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Zombie Thirteen, DFZ
The old MXR rubber knob cover is a nice touch.
HA! Good eye!. I did't notice that when I first looked
The old MXR rubber knob cover is a nice touch.
The old MXR rubber knob cover is a nice touch.
Awesome board, Les! I don't think the cables that are showing look bad at all. Would you mind typing your signal path? I'm curious to see how your order and there are a couple of effects there I can't make out.I completely understand. I just redid my pedalboard a month or two ago to add a 3 amp switcher with jacks that need standard 1/4 inch plugs, and I had already made a decision to use Van den Hul cables with soldered plugs, not the small plugs I've had trouble with in the past. Trying to get it looking good drove me nuts, so I finally simply decided to leave well enough alone, let the wires do what they're gonna do, and here's the result. It's not beautiful, but it is very functional.
Yup. Plugs and cables slop over the top of the board and show everywhere. But the board is quiet and works great. What can ya do?
PS - I dug the tune you posted.
Really nice! What's the distortion pedal you're using?I tweaked my (small) gigging board recently to gain better access to my looper, relegating the dirt pedal to the back row (because i switch between "electric" and "acoustic" modes on the fly, but rarely engage dirt on the electric mode on the fly - it tends to be between songs it gets dis/engaged. I even managed to squeeze the TARDIS back on and keep the clock! Everything is a little too tight, so nothing is perfectly aligned. My OCD may cause me to get more pancake patch cables to see if I can adjust to a neater solution.
EDIT: It occurred to me my last configuration wasn't posted here, so I include it for completeness. The Boss dirt (SD-1) and Donner Fuzz got yanked off and replaced with a mini RAT clone, and the Wally looper was replaced by the new-ish EHX 720, which gives me more control for live playing. And I added a Hotone pitch shifter so I can drop an octave or partial for certain songs if I don't have the baritone handy, and I can fake Eagles Hotel California outro solo harmonies.
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Nice Mesa! Is that the rest-o-verb? What pick ups are in your PRS on the left? Beautiful guitar!
This picture of my pedalboard is mostly so I can show off my new amp.
I like PRS... but the fact that they sell amps makes new gear days on this forum awkward....
Awesome board, Les! I don't think the cables that are showing look bad at all. Would you mind typing your signal path? I'm curious to see how your order and there are a couple of effects there I can't make out.
Nice Mesa! Is that the rest-o-verb? What pick ups are in your PRS on the left? Beautiful guitar!
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to write it out! I always learn so much when I read why people set up their boards the way that they do.Actually, I've made a couple of changes since that pic was posted, but I'll lay out the signal path. First a pic of the new configuration:
The signal from the guitar enters the pedalboard on an input jack built into the pedalboard. From there it hits the wah, because I like the pickups to interact with a wah before hitting a buffer. From the wah, it goes into a Suhr buffer; from the buffer the signal goes to the Suhr Kokoboost; then into a Fulltone OCD; from there to a Suhr Koji compressor; then it travels to the Suhr Jackrabbit tremolo; from the Jackrabbit to the Eventide H9 Max, and then to a Little Lehle true bypass switcher, whose loop connects to a GigRig Cinco-Cinco on the edge of the pedalboard for ease of connecting stuff that isn't on the board (mainly a Fulltone Tube Tape Echo, but there are others I use as well). The Little Lehle's signal then goes to a Lehle 1 at 3 SGoS, that switches between my three amplifiers, or it can also run more than one amp at a times, as it's programmable. The 1 at 3's outputs go to the jacks built into the board. So every connection on the board itself is self-contained, making setup very quick and simple without having to fiddle with the I/O on the individual pedals.
The cinco-cinco handles both TS and TRS connections, I can connect the switch box for the Mesa to it when I use that (I got the Mesa mainly for its Blackface tones, but every so often I use its lead channel; in truth, I much prefer the HXDA for lead tones, it isn't much of a contest, the DG and the HXDA handle most of the chores in my studio unless I need squeaky cleans or higher gain stuff, where the Mesa sometimes comes in handy).
There's no tuner on the pedalboard because I use the one built into the H9. The loop connections from the Lehle to the Cinco-cinco are temporary, which is why I haven't ordered more custom Van den Hul cables from Lava yet. I'm still working on final placement of the Cinco-cinco and Little Lehle.
The amps are PRS HXDA, PRS DG30, and Mesa Lone Star 100. So that's the signal path!
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to write it out! I always learn so much when I read why people set up their boards the way that they do.
Man, I'm rethinking the BD-2. The OCD is one I'm really looking at. The other I like is the TC Electronic Spark Booster. Have you played it? It's a great color and harmonic added for clean and driven tones, and can get into low gain overdrive on it's own.I'm like you, I'm always learning, too!
I should have mentioned that the reason I use the OCD - I've had a few of them, and keep coming back to it - is because while it isn't the world's greatest OD for each amp, it's the only OD I've found that I like with all 3 of my amps; most ODs don't do that well with Marshall style amps, plus Fender style amps, etc. I found that the Kokoboost stacks well into it when I run the OCD with its gain set low also.
So that was kind of a nice discovery, and why it's after the boost on my board.