andy474x
Knows the Drill
A few weeks ago I got the itch to make myself a new pedalboard. My old one was 1. old, and 2. really, really big. Lots of wasted space and long unnecessary cable runs, and it was a pain to haul around to gigs and rehearsals. So I grabbed myself some 1/2" plywood and made a new, smaller board. The new board is about 25x13, and equates to just over half the surface area of the old board - 25x13 isn't really that small, so you can guess how big the old one must have been! Although I can already tell this one is going to be much more portable and just as functional. I ditched the volume pedal, I just don't use it. Also moved the EQ pedal I had right onto the back of my amp (since it's always on I don't need it on my board). So thinking in my head I would be cutting back on the number of pedals I have... turns out I'm really bad at simplifying things! I actually have room for just as many of the other pedals I had on my old board. I didn't think I would have space for my amp footswitch, but I do, AND probably room for another OD and something else in my effects loop. Crazy. Even with that extra room, I cut a few feet of cable out of my setup, and it's cleaner and more compact.
Also have to give you fellas a shout out for encouraging me to get into the TC Electronic pedals! I got a T2 Reverb and a Flashback Delay, and they're fantastic. They're replacing a Holy Grail and a Visual Sound Tap Delay, and they're both a huge improvement tonally and in the range of sounds they offer. I'm very impressed with them, in fact I may grab a Mini Flashback to put in my solo boost loop, I use a Boss Line Selector to give me a volume boost in for leads and can also loop pedals through it, so with a Mini Flashback in the pedal loop I will get a solo boost with delay with just one push of the Boss pedal. That way I can still use my regular Flashback for non-lead delay parts, if I want different settings between the two.
Lastly, I also recently picked up a Bogner Wessex. Very, very velvety smooth overdrive, and mostly transparent to my signal. How much of it is the Neve transformer, I can't say. My Wampler Clarksdale seems to have a very similar breakup character, but the EQ is different because it's a tubescreamer variant. So maybe the transformer is all hype, or maybe it's a different path to a similar result, but the point is it sounds very good. I've long been wanting a pedal that has a very smooth, light overdrive, rather than something that always has a grittier sound even at low levels. I wasn't sure about it for the first few days, and almost sent it back, but once I got it dialed in I'm liking it more and more each time I use it.
Anyways, pics or it's a Joyo, right?
Somehow I got a piece of figured plywood, without even realizing it. Do I really have to put pedals on it?
Still a little room on the left...
A big (yet much smaller) improvement over my old board:
A view inside the Wessex, with the Neve transformer:
Also have to give you fellas a shout out for encouraging me to get into the TC Electronic pedals! I got a T2 Reverb and a Flashback Delay, and they're fantastic. They're replacing a Holy Grail and a Visual Sound Tap Delay, and they're both a huge improvement tonally and in the range of sounds they offer. I'm very impressed with them, in fact I may grab a Mini Flashback to put in my solo boost loop, I use a Boss Line Selector to give me a volume boost in for leads and can also loop pedals through it, so with a Mini Flashback in the pedal loop I will get a solo boost with delay with just one push of the Boss pedal. That way I can still use my regular Flashback for non-lead delay parts, if I want different settings between the two.
Lastly, I also recently picked up a Bogner Wessex. Very, very velvety smooth overdrive, and mostly transparent to my signal. How much of it is the Neve transformer, I can't say. My Wampler Clarksdale seems to have a very similar breakup character, but the EQ is different because it's a tubescreamer variant. So maybe the transformer is all hype, or maybe it's a different path to a similar result, but the point is it sounds very good. I've long been wanting a pedal that has a very smooth, light overdrive, rather than something that always has a grittier sound even at low levels. I wasn't sure about it for the first few days, and almost sent it back, but once I got it dialed in I'm liking it more and more each time I use it.
Anyways, pics or it's a Joyo, right?
Somehow I got a piece of figured plywood, without even realizing it. Do I really have to put pedals on it?
Still a little room on the left...
A big (yet much smaller) improvement over my old board:
A view inside the Wessex, with the Neve transformer:
