Let's REVIEW those pedal boards you are using right now.

Aceman said:
And like most people here, they receive my benevolence, and then have to go one step too far defending their crappy life choices.

I was ABOUT to give a kudos on what I believe is a modded BD2 also (non red light)

But then he goes all "Engineer" on us.

SO here is a guy, who gets paid pretty good scratch to do whatever he he does. Yet he rides his bike to work, in frickin' Canada in the winter, because it saves gas. Or whatever single variable equation he has applied.


Now....that electronic babble about the EHX? You have a Deja Vu, A modded BD2, an Empress, and suddenly you go all DIY/Cheapskate on an attempt to build what you could have bought, in the form of a T-Rex Viper, Fulltone Deja-Vibe, or an Earthquaker The Depths, that doesn't work or sound nearly as cool, no matter what you think because you spent time & effort doing it.

So now you go from Hero to Zero in a comment because we realize that you can't handle multi-variate non-linear equations, and you wife said no more money for your little guitar hobby board.
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I was a little concerned that you were being so nice . . . .

I will fight to the death to defend the sound from that EHX Small Stone. Build quality, good components, noise floor, all no. But sound quality is awesome.
 
Securb said:
Small Stone is the best phaser for a Fender Rhoades.
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Indeed it is...and I like it better than a Phase 90 for guitar. The SS is a simple 4-stage phaser, which is the 'correct' sounding phaser to me. More deluxe phasers with more stages just sound way too warbly to me.
 
Mincer said:
Indeed it is...and I like it better than a Phase 90 for guitar. The SS is a simple 4-stage phaser, which is the 'correct' sounding phaser to me. More deluxe phasers with more stages just sound way too warbly to me.
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Lot of defection from a guy who has not posted his board here....
 
My 3 current boards are multi-effects with expression pedals. I don't think they qualify for this experiment.
 
If I went minimalist board without the Fly Rig, I'd run the MXR Phase 90 in to the EVH 5150 Overdrive and then the Boss DM-2w Delay. Maybe even forego the Phase 90 and have the Keeley Compressor in there instead. But with any clean amp, I could run the 5150 Overdrive in to the DM-2w Delay and get pretty much every tone I needed using the guitar's controls.
 
Mincer said:
And I am totally ok with this.
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I knew you would be!

Pedal Boards is form of hoarder culture and addiction that temporarily satiates our lust for consumption and collecting and fill a void in our hearts left from the depression, absence and personal failings in our lives.

It's collecting Smurfs or Hot Wheels for Adults.

2 years ago, I saw a guy at a guitar show buy a hand carved guitar stand for maybe 800 bucks and I congratulated him for reaching a collector level where that's all he could think left to purchase in a convention center full of instruments, pedals, amps and accessories.

To fight this issue, I now sell off a pedal each time I acquire one to try and strike balance in my life. I sold about 12 last year.
 
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NegativeEase said:
I knew you would be!

Pedal Boards is form of hoarder culture and addiction that temporarily satiates our lust for consumption and collecting and fill a void in our hearts left from the depression, absence and personal failings in our lives.

It's collecting Smurfs or Hot Wheels for Adults.

2 years ago, I saw a guy at a guitar show buy a hand carved guitar stand for maybe 800 bucks and I congratulated him for reaching a collector level where that's all he could think left to purchase in a convention center full of instruments, pedals, amps and accessories.

To fight this issue, I now sell off a pedal each time I acquire one to try and strike balance in my life. I sold about 12 last year.
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Just want to add, that getting healthy from GAS pedal lust required un-visualizing the glory of the giant display wall in my office with pedals and more pedals on display.

Instead come to view that as excessive if they are not used or represent something very special in the past.
 
TMD said:
Pedals are always in my future. That’s when they will realize their full potential. Don’t worry if they seem underutilized right now.
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Yeah, I'm not trying say this is a solution for anyone else... it's mine for me because I've had issues. Not throwing stones
 
I probably haven't bought any new pedals in 6 years. I have all my bases covered.

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Spirit of 76 said:
Here ya go Ace....my Minimalist Pedal Board


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Guy with a 5 space bored trying to pretend he only used three. Good god man, those 3" patch cards are nearly at the edge of their capabilities. One could rupture at any moment.

Either that or too cheap to buy enough patch cords to get more pedals.
 
Aceman said:
Guy with a 5 space bored trying to pretend he only used three. Good god man, those 3" patch cards are nearly at the edge of their capabilities. One could rupture at any moment.

Either that or too cheap to buy enough patch cords to get more pedals.
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What is this, a pedal fashion parade? What about functionality . . . no love for the multi-muff? No questions about why there's both a compressor AND a muff on the same board?

You're slipping Ace.
 
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