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

Aceman said:
Great to hear Erlend. If you want to be verbally abused, this is your thread. The "hey look at my board thread" is the lets SEE those pedal boards. Similar, but very different experiences.
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okay, hehe :oo

I guess I'll try to let my post pass as: "Please review my design concept pedal board!" :D
 
Aceman said:
Weeping Demon wah - not that you'll use it. Just on principle.
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I was thinking last night that a pickup setup could be Screamin' Demon in the bridge, Pearly Gates in the neck. Or Pearly Gates bridge and 2 Lil' Screamin' Demons.
 
chadd said:
Hmm, bottom of the barrel and pedal board.......

Now I want to build one on a lazy Susan
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Here is mine. I have removed the channel switching footswitch. I only use the clean channel on my amp. The drive channel is ok, but doesn't work well for me in my current gig. With that, I am thinking of filling the space with something else. Don't know what yet; maybe an H2O. Anyone have any thoughts? I don't really need an overdrive. The Route 66 takes care of that.
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Love the Ibanez CS9! Like I said before I look at a board and wonder if I could gig with it. I could definitely gel with this board.
 
That's a nice setup for a country gig, Butch. You have all the bases covered. About the only thing I would think about adding would be a tremolo. That's been used quite a bit in more modern country.
 
ErikH said:
That's a nice setup for a country gig, Butch. You have all the bases covered. About the only thing I would think about adding would be a tremolo. That's been used quite a bit in more modern country.
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When I was in Nashville I was eyeing everyone's boards. I noticed the country guys all had modest boards like Butch's, some had a tremolo/rotary or a chorus. I didn't see any with both.
 
Butch Snyder said:
Here is mine. I have removed the channel switching footswitch. I only use the clean channel on my amp. The drive channel is ok, but doesn't work well for me in my current gig. With that, I am thinking of filling the space with something else. Don't know what yet; maybe an H2O. Anyone have any thoughts? I don't really need an overdrive. The Route 66 takes care of that.
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I'll get to this later this evening. Stay tuned...and anesthetize yourself!

Country gig will be taken into consideration.
 
Butch Snyder said:
Here is mine. I have removed the channel switching footswitch. I only use the clean channel on my amp. The drive channel is ok, but doesn't work well for me in my current gig. With that, I am thinking of filling the space with something else. Don't know what yet; maybe an H2O. Anyone have any thoughts? I don't really need an overdrive. The Route 66 takes care of that.
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Heeeeeeeeeeeere we go!

So, this board is sort of all over the place.

The Route 66 is a low-key underrated pedal. Cool overdrive and a compressor that they released as a single. Excellent choice.
- That said, a REAL cowboy would be rocking a Keeley4 knob and a Nobels ODR-1.
Can't hate on a Soul Food. Nice budget Klon.
Ernie Ball VP - it works.
Polytune 3 is a nice tuner
Ibanez chorus will do the job.
Deja-vu is an OK delay I guess. I'll assume you need tap tempo, although tap tempo is off. Let's be real...the digital/analog knob is goofy, and do you need that much modulation effect?
The Donner Yellow Fall is workable too. I hate it, here, but again. It works.

I will also say that I like the amp switch down on the board.

So, what we have here is a "workable" all be it less than stylish country board.

Now...Lets fix this stuff up.

First of all, what did you do? Throw them all down on there in any old order and wire them where they landed? Why is the volume in the middle - WTF? Right or left or off the board.

Front row, left to right:

Guitar > Tuner > 66 > Soul Food > Volume

1. Lose the channel switcher. You always play on clean, and have two flavors of dirt available. Or spend the time and figure out how to goose the dirt with the Soul Food. Get a direction man! Make a decision here. Skip it - I made it for you. Amp switch is gone.

2. This is country, so we want compression next to get our chickin' pickin' on so Route 66
- Just remember, all the country beer cap sniffers are judging you. Nobels/Keely...and here is why:

You can't run the Soul Food into the 66 with compressor on without jacking around with impact of the Soul Food, because - compressor. This would work sooooo much better as
Guitar > Keely > Soul Food > Nobels > Volume. If you want to be really cool - get a Mini ODR and a Mini Ego comp.

But you did what you did, and now we have to make hard decisions. And since you can't decide on the channel switcher - I'll have to do that. I guess you can use the Soul Food post 66 as a lead boost. But that should be the Volume pedal's job. See what you are putting me through here?

So now we have this "vintage" Duncan box of whatever and a Donner Yellow FAIL. Again, guessing the Donner is a short slap or fattener for that crappy Tele neck pickup, and the Deja is for longer things.

Lose those and get a DD200. All the delays in any combo you need. Plus presets and tap and whatever else.

Keep the Ibanez chorus. And clean up the cable spaghetti. I hate that.

So the board should have the volume all the way on the left

Back row: To Amp < DD200 < Chorus From Volume

Front row: To Chorus < Volume < Soul Food < Route 66 < Tuner < from Guitar
(Although we all know To Chorus < Volume < Nobels ODR < Soul Food < Keeley < from Guitar would be soooo much better)

Like I said - this works. But, a couple of pedal swaps would take you from Rodeo Clown to Marlboro Man.
 
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