SHOW OFF YOUR PEDALBOARD!

BahamaDada said:
Do all of you guys...

a) have the amp switch (channel/reverb/whatever) separate out of the picture?

b) control the amps settings/channels with a pedal on the board (VP4 can do that?)

c) don't use the amp switcher at all/your amp does not have switchable stuff (channels/reverb)
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FM9 is handling my channel switching via MIDI, if the amp didn't have MIDI I'd have one of @gearJunkie's options.
 
It’s been vacation and while we’re mostly at home, the guitar stuff hasn’t been touched for 5 weeks. Finalized this before summer with the Nobels and M1 being the last pieces of the puzzle. A puzzle, that some of you know, started exactly one year ago. It’s been a great journey finding myself back through carefully and slowly trying some pedals. Finding the sounds in my head. The Carcosa, Obscura and DVP was from my old stuff, the rest i found used and the mini’s are new. T2 and Philosophers are old friends i just love to have back again.
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Most of the stuff is just set and forget, and everything works in different combinations, no messing around… except the M1 wich is a little options paralysis to me, but there’s some really cool and useful stuff there. Mostly need trem and the Lo-fi stuff.

I’m wowed… it sound great. Exploding wall of sound… pristine angel choir cleans… the whole thing…

Signal chain:
Compressor->DVP->T2->Odr->Carcosa->Echelon->Obscura->M1->Wet->Infinite->looper->ACS1
 
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I updated the office board. I like the onboard amp modeling on the GT-1000 Core, but when I want something analog, the RevivalDrives fit the bill. That said, the GT-1000 Core, RE-2 Space Echo, and SDE-3 Dual Digital Delay need to be shifted closer to the RevivalDrives.

I updated the assigns on the GT-1000 Core so that CC# 1 turns the FX Loop 1/FX Loop 2 on and off (basically swaps between them like channel switching), but I need to update the Morningstar MC8 this week to reflect that. I also need to set up a mild compressor on the GT-1000 Core as a boost into the RevivalDrives, which would need to be reflected on the MC8 as well.
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EDIT: The signal chain, since I forgot is the following --

EMG ES-918 > Peterson Strobostomp HD Tuner > Dunlop Crybaby Mini > Boss GT-1000 Core > Boss RE-2 Space Echo > Boss SDE-3 Dual Digital Delay. Boss GT-1000 Core Loop 1 > Origin Effects RevivalDrive Hot Rod Edition; Boss GT-1000 Core Loop 2 > Origin Effects RevivalDrive. The Mission Engineering foot controller is used as a volume pedal at the front of the Boss GT-1000 Core as well as for whammy effects.
 
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WHY on earth did I spend time on pedalplayground.com?

It's a rabbit hole full of rabbit holes!!!!

I realized I could change to a dual-board setup in no time, and at no expense besides a fresh bag of cable binders. Everything else is here.

Is it even worth the hassle if it's not a W/D rig?

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Pretty cool they have place holders for exotic pedals.
 
dronerstone said:
WHY on earth did I spend time on pedalplayground.com?

It's a rabbit hole full of rabbit holes!!!!

I realized I could change to a dual-board setup in no time, and at no expense besides a fresh bag of cable binders. Everything else is here.

Is it even worth the hassle if it's not a W/D rig?

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Pretty cool they have place holders for exotic pedals.
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Thank you, dear Pedal Playground. 😂

Still not sure if it was a good idea.

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Waiting for a Cioks Expander 8 to turn up, so I can finish this off.

I ended up getting the Warwick Rockboard Quad 4.3 - it is about a wah pedals extra in length than the 4.4 I was using, which meant I could essentially get all of the pedals I wanted on there, with the proviso that the DD-500 could quite easily be a midi clock source pedal, and an additional noise-gate; perhaps a future tweak there.

But I do love the DD-500 for quickly jumping between a quarter note digital delay and a dotted 8th-note digital delay. Aside from that, I could quite happily take it off.

The MercuryX has kind of become a bit of a non-negotiable for me. I love it for huge atmospheric stuff. But I do like to stack effects quite a lot, so a 2nd reverb is also essential. The Golden is lovely, but something keeps bringing me back to the Hall and Mod modes on the RV-5, so I put that on there too. VP4 does great digital delays, compression, modulation if/when I need it. Source Audio Nemesis I use primarily for an analog delay sound, but I reckon I could probably ape it very well on the VP4 too.

The Tumnus kills. The Demhe Fuzz is probably the best fuzz pedal I've ever used to be honest, and sounds lovely with the wah going into it too.

Funnily enough, I am not really digging the VP4 for reverb duties. Too clean, not grindy or offensive enough. Not shit enough, basically.

I pretty much ran dual lock across every horizontal strip on the board, for maximum flexibility. Didn't need to around the volume and wah section, coz those are pretty fixed positions for those pedals both in terms of signal flow and layout.
 
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My home setup, I don't travel anymore and if i did i would only take the HX Stomp and the Dunlop pedal.
 
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It lives!!!!


.... for now.


I'm gonna test this out at practice tonight. Hopefully it won't be too noisy and annoy me. Midi clock coming out of the DD-500 and clocking the VP4 and Nemesis. MercuryX is not clocked, because I don't use any of the delay features on it.
 
Here's how I am going to run it.

Guitar > Lehle Volume > Wah > Tumnus > Demhe > VP4 (Input Left):

VP4 4-cable SEND (Out Left/Mono) > Nemesis > DD500 > MercuryX > RV5 > Golden > VP4 4-cable RETURN (Input Right)

VP4 Output Right > Guitar Amp Front Input.

This puts all the other digital effects into the 4cm loop of the VP4. Which I then setup to be 3-pre/1-post .... and slot 4 is the post effect, and I set it to a noise-gate running the modern expander algorithm. That keeps the noise-floor of the other digital pedals to a minimum when I'm not playing.

Kinda like a board version of the JVM Satriani noise-gate.
 
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Orvillain said:
Here's how I am going to run it.

Guitar > Lehle Volume > Wah > Tumnus > Demhe > VP4 (Input Left):

VP4 4-cable SEND (Out Left/Mono) > Nemesis > DD500 > MercuryX > RV5 > Golden > VP4 4-cable RETURN (Input Right)

VP4 Output Right > Guitar Amp Front Input.

This puts all the other digital effects into the 4cm loop of the VP4. Which I then setup to be 3-pre/1-post .... and slot 4 is the post effect, and I set it to a noise-gate running the modern expander algorithm. That keeps the noise-floor of the other digital pedals to a minimum when I'm not playing.

Kinda like a board version of the JVM Satriani noise-gate.
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Have you tried stacking the fuzz into the tumnus and using the tumnus to give you a volume boost after the fuzz?

Love that you've got two delays and three reverbs in the loop of the VP4. :rofl
 
Because I am suffering from pretty serious "real amp" GAS at the moment, I am posting my quaint little practice board here to get some cheap dopamine.

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The only interesting thing about it is the BOSS RC-5 because I found out that it can be used as a MIDI-controlled metronome pedal. I am using the Hoe-Tone controller to switch the drums on the RC-5 on and off and set the tempo via the Stomp's snapshots.

Why the Hoe-Tone you ask? Because BOSS is BOSS and the MIDI implementation is an eldritch horror. You do not just send a CC number with a certain value and it will do something. No, you first need to send the CC with value 127 and then the same CC with value 0 as it was preordained. The sacrilegious HX Stomp and its heretical Command Center cannot do this. Do not question the ways of the Old Ones! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh bOss R'oland wgah'nagl fhtagn!

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Another bit of trivia: I tried a Walrus Canvas Rehearsal first but that thing cost more than twice as much as the RC-5 and was DOA and would not receive MIDI at all.
 
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