My new pedalboard, this litterally does it all.

[Nightburst]

So happy with this, it just does everything. Sold most of my analog pedals and kept a select few high quality analog. I'm pretty much done for the next couple of years.
It all started with me missing my Bogner XTC amp, which I sold some years ago. This gets me very very close. The Marshall has KT77's and is pretty much cranked through the captor. Man we live in a golden age gear wise!
I play my 50's wring guitars though it and I can ride the volume and tone knobs to get anything I want. It' s really cool.

 

[NegativeEase]

Im going to give it my best Aceman.

Marshall Switcher not integrated and the GX100 MultiFX platform occupies > 50% of the board space

= not technically a pedalboard, it's a multifx processor pedal in a nice case.


I kid I kid.

Nice set up, nice and powerful and simple in great little setup

but seriously -ditch the Marshall pedal, instead use your GX100 settings to do your boost and loop switching with a little MIDI to GPIO closure box.

Then it's really on!

 

[maug2122]

Nothing like finding the right combo of gear to get the versatile sounds you want or need .... I've been their since last year !

 

[Nightburst]

Yeah, let's clarify, there is an empty spot on the board where I will take care of switching my amps stuff. I am making it so I can use both my Mesa 5 pin cable and TRS in stead of the Marshall switch. A hammond type enclosure 1950 will fit exactly in the left socket space. I will need to wire it up still.
I do not use the FX loop ever, unless I get to play stadiums I don't need it. All in the front sounds good enough for me and is one less failure point to keep track of.
Right now no gigs yet so its the home setup.

 

[NegativeEase]

Yeah, let's clarify, there is an empty spot on the board where I will take care of switching my amps stuff. I am making it so I can use both my Mesa 5 pin cable and TRS in stead of the Marshall switch. A hammond type enclosure 1950 will fit exactly in the left socket space. I will need to wire it up still.
I do not use the FX loop ever, unless I get to play stadiums I don't need it. All in the front sounds good enough for me and is one less failure point to keep track of.
Right now no gigs yet so its the home setup.

Yep, perfect. Mesa and Marshall switch pedals are super over large and clunky and easy to build something better.

Also, for me, I'd put the Marshall boost where your tuner is, since you don't tune during a song and move the tuner to the back row.

 

[Nightburst]

The Polytune? I really like it, and its a buffer too at the start of the chain. For me it's essential.

 

[NegativeEase]

The Polytune? I really like it, and its a buffer too at the start of the chain. For me it's essential.

Im talking about it's location on the board, not suggesting getting rid of it. reread plz.

 

[maug2122]

The Polytune? I really like it, and its a buffer too at the start of the chain. For me it's essential.

Buffers are very important, 1. Lower the impedance of guitar and signal, 2. Take care of impedance issues between pedals , 3 . Preserve frequencies , especially upper mids and treble and 4. drive longer cable lengths.

 

[Blille]

Buffers are very important, 1. Lower the impedance of guitar and signal, 2. Take care of impedance issues between pedals , 3 . Preserve frequencies , especially upper mids and treble and 4. drive longer cable lengths.

Agree. And it can do all that in the back row too

 

[Nightburst]

Im talking about it's location on the board, not suggesting getting rid of it. reread plz.

So you mean switch around the tuner and boost (gold pedal) locations? That's something to consider yes! thanks.

 

[NegativeEase]

So you mean switch around the tuner and boost (gold pedal) locations? That's something to consider yes! thanks.

Yep, Exactly. Just because you dont typically access the tuner during a song so stepped over to engage is a lot simpler for a tuner than a boost etc etc

 

[NegativeEase]

Also something to try -you've got a bogner ecstasy pedal -thats basically a Class A guitar preamp circuit in a pedal, If it were me I'd want my pickups connected directly to that baby and the quality pre and buffers inside -it's designed to love pickups -you'll get way better playing response and interaction than the little micro buffer op amp on a multi-layer PCB board on a Polytune likely. Then put the Polytune second it wont care to get a stronger line level no matter if the Bogner is engaged or not.

Something to try anyways - I mean you have an expensive buffered out true pre-amp there.

 

[misterwhizzy]

I got an Origin 50 head too and went all in on gain from pedals. It’s a really great setup even if I’m not necessarily using the Marshall to get the Marshall tone.

 

[Nightburst]

Also something to try -you've got a bogner ecstasy pedal -thats basically a Class A guitar preamp circuit in a pedal, If it were me I'd want my pickups connected directly to that baby and the quality pre and buffers inside -it's designed to love pickups -you'll get way better playing response and interaction than the little micro buffer op amp on a multi-layer PCB board on a Polytune likely. Then put the Polytune second it wont care to get a stronger line level no matter if the Bogner is engaged or not.

Something to try anyways - I mean you have an expensive buffered out true pre-amp there.

That makes total sense! I'll try this for sure. Very curious if I can notice a difference.

My initial idea was to have both the bogner and the klone hooked up to the send/return of the boss so I can have a compressor and wah before the drive. And since I can use one of the boss switches to get one or both stacked into the chain they would be fine sitting in the backseat there.

There might be actually a small benefit having the bogner straight into the boss input over send/return too?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

IMO there's definitely benefit to plugging your guitars straight into the Bogner.
If the pickups are going into a buffer first (any buffer) you're sacrificing a lot of their interactivity with the gain stages.
Try it - I bet you'll be surprised at the change in responsiveness, especially when you use the guitar's volume knob.

I don't think there'd be much difference in what the Boss sees with the Bogner in a return vs the main input.
Can't say for sure.

EDIT: What matters for sure, though, is letting the Bogner interact directly with your guitar.

 

[devastone]

The GX-100 doesn't have a built in poly tuner? My GT-1000 does.

 

[Nightburst]

well, I switched it around and I found a glitch happening with the polytune!
I do like it this way better, thanks for the suggestions so far guys.

 

[Nightburst]

The GX-100 doesn't have a built in poly tuner? My GT-1000 does.

it does and I might start using it again if the Polyune does not play nice with the GX.

 

[Nightburst]

Allright, I swapped it around and replaced the Polytune with a KOT clone. There was no issue with it after all, turned out to be the wrong send/return settings on the Boss GX.
The Bogner first in the chain is genius. Thanks so much for that!

 

[devastone]

Interesting, I would put the Bogner in the loop of the GX, but I like wah, phase, flange, before the preamp. When I use a preamp with my GT-1k I put it in the loop, I've always used mfx units that way, their buffer in the Boss should be fine for the signal, just make sure to set you input and loop levels correctly (I assume the GX has adjustable levels).