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Current board.


Signal chaîne: Wah/univibe - CS-3 - SD-1 - Carcosa or FZ-5 - Spark - Triumph - GT-1 - Dreamscape - Mimiq - Amp 1&2.

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My board in its flight case. Pretty simple.
Axe>wah>tuner>phaser>eq>delay
EQ is used for boost..this position gets swapped out with Boss SD1 or TC Electronic spark boost depending on mood.
 

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I haven't been playing live at all recently, but still felt the need to update my 'big board'. It was designed when I was playing in a 3-piece covers band, to maximise the noises we were creating.

Signal Chain: Korg Pitchblack Tuner -> Fender ABY -> B Output -> Boss SY-1 -> SD Vapor Trail -> 2 to 1 Box under the board
-> A Output -> SD Polaron Phaser -> Dr Green Booster Shot -> SD 805 -> Fulltone Full Drive 3 -> TC Electronic Mimic Mini ->2 to 1 box under the board
2 to 1 -> Boss Dimension C -> Positive Grid Bias Delay Twin -. Neunaber Immerse Mk 2 Reverb -> Marshall JTM 45 Reissue

I use the SY-1 mostly for synth pads under chords to fill out the sound on some songs, with the occasional 'keyboard/synth' lead lines, either on their own or in unison with the guitar.

The Mimic thickens up the sound so it all sounds a bit bigger and fills out the space.

I've still got some playing to do, to tweak settings, and to really get to know the delay and reverb, which are the newest additions.
 
I need to watch some videos of the SY-1 pedal to get a sense of what it does. I've used regular Roland guitar synths for years, but it really requires a lot of equipment and special guitars with hex pickups. I'd love to ditch that to have pads behind chords.
 
It has plenty of sounds in it, although control over them can be a little restricted, but for what I needed it was perfect. I don't utilise an expression pedal, which would open up some nice options. I mostly use a soft pad option, with the occasional blast of an organ sound for some lead tones.

I did have some rehearsal videos from a few years back, where I add the pad sound to a cover of Purple Rain and the organ sound as a joint lead in Quo's Anniversary Waltz for Red River Rocks. The audio isn't fab in those recordings so the synth sounds don't pop in quite the same way they did in the room.

Here's the Purple Rain clip. The synth gets switched on in the second verse and stays on until the end. I also had a spare supply off the board to power a TC Helicon vocal harmoniser, which I used in the 3 rd chorus.

 
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Just rebuilt my board.
Tuner>Phase 90> Boss EQ>Mosky Golden Horse> Ibanez CSL chorus> EH Memory Toy
 

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I could do my whole show with that.
Yea im in a souther rock type band. So not allot of effects used. I run the phase on 4 songs, chorus on 1, delay gets used as a faint repeat( the way blackmore used tape echo) Boost and OD im on and off in different comination all night. And i have a modded Vox V847 on the floor that i use on maybe 4 leads a night.
Run my Marshall at edge of breakup like a Malcom Young light crunch.
 
Yea im in a souther rock type band. So not allot of effects used. I run the phase on 4 songs, chorus on 1, delay gets used as a faint repeat( the way blackmore used tape echo) Boost and OD im on and off in different comination all night. And i have a modded Vox V847 on the floor that i use on maybe 4 leads a night.
Run my Marshall at edge of breakup like a Malcom Young light crunch.
Well, I could do a show with a simple board- but I like the options I have with my Fractal. I do use a lot of loops running in the background and lots of pitch-transposed ambient reverbs going on. But sometimes it is really fun just to rock out.
 
Well, I could do a show with a simple board- but I like the options I have with my Fractal. I do use a lot of loops running in the background and lots of pitch-transposed ambient reverbs going on. But sometimes it is really fun just to rock out.
Fractal....me caveman...me scratch head and hit with club....me no understand and drag guitar back in cave and pout. Lol
No serious though id like to mess with one sometime. I lnow Dweezil Zappa was using one for awhile.
 
Fractal....me caveman...me scratch head and hit with club....me no understand and drag guitar back in cave and pout. Lol
No serious though id like to mess with one sometime. I lnow Dweezil Zappa was using one for awhile.
It isn't too difficult, it just does component modeling of lots of different effects (and amps). You can make programming one easy (just select the effect) or difficult (changing the components in an effect).
 
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