it's really not big enough for me but thanks for the compliment!

[Bugsville]

my FINAL incarnation...


knobs taped to hold my "sweet spots" when gigging

and a discovery I made with the mxr carbon copy delay - I took this pic of outside, brought the board back in and saw that the pointers on the carbon copy's knobs glow in the dark! maybe this is not a new observation, but it was new to me!

[andrenighthound]

updated my pedal board:



swapped out the launch pad for the boosta grade. the launch pad does more but i don't need the extra features. boosta grande is way quieter! i couldn't believe it!

swapped out the stock sd1 for the keeley mod version. my take on it is that the keeley sounds a little better but has way more range and overdrive! i guess there's only so much you can do to a sd 1 becasue it sounds great stock!

swapped out the boss tu-2 for the korg pitchblack. the korg is true bypass and has nice bright big screen. the pitchblack is plastic were as the boss is metal casing, so the pitchblack would be better off on a pedal board were a boss tu-2 can take a beaten.

[missfortune]

Originally Posted by andrenighthound

swapped out the boss tu-2 for the korg pitchblack. the korg is true bypass and has nice bright big screen. the pitchblack is plastic were as the boss is metal casing, so the pitchblack would be better off on a pedal board were a boss tu-2 can take a beaten.

From the Korg Website:

http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_...&category_id=5

"Sleek, black and tough aluminum die cast body for superb durability"

Not plastic.

The pitchblack seems very solid to me (I own one too). I'd have no worries about putting it on the floor or a board.

[andrenighthound]

oops! it's so light i mistaken it for plastic! thanks for the info

[MarkV]

My board:



It is going to change soon btw. The Fulltone Fulldrive, the Boss FS-5L and the Boss Tremolo will be taken off. It will be replaced by my new amps pedal (AC30: reverb and tremolo) and an Emma ReezaFRATzitz (what's in a name...)

[KeepSwinging]

I ditched the baking pan, thing was driving me crazy. Went ahead and built a board based on the pedal train. This is the first thing I've ever built so the craftsmanship isn't amazing but it works just fine. Ibanez CS9 Chorus, Dyna Comp, and Planet Waves tuner pedal will take up the remaining space.

[jmecale72]

Originally Posted by cvansickle

I think we've done this before, but I've upgraded mine so it's time to repost anyway. I use two. First, the big board (known as Fat Man):


And the small one (Little Boy):


Go here for detailed descriptions of both. Thanks for looking!

How do you like the Voodoo Lab Chorus pedal?

[BartMan]

Most recent iteration. FX chain goes RMC2 > Pitchblack > Tone Press > Zendrive > Timmy > Phaser > Flutter Tone > Deeelay > Red Reverberator.

[mlove3]

a few things I gotta say here:

"Wow, there are some big pedal boards out there."

1)Size matters

2) I am AMAZED at how many pedals are being stuffed on these boards. Do you use all of em?

3)How do you keep track of where everything is? Ever forget and turn on the wrong thing?

4)Do you sing while you're doing the pedal board tap dance? I have a 3 button footswitch and I can barely operate that and chew gum at the same time!

5) I'd bet some of these pedal boards were more expensive than your main guitar.

6) and finally...WOW!

[andrenighthound]

Originally Posted by mlove3

a few things I gotta say here:

"Wow, there are some big pedal boards out there."

1)Size matters

only if you know how to use it!

2) I am AMAZED at how many pedals are being stuffed on these boards. Do you use all of em?

i can't speak for anyone else but yes.

3)How do you keep track of where everything is? Ever forget and turn on the wrong thing?

were only human...

4)Do you sing while you're doing the pedal board tap dance? I have a 3 button footswitch and I can barely operate that and chew gum at the same time!



5) I'd bet some of these pedal boards were more expensive than your main guitar.

hell yeh! especially my favorite partcasters! my board is well over a grand.

6) and finally...WOW!

love it or leave it!

[Wardpike]

"Wow, there are some big pedal boards out there."

1)Size matters
Not really, but is does improve your options.

2) I am AMAZED at how many pedals are being stuffed on these boards. Do you use all of em?
Yes, I use all of mine, every set, ever night. I have more that I can't fit on the board so I opt to leave them out of it.

3)How do you keep track of where everything is? Ever forget and turn on the wrong thing?
Everything on my board is powered by the Furman power conditioner/supply, so I just shut off the master breaker and everything goes dead. Nothing goes wrong.

4)Do you sing while you're doing the pedal board tap dance? I have a 3 button footswitch and I can barely operate that and chew gum at the same time!
Yes, I sing all lead vocals in my band, and am the only guitar player. I incorporate pedal board dance moves into my stage act. LOL

5) I'd bet some of these pedal boards were more expensive than your main guitar.

No, not more expensive, but collectively they'd buy a heckuva nice couple of guitars!

Cheers!!

Ward

[Wardpike]

Originally Posted by Bugsville

knobs taped to hold my "sweet spots" when gigging

Tell the truth, you're just trying to hide your settings from the rest of us! :LOL:

Cheers to your neat design!

Ward

[Beerts]

this is the latest version (I'm working on building a new board ) I've been experimenting with board layout and effects chain so the plan here is still fluid, but so far the chain is:
Planet Waves tuner (just got dropped so it will be replaced)
Boss CS2 comp (old and not great)
FullDrive2
Jekyll & Hyde
Bad Monkey
Volume
Arion Bass Chorus (love the swirly sound it gives)
DigiDelay
Arion Stereo Analog Delay
Sonic Stomp

[Loco]

Originally Posted by BartMan

None of these pedals are familiar to me on this side of the pond. What a great photograph of this collection - makes me want to hear 'em so much...

[noisemedia]

hey guys, here's my pedal board, or lack thereof:



boss tuner
marshall vibrotrem
ibanez tubescreamer w/808 mod
mxr micro amp
boss dd-5 w/ tap tempo thingy
digitech whammy pedal

im trying to add a boss compressor/sustainer but i dont know what place int he lineup i should put it...any suggestions?

[missfortune]

Pitchblack --> Bone Bender --> Mule --> VariOboost --> Sugar Baby --> Short Timer.

The Buddha of Tone and the Altoids tin add to the sustain.

[TB72]

Originally Posted by noisemedia

hey guys, here's my pedal board, or lack thereof:


im trying to add a boss compressor/sustainer but i dont know what place int he lineup i should put it...any suggestions?

I'd put the compressor right after the tuner.

Question...How well does your Whammy pedal track being last in the chain? When I had one, I found it tracked much better if it was first in line. (This was a first-generation Whammy pedal. The newer ones might track better than my old one.)

Later...

[noisemedia]

Originally Posted by TB72

I'd put the compressor right after the tuner.

Question...How well does your Whammy pedal track being last in the chain? When I had one, I found it tracked much better if it was first in line. (This was a first-generation Whammy pedal. The newer ones might track better than my old one.)

Later...

hey man thanks for your reply...

actually last night during practice i experimented with various diff positions and youre absolutely right about the compressor, it def sounds best right after the tuner, additionally ive moved the whammy to first in line and i find that it seems to have a better effect in terms of clarity, it seemed like it was cutting my signal a bit last in line, or maybe it was all in my head but i swear i can tell the difference in having it first in line rather than last.

basically now im running the setup like this:

72 tele deluxe
digitech whammy
boss tu-2 tuner
boss compressor/sustainer --> which has AWESOME sustain by the way
ibanez TS-9 w/808 chip
mxr micro amp
boss DD-5 w/ tap tempo

into a 74 musicman HD130 212 on the low power setting.

ive never used a compressor/sustainer in my life until this week and its actually pretty damn good sounding. thanks for the advice.

http://www.myspace.com/calicohorsemusic
http://www.myspace.com/goodbyebluemonday

[FrankB]

newest board for reggae and general yummy tones.

[Scotty72]

Finally, after years of using just a delay, I got me a compressor, an overdive, a power source and made me a board.
Still missing a reverb (you can see where it'll be) and maybe a tremolo in the future.
It's tiny and very practical, I think, specially the power source, a little too much for just three pedals but I think worth it.
It will see it's first gig this friday.

[benadrian]

Crappy phone pic.

guitar into

Hotcake (OD and buffer)
Dual looper with
Tuner
DM-2 delay
Modified Malmsteen Overdrive.
Line 6 delay

to amp (with trem and verb)



Ben

[usc96]

Fairly basic here. 1) Distortion, 2) Vibe, 3) OD, 4) Delay, 5) Chorus and a Tuner.

[alculader]

Just finished building the board last weekend.
Signal chain = Boss CS3 > FD2 > Bad Monkey > OCD > EH Pulsar > CH1 > MXR Carbon Copy > BBE Sonic Stomp.
Still experimenting with the order.
First time posting pics, hope this works. Ha!

[Zenotal]

Originally Posted by Eric K

I don't know where you can get this from US. I even can't found any in my country Hong Kong. I just bought it last time that i hv a trip in Tokyo. There has a lot in different size. Very hard n stable.

Actually that was my first time been Japan. I hv been a long street which all is instrustment/ guitar shop there, some of them has few floors. It's really shock me!

Can you tell me/us what the name of the street is, or at least the area/neighborhood in Tokyo?

[randysmojo]

this is what I'm trying right now. An old Dermond volume pedal, Electro-harmonix LPB-1, Modded Tube Screamer, Boss OS-2 overdrive/distortion, Ibanez DL5 delay, Ibanez CPL compressor/limiter, Arion Tuner, Jim Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH-1 Special wah. Not actual order of hookup.

[letsgocoyote]

[hou35male]

Originally Posted by alculader

Just finished building the board last weekend.
Signal chain = Boss CS3 > FD2 > Bad Monkey > OCD > EH Pulsar > CH1 > MXR Carbon Copy > BBE Sonic Stomp.
Still experimenting with the order.
First time posting pics, hope this works. Ha!

Did you actually build the board itself or did you buy it?
That's a nice board.

RJ

[eddiewagner]

.... with my silverface pro reverb. just the on/off switch for reverb and tremolo and a tuner. works great!

[bargoedboy]

i have never had one ever !
BUT the reason i started looking at this thread was i need to organise a couple of things , i only ever used a fender and a overdrive , or just a marshall on its own , now i have a marshall 25/50 and a marshall echo pedal , and add to this the channel changing switch plus an A-B box for changing guitars i also want to use a volume pedal in the effects loop so i can have a better overdrive at lower volumes as well as cleaning amp up from guitar
volume. is it best to have the echo and volume pedals in effects loop then guitar straight into amp from A-B box and if so everyone seems to use two leads, one send and one return, i was thinking because of people saying tone gets sucked out etc could i use an XLR cable from amp to pedal board where they use a common earth and one wire does send and the other return cutting down on cables and keeping things easier to trouble shoot ?

[alculader]

Hou35,

Yeah I built it myself. Now the other guitarist in the band wants me to build one for him.
By the way..... Houston here also.

[KnopflerStyle]

Originally Posted by OrovilleTim

TU-2 -> silver-screw CS-1 -> first gen DM-2. Boring looking, beautiful sounding.

Do you like country? Because i think that this is the country guitar pedal board. Nothing more, nothing less.

Best Regards...

[gillibi]

[TwoString]

As it stands now...



I'm still waiting on an MXR Carbon Copy, and I'm in the process of building an 18 volt overdrive (tube screamer based) with a MOSFET clean boost circuit in the same box. As soon as it's done, bye bye TS-9!

EDIT...forgot the signal path...

BYOC 5 Knob Compressor
Custom Wah (BYOC board, WIMA caps and lots of value changes from stock)
Boss BD-2
Ibanez TS-9 (modded w/.22uF input cap, higher impedence input, higer gain and cleanup mods, TL072 chip and MOSFET/Diode blend clipping)
Fulltone Choralflange
Fulltone Deja Vibe
BYOC Tremolo
Boss DD-5

All fed into a Mesa Roadster head (or sometimes my modded Valve Jr. head) into a Roadster 2x12 cab.

[product26]

wiring needs cleaned up.. and I need to replace the crappy orange patch cable, but here it is... all on my DIY pedal board.



recently picked up a pedalsnake, so i easily ran some through the effects loop, and some direct.

guitar --> Maxon Compressor --> Hybrid Tube Screamer/Expression pedal --> Tuner (bypass) --> Amp (Peavey Valveking) --> footswitch (boost & channel)

Send --> Boss EQ --> Maxon Chorus --> Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo --> Dunlop High Gain Volume Pedal --> Return

oh, and a USB snake light

[Telegazer]

Ch... Ch... Ch... Ch... Ch... Ch... Changes around the house again, this time the joyful addition of a Muztek board/bag+wheels for our bass pedal setup. Note: We do not have two MicroPOG/ErnieVolumeJr./BossTU-2s. :P




GUITAR BOARD:


Moollon Wah > EHX Micro POG > Moollon Fuzz 32(soon to be switched with Frantone Cream Puff) > Pedalworx McSqueeze > Janglebox > BJF Emerald Green(running @ 12v DC is really sweet!) > BJF Dyna Red > Ernie Vol Jr.(TU-2 Out) > Boss DC-2 > Moollon Tremolo > Maxon AD-900. Powered by Voodoo Labs PP2 + "just in case" OneSpot that juices the Boss pedals.



BASS BOARD:


EHX Micro Pog > Moollon Compressor > EBS Bass IQ > Snarling Dogs Bootsie > Moollon EQ > Moollon BAss Drive > Prescription Electronics Depth Charge > Ernie Vol Jr.(TU-2 Out)> Boss CEB-3 > EHX Holy Grail Reverb. Powered by One Spot + >600mA dedicated DC supply for the Holy Grail.

The above Muztek (bass) board came with an amazingly convenient bag/pull cart, with wheels and extendable arm, pedal goodies once again all held on with 3m Double Grip. $150 is a lot o' cash, but it's destined to save both of our backs on this 16kg pedal setup/board mess. We were fortunate enough to get a 2nd gen version of the board with metal grips, not the wide rubber straps as in the photo shown below.

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[cacibi]

Originally Posted by product26

wiring needs cleaned up.. and I need to replace the crappy orange patch cable, but here it is... all on my DIY pedal board.



recently picked up a pedalsnake, so i easily ran some through the effects loop, and some direct.

guitar --> Maxon Compressor --> Hybrid Tube Screamer/Expression pedal --> Tuner (bypass) --> Amp (Peavey Valveking) --> footswitch (boost & channel)

Send --> Boss EQ --> Maxon Chorus --> Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo --> Dunlop High Gain Volume Pedal --> Return

oh, and a USB snake light

Finally someone else with a Maxon compressor. I swear by that thing - but, it seems to be a real sleeper pedal. Hardly ever see them.

[Essex Boy]

[Twang]

Homemade board with brown tolex:
Brown Rabbit>Top Boost In A Can>Eternity>Nebula>AnalogMan Delay>Verbzilla>Morning Dew EQ>Strobo Stomp



This is it...except I've got the Eternity on the ebays right now.

BTW Essex, nice to see another Nebula user

[Twang]

Originally Posted by OrovilleTim




TU-2 -> silver-screw CS-1 -> first gen DM-2. Boring looking, beautiful sounding.

Replace the CS-1 with an OCD (set to very low overdrive) and you have my brother's exact board.