For Mr Grumpy: my current pedalboard configuration

Dave Sloven

Dave Sloven

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I've had some problems with our vocalist knocking my expression pedal on its head and/or accidentally winding its dial around, setting off the Boss PS-6 Harmonist's S-Bend two octaves down with tremolo effect in the middle of songs. As you can probably imagine this is not a great thing to happen! So I reconfigured my board with the PS-6 in loop B of one of my Boss LS-2 Line Selectors. I also moved the chorus pedal in the signal chain so that it now comes after the LS-2 with the DD-7, Carbon Copy, and RV-5 in its loop (rather than before). I don't combine the chorus with delay often but when I do having the delay go into chorus (rather than the other way around) is a cool effect. I have also learned that one delay at a time in the lead sections is preferable live, as I was having a lot of problems with screeching feedback from too many delays.

I'm not sure if it looks much different. Here's a photo anyway. Oh I also put the EVH Flanger on the board a while ago. In previous versions I have had either the T-Rex Mudhoney or the EVH Phase 90 there but I am finding the flanger to be a more useful.

Mr Grumpy asked to see an update in another thread (the one on my amp repairs).

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So the signal chain now is as follows:

GUITAR -> POLYTUNE -> DECIMATOR G-STRING GUITAR SECTION -> BOOST -> AMP INPUT -> EFFECTS SEND -> 10-BAND EQ -> DECIMATOR G-STRING SUPPRESSOR SECTION -> FLANGER -> LINE SELECTOR [LOOP A -> RE-20 SPACE ECHO; LOOP B -> PS-6 HARMONIST] -> LINE SELECTOR [LOOP A -> DD-7 DIGITAL DELAY -> CARBON COPY -> RV-5 DIGITAL REVERB; LOOP B IS EMPTY] -> BLACK LABEL CHORUS -> EQD GHOST ECHO REVERB -> RC-1 LOOP STATION -> EFFECTS RETURN
 
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Mr Grumpy said:
Sad not to see the Mudhoney and MXR od.

But, ontheupside, you do appear to have enough modulation to be getting on with...

Thanks for the update.
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Didn't need them. I only put the MXR OD on my board because I was forced to use a friend's 5150 II and I knew its tubes were on the wane so it could do with a little 'tightening up' ... if you had a 6534+ you wouldn't bother with gain pedals either ... I just use that boost pedal and the output of my pickups
 
BTW the green switcher box is connected to the RC-1 with an insert cable. The black connector goes to the switch controlling the stop/erase function, the red connector goes to the switch controlling the undo/redo function. A friend made it for me. It has polarity switches on both switches (which are momentary, rather than latching) and up is N/C, down is N/O.
 
Dave Sloven said:
I've had some problems with our vocalist knocking my expression pedal on its head and/or accidentally winding its dial around, setting off the Boss PS-6 Harmonist's S-Bend two octaves down with tremolo effect in the middle of songs. As you can probably imagine this is not a great thing to happen! So I reconfigured my board with the PS-6 in loop B of one of my Boss LS-2 Line Selectors. I also moved the chorus pedal in the signal chain so that it now comes after the LS-2 with the DD-7, Carbon Copy, and RV-5 in its loop (rather than before). I don't combine the chorus with delay often but when I do having the delay go into chorus (rather than the other way around) is a cool effect. I have also learned that one delay at a time in the lead sections is preferable live, as I was having a lot of problems with screeching feedback from too many delays.

I'm not sure if it looks much different. Here's a photo anyway. Oh I also put the EVH Flanger on the board a while ago. In previous versions I have had either the T-Rex Mudhoney or the EVH Phase 90 there but I am finding the flanger to be a more useful.

Mr Grumpy asked to see an update in another thread (the one on my amp repairs).

lYxB3gz.jpg


So the signal chain now is as follows:

GUITAR -> POLYTUNE -> DECIMATOR G-STRING GUITAR SECTION -> BOOST -> AMP INPUT -> EFFECTS SEND -> 10-BAND EQ -> DECIMATOR G-STRING SUPPRESSOR SECTION -> FLANGER -> LINE SELECTOR [LOOP A -> RE-20 SPACE ECHO; LOOP B -> PS-6 HARMONIST] -> LINE SELECTOR [LOOP A -> DD-7 DIGITAL DELAY -> CARBON COPY -> RV-5 DIGITAL REVERB; LOOP B IS EMPTY] -> BLACK LABEL CHORUS -> EQD GHOST ECHO REVERB -> RC-1 LOOP STATION -> EFFECTS RETURN
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Holy Biscuits! That's s lot of pedals!
 
Dave Sloven said:
Didn't need them. I only put the MXR OD on my board because I was forced to use a friend's 5150 II and I knew its tubes were on the wane so it could do with a little 'tightening up' ... if you had a 6534+ you wouldn't bother with gain pedals either ... I just use that boost pedal and the output of my pickups
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Do tell.... in ohms....
 
BKP Nailbomb (in the Explorer): 15.7 kΩ
BKP Warpig (in the SG): 21.5 kΩ

Here's a video of me using the delays, flanger, and pitch-shifter on my board with the Explorer tonight to create some Venom style sonic idiocy

Bit of a weird camera angle ... I look like a demented Quasimodo humping someone's leg! :barefoot:

 
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DAVE! This was poseed in another thread---- but--- I would like to ask directly because ---as stated in other thread--- I am not a heavy pedal user--- barely at all really---so I am curious----

dont you get all sorts of hum/feedback/.his/noise etc. from this rig?
 
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DAVE! This was poseed in another thread---- but--- I would like to ask directly because ---as stated in other thread--- I am not a heavy pedal user--- barely at all really---so I am curious----

dont you get all sorts of hum/feedback/.his/noise etc. from this rig?
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No, not really ... I don't have a lot of noisy pedals in my rig, and pretty much none after my noise suppressor with the exception of the RE-20, which can add a slight hum with the level cranked. Noisy pedals are thinks like distortions (absent), overdrives (absent), compressors (absent), EQs (before the noise suppressor). Some clean boosts can apparently be noisy but the MXR/CAE MC401 isn't. I think the ISP Decimator G-String II adds some hum to the front end but then it takes it out again. Most of my pedals are after the suppressor but they all seem to be relatively quiet ones and a number of them are isolated within the loops of LS-2s, which keep them out of the signal path until needed. People do talk about 'tone suck' from pedals and to be honest I do notice a bit of that from some of them but I have enough of a mixture of true bypass and buffered pedals that it is manageable. If you lose a bit of top end then you can add some in with the presence control on the amp. With that stuff about tone suck I think a lot of the people who are worried about it are either obsessive compulsive or they just need a really bright, sparkly tone. I have no need for such a tone in the music I play, so I can manage everything with EQ.

The only pedal-related issue with feedback I have is that if I run both the DD-7 and the Carbon Copy at the same time on the lead channel I will experience screeching feedback when playing lead sections. It's just too much delay and it makes the gain structure go a bit nuts. I am using both in that video but the objective was to make noise so it didn't matter too much.
 
It sounds really good through a tube amp, cleans up really well, very articulate, not at all sludgy; does not feel like a high gain puppy until you want it too - through my Bugera Vox-sounding low gain amp, it sounds sweet, but once pushed a bit it bites up; I'm increasingly impressed with it.

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Dave Sloven said:
a Mississippi Queen (P-90) in the neck
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&, I have one of these that if the lil 59 doesn't give me the sounds I want then I might get a choppin at the wood and put it in the neck.
 
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