Pedal Boards:

[Goldmember]

Here is Goldmember's board with current pedal lineup:

 

[RVA]

Here is Goldmember's board with current pedal lineup:

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A Brian Wampler fan. You have fine taste Sir!

 

[Goldmember]

Thanks, RVA. Those settings are the actual ones I use. The Tumnus is at unity gain, with just the slightest touch of OD.
The Rocktron is the real sleeper pedal in the mix. I dig it completely.

 

[kevinpaul]

NI have been working on many board most of the last few days. I have three boards. My home fun and the one I use to record songs. I have a friend in New York that owns a very old and established recording studio. Karen and her wife call me for a cover or a new theme song. I do love getting her checks and people hear my works. The gig board is for just that work. I been playing at a mob owned club on Saturday night. Now both Saturday and Friday nights. The last board just sits. I am trying to make a light three or four pedal board. I want a more cool board for home recording. All is in the effects loop except the Dunlop / MXR Echoplex Delay 103 and the preamp. They put in front in 70's. I still have stuff to do and really this is good work if you can get it.

 

[Tony M.]

I like Brian's dirt pedals.

 

[Dave Sloven]

kevinpaul how do you like that Morley volume pedal? I have one but I have never found a good use for it. Do you use it in the loop? Before or after your delays and reverb?

 

[smitty_p]

kevinpaul how do you like that Morley volume pedal? I have one but I have never found a good use for it. Do you use it in the loop? Before or after your delays and reverb?

I'm sure kevin will have a good answer, as well. But, I'll chime in, too.

I use my Morley volume pedal in the loop. I have it just before delay and reverb. The delay has spillover. So, by putting the volume pedal before the delay, if I ramp the pedal all the way down suddenly, the delay repeats will continue to decay naturally and be less abrupt.

All my other effects in the loop feed into the volume pedal, then the pedal feeds into the delay, which feeds the reverb before going back to the FX Return.

It is really good for reducing volume or doing swells without reducing your gain, as would happen if you had it prior to the amplifier input.

 

[Dave Sloven]

Does it matter if you have Lil Alligator before a phaser and chorus before the delays? I suspect I would just turn those effects off if there was an issue

 

[kevinpaul]

I'm sure kevin will have a good answer, as well. But, I'll chime in, too.

I use my Morley volume pedal in the loop. I have it just before delay and reverb. The delay has spillover. So, by putting the volume pedal before the delay, if I ramp the pedal all the way down suddenly, the delay repeats will continue to decay naturally and be less abrupt.

All my other effects in the loop feed into the volume pedal, then the pedal feeds into the delay, which feeds the reverb before going back to the FX Return.

It is really good for reducing volume or doing swells without reducing your gain, as would happen if you had it prior to the amplifier input.

You are doing it all great! I run it first in my loop. I turn the amp volume to the maximum. The amp is over driven now. Do worry amps love this. Now I can get that near break up effect at even lower volume. Like my friend above said it is great for swells and on my Resonator it makes it real. It took me several months to learn all the things you can do with a volume pedal. The loop is the best place. My biggest amp a 50 watt tube amp has no effects loop. I put in in front and I did not have many of the cool advantages of this pedal.

 

[kevinpaul]

kevinpaul how do you like that Morley volume pedal? I have one but I have never found a good use for it. Do you use it in the loop? Before or after your delays and reverb?

I use it as the first pedal, weird things tone wise happen when it is last. Some day I will explore this and just maybe some cool stuff is going on. Like I said this pedal is one you have to learn.

 

[smitty_p]

Does it matter if you have Lil Alligator before a phaser and chorus before the delays? I suspect I would just turn those effects off if there was an issue

In one sense, it doesn't matter. You can experiment and see what you like the best.

However, one benefit of having it after other effects is that if those other effects generate any noise of their own while in use, ramping the volume pedal down will silence that noise, too. Of course, you can just turn those effects off, but having the pedal after the effect saves a little potential tap-dancing. I do leave the delay and reverb after the pedal for the spillover effect, but my delay and reverb are very silent and don't generate any real extraneous noise.

For me, the chain in the loop looks like this:

FX Send ---> Tremolo ---> Chorus ---> Flanger ---> Volume Pedal ---> Delay ---> Reverb ---> FX Return.

 

[Dave Sloven]

I did try placing it between my boards and it caused problems, will try again. That will place it before delays. If I turn off the phaser and chorus then the RE-20 is next followed by either an MXR Carbon Copy and an EQD Ghost Echo or (on another loop) a DD-7, a DD-20, and an RV-5.

 

[kevinpaul]

It doesn't take much imagination to go the wrong way in placing a volume pedal. I have got some interesting but uncontrollable tones.

 

[kevinpaul]

I did try placing it between my boards and it caused problems, will try again. That will place it before delays. If I turn off the phaser and chorus then the RE-20 is next followed by either an MXR Carbon Copy and an EQD Ghost Echo or (on another loop) a DD-7, a DD-20, and an RV-5.

I have always put my delay in the front of my amp. They seem to do their best the preamp. I have my Boss Chorus on most of the time for a full wall of sound. I did the same with the reverb, it caused a hint of congestion. Clean sound never! This effects madness is what the electric guitar is all about.

 

[syscokid]

The Rocktron is the real sleeper pedal in the mix. I dig it completely.

How do you prefer to dial in this type of pedal?

 

[kevinpaul]

A question as we are talking about pedals. I just bought a clone centaur pedal. The real ones are too much money but they are fantastic. Does anyone know of theses fakes.

 

[RVA]

View attachment 8479 A question as we are talking about pedals. I just bought a clone centaur pedal. The real ones are too much money but they are fantastic. Does anyone know of theses fakes.

There are so many clones, but I think the "true creator" began making them again and that looks like it.

 

[kevinpaul]

There are so many clones, but I think the "true creator" began making them again and that looks like it.

Yes he is but they are over $2,500 bucks each. He has a very high opinion of those things. Some have gone for $3,000 grand a copy. I have a tuff time playing $200. for a pedal. I only feel bad because I don't have a clue what to do with most

 

[Goldmember]

How do you prefer to dial in this type of pedal?

Hi Sysco, I keep it low, around 9:00, as the guitar and pedals before it (in the chain) don't generate a lot of noise.

This is how Rocktron describes it: Unlike noise "gates" that chop off the end of your notes, or ruin your sustain,
the MicroHUSH (and other Rocktron HUSH products) are actually a form of single-ended noise reduction that tracks
your signal all the way and pushes the noise floor down below the point where your ear can hear the noise.
The MicroHUSH will not alter your sustain or chop the end of your notes. Simply use the THRESHOLD knob
to smooth out your signal while saying goodbye to noise forever!

 

[RVA]

View attachment 8479 A question as we are talking about pedals. I just bought a clone centaur pedal. The real ones are too much money but they are fantastic. Does anyone know of theses fakes.

This is what I meant. $269. Read the writing on the pedal

Klon KTR Overdrive Reissue Pedal at The Guitar Sanctuary McKinney Texas