Astrofreq
Well-known member
I posted on the Gear Page pedalboard thread, so I figured I'd post it here. I'll call this the evolution of my pedalboard. I've really shrunk down my pedalboard in the last few years. I tried to dig up earlier pics, but just couldn't find any. Anyway......
..... in 2005, it looked like this.......
going into this.
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Here it was in 2006. By this time, I was completely sick of carrying a rack unit to gigs. I was living in NYC, so it isn't like anyone had cars. All of this fed into the Tech 21 Power Engine above. Two actually. ALL sound/tone came from the pedalboard. MIDI'd up and very flexible. This puppy was heavy and had casters on it to help get it to gigs. Fun stuff.
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Here it is now, 2012. In 2010 I invested in a 100w ENGL Raider combo, so it does the brunt of the tone work and I couldn't be happier with the distortion it gives me. Although my board is much less sophisticated, the tone is better now, simply because I've gone all tube. It only took me about 20 years to figure that out.
The Jamman doesn't live on the board, it is just there for practicing. I'm still shopping around for a good reverb unit and I miss having ring modulation. All in due time.....
I'm mostly jonesing for a Xotic BB MB preamp.
I love the tone I have now, but miss the flexibility and power of a rack unit with MIDI and all of that. My back doesn't miss it though.
..... in 2005, it looked like this.......
going into this.
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Here it was in 2006. By this time, I was completely sick of carrying a rack unit to gigs. I was living in NYC, so it isn't like anyone had cars. All of this fed into the Tech 21 Power Engine above. Two actually. ALL sound/tone came from the pedalboard. MIDI'd up and very flexible. This puppy was heavy and had casters on it to help get it to gigs. Fun stuff.
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Here it is now, 2012. In 2010 I invested in a 100w ENGL Raider combo, so it does the brunt of the tone work and I couldn't be happier with the distortion it gives me. Although my board is much less sophisticated, the tone is better now, simply because I've gone all tube. It only took me about 20 years to figure that out.
The Jamman doesn't live on the board, it is just there for practicing. I'm still shopping around for a good reverb unit and I miss having ring modulation. All in due time.....
I'm mostly jonesing for a Xotic BB MB preamp.
I love the tone I have now, but miss the flexibility and power of a rack unit with MIDI and all of that. My back doesn't miss it though.
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