Finally happy with my pedals setup!What have you settled on

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Now of course there is the usual disclaimer that everyone suffers from George Lynch-itis so I can't promise one of the 50 pedals I have won't get swapped in or out BUT I'm loving the tones I am getting right now especially with single coils. Check out the line up below, a little messy but hey this ain't no pro board ! Shout out to http://cultoftone.com/, Canadian builder for his Fuzz Face clone. I don't know Fuzzes well but he makes a very musical box and I am loving it. Chewy goodness and awesome with single coils.

What I've settled on: Xotic Wah> Jim Jones Fuzz> Phase 90 (VH to that vibe-ish warble)KoKo boost V1 for boosting pedals after it into lead or mid boost alone>JHS Bonsai (no brainer for options)> Sacred Cow Klon clone>EWS little brute (awesome gain here)> Chorus (little noisy but perfect for the 80's rocker in me)> Decimator into an 82' JCM800 4140.

In the loop, volume pedal because I can't be bothered with attenuating and I notice tone change when I do and my Ibanez DE-7. Hotdamn I love this pedal. I might buy another one just to have it. For me, I don't need any other delays and my flashback just sits around collecting dust.

What have you guys settled on? I'm heavy into the drives but hey, I like options!
 

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Nice setup man! I think I need to pickup another Phase 90. That was a great pedal.

I was out of the whole pedal thing and then jumped back in years ago. My approach and reasoning was totally different. I have a whole Keeley pedal rig now and helps keep my spending somewhat limited, LOL! In the beginning I just picked up one due to friendship but then he started making all of the "dual" pedals and I got hooked.

Some friends and I have been jamming with some punk stuff and I think I'm going to need a "Grunge" pedal or something similar.
 
RockyStar":20rhvioj said:
Does the pedal chase ever end?
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My thoughts too... the words "pedals" and "settled on" just don't occur in the same sentence much with me.

Certain things don't change tho. I do like having several layers of dirt/drive. I have a Carl Martin compressor, a Klon (klone), a Liverpool, and a BE-OD Deluxe. I always like a clean boost last in the chain and a delay (Nemesis) right before the clean boost. A wah just because...I almost never use it. Still rockin the ole Boss TU2. The modulation tends to change. I like having a Phase 90 and Flanger but also like having a vibe and that's too much. I tried a Mobius but..."jack of all trades, master of none" was the deal there.

The "tape warble" thread has me thinking I need to try an El Cap.
 
RockyStar":1jcqsrml said:
Does the pedal chase ever end?
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No, and that is why I stopped buying them for all those years. LOL!
 
Love the DE-7. Great delay. Have my chorus in the loop tho. You should add a TC Spark at the end of your chain. Just makes everything sound better, bigger, clearer. Maybe add an EQ in the loop before delay.
 
thenine":7z9pui0d said:
Love the DE-7. Great delay. Have my chorus in the loop tho. You should add a TC Spark at the end of your chain. Just makes everything sound better, bigger, clearer. Maybe add an EQ in the loop before delay.
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That statement is like leaving a 6 pack in the fridge for a recovering alcoholic... you guys are right, while I am "happy" , there is always room for experimentation and tone dragon chasing. What difference do you notice with the chorus in the loop? Less noise or more subtle? TC spark I have looked at but I like my tone to cut more rather than get fatter/bigger if that makes sense.

As for neatness, I just can't get that right. I moved my board over to the side last night and now all of a sudden I am getting noise. Voodoo power supplies are rock solid, I'm assuming it is because power leads are crossing instrument cables. Another argument for running everything on the top of the board and tying it all down nicely. That's a death sentence for most of us who constantly swap things in and out though...
 
romanianreaper":36255fva said:
Nice setup man! I think I need to pickup another Phase 90. That was a great pedal.

I was out of the whole pedal thing and then jumped back in years ago. My approach and reasoning was totally different. I have a whole Keeley pedal rig now and helps keep my spending somewhat limited, LOL! In the beginning I just picked up one due to friendship but then he started making all of the "dual" pedals and I got hooked.

Some friends and I have been jamming with some punk stuff and I think I'm going to need a "Grunge" pedal or something similar.
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Phase 90 is a great pedal..in fact, I think even the block logo does as good a job and maybe better past 12 than the script does if you remove R28 resistor. I saw Doug Aldrich was using a block logo on a gear run down a few years ago and he was right, it sort of is a jack of all trades while only doing one thing well. It "sort" of does a vibe, or a tremolo cranked up depending how much gain you have thrown at it after with other pedals. Cool trick considering most of us don't base our tone around vibe so a 300+$ is overkill for one or two leads.
 
Luca79":s6i1najz said:
I use this setup for a while, but i don't use the vibe and fuzz often.


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beautiful board.. I'm thinking top mounted power supplies make more sense now that I have seen the spaghetti mess that is on the underside of mine.
 
All tidied up with those new Ernie Ball flat ribbon cables.
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right there - that mini-Spark. Great freakin pedal. Nice small board there.

OP - don't be worried about cut/fatness that mini Spark just makes everything better.

For phase 90 I rarely have my knob above 9 o'clock (usually a tad below that), surprised to see you guys with it up like that.
 
Nice boards!

I'm actually a minimalist when it comes to effects so it's funny that I built a monster board. I always loved the idea of a huge board or a small rack with a switcher and pedals mounted on sliding shelves.
Took 10 years but I finally did it and while it's fun, I still prefer to play through only a few pedals. This is a great creativity/writing tool though!

It hasn't changed too much since I finally got it put together a couple years ago. I've since acquired an old RAT reissue, Timmy v.2, Kingsley Jester Custom, and a POD Go so I'm thinking a second, much smaller board will be built eventually.

Or I might sell a few things and downsize. Either way, it's fun and while the pedal chase eventually slows down, it never ends.



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beautiful!

You removed The Guv'nor. I have a Shredmaster that sounds pretty good.
 
thenine":cr6zgapq said:
beautiful!

You removed The Guv'nor. I have a Shredmaster that sounds pretty good.
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Thanks! Yeah, I go back and forth between the Guv'nor and the Bogner Red as my high gain pedal. Both are great! I have a few other drives sitting around so I can swap pedals whenever I want to change it up. The Boss OD-3 and Xotic BB pre stack perfectly together and were the core of my overdrive section until I bought my KOT.
 
3 things..

I have a Marshall guvnor' MKI Korean version, I can't get it to work well with my JCM800. To me it fuzzes out the low strings for some reason, is there a trick to using it as a boost?

I only run my Phase 90 up like that for a cheap vibe thrill, or else mine hovers around 7-8 pm for the classic VH sweep.

I've looked at the spark boost before and seen the demos. Sounds really good but will it be that different than the clean side of my koko boost?
 
I wouldn’t use Guv’nor as a boost. It is distortion into a clean amp. Try it into your 800 low input with master up and preamp down.

I don’t use the Spark for gain boost like the Koko (on one of my boards). Put it at the end of your chain, Or before delay, it livens everything up.
 
Yeah, I haven't had great luck using it as a boost but I know it can be done. Same with the RAT..some people are able to get it sounding great as a boost into a Marshall but I prefer both as a distortion into a clean amp.
 
I bought a fractal FX8 a few years ago and never looked back . Added a volume and a wah (both of which plug into the fractal ) and I'm done
 
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