Originally Posted by
Avery Roberts
Since I have no amp I use pedals exclusively and plug them into a studio mixer and monitors.
I use a Boss CS-2 Compressor ----> Boss GE-7, 7 band graphic equalizer --- > Boss CE-2B Bass Chorus. (the CE-2B works great with an archtop)
The nice thing about Boss pedals is that even in bypass mode they warm up the sound, somewhat like a slightly saturating analog tape recorder but in a very nice way while still retaining a lot of clarity.
The Chorus I use very sparingly just enough to get a tad of movement in the sound. Makes the sound more natural. The same with the Compressor. I use it very sparingly, just a touch of compression. With the GE-7 I use a fair bit of boost (about 10dB) in the 400 to 800 Hz region to get a very fat horn-like lead sound.
I am using an Epiphone archtop with a Gibson pickup.
One problem with pedals is that you can trip over them very easily. Crashing face first into cymbal and microphone stands with a guitar strapped to your chest is rather frightening. Especially the high-hat stand with its spike pointing straight up as your face and your eyes approach it rather quickly. Fortunately I knew Judo and how to fall and managed to spin my body while falling so I ended up on the floor on my back.
To prevent further re-occurances, I removed the circuit boards, jacks, knobs, and potentiometers from the pedals and with some drilling, small screws and some wire and soldering re-mounted them into a blank 1U rack case from an electronics shop, making a rather nice pre-amp. The pedal part of the pedals were replaced with bat-handle momentary on/off switches, so to turn an effect on and off I have to press the switch by hand instead of by foot. It's no problem though, I usually just set the controls once, and leave them on forever. So probably even the bat handle on/off switches were really not all that necessary.
Cheers and hope this helps - Avery Roberts
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