VERTEX - Henry Kaiser HUGE Pedalboard

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Here's a pedalboard that I did for experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser.

http://www.henrykaiser.net

Henry wanted a pedalboard that he could use exclusively for his live shows in United States and internationally. He wanted a rig that would allow him to use all of his staple effects and allow him the ability to use the pedalboard with any amplifier.

We started off by building Henry a custom interface to suit his needs mentioned above. Henry primarily uses Dumble amplifiers and he wanted the flexibility to run certain effects in the effects loop of the amp or be able to run those same effects (volume pedal, pitch effects, and time effects) in front of the amp.

Henry wanted to have this selectable via a push-button switch (see interface). Also, Henry wanted the ability to have a Master Bypass so that he could switch between his effected signal and a 100% dry signal with just the guitar and amplifier. This feature also used a push-bottom switch (see interface). Lastly, we installed a Vertex Dual Buffer (inside the interface) to ensure that the signal had no degradation throughout the pedalboard.

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The order of the effects are:

IN FRONT OF AMP

INTERFACE (passive), Old World Audio 1960 Compressor, Xotic Robotalk, Wilson Colorsound Wah, Fulltone 70's Fuzz, BYOC Big Muff Clone, INTERFACE (buffer), Tech21 CompTortion, Geiger Counter WMD Civilian Issue, Tanabe Zenkudo Twin, ATD V-Stack, EHX Ring Thing, EBS OctaBass, INTERFACE (buffer)

EFFECTS LOOP

INTERFACE (send), Ernie Ball VPJR 25K, Eventide PitchFactor, EHX Kill Switch (feeds T.C. Electronics Flashback Delay), Strymon El Capistan, WET Reverb, INTERFACE (return)

*Note the interface allows the flexibility to run all of the pedals wired in the effects loop either in the loop or in front of the amp by switching the FX Loop on/off switch on the interface (black box in upper-right corner).

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Great looking board :thumbsup:

Too bad it's wasted on Kaiser...no doubt he'll find a way to make it sound like ass.
 
rupe":1xrn03b6 said:
Great looking board :thumbsup:

Too bad it's wasted on Kaiser...no doubt he'll find a way to make it sound like ass.

+1 on kaiser

The board looks great! :thumbsup:
 
Very nice work sir. :thumbsup:

I've been impressed by all of the boards you've done.
 
Did someone mod the Robotalk to have a proper bipolar power supply? The stock one with DC jacks has two jacks and needs separate isolated 9V taps for the + and - 9V rails. That one looks like it only has one DC jack.
 
i think henry is an interesting guitar player that explores basically "free" territory
and has done some great improv/world music releases
like all the stuff him and lindley curated from madigascar
 
It must be nice working with a client who basically has a bottomless pit of money at his disposal.
 
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