One of my best friends used to say, “Minor surgery is surgery on someone else.”
After putting the Pettyjohn Rare (lower right) on the pedalboard where their Edge pedal was previously, and deciding I liked the pedal and the location in the chain, I wanted to be able to use the Edge as well. And I wanted it before the modulation, EQ, H9s and Suhr boost.
So I pulled the Suhr boost (has sweepable mid boost that can be engaged) from its location upper right and put it next to the tuner et, Voila! No room for it! WTF.
All the pedals in the upper row had to be taken off and scooched over to the right a bit except the Edge that’s now upper right. It’s like a puzzle, this pedalboard thing.
But I created just enough space; it makes sense to have the Suhr boost after the mod pedals — now I have the boost built into the Pettyjohn Lift preamp/buffer/switchable boost I can kick in before the overdrives for extra juice, or use the Suhr boost post-modulation effects and pre-H9s that I use for delay and reverb mostly.
The two boosts also sound quite different. The one on the Lift (light blue pedal next to the expression pedal on the left) is set warm and syrupy, the Suhr boost is set clear and open.
This, to me, was major surgery and entailed some recabling in a couple of places.
So now I have 3 overdrives on the board, all set to low gain that sound somewhat different. I say ‘somewhat’ because I habitually set my pedals like I do my amps - I kinda make them sound similar out of habit! Dumb, but it's a habit.
The Rare on the lower right is in the Klon neighborhood with a more open top end. The Edge sounds kinda Tweed, and works best with the two Mesas when they’re set clean. The Chime Mk 2 (maroon pedal in the lower middle) is in a Vox direction and works best with the DG30.
Just one problem…
“What’s the problem?”
“I’m gonna need a bigger boat.”
Current (doesn’t look much different but pedaboarding is a game of millimeters)):
Yesterday:
[Edit] I forgot to mention how I set up the pedal chain.
Pettyjohn Lift >> Pettyjohn Rare >> Pettyjohn Edge >> Pettyjohn Chime 2 >> Pettyjohn Filter EQ (dark blue pedal next to H9s) >> Suhr Koji compressor >> Suhr Jackrabbit Tremolo >> Suhr Alexa bi-chorus >> Suhr Kokoboost >> tuner >> H9 #1 >> Normalled insert jacks on patch bay (can be used as an insert point or to separate the two H9s for use with two amps at the same time, or put H9 #2 into amp FX loop, etc) >> H9 #2 >> Output jack.
The expression pedal is used mostly with H9 #1 to alter delay times, speed or slow the rotary effect, use one of the H9 wahs that actually sound pretty darn good, etc.
With the Pettyjohn preamp/buffer/boost the signal is plenty clean and I don't lose high end. I don't use a pedal switcher.
After putting the Pettyjohn Rare (lower right) on the pedalboard where their Edge pedal was previously, and deciding I liked the pedal and the location in the chain, I wanted to be able to use the Edge as well. And I wanted it before the modulation, EQ, H9s and Suhr boost.
So I pulled the Suhr boost (has sweepable mid boost that can be engaged) from its location upper right and put it next to the tuner et, Voila! No room for it! WTF.
All the pedals in the upper row had to be taken off and scooched over to the right a bit except the Edge that’s now upper right. It’s like a puzzle, this pedalboard thing.
But I created just enough space; it makes sense to have the Suhr boost after the mod pedals — now I have the boost built into the Pettyjohn Lift preamp/buffer/switchable boost I can kick in before the overdrives for extra juice, or use the Suhr boost post-modulation effects and pre-H9s that I use for delay and reverb mostly.
The two boosts also sound quite different. The one on the Lift (light blue pedal next to the expression pedal on the left) is set warm and syrupy, the Suhr boost is set clear and open.
This, to me, was major surgery and entailed some recabling in a couple of places.
So now I have 3 overdrives on the board, all set to low gain that sound somewhat different. I say ‘somewhat’ because I habitually set my pedals like I do my amps - I kinda make them sound similar out of habit! Dumb, but it's a habit.
The Rare on the lower right is in the Klon neighborhood with a more open top end. The Edge sounds kinda Tweed, and works best with the two Mesas when they’re set clean. The Chime Mk 2 (maroon pedal in the lower middle) is in a Vox direction and works best with the DG30.
Just one problem…
“What’s the problem?”
“I’m gonna need a bigger boat.”
Current (doesn’t look much different but pedaboarding is a game of millimeters)):
Yesterday:
[Edit] I forgot to mention how I set up the pedal chain.
Pettyjohn Lift >> Pettyjohn Rare >> Pettyjohn Edge >> Pettyjohn Chime 2 >> Pettyjohn Filter EQ (dark blue pedal next to H9s) >> Suhr Koji compressor >> Suhr Jackrabbit Tremolo >> Suhr Alexa bi-chorus >> Suhr Kokoboost >> tuner >> H9 #1 >> Normalled insert jacks on patch bay (can be used as an insert point or to separate the two H9s for use with two amps at the same time, or put H9 #2 into amp FX loop, etc) >> H9 #2 >> Output jack.
The expression pedal is used mostly with H9 #1 to alter delay times, speed or slow the rotary effect, use one of the H9 wahs that actually sound pretty darn good, etc.
With the Pettyjohn preamp/buffer/boost the signal is plenty clean and I don't lose high end. I don't use a pedal switcher.
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