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[JiveTurkey]

Current conflagration:

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The Ibanez EQ, "Mews" Driver, and BF2 are the most recent acquisitions.

The Ibanez EQ is a great Mesa 5 Band stand in, pretty powerful pedal actually for all kinds of tone shaping.

The Mews Driver is fantastic as well. You can see the Andy Timmons force runs strong on this board - I got the BD2 not long ago as well but this does all that and a bag of chips.

The BF2 is analog yumminess - it's a nice change from Phase/Vibe that I usually use.

Throw the Boogie logo in there stealthily and get some bonus points

 

[dws2384]

Downsized from my larger 24” board back to my trusty Boss BCB-1000 by removing some stuff I wasn’t using enough. Added the Goodwood Audition so I can easily insert any other pedal when I want to try them. Handy piece of gear to have! I’ll also Velcro a Tonex One to the top of it and into the loop if I need/want to go direct.

 

[Chocol8]

Here is the latest iteration of my mini board. This is my grab and go special so things move on and off regularly on short notice, but here it is setup for use into an amp but with room to stick a Tonex One at the end.

The latest addition is the Donner dynamic way to replace a larger Microtron IV or an even larger Mutron clone. It came recommended by a couple guys on the Dead forum, so I took the small gamble and it was easy to dial in and sounds great! The smaller format means I have plenty of room to keep the Spring when I add the Tonex instead of having to do a swap on the left end.

Powered by a DC7 underneath (giving 18 volts to the Dukes) with an open power cable to add a wah, univibe or whatever on the floor next to it.

 

[Progressive_disclosure]

Here is the latest iteration of my mini board. This is my grab and go special so things move on and off regularly on short notice, but here it is setup for use into an amp but with room to stick a Tonex One at the end.

The latest addition is the Donner dynamic way to replace a larger Microtron IV or an even larger Mutron clone. It came recommended by a couple guys on the Dead forum, so I took the small gamble and it was easy to dial in and sounds great! The smaller format means I have plenty of room to keep the Spring when I add the Tonex instead of having to do a swap on the left end.

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Powered by a DC7 underneath (giving 18 volts to the Dukes) with an open power cable to add a wah, univibe or whatever on the floor next to it.

Nice and neat! How do you like the Carbon Copy Mini? Contemplating getting one but might settle for a big one. Is the bright mode anything useable?

 

[Chocol8]

How do you like the Carbon Copy Mini? Contemplating getting one but might settle for a big one. Is the bright mode anything useable?

I like it a lot, but my delay needs are very simple. I am never trying to be the Edge or do anything where timing matters or even where the delay is overly prominent.

I would say bright mode is very usable, but the switch is not. It’s a tiny thing buried in a bad location, so it’s more of a try it both ways and pick one to stick with for a while type of thing IMHO.

I don’t see any advantage to the full size, so if I were to get another analog delay so I could keep one on each board, it would probably be another CC mini.

 

[Progressive_disclosure]

I like it a lot, but my delay needs are very simple. I am never trying to be the Edge or do anything where timing matters or even where the delay is overly prominent.

I would say bright mode is very usable, but the switch is not. It’s a tiny thing buried in a bad location, so it’s more of a try it both ways and pick one to stick with for a while type of thing IMHO.

I don’t see any advantage to the full size, so if I were to get another analog delay so I could keep one on each board, it would probably be another CC mini.

Nice, thanks for the info! I’ll probably go for a mini. It’s for my ”fully analog” rig so it’ll mostly sit in the FX loop of my amp before my weird spring reverb (Gamechanger Light pedal). I think I have a case of ”algorithm fatigue” from dialing in delays and reverbs on my outgoing HX Stomp so looking forward to the simplicity and knobs (until I get my hands on an AM4 at least).

 

[sashimi]

I owned the carbon copy, sold it, a couple years later bought a mini, sold it and bought the carbon copy again. Both are great but it seemed like the mix and feedback controls were a bit limited on the mini compared to the big one. I couldn’t get it to do the runaway oscillation thing like the big one. I don’t need to make spaceship noises anyway, that’s not why I went back to the big one, just something I noticed. I only sold the mini because of its size. I didn’t use the bright mode, I prefer the darker CC tone.

I still prefer the transistor tape in my hx stomp for anything more than one or two repeats. The CC is great as a slapback but I don’t like the way the decaying repeats get thin and clicky.

 

[Progressive_disclosure]

I owned the carbon copy, sold it, a couple years later bought a mini, sold it and bought the carbon copy again. Both are great but it seemed like the mix and feedback controls were a bit limited on the mini compared to the big one. I couldn’t get it to do the runaway oscillation thing like the big one. I don’t need to make spaceship noises anyway, that’s not why I went back to the big one, just something I noticed. I only sold the mini because of its size. I didn’t use the bright mode, I prefer the darker CC tone.

I still prefer the transistor tape in my hx stomp for anything more than one or two repeats. The CC is great as a slapback but I don’t like the way the decaying repeats get thin and clicky.

There’s a used normal CC available locally here and your story makes me think. I do hate the placement of the power input on MXR pedals though.

Agree on the Transistor Tape in Helix, been my go-to in that ecosystem!

 

[sashimi]

Yeah, I don’t know what they were thinking putting it so close to the input jack.

Transistor tape is so good I sold my el capistan v2. I was only using the single setting on the el capistan anyway. Kinda wish I kept it though.

 

[Richard_G]

El Capistan is still f**king great.

 

[metropolis_4]

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Downsized from my larger 24” board back to my trusty Boss BCB-1000 by removing some stuff I wasn’t using enough. Added the Goodwood Audition so I can easily insert any other pedal when I want to try them. Handy piece of gear to have! I’ll also Velcro a Tonex One to the top of it and into the loop if I need/want to go direct.

Great board! Lightspeed and ODR-1 Anniversary are two of my all-time favorite drive pedals!

 

[dronerstone]

Agree on the Transistor Tape in Helix, been my go-to in that ecosystem!

Same here!

I use a Belle Epoch for slapback, and it's easy to match the two.

 

[dws2384]

Great board! Lightspeed and ODR-1 Anniversary are two of my all-time favorite drive pedals!

Pretty hard to go wrong with either. I OD-9 is an analogman modded one with bad bob built in. I boost either of them with that or the OD-9 itself when I want more juice or mids for a solo.