Gigging Pedalboard

[mvp019aa]

@Rodney Gene Your cable dressing makes me feel shame...beautifully done.

[Woodstove]

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of course the same board, cioks, and reverb.
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[Gilpy]

This has been my setup for quite a while. My gigs are mostly rock, country, and r&b/funk and this handles everything. Nothing fancy here. AMT “Japanese Girl” is a great mini-wah. Wampler Triumph is a smooth OD for low gain and Suhr Riot my favorite distortion. Boss OD-3 is great for medium overdrive.
Tremolo, vibrato, lush reverbs and custom patches are all handled by the Zoom Multistomp to which I added a bypass switch. Great for effects that I may only use a few times a night.

[Woody Sound]

Something a little different. I put this together for my wife's amplified violin. The goal was not to get crazy electric tones ala Ponty, etc. Rather, to embellish the violin's real sound, but more full, mostly for music theater pit jobs. Chain is the Polytune mini 3. Then a very cool piece, the vsound violin preamp, which also has samples of several famous historical violins, like Strads, Guarneris, etc. Then into a Mooer Chorus that I had just lying around. Add a little chorus to a violin, and it sounds remarkably like a full string section. And lastly, an excellent vintage Ibanez analog delay, for some concert hall ambience. The whole thing sounds great. The cheap little Mooer chorus is the one weak link, a little bit thin and brittle sounding, so I'll have to find something that sounds better with the violin.

[garybaldy]

This has been my setup for quite a while. My gigs are mostly rock, country, and r&b/funk and this handles everything. Nothing fancy here. AMT “Japanese Girl” is a great mini-wah. Wampler Triumph is a smooth OD for low gain and Suhr Riot my favorite distortion. Boss OD-3 is great for medium overdrive.
Tremolo, vibrato, lush reverbs and custom patches are all handled by the Zoom Multistomp to which I added a bypass switch. Great for effects that I may only use a few times a night.

Ah! a board with two pedals I have. The DD3 is more or less retired and the CE5 has a broken concentric pot. Wish I could find a new part.

[Rodney Gene]

@Rodney Gene Your cable dressing makes me feel shame...beautifully done.

Thanks brother - I paid the price having to make my own cables to length. And as soon I changed it up, it had to be adapted.
My previous boards, like this one were larger and were easier to distribute cables, and using George'Ls at the time they blend well.

[DawgBone]

Thanks brother - I paid the price having to make my own cables to length. And as soon I changed it up, it had to be adapted.
My previous boards, like this one were larger and were easier to distribute cables, and using George'Ls at the time they blend well.

Royal OD! How do/did you like it? I was ready to start putting the $ together for that pedal but was offered a real good deal on a cloned Gladio so I took it. Satisfied enough for now but eventually would like to have one of those. Demos sound incomparable and I like the full EQ controls and presence knob integrated into the unit vs just the usual "tone".

[jazzgtrl4]

Heres my battery powered board

[Bob_Ross]

From 2016 - 2022 this was my gigging pedalboard:



...but I have significantly scaled back in recent years. For my last gig, this was the entirety of my pedalboard:



Hey, I did say "significantly"!

[Rodney Gene]

Royal OD! How do/did you like it? I was ready to start putting the $ together for that pedal but was offered a real good deal on a cloned Gladio so I took it. Satisfied enough for now but eventually would like to have one of those. Demos sound incomparable and I like the full EQ controls and presence knob integrated into the unit vs just the usual "tone".

Thanks brother,

I have had it twice and had the same experience both times - like many, I find it too sizzly, too much built in presence over-all for my tastes and the delayed on/off switch (protection circuit) made it very unstable for live use. Turning an effect like an OD on and having to wait for it to engage the circuit is tough. It is by no means the grail of D-style pedals for me, though I did find recording uses for it. In all fairness it is a complete amp topology and not at it's best as an inline series pedal. It is best (IME), first in the chain and with limited pedals and with humbuclers. But for a low gain Dstyle tones, this original goop board Alf built Zendrive is still a favorite. I primarily use G-Town Holy Grail and 335 pedals today, which are my personal sound. Martin is very well tuned.

[DawgBone]

Thanks brother,

I have had it twice and had the same experience both times - like many, I find it too sizzly, too much built in presence over-all for my tastes and the delayed on/off switch (protection circuit) made it very unstable for live use. Turning an effect like an OD on and having to wait for it to engage the circuit is tough. It is by no means the grail of D-style pedals for me, though I did find recording uses for it. In all fairness it is a complete amp topology and not at it's best as an inline series pedal. It is best (IME), first in the chain and with limited pedals and with humbuclers. But for a low gain Dstyle tones, this original goop board Alf built Zendrive is still a favorite. I primarily use G-Town Holy Grail and 335 pedals today, which are my personal sound. Martin is very well tuned.

This is the kinda info I created the thread hoping guys would share when it came to pedals. Doesn't sound bad for my purposes since I run my OD always-on so delayed engagement wouldn't be a problem. Might even let me ditch my EQ pedal which would simplify my gig setup. As you've seen I also don't use many pedals and I use humbuckers so maybe it's worth a shot for me one day. Many thanks Rodney, great post.

[darkwaters]

This is reminding me of this Julian Lage Rig Rundown. You can tell that John is flabbergasted but trying to be polite. Hilarious.

[pauln]

[wintermoon]

I haven't used pedals for decades
but for those that do, here's a tip.
Maybe this might be of some help.

With all the knobs' rotations adjusted to your preferred settings:

- carefully pull all these knobs off so as to not rotate their shafts
- replace the knobs straight on with their indicators at 12 o'clock

Now your preferred settings indication for all knobs is visually identical. If the knobs are moved during travel or load in or get moved by a foot bump, one glance informs you. You or even someone else can instantly confirm or restore your preferred settings by ensuring all knobs are turned to point straight up noon.

I'm the last guy that should be commenting on pedals, the only one I use is a Korg pitch-black tuner I sit on top of my amp.
But don't you guys vary the settings according to what guitar/amp you're using or even what room you're playing?

[SoftwareGuy]

I'm the last guy that should be commenting on pedals, the only one I use is a Korg pitch-black tuner I sit on top of my amp.
But don't you guys vary the settings according to what guitar/amp you're using or even what room you're playing?

I have used an expression pedal so I can turn the knobs while I am playing.

[DawgBone]

I'm the last guy that should be commenting on pedals, the only one I use is a Korg pitch-black tuner I sit on top of my amp.
But don't you guys vary the settings according to what guitar/amp you're using or even what room you're playing?

I always use the same guitar and amp. ES into Twin. I have baseline settings for pedals and usually don't have to adjust anything and if I do, it's minimal. For small indoor or "dinner" style gigs I just use my Blue Note OD on top of the amp since I am familiar with how it will react and how it needs to be dialed in to get me what I need with my amp set at very low volumes. With that arrangement I have played full band gigs in rooms the size of the average non-master bedroom using a Twin. It's not ideal tone, but it's acceptable, and the gigs have gone off quite well.

[garybaldy]

I'm the last guy that should be commenting on pedals, the only one I use is a Korg pitch-black tuner I sit on top of my amp.
But don't you guys vary the settings according to what guitar/amp you're using or even what room you're playing?

I tend to use 2xHB solid guitars with my main board and never need to change anything. It's still OK with my 335 types. If I use a strat type guitar it's generally for one off low key gigs . Then I just string a few odd pedals together. As said before - no pedals or board for my electric archies.

[Rodney Gene]

I'm the last guy that should be commenting on pedals, the only one I use is a Korg pitch-black tuner I sit on top of my amp.
But don't you guys vary the settings according to what guitar/amp you're using or even what room you're playing?

Of course - I certainly thought it was a tongue in cheek post. But if that person was being genuine, it was a naive post.
Every room, venue, guitar etc requires shifts and adjustment, usually minimal, but nearly always. Crippling your pedals and your ability to make accurate adjustments is a bad idea.

[garybaldy]

Of course - I certainly thought it was a tongue in cheek post. But if that person was being genuine, it was a naive post.
Every room, venue, guitar etc requires shifts and adjustment, usually minimal, but nearly always. Crippling your pedals and your ability to make accurate adjustments is a bad idea.

The only changes I make are on my amp - V T M B and Rvb. BTW my Musicman has a fantastic phaser built in.

[Mick-7]

The only changes I make are on my amp - V T M B and Rvb. BTW my Musicman has a fantastic phaser built in.

Do you set your phaser on Stun?

[garybaldy]

Do you set your phaser on Stun?

I rely on my playing for that

[pcjazz]

DeArmond-equipped acoustic archtop into PA for big band.

[Jimmy Mack]

No offense pcjazz, but it looks more like a "pastaboard'

[pcjazz]

No offense pcjazz, but it looks more like a "pastaboard'

Yup, the pedals get switched out and they tend to have their inputs/outputs misaligned for the optimal order. But it is compact, works well, and fits in a small bag with the power supplies (one for the humdebugger and one 9-volt for everything else). I can fit it all more neatly on a bigger board with built-in power but then it won’t fit in my gig bag. So pasta pazool it is.

[Cunamara]

Since my current band is more jazz adjacent than jazz, I put together a small pedal board mostly out of pedals I already had.

I've had the Yamaha MagicStomp for at least 10 years and it sat unused, because it was such a pain in the neck to try to do anything with if you couldn't use the computer interface (which only ran on Mac OS9 and Windows XT). Somebody in the free/open source universe created one called MagicStomp Frenzy, which I installed on my Mac and it works great. Much easier than trying to navigate through layers of menus with only three knobs. This handles reverb some of the time as well as overdrive, delays, choruses, etc. I've been experimenting with some of the old Allan Holdsworth sounds. I have goofed around with other digital multieffect pedals and haven't liked them as much as this one in terms of tone/sound. These were actually a great pedal and it's really too bad that Yamaha dropped the ball so badly on them; it's a strange company that just does not support their own innovative products for more than a year or two before moving on.

On the left are the two pedals I use as DIs to the mixing board: a SansAmp Para Driver DI from Tech21 and the TC Electronics Combo Deluxe 65. Very different sounds, with the CD65 offering a very Fendery Princetony kind of tone and the SansAmp delivering a Polytone-ish kind of vibe. Between the two of them I get three very distinct sounds.

The silver box is just a homemade switch. The right toggle bypasses the MagicStomp and the left toggle is an A/B switch.