if ya want to. I know there's some pedalboard photos in other gear threads, but maybe we could put them together here. I'll start.
I'm sure everybody knows what everything is, but I'll give a little commentary anyway Clockwise starting with the Vox wah
Vox wah, don't use it much. I'll probably get rid of it. Katana, on all the time unless I'm playing something very soft and quiet. Knob in, set to 5 just to give a little more fullness/presence. I don't really care for it as a solo boost or with the knob pulled out or on higher settings. Analogman 808 TV mod. Fulltone 69, tape is on there to keep track of settings. It sits pretty high and I'm always kicking it when I go for the tuner. I have a love/hate relationship with this thing. It has its good days and its bad days, but such is the nature of germaniums. Blues driver, fat switch off. Always had all knobs facing the LED, but more recently I have been turning up the gain and it sounds sweet. Keeley AD9. I don't see any point in spending $400 for the TRex or TC Electronics and any reviews I have read about the Line 6 DL 4 say it always breaks and I'm not into that, and the AD sounded better than the Boss DD6, so for $150 or whatever it cost, you can't go wrong. Always on the settings you see unless I'm playing rockabilly or surf. Top left now: LoopMaster ABC for guitars in (same thing on top right for out to amps) Keeley looper for Fender stand-alone reverb (for Bassman, but I don't use reverb much, so I'm also thinking of getting rid of that). Korg tuner, good, but sometimes the lights hit it just right and it reflects in my face. I'm bad at painting and it will look stupid covered in gaffer's tape. Footswitch for deluxe reverb. Hardly ever used. I don't play with reverb all that often and hardly ever vibrato. ABY box for switching/blending channels on deluxe reverb. Other LoopMaster ABC I talked about.
I could probably live without the 808 and the 69. My use of those is limited, but they sound so good when I do use them that I hesitate to remove them. I don't like stuff that has limited use. I had an Octavia but couldn't justify keeping it. I'd like to get a phaser, but I'd feel the same way about it. I'd use it for limited stuff and if not, then it would sound like I'm overusing it. You just can't overuse the BD or Katana (unless you set them overly high).
The board is homemade by me and my wife's uncle who passed away 6 months ago so it's very special to me. All cables are routed underneath. Dunlop brick and power strip under there. George L's for the pedal interconnects and then various cables for guitars in and amp outs. Eevrything is screwed right into the board with little pieces of sheet metal that are hidden under the carpet.
Everything is set up for easy of use. I can flip a switch and the board is powered up, another switch and an amp is on, then just grab a guitar and play. I usually play about 75% of the time thru the board and the other 25% straight from guitar to amp. That ratio would probably be more shifted toward playing without effects but sometimes I go thru the board just for the tuner but then end up switching something on. I'm thinking about getting a second tuner so I can play and tune independently of the board.
So it looks like a lot of stuff, but half the stuff isn't an "effect" (unless you count the fender footswitch).
I'm sure everybody knows what everything is, but I'll give a little commentary anyway Clockwise starting with the Vox wah
Vox wah, don't use it much. I'll probably get rid of it. Katana, on all the time unless I'm playing something very soft and quiet. Knob in, set to 5 just to give a little more fullness/presence. I don't really care for it as a solo boost or with the knob pulled out or on higher settings. Analogman 808 TV mod. Fulltone 69, tape is on there to keep track of settings. It sits pretty high and I'm always kicking it when I go for the tuner. I have a love/hate relationship with this thing. It has its good days and its bad days, but such is the nature of germaniums. Blues driver, fat switch off. Always had all knobs facing the LED, but more recently I have been turning up the gain and it sounds sweet. Keeley AD9. I don't see any point in spending $400 for the TRex or TC Electronics and any reviews I have read about the Line 6 DL 4 say it always breaks and I'm not into that, and the AD sounded better than the Boss DD6, so for $150 or whatever it cost, you can't go wrong. Always on the settings you see unless I'm playing rockabilly or surf. Top left now: LoopMaster ABC for guitars in (same thing on top right for out to amps) Keeley looper for Fender stand-alone reverb (for Bassman, but I don't use reverb much, so I'm also thinking of getting rid of that). Korg tuner, good, but sometimes the lights hit it just right and it reflects in my face. I'm bad at painting and it will look stupid covered in gaffer's tape. Footswitch for deluxe reverb. Hardly ever used. I don't play with reverb all that often and hardly ever vibrato. ABY box for switching/blending channels on deluxe reverb. Other LoopMaster ABC I talked about.
I could probably live without the 808 and the 69. My use of those is limited, but they sound so good when I do use them that I hesitate to remove them. I don't like stuff that has limited use. I had an Octavia but couldn't justify keeping it. I'd like to get a phaser, but I'd feel the same way about it. I'd use it for limited stuff and if not, then it would sound like I'm overusing it. You just can't overuse the BD or Katana (unless you set them overly high).
The board is homemade by me and my wife's uncle who passed away 6 months ago so it's very special to me. All cables are routed underneath. Dunlop brick and power strip under there. George L's for the pedal interconnects and then various cables for guitars in and amp outs. Eevrything is screwed right into the board with little pieces of sheet metal that are hidden under the carpet.
Everything is set up for easy of use. I can flip a switch and the board is powered up, another switch and an amp is on, then just grab a guitar and play. I usually play about 75% of the time thru the board and the other 25% straight from guitar to amp. That ratio would probably be more shifted toward playing without effects but sometimes I go thru the board just for the tuner but then end up switching something on. I'm thinking about getting a second tuner so I can play and tune independently of the board.
So it looks like a lot of stuff, but half the stuff isn't an "effect" (unless you count the fender footswitch).
