Tell me about your pedal board

[JohnFrusciante]

Why did you choose what you choose to put on your board (like chorus compression, distortion) and then explain why you choose the pedal you choose to do these attributes! show us your board to so we can see!

[jnepo1]

My board is mainly TC stuff because of my history w/ them since they came out in the late 70's and early 80's. I started out w/ Ross and MXR as well as Morley and Mutron stuff, because that's what I saw in the local music stores where I grew up in Toledo, Ohio. There was a chain of stores, Penguin Music as well as Crazy Ron's Music that sold them and that's what I bought. Then the TC stuff came around and I was hooked and still used the others especially Mutrons. But as things broke down the TC stuff never did, and to this day, I still have them (most of them) and most are still used daily and on my board. Now w/ TC's latest stuff, I just gravitated towards them because of my history and their durability. As for the others on my board, I guess it was just a matter of need, as well as preference over another type or lack there of trying others. As for my cables and plugs, that's what I've always used and stick w/ when making my cables.
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[Dashface]

Well, I chose all of mine because I'm the "Gilmour" in a Floyd tribute act and so I must have pedals that will sound good for the Floyd. So, I'm using the following:

Vox Wah - wired in reverse for seagull sounds
Analogman mini BiComp - red side for WYWH songs, yellow side for boosting Wall solos
MiGBoost - silicon boost similar to Coloursound, used for rhythm tones
Skreddy Top Fuel - singing lead, used with comp and flange for Wall solos
Skreddy Pig Mine - used for solos on Animals
Skreddy Lunar Module - used for solos on Dark Side
Fulltone Fulldrive 2 - not used (I usually swap this out for my The Squawk booster, etc, for playing shows with other bands)
BK Butler Tube Driver - used for smooth solos on WYWH, intro solos to Echoes
Chandler Tube Driver - used for 2nd solo in Shine On, The Embryo, and Astronomy Dominae
Voodoo Labs MicroVibe - used when I don't bring an actual Leslie or other rotating amp
Maxon PhaseTone - used for intro to Have a Cigar, sometimes for Shine On main riff
Electric Mistress - modded to pre-Deluxe specs, used in intro to Dogs, all over The Wall and The Final Cut songs
Boss DD20 - still the most usable delay I've found, great for all kinds of things and easy to use on stage
Radial AmpBone - switches between two signal chains - one to the 100w Hiwatt and 50w Hiwatt (main signal), other to Yamaha RA200 rotating speaker amp
Tuner Pedal - duh
Boss CE2 - slight chorus always on 50w Hiwatt, a la later Gilmour
Boss FV500 - two of these, used to control mix of amps when using all three

So yes, very specific. There you go There are also a Cornish P2, G2, and SS3 in the mail. I'm pretty fanatical about this stuff.

The nice thing is, you can still use this setup for playing with other bands - it sounds great no matter what. The problem is it's quite big. I only have a picture of the first board, but as you can guess there is a second one off to the left with the delays and amp switching, and there is a small one off to the right with the wah and input switching (for lap steel).



...actually, you can kind of see the other board off to one side on this shot:

[shawnshack]

Here are my two boards - main board and practice board.





Getting here took a while, like with most of you. I started playing around 12 years ago. I've been through a few modelers, variety of pedals, amps, guitars, etc. Up until a few years ago I was only using a modeler going direct (Pod XTL) and a Fender Princeton 112 Solid State amp and a Fender Champ 25se at home for practice with the Pod. I was tired of not having the tone I wanted and realized I wasn't going to get it from the Pod so I started my search for tone. I only had a couple pedals other than the pod - my old Boss SD1 that I got shortly after I started playing, cry baby wah, phase 90 and a vp jr.

I convinced my wife to let me buy some gear and I was going to sell my Pod and both the amps I had. I sold the amps and picked up the '99 MIA Hot Rod Deluxe I currently have. I also bought a few pedals. I picked up a VS Route 66, a VS H20, a Boss TU2, Boss NS2, DL4 and I picked up a Tech 21 Sans Amp to use until I convinced our sound crew at my church to let me use an amp. This is what was born...



I couldn't get the amount of gain that I needed at times, the DL4 didn't do it for me. I was also able to start using my amp at church. So I traded my DL4 for a DD20, the Route 66 and Sans Amp for a Rat and an OCD. I was much happier with this set up for a while. I added a dyna comp for a while because I was missing the compression from the route 66, but it wasn't what I really wanted, so I took it back off.

I added an MXR D3 to use as a boost, a Luther drive to replace my SD1 on my main board, sold the DD20 to pick up a nova delay. A year or so ago I picked up a Boss TR2 because one of the songs we were playing needed it, by the time I got it we quit playing the song...go figure. I dropped the NS2 because I didn't really need it. I picked up an '87 Rat and it was a nice improvement over the Rat 2. And I even went back to some amp modeling. I quit using my amp because between the amp being under the stage or in an iso box it just wasn't as effective as the trouble it was to bring it. I added the Blonde and I'm happy with my current tone. I'll be adding a Timmy circa February. That's my story. My practice board is simple - I need a tuner, had an extra wah, two stages of gain are nice and I love delay

[robcollins]

Originally Posted by jakey

My Board (current)

Bradshaw Wah
Demeter Compulator
Cornish P1 Muff
Cornish G2 Fuzz
Cornish SS3 Soft Sustainer (OD)
Kinglsey Jester
into Gigrig Midi 8
L1 TC Stereo Chorus
L2 VL Microvibe
L3 TRex Tremster
L4 Send to rack (see below*)
L5 SIB Echodrive
L6 Stereo Korg G4 Leslie Simulator

into
Skrydstrupt DDL
Into Cornish stereo splitter/line drivers to Fender Tweed Twin and Cornell Plexi.


* Rack
1976 Electric Mistress
1974 Phase 90
MXR System Delay II
Boss RVV10
Digitech IPS33B Pitch Shifter/Whammy
All switched via gigrig remote loopys.

All patch leads are Cornish, all power supplies are Voodoo Lab, and at each important part of the board there's a Cornish Line Driver. Also, the DDL is parallel mixed using a Gigrig loopy, and the Leslie goes out in stereo.

I have to say that there is possibly a sniff of a hint to my favourite guitarist, Lord Gilmour of London...! Also, I'm a big Bonamassa fan hence the Jester and trem. I may lose the Jester at some point as the Cornish SS3 and G2 will cover most of the ground.

However, the rig is so versatile, I cannot think of a thing it won't do. I shall be rationlising the pedal board soon when Pete C makes my switcher system and I'll lose the gigrig.

It's also designed to work either as a pedalboard only or the rack and board. The only things I truly need the rack for are the whammy and the Electric Mistress, which I adore. However the secret weapon is the TC SCF, which'll do a passable flanger, a lush chorus and a useful pitch modulator (leslie-ish!) So it's like 3 pedals in one.


These are the pix of the rig before the current (ongoing) build.

Jnepo- looking good buddy, as ever!! I'll be posting the new rig on Sunday..........

Hi James

Very tasty rig there.

When did you get your Cornish P-1 ?- i've got one on order myself

[62Tele]

I've setup my main board with the simple acknowledgment that musically I'm a floozy. I need stuff that can work from Country to R&B to Blues to Rock. I prefer a small board (PT Jr.) and pick pedals that are pretty versatile for the most part. I have limited modulation and a simple delay and try to use them all pretty sparingly to just mix things up once in awhile. I also made sure I had a good buffer on the board. I really could care less if something is analog, digital or modeling so long as it sounds good.

I set my amp tones first and set the pedals to work with the amp, not change its basic personality. I've also found that running direct can be a very good thing in certain settings so most of my pedals have to perform well in that app too (usually more about settings than anything else).

[robcollins]

Originally Posted by jakey

Also the DDL will be up for grabs c. Feb nxt yr.

To make way for the T.E.S. no doubt

I'm looking forward to The P-1 (amongst other Cornish goodies) and i'm patiently waiting for the email from Pete.

I've got to see a picture of that Cornish Modulation unit when it arrives !

[whaiyun]

I wanted small and portable. I started off with a PT mini but then was it was too limiting. I ended up with PT jr.

I wanted a mixture of John Mayer, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, U2, etc etc. Something that could cover Contemporary church music as well as stuff I enjoy such as the artists listed above.

I ended up with what I'm using in my signature. However, I'm starting to really dig the David Gilmour tones. BK Butler TB and Ram's Head Muff anyone? =P

[robcollins]

Originally Posted by jakey

That's seemingly a long way off :-( Like 2 yrs. And he needs to design it.

TES is due first quarter. If you know anyone for the DDL let me know.

In the short term, I've ordered a LP2 Duplex which is 2 x S/R loops. I can shove the shite in there. That will work and then a stereo ABC Box to switch the amps. I actually want to seriously reduce the size. Hence the gigirig and jest going etc, although you could argue the G2/SS3 should go instead, the Jester is that good.

I know - I wouldnt part with my jester. Petes waitimes on big custom stuff are long to say the least . Im getting Mike Hill Services to build me a custom rack interface/amp switcher. I thought I was coming to the end of finishing my rack rig, until I decided to pull the two Cornish Duplexes out and create an all Cornish Pedalboard. I must be mad.

[PedalFreak]

I play blues, blues rock, alt-country. Everything I need is on this board. I will be replacing one of the Delays with a Timefactor, and then swapping one or the other analog delays as needed.

Everything on here is what I wanted. Tried a lot of different pedals (around 200-225) in the past few years and for what I do these were the best. I tried many of each style. I'd go on a fuzz binge and buy 25-30 fuzz pedals. Then i'd try them all, keep my favorite 5-10. Same with OD's, UniVibe, Delays, Roto Sim's, Clean boosters, etc. Then i went through and found the best set up with all the pedals, and this is what I've come up with.

I use anything from a Tele to a Les Paul to a Strat to a Danelelctro DC-3. Everything here works great with my board.

[todd richman]

My new L.A. Sound Design board is basically designed to replicate the 80's rack tones of players like Dann Huff, Steve Lukather, Steve Farris, Mike Landau, etc and will have these things:

Boss FV-500L (Pre volume)
Boss FV-500L (Wet volume in Parallel Looper)
Demeter Fat Control (Tyler Midboost Spec Custom Ordered)
Vintage MXR Dyna Comp
Boss DC-2 Dimension C
Boss HR-2 Harmonist for detune
Yamaha UD-Stomp Modulation Delay (Geoff Guthrie custom presets)
TC Electronic Nova Reverb
Kingdom Amplifiers Parallel Looper (UD, Nova Reverb and Wet Volume Pedal in parallel to Mesa MkIV efx loop)
Musicom EFXIII Audio Controller
Boss TU-12H Tuner (dedicated tuner out on Musicom)
Custom L.A.S.D. Interface and Power Supplies.

The Musicom not only stores presets of effects pedal combinations but will also select and store the 3 channels on the Mesa MkIV, plus the amp graphic Eq function along with sending MIDI program change to the UD-Stomp for each preset I set up on the Musicom-the UD is running exclusively into the parallel looper and into the amp's loop so it is not running in a loop on the Musicom but will still receive MIDI info from the Musicom. It should be all wired up and ready to go in a few weeks-it is out in L.A. now.

Here is the layout pic from L.A.S.D.'s shop last week-can't wait for it to come back home:

[Les Paul Guy]

Pics or GTFO

Originally Posted by todd richman

My new L.A. Sound Design board

[sanhozay]

My board is a wrestling match between convenience and inspiration. I envy the folks that travel light but I find merit in disposable sounds. Still, I'm on a pedaltrain II; overloaded with fuzzes...

[Starsailor]

Originally Posted by Dashface

Well, I chose all of mine because I'm the "Gilmour" in a Floyd tribute act and so I must have pedals that will sound good for the Floyd. So, I'm using the following:

Vox Wah - wired in reverse for seagull sounds
Analogman mini BiComp - red side for WYWH songs, yellow side for boosting Wall solos
MiGBoost - silicon boost similar to Coloursound, used for rhythm tones
Skreddy Top Fuel - singing lead, used with comp and flange for Wall solos
Skreddy Pig Mine - used for solos on Animals
Skreddy Lunar Module - used for solos on Dark Side
Fulltone Fulldrive 2 - not used (I usually swap this out for my The Squawk booster, etc, for playing shows with other bands)
BK Butler Tube Driver - used for smooth solos on WYWH, intro solos to Echoes
Chandler Tube Driver - used for 2nd solo in Shine On, The Embryo, and Astronomy Dominae
Voodoo Labs MicroVibe - used when I don't bring an actual Leslie or other rotating amp
Maxon PhaseTone - used for intro to Have a Cigar, sometimes for Shine On main riff
Electric Mistress - modded to pre-Deluxe specs, used in intro to Dogs, all over The Wall and The Final Cut songs
Boss DD20 - still the most usable delay I've found, great for all kinds of things and easy to use on stage
Radial AmpBone - switches between two signal chains - one to the 100w Hiwatt and 50w Hiwatt (main signal), other to Yamaha RA200 rotating speaker amp
Tuner Pedal - duh
Boss CE2 - slight chorus always on 50w Hiwatt, a la later Gilmour
Boss FV500 - two of these, used to control mix of amps when using all three

So yes, very specific. There you go There are also a Cornish P2, G2, and SS3 in the mail. I'm pretty fanatical about this stuff.

The nice thing is, you can still use this setup for playing with other bands - it sounds great no matter what. The problem is it's quite big. I only have a picture of the first board, but as you can guess there is a second one off to the left with the delays and amp switching, and there is a small one off to the right with the wah and input switching (for lap steel).

I love the board. Great set list too.

[Dashface]

Originally Posted by Starsailor

I love the board. Great set list too.

Thanks! That was one of my fav gigs - it was at a big old converted cathedral, and we had the gigantic pipe organ up there behind us as a backdrop. Looked killer I really enjoyed that setlist too - the only one I've ever liked more was a gig we did where we ended the first set by playing Dark Side right through, and then started set two by playing Animals right through. We do tend to have wicked long gigs ha ha