Pedal justification

[tinman1]

Re: Pedal justification

I actually prefer my Crybaby sitting off the board anyway. After all, it was designed to be ergonomic sitting on a flat surface, not an already angled pedaltrain.

It's more comfortable to play on the floor, saves a lot of space on the board and this is overall a more versatile set up. There's space for transporting it in the pedaltrain flight case when required.

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pedal justification

I actually prefer my Crybaby sitting off the board anyway. After all, it was designed to be ergonomic sitting on a flat surface, not an already angled pedaltrain.

It's more comfortable to play on the floor, saves a lot of space on the board and this is overall a more versatile set up. There's space for transporting it in the pedaltrain flight case when required.

I did this for a while, ultimately I felt that the space on the board wasn't worth the extra time to hook up those extra cables every time I played. especially on stage when you only have a few minutes to tear down or set up. That's what lead me to put it back on the board to begin with, now I realize I can really do without.

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pedal justification

I'm in the same boat. Just too much of a pussy to finally take it off the board!

Hey if it's all the same to you, there's nothing wrong with leaving it there. I just like having the space for something I'll actually use!

 

[tinman1]

Re: Pedal justification

I did this for a while, ultimately I felt that the space on the board wasn't worth the extra time to hook up those extra cables every time I played. especially on stage when you only have a few minutes to tear down or set up.

Don't really understand the time issue- it takes about 5seconds to patch the wah to the first pedal on the board with a 1ft cable.

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pedal justification

Don't really understand the time issue- it takes about 5seconds to patch the wah to the first pedal on the board with a 1ft cable.

It really wasn't much more time, it just seemed like a hastle to me. Especially for me to only step on it once, if at all, the entire show. Eliminating that one step during setup was one less thing I had to worry about.

 

[Agileguy_101]

Re: Pedal justification

If you don't use it, I can see why it would seem like a hassle. As I said before, I'm in a classic rock cover band, so I don't mind it - you can't do Hendrix, GnR, Zeppelin, and other like music without a wah.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Pedal justification

On my large pedalboard, I still have all the pedals there, but I can decide to bypass the first few like wah and fuzz's by plugging into the 3rd or 4th pedals in the chain. So, they're there if I need them and out of the chain if I don't.

The pedals I realized I don't need are my vintage ADA Flanger and Fulltone Octafuzz. I'm still keeping the ADA, but I sold the Octafuzz.

 

[DreX]

Re: Pedal justification

The Fulltone Fulldrive II. After seeing this thread it got me thinking, and I pulled it. It seems to have a transparent and a TS clone mode. The TS clone mode is OK, but superfluous. The transparent mode is as advertised, but I don't honestly get why people dig transparency in the first place. A good clean tone isn't necessarily a good overdriven tone IMO. I like some amount of mid boost. The Joyo Sweet Baby is more of a boost, not much mid bump, but I still think it sounds a lot warmer and bubbly than the Fulldrive. And then the Fulldrive has the boost button, which I employed when I was in a band, but now that we just jam, there's less of a need, and what I prefer to do is set the volume / gain to "lead" levels, then just roll back the volume for the rhythm work. That a case where vol pot attenuation of the highs is actually beneficial, it helps push the guitar back in the mix during.

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pedal justification

If you don't use it, I can see why it would seem like a hassle. As I said before, I'm in a classic rock cover band, so I don't mind it - you can't do Hendrix, GnR, Zeppelin, and other like music without a wah.

That's exactly it, back when I played those songs, I actually did need a wah. Now that I don't, I barely touched it, but the mindset that it needed to be there remained. I never realized it until the other night.

On my large pedalboard, I still have all the pedals there, but I can decide to bypass the first few like wah and fuzz's by plugging into the 3rd or 4th pedals in the chain. So, they're there if I need them and out of the chain if I don't.

The pedals I realized I don't need are my vintage ADA Flanger and Fulltone Octafuzz. I'm still keeping the ADA, but I sold the Octafuzz.

I actually used to do that with my fuzzface. I would have it off my board with a 1' patch cable, and would plug it in for the songs I needed cause that thing would suck like crazy when bypassed. There was no danger of me keeping that thing around any longer than I needed it.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Pedal justification

It really wasn't much more time, it just seemed like a hastle to me. Especially for me to only step on it once, if at all, the entire show. Eliminating that one step during setup was one less thing I had to worry about.

5 seconds is 5 seconds no matter how you spin it

to debate about something psychological like this is something else

a carpenter values his tools but does not go into great depths about them for instance, I mean he certainly needs some and not others for certain jobs

you are overthinking it dude, just play!!! Rock on, Cheers :beerchug:

 

[Nacho8807]

Re: Pedal justification

5 seconds is 5 seconds no matter how you spin it

to debate about something psychological like this is something else

a carpenter values his tools but does not go into great depths about them for instance, I mean he certainly needs some and not others for certain jobs

you are overthinking it dude, just play!!! Rock on, Cheers :beerchug:

Right, but a carpenter wouldn't bring a table saw to a job site and set it up if he knew he wasn't going to use it for that job. That's a pointless waste of time. That's all I'm saying here.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Pedal justification

Right, but a carpenter wouldn't bring a table saw to a job site and set it up if he knew he wasn't going to use it for that job. That's a pointless waste of time. That's all I'm saying here.

lol! case closed.

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: Pedal justification

Over the last 25 years, my board has been pretty consistent--probably too much so.

I'm using the Furman SPB-1, with ten pedals. Tuner, compressor, boost , OD, wah, chorus, phasor, two delays and a harmonizer. Most of my distorted tones come from my Mesas.

The philosophy I go by is to have a lot of pedals and use them sparingly. I only use the Boss PS-6 for two songs; most of the other only on four or five, and only the boost, compression and the tuner get used frequently. I try not to over-use the delays, but sometimes our gigs are heavy on 50's oldies. I typically don't need to use heavy crunch rhythms on much either, so there is a good contrast between clean tones and my lead tones.

It's all about what the song needs, and since I'm doing a very wide range of cover tunes, most of the stuff on my pedal board is gonna stay right where it is.

Bill