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EQD Swiss Things

Aguilar Octamizer

EQD Black Ash

Solodallas The Schafer Replica

TWA SC-01 Source Code

EQD Sunn O))) Halflifer (Mini LifePedal)

Modded RAT (keeley mod, I believe)

Peterson Strobostomp HD

Cant tell what the beat up repainted one is on the bottom right.

maybe someone here might know and could clue me in.

I know the expression pedal to the far right was an Ernie Ball, but unsure of what model.

combined with 6 Sunn Model T amps, a couple other amp heads, a whole whackton of Ampeg, Hiwatt and Sunn 4 x 12 cabinets along with the house audio and it was easily the loudest show I ever subjected myself to.

I cant even describe it.

Its a whole lot of fun !

i just wish Boss had included one more jack on the right side to attach a "remote" footswitch to toggle between modes 1 2 and 3.

The 3 modes are different, and all 3 of them are AWESOME !

I can foresee this being a damn fun party piece and an open mic jam.

I've gotten my pedalboard to a spot that I really like—there's still a few things I'd like to adjust, but at the moment the only thing I'm actively looking for is a compressor with more features and an expression pedal compatible with the SA2. If anyone has suggestions, they'd be appreciated! For the compression, I'm mainly using it to even out dynamics and to add sustain to my signal.

Here's the current signal chain rundown—

Revstar with p90s > Polytune > SA EQ2 > Donner Ultimate Comp > Grand Orbiter > Meteore > Plumes > Octa Psi > DS-1 > BD-2 > Splinter > Diamond Vibrato > 3rd Dimension > DD-8 > Monument > Fundamental Ambient > Immerse > RC-3 > IR-2 > Scarlet 2i2 > Kali LP6 x2

A few notes on the board:

Grand Orbiter / Meteore — I love putting modulation and reverb pre-gain, and these have been great. I had actually been hunting for the Caroline Arigato instead of the Orbiter, but I had trouble finding a used Arigato the later is plenty flexible. I've fallen in-and-out of love with the Meteore, since setting it can be a little hit-or-miss, so I may eventually find a similar pedal to function in its place. Still, the Havoc button is addictive.

Plumes / Big Muff / BD-2 / RAT — A very unique choice, I know, but if it's not broken, why fix it? Eventually I'd like to try some of the EAE pedals, but they're pricey as hell. My favorite combos are the Plumes solo, the Big Muff into the BD-2, and the BD-2 into the RAT. The DS-1 is a little redundant, but I mainly use it as a boost for the BD-2 and RAT so I don't have to readjust my Plumes. I had the space on my board and it was my first pedal I got back in 2004, so it's just nostalgic. I'll bump it off eventually when I need the room. It's also nice having an easy pedal to swap out if I want to try out something new.

Diamond Vibrato / 3rd Dimension — The Diamond Vibrato has the sauce. Amazing pedal. The chorus on it is great too. Honestly I never use the 3rd Dimension, it just sits there so I can easily swap in a different modulation pedal when I'm trying out something new. Eventually it'll be a rotary chorus since I'm a sucker for that sound, but I've not really needed it as a priority.

Fundamental Ambient — Get it. It's one of the best reverb pedals on the market and it's cheap. I think I got mine on sale for $60.

What I'd like to change/add (suggestions appreciated!):

Compressor: This is what I'm currently after. Right now I'm using a cheap Donner compressor, and while it been amazing for the price and to learn about compression, I'd like something a bit more functional. In particular, I'd like to be able to control the blend and preferably also the attack and release. My current frontrunners are the Empress Compressor Mk2, the UAFX 1176, the Ego/Ego 76, and (if I find a used once since they're hella expensive) the Cali76 Stacked. Any other options I should be considering?

Looper: The RC-3 is functional and a great songwriting tool, but I'd like something a little more robust eventually. I'm really not happy with the options on the market, so fingers crossed on something new being released soon.

Gain: Eventually I'd like to mess around with the EAE pedals, like the Halberd, Longsword, and Limelight. They're pricey though, so for now these do just fine. I'm also currently shopping for a guitar with humbuckers to compliment my p90 Revstar, so it didn't make sense to me to go down the gain rabbit hole until I find what guitar I'll be using with them.

Something weird: I'm kind of looking at eventually picking up something a little glitchy and weird to add some fun textures. Chase Bliss seems like the obvious option here, and things like Parting have caught my attention.

I’ve never been a fan of conventional sounds, Throbbing Gristle and The Residents are some of my favourite bands, so naturally this is where my board has ended up over the years.

Ring mod into fuzz, ring mod after fuzz, reverb into fuzz, phaser before or after fuzz or ring mod. Tasty.

I think the boss DSD-3 is hugely underrated both as a delay and as a weird little thing. I have the rack mounted version for my synth, and I had to get the pedal. It’s either a crunchy lofi digital delay or it’s holding a short phrase that it plays back every time you stomp on it.

I love my stripped back board. I also have Fender '63 reissue tube spring reverb which I adore.

I play finger style blues, hill country, drone style. I'm searching for my one sound and I'm loving the journey. My favourite guitarists are Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin Hopkins, Magic Sam, R L Burnside.

Pedals on my radar, would love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

EAE Halberd: I love OD and harmonics, but mainly play low medium gain, is it the shit?

One of the Surfy Bear reverbs

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A compressor??

Would love thoughts and ideas!

Just picked this one up today, and I’m very happy with it so far. I use preamps into my kma endgame as my “amps”, and I am extremely picky about which preamps are actually fit for that job. So far, the only ones I’ve truly been impressed with are the tone kings, peace hill fx, and htj works tube preamps. All of them work fantastically for clean tones/pedal platforms, but I don’t love the dirt/gain sound of any of them. I was extremely excited to try this one when I heard about it, and it hasn’t disappointed me. I swapped the stock tubes for a set of 12ax7s, fiddled with the internal eq a little, and have found an incredible sounding setup for high gain tones. It is the first preamp that I can use as my amp that I am happy with its gain alone, I don’t feel any need to run other pedals in front of it(although it sounds great with a rat in front). It can get extremely doomy, or tight and modern if you play around with the cut and bite controls. Lichtlaerm is quickly becoming one of my favorite pedal makers; they do high gain stuff so well

Simple riff:

1st play-through: clean (w/delay)

2nd: added Ringerbringer. Listen for the flutter pulsing in and out with the LFO

3rd: added Blue Box

This thing is going to be a blast. Of course making noise is tons of fun, but I also like to take pedals that do crazy shit and tame them into something musical. I hope that Warm reissues some of the other Moogerfoogers. If not, I might have to get one of the Behringers.

P.S. let’s keep it a secret that the Blue Box is awesome. Prices are still really cheap on those because people dismiss them as a one-trick pony. It’s more like a two-trick pony, and both tricks fucking rule

I have 4 pedals, a boss ds-2, a big muff pi, a boss tu-2, and a vox wah pedal. Everything I have seen has said that the correct way to set this up is guitar -> wah-> tuner -> ds2 -> big muff -> amp. When I try hooking it up in this order it sounds wrong whereas when I connect it like guitar -> tuner -> ds-2 -> big muff -> wah -> amp, it works well and sounds like it should. Part of me wants to just stick with what works but the other part wants to know why the "correct" way wont work, please let me know whats going on, im new to linking all these pedals so very well could just be making a stupid mistake. The yellow cable is to the amp and the black cable is to the guitar.

Custom Zerofret Omerta (Modified Rat) + Dead Drive (Modified DOD250) with order switching

Nasty distressed paint job to go with the nasty distressed distortion/fuzz this thing produces

The paint makes me want to play post apocalyptic thrash for some reason

I ordered this as I got sick of switching my original two around as some days I want to Rat boost a 250 and others I want to 250 boost a Rat

Also saves a 9v on my ever expanding board

The Omerta is a thicker Rat with much more output volume, and the Dead Drive is a higher gain DOD250 with much more output volume

Bonus pic of it between the original two pedals, and one of the ever growing Zerofret family

(I have no affiliation to Zerofret, I just like what he does)

I'm not sure if I agree with the ethics, but excited to experiment with this one.

Interesting how Behringer have justified the clone with a phrase on the box.

The Pedal is quality for the price.

How did I do? I’m going for a Doom/Stoner metal rig with my Orange TH30 and PPC212. First time buying pedals since I primarily used my BOSS Katana prior. Cheers friends!

When I first heard that JHS was releasing their own Coyote I was anxious, but after a couple chats with the crew there I’m feeling good about things. It doesn’t hurt that the Coyotes get along.

Here's a little demo of them together.

Any alternatives (affordable, available) to the Mission of Burma Vertigo Tremolo? Haven’t goofed around with too many tremolo effects, but love the way Roger uses the effect in the band.