The SDUGF Official Pics of Your Board Thread

[Mincer]

What are you currently stomping on? Are they neatly organized or in a pile on the ground? Is it on a stage or out in the alleyway? No judgement here, we wanna see!

If you are reading, that means Pay the Toll of this thread and post your pedals.

I have a few pedalboards, and I will get pics of the other ones as I use them. This is the one I currently use with my band. It has a new Fractal VP4 multi-effects, and an expression pedal which is an Ernie Ball converted to an expression pedal by Thru-Tone.

It has a clock, a pick holder, and that green wire is a phone charger! On dark stages, I have an app on my phone that just shows the clock without shutting down the phone, and many festivals are super strict about times. An app on the phone controls the band's lights, and another app can connect to the mixer if I need it.

The pedalboard itself is made by Temple Audio, and it has a patch bay on the right side where in/out/power are plugged in. I carry it in a vintage Samsonite briefcase bought at a thrift shop for $5.

 

[beaubrummels]

I avoid a bunch of issues by just having one multi-stomp handle pedalboard duties. I do have a larger board and separate pedals, but this works great for now.

 

[ICTGoober]

You didn't specify...

 

[Seashore]

I had to strip down my "everything" board a little to get all the pieces for my upstairs practice board. So I'm using the Line 6 tuner instead of the Turbo Tuner and forgoing my outboard drive. This is still my guitar or bass main rig plug n' play board:

And here's my upstairs guitar practice board for running into clean power amp/effects returns:

I can flip-flop between clean with or without reverb on the Bogner and distorted on the Revv. OD is pre-Revv and DD3 delay is post-Revv for a lead tone.

Subject to change at my whim.

 

[Seashore]

You didn't specify...

Just needs some velcro!

 

[Mincer]

My pedalboard is based on a few things...I wanted it small and light, and a minimum of stuff to troubleshoot when things go wrong at a gig (it is always at a gig). I have a bigger, heavier board full of lots of nice pedals, but lots of patch cables and power cables means lots of stuff can and will go wrong. The heat and humidity here kills connections and electronics quickly, and I wouldn't have time at a show to figure out which cable(s) have gone bad. With my multieffects, usually a reboot will solve any issues, and if it is DOA, I have an SD 805 Drive I can plug into my Deluxe and finish the show.

 

[jeremy]

dont we already have a pedal board thread? and the rate my board by acebob thread? this board hasnt changed in many years.

 

[Mincer]

Starting a new one...because. One without the judgement, and a little more current.

 

[80's_Metal]

Although mine changed often, this is the most common configuration.
The custom painted "eyeball" is an ehx pocket metal muff.

Truthfully I could get by 99% of the time with just a tuner, the East River drive, and the noise gate.

 

[GuitarStv]

You didn't specify...

Don't ruin a nice cutting board by turning it into a tele.

 

[ICTGoober]

Don't ruin a nice cutting board by turning it into a tele.

All my cutting boards are bamboo.

 

[Mincer]

All my cutting boards are bamboo.

I have a bamboo guitar. I bet bamboo would make an excellent pedalboard.

 

[80's_Metal]

And then there's this guy...

 

[marcello252]

And then there's this guy...

TOP

 

[marcello252]

The red one is a DIY Menatone Red Snapper clone (I sold my original one eons ago unfortunately, but I'm still not sure if it's the right overdrive for me in that position, I'm continuosly switching between this, an original Timmy and a Mad Professor Sweet Honey)





chain is: Fuzz - Ce2 - microvibe - phase 90 - booster - red snapper - sub n up - alter ego - immerse reverb - BD2 - GE7 - Ditto - polytune

 

[Seashore]

My pedalboard is based on a few things...I wanted it small and light, and a minimum of stuff to troubleshoot when things go wrong at a gig (it is always at a gig). I have a bigger, heavier board full of lots of nice pedals, but lots of patch cables and power cables means lots of stuff can and will go wrong. The heat and humidity here kills connections and electronics quickly, and I wouldn't have time at a show to figure out which cable(s) have gone bad. With my multieffects, usually a reboot will solve any issues, and if it is DOA, I have an SD 805 Drive I can plug into my Deluxe and finish the show.

The thing I really like about my HX Effects board is the flexibility. I have a few configurations saved inside, so all I have to do is move a couple output cables and I can go from a 4-cable method hookup and footswitch controls for guitar on the VHT to a dual input parallel processing setup for bass through the Traynor. But if it failed at a gig, I'd be screwed. I might need to put together a backup bass board at least.

 

[Mincer]

The thing I really like about my HX Effects board is the flexibility. I have a few configurations saved inside, so all I have to do is move a couple output cables and I can go from a 4-cable method hookup and footswitch controls for guitar on the VHT to a dual input parallel processing setup for bass through the Traynor. But if it failed at a gig, I'd be screwed. I might need to put together a backup bass board at least.

I used the HX FX for a few years, and really liked it, but noticed some weird things with how I used it...long loops would almost always get a 'clicking sound' if I switched presets while a loop was playing (and this click was recorded into the loop no matter if I was in record mode or not). I actually liked the M-series more than the HX FX as far as sound quality. I eventually just switched over to Fractal stuff.

 

[Seashore]

I used the HX FX for a few years, and really liked it, but noticed some weird things with how I used it...long loops would almost always get a 'clicking sound' if I switched presets while a loop was playing (and this click was recorded into the loop no matter if I was in record mode or not). I actually liked the M-series more than the HX FX as far as sound quality. I eventually just switched over to Fractal stuff.

I haven't used the looper. There have been some occasional gremlins, but for what I need it's been mostly ok. I used to play with snapshots, but I've gotten more mileage just using it as a virtual pedalboard. The main issue I've had with the unit has been a glitch with a couple of the footswitches where they will act as if I've done a long press and hold sometimes, and open up the deep dive menu for an individual effect when I'm in the middle of playing something where I need to access all of them. Would you say the Fractal gear is more reliable? Less issues? Or is it that you prefer the sound or form factor?

 

[Mincer]

The Fractal sounds better for one, and the modeling is more accurate. There are a lot more modeled pedals, and each pedal has a lot more parameters than Line 6. But, not everyone needs or wants that many options, and Line 6 sort of gives you the quick n dirty models that are sort of caricatures of the modeled pedal. I am a Line 6 fan, though- I just think they are made for different users.
The Fractal doesn't have a looper right now (though it will most likely be added in firmware). Fractal is constantly adding things, though- new models, new algorithms, etc. Line 6 hasn't added to the HX FX in awhile.

 

[Securb]

Here is my current state