The Secret Ingredients

[tvanveen]

What's on your pedal board?

Here's mine -

The Keeley is going bye-bye in favor of a Maxon Cp-101 for now. I find the Keeley does weird EQ things...The CP-101 seems more musical to me, though I'd rather find something with true bypass.

I'm sort of missing a fuzz...I really liked the MJM Foxey Fuzz, but I'm thinking maybe I'll try a Keeley or McFuzz.

Stuff not on the board - Deluxe Memory Man, EH English Muff'n, Keeley DS-1.

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[CudBucket]

I have to make another one though because I've added a Digitech Whammy, MXR 10-band EQ and a Boss RV-5 reverb unit.

 

[mesavox]

I have a Roland momentary switch for tap tempo on it now right in front of the volume pedal (I just rock my foot over the front edge of the volume to tap it) but other than that, it's still just like this...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mesavox/detail?.dir=39b3&.dnm=223d.jpg&.src=ph

 

[tvanveen]

The tap tempo is for the Boss delay?

 

[mesavox]

Yeah, it makes up for the lack of programability for the most part. I still have most of my rack gear and eventually I'll reincorperate it. I bult this for church so I wouldn't have to roll in a bunch of gear all the time.

My next move for the pedal board will likely be a Keeley compressor or something. That Boss thing is crap! lol. But, it wasn't expensive and I needed soemthing. I'd like to have both a studio type compression sound for clean and a vintage type compressor sound for slightly dirty leads but I'll have to compromise until I get a DBX rack unit or something. I don't want to mess with all that until I can get switchers etc. all going though.

All in all I really like the sound of my pedal board. I switch effects like JP does normally, but even with this simple layout I can cover a lot of ground.

 

[SteveB]

hmm.. what's on there now..

I've got an Ernie Ball VP Jr. volume pedal..
Peterson Strobostomp tuner
Boss CS-3 Compression/Sustainer (which DOES suck)
Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
Boss DD-6 Digital Delay (with tap tempo)
Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb (which ain't all it's cracked up to be)
old Boss BF-2 Flanger which I'm not using
Peavey Triple XXX footswitch
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 (whoever invented this is brilliant!)

 

[jbert]

My setup:

Carbon blue pearl JP6 w/piezo

Boss NS-2 noise suppressor
Keeley compressor
Ernie Ball VP Jr 250K volume pedal (with tuner output to Peterson Strobostomp)
Vox V847 wah (with Keeley true bypass mod)
Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde overdrive/distortion
Ibanez PH7 phaser
Danelectro Cool Cat chorus (18V version)
Ibanez DE7 delay/echo

Marshall AVT-50 combo

The compressor, volume, wah and distortion pedals are run through the NS-2 loop, and all other pedals in the chain are after the NS-2.

The board is homemade: plywood with commercial display material glued on for use with Velcro.
Handles and a black powerbar (looked around a lot for that one, especially one with outlets that are perpendicular to bar so you can get more adapters on it !) found at Home Depot.
Regular power adapters with daisy chains.
George L cables used throughout.

Voila !

 

[tvanveen]

The link isn't working...

 

[jbert]

Works for me - I don't understand...?

 

[blackspy]

The link isn't working...

Me either...

 

[jbert]

Very strange indeed - can someone tell me how I can insert the image in the message rather than have it as an attachment (that only I can see !!!).

Thanks!

 

[jbert]

Here's another try at it...

 

[tvanveen]

Seems like everyone is ditching the TU-2 for the stobostomp.

 

[koogie2k]

Geez....all those nice pedals. I only have my Shortboard with my Vetta II. Still playing with all the onboard effects......

Nice gear there peeps!

 

[Axis Sport]

Not much of a pedal board, but these are the two effects that I use. One is a old Boss CE-1 Chorus and the other is a Blackstone Appliance overdrive.

 

[Mick]

oh my god your pedal boards are all so clean? Are you guys only playing in the living room.
My board is a dusty mess!!

Hey how is your expierience with the strobostomp. The tempered tunings???

 

[tvanveen]

I prettied mine up for the photo...

 

[blackspy]

Looks like alot of you guys are using the George L's short patch cables. How do you find them? Are they actually better than a set of regular decent patch cables?

 

[AxSport4me]

Never been much for pedals.......EBMM Axis Sport and Rivera Knucklehead amp = musical bliss!!!! Although i occasionally use my Dunlop Wah from time to time.

 

[jbert]

Looks like alot of you guys are using the George L's short patch cables. How do you find them? Are they actually better than a set of regular decent patch cables?

I like them mostly because you can cut them to the exact length needed and you can use straight or angled plugs as required for your particular setup. They are VERY easy to use, and have been trouble free so far. I can't really comment on the difference in sound quality, but most people say that there is less signal loss and a better high end due to the design/impedance of the cable.