The new dudes on the board
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Indeed! My board is a pedaltrain classic jr and I need to upsize to the Novo 24 to make all of this work.
Haha the mat is a table runner. One of the last vestiges of my single life. My wife hates it because it makes her feel I had the yellow fever in those dark times. Well..she's Asian. :laughing7:
Haha the mat is a table runner. One of the last vestiges of my single life. My wife hates it because it makes her feel I had the yellow fever in those dark times. Well..she's Asian. :laughing7:
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The classic pro looks like some big real estate. I just don't have that many pedals lol. I could see that thing causing space-itis, where the only fix is buying more pedals. If I were a single man that would be the ticket.
Stoked about the dude and pinnacle - but really excited about the Tumnus. It's going to be used as a mid/solo boost after the other drives. The trouble with it is it sounds so good as a drive itself. Really nails those SRV/Mayer tones but with added midrange guts. A great stop over the mix booster that still preserves the sound of your rig.
Stoked about the dude and pinnacle - but really excited about the Tumnus. It's going to be used as a mid/solo boost after the other drives. The trouble with it is it sounds so good as a drive itself. Really nails those SRV/Mayer tones but with added midrange guts. A great stop over the mix booster that still preserves the sound of your rig.
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T89Rex said:
Depends on your needs. I have a lot of pedals and I got a big board to put as many as I could and have them ready for different amps/guitars. This is strictly for home use though. When I was playing in bands I didn't have a board, it was only wah & drive. These days I would add a delay, maybe a fuzz but that would be the end.
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I have the KTR and initially I preferred using it as a drive too but I realized what makes it special is using it as a boost. Not necessarily as a volume boost (which I don't need) but to have it on and coloring the tone. It's fairly "transparent" so it doesn't exactly adds color, it gives character.
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Trouble is that I always end up on a stage with limited space. I did the large board rig in the past and ended up having to use a looper strip to keep access from being an issue. Too many points of failure.
Yeah, I had a series of small epiphanies after beating my head against the wall trying to get my lead tone to cut in a pleasant way.
The glory of the TS, Klon, and other similar pedals is their ability to take what's being fed into them and enhance the EQ curve in a really useful way. The amps that I've built all have high headroom with respect to input circuitry. Feeding them with boosters at what is now considered "stage volume" hasn't been effective. I've discovered that I can treat one of my other drives as the input stage of my amp and overdrive the pedal instead of the amp's input, yielding amazing results. The challenge for those that are just getting under way on this quest is finding the right kind of drive for this purpose.
Yeah, I had a series of small epiphanies after beating my head against the wall trying to get my lead tone to cut in a pleasant way.
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The glory of the TS, Klon, and other similar pedals is their ability to take what's being fed into them and enhance the EQ curve in a really useful way. The amps that I've built all have high headroom with respect to input circuitry. Feeding them with boosters at what is now considered "stage volume" hasn't been effective. I've discovered that I can treat one of my other drives as the input stage of my amp and overdrive the pedal instead of the amp's input, yielding amazing results. The challenge for those that are just getting under way on this quest is finding the right kind of drive for this purpose.
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Kostas said:
Buddy of mine has several boards, all specialized for different applications. Church has one, home has one, travel to unknown situations has one, and one's for experiments. Keeps them all small, which is good. Then, loss risk is reduced because not all the eggs are in one basket. Failure potential is reduced, because it's simpler/smaller. Only downside is he's had to buy more than one of some things, like tuners and overdrives. But, he's gradually built these things up over time so it's not like the credit card got beaten to death one day. Besides, musicians are notorious for selling stuff in a fit of desperation/anger/lust for new design/etc. at super-low prices. Chance favors the prepared so when you encounter a fantastic deal on some pedal, you buy it even if you don't need it at the moment. Eventually, you've got another pedal board that didn't cost much.
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Certainly is a lotta knobs. Be a shame if somebody moved 'em all on you while you weren't looking :laughing7:
I saw an interesting little product not too long ago called a "Loknob" that replaces an existing knob with one that doesn't move without malice aforethought. You have to pull up on it, turn to where you wanna be, then release. The setting is then more or less locked in place.
Seems like a great idea, but they don't give the little rascals away. Oddly enough, StewMac has the best pricing, but even there they're $11.20/ea. For your pedal board as it sits, you'd need 31 knobs, so to lock 'em all would cost you just shy of $350. I don't care how nice they are, that's a mighty hunk of money :laughing7:
In the process of looking for better pricing (StewMac is usually the highest), I also came across these things called "Loknob Huggas". Basically, they're just little foam washers you install under the knobs to add some friction to the thing so while they're not locked, they're at least more difficult to knock out of place. But, even those are $17 for a set of 6. Come on! Clearly, somebody wants to get rich quick. Those things can't cost more than a penny apiece to make. The damn package probably costs more than the product. But, at least with those, they've given away an idea that could be duplicated on your own for next to nothing.
I saw an interesting little product not too long ago called a "Loknob" that replaces an existing knob with one that doesn't move without malice aforethought. You have to pull up on it, turn to where you wanna be, then release. The setting is then more or less locked in place.
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Seems like a great idea, but they don't give the little rascals away. Oddly enough, StewMac has the best pricing, but even there they're $11.20/ea. For your pedal board as it sits, you'd need 31 knobs, so to lock 'em all would cost you just shy of $350. I don't care how nice they are, that's a mighty hunk of money :laughing7:
In the process of looking for better pricing (StewMac is usually the highest), I also came across these things called "Loknob Huggas". Basically, they're just little foam washers you install under the knobs to add some friction to the thing so while they're not locked, they're at least more difficult to knock out of place. But, even those are $17 for a set of 6. Come on! Clearly, somebody wants to get rich quick. Those things can't cost more than a penny apiece to make. The damn package probably costs more than the product. But, at least with those, they've given away an idea that could be duplicated on your own for next to nothing.
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Yeah I saw those - def cool idea. I end up taking pics of my setting and scroll through them when I setting up on stage haha. A while back Digitech had a cool idea with a rubber cover that would fit over the knobbies. The only thing was the knobs themselves would often pull off with the cover.
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Rgand said:
Be worth a try, if you're a Grolsch drinker. But, as I recall from my home brewing days those are a somewhat hard rubber, so I don't know how much you could compress them to where they'd maintain friction without being so tight you'd have trouble with them.
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Great Ape said:
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I haven't tried the new version 2 of the Pinnacle Deluxe, but the ordinary (old) version is one of the - if not the - best overdrive/distortion I've played. Sounds amazing.
But that said ... After I watched a Rob Chapman/Andertons video about the Tone City pedals I ordered me some of those. Since you can get five of those for the price of the Pinnacle ... :laughing7:
The one that I like the best is the Golden Plexi. It also sound absolutely killer.
Check out the clip at 5:35
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