Lets see yer acoustic pedal board

Thanks Col... those were the days. I always welcomed those that have a common love of the instruments that make the music that moves our souls.

(Or maybe it's just because we're a bunch of gear addicts.................. :facepalm:)
 
Albso-bloomin'-lutely! I like to say: WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER...
The performers, the volunteers, the presenters, the sound crew, and the audience.
If any one of those is missing, the whole thing comes down like a table that is
short one leg.

Hence this thread. To me, a pedal board is a tool, to help the sound man mix the
tones and levels, so that the performers get the tones they want, and the audience
gets a sound they can enjoy and appreciate. The audience really needs this, which is
why they pay to get in. It's our sacred duty to give them something worth their while.

We really are all in this together. When it comes to live drama, the actors are attempting
to create an illusion... the rest of the backstage hands are all attempting to support this and
enhance it as needed. The audience really WANTS the illusion, which is why they pay to
get in. When we all work together properly, everything happens and the audience is transfixed
and transported out of their mundane lives, into something rich and strange. This was true
in Shakespeare's time, and it was true in Antigone's time, and it's true now.

I love being part of it. Farewell cruel world, I'm off to join the circus.
 
Here's my idea of a nice Paddle board

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I don't own an acoustic, as I find acoustic work seldom necessary in my field of work. I've made recent recordings with a Boss Acoustic Simulator that rival anything I could get with Taylor's or Martin's in the studio.

Always been fortunate to have GOOD sound personnel. No complaints.
 
arise from the dead, O thread...

I always enjoy the ramblings and banter on this forum, and I was putting together a new pedal board
just recently, so I thought I'd go back and look at what my colleagues on this forum had had to say
way back in 2018...

...meet the new board... same as the ole board... We won't get fooled again!

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Sharp eye'd friends took a squint at this extravaganza and noted that I've got my "Body Rez" pedal plugged in backward.
*laughs... I have since corrected THAT. These are the same pedals I was using in 2018 before so much devastation
befell me. Except the MXR is brand new. This new board is to put that pedal to work, even though I'm retired now and
no longer touring. I dusted off my auld pedals with a Q-tip and some alcohol. But I still have my starting points
painted on. I may be retired, but I'm still a tone hound. And I still manage to play out sometimes.

The only thing I don't have on this pedal board is the power source(s)...
a very polite sound man informed me that having the power source so close to the pedals themselves was turning the
power source into the source of the buzz. So I scrapped that idea. I normally make a pedal board out of a real board...
but this new board is a piece of laminated flooring, which serves very well. And the price was right. *grins

The only thing I don't have on this board is a volume pedal. But since I bought me a MXR Dyna Comp I don't need
one. I use the compressor for that function, and it serves very well. Other friends ribbed me about having so many
pedals on my board that I couldn't get my toe in there to stomp 'em. I was like, "what, you think this is a lot?"
My friends are obviously acoustic players *laughs... who think the guitar signal should go into a microphone
(so that somebody ELSE will manage their tone).

The only thing I don't have on this board is an acoustic simulator... I don't wish to mock the dead, but that was
a really bone head comment. Bless his heart, but he never failed to step up and voice his disdain for acoustic guitars
on any thread that mentions one. Ah well. We all have our little ways. He was a Les Paul Guy. I don't think he
knew how to play an acoustic guitar. As he would always say, he had no need to, or interest in it. But I'm sure I've made
hundreds of dollars playing acoustic guitar through some of these pedals. *grins.... RIP Robert, old friend.

This was Spring Gulch Festival, 2018... my last tour. My old '66 Fender bass behind me and my trusty '75 Mossman
acoustic behind me were sold in 2019 with so much else. I kept the Gibbie as consolation.
And yes, I was using my pedal board on this run, and on this stage...
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The only thing I don't have on this board is a talent simulator. I don't think I can afford one of those, so I'm stuck
with whatever talent I got left and so's the audience. If any...
 
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come on, tone hounds.... step right up!
Let's see yer new acoustic pedal boards (or yer old ones, I don't care)
 
Col Mustard said:
arise from the dead, O thread...

I always enjoy the ramblings and banter on this forum, and I was putting together a new pedal board
just recently, so I thought I'd go back and look at what my colleagues on this forum had had to say
way back in 2018...

...meet the new board... same as the ole board... We won't get fooled again!

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Sharp eye'd friends took a squint at this extravaganza and noted that I've got my "Body Rez" pedal plugged in backward.
*laughs... I have since corrected THAT. These are the same pedals I was using in 2018 before so much devastation
befell me. Except the MXR is brand new. This new board is to put that pedal to work, even though I'm retired now and
no longer touring. I dusted off my auld pedals with a Q-tip and some alcohol. But I still have my starting points
painted on. I may be retired, but I'm still a tone hound. And I still manage to play out sometimes.

The only thing I don't have on this pedal board is the power source(s)...
a very polite sound man informed me that having the power source so close to the pedals themselves was turning the
power source into the source of the buzz. So I scrapped that idea. I normally make a pedal board out of a real board...
but this new board is a piece of laminated flooring, which serves very well. And the price was right. *grins

The only thing I don't have on this board is a volume pedal. But since I bought me a MXR Dyna Comp I don't need
one. I use the compressor for that function, and it serves very well. Other friends ribbed me about having so many
pedals on my board that I couldn't get my toe in there to stomp 'em. I was like, "what, you think this is a lot?"
My friends are obviously acoustic players *laughs... who think the guitar signal should go into a microphone
(so that somebody ELSE will manage their tone).

The only thing I don't have on this board is an acoustic simulator... I don't wish to mock the dead, but that was
a really bone head comment. Bless his heart, but he never failed to step up and voice his disdain for acoustic guitars
on any thread that mentions one. Ah well. We all have our little ways. He was a Les Paul Guy. I don't think he
knew how to play an acoustic guitar. As he would always say, he had no need to, or interest in it. But I'm sure I've made
hundreds of dollars playing acoustic guitar through some of these pedals. *grins.... RIP Robert, old friend.

This was Spring Gulch Festival, 2018... my last tour. My old '66 Fender bass behind me and my trusty '75 Mossman
acoustic behind me were sold in 2019 with so much else. I kept the Gibbie as consolation.
And yes, I was using my pedal board on this run, and on this stage...
View attachment 97732
The only thing I don't have on this board is a talent simulator. I don't think I can afford one of those, so I'm stuck
with whatever talent I got left and so's the audience. If any...
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Robert wasn’t the only one here that isn’t a fan of acoustics. There’s a few others. First 34 years I’ve played guitar I only had an acoustic. Wasn’t till 07 I bought my first electric. I still love acoustic guitar.
 
iblive said:
Robert wasn’t the only one here that isn’t a fan of acoustics. There’s a few others. First 34 years I’ve played guitar I only had an acoustic. Wasn’t till 07 I bought my first electric. I still love acoustic guitar.
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Me too. I bought my first guitar with my own money at a pawn shop... I earned the money carrying
golf bags. I had to have an electric! I think I paid about $60.00 for a Crest ES-335 copy.
That was a lot of money in 1965...It was beautiful to my 16 year old eyes, but
it wasn't a very good copy. I traded it in about a year later to get a used Gibson FJN acoustic.
After that, I played acoustic six string and electric bass for literally decades. Never look back...
I bought a new Gibson SG in 2008 as a gift to myself for turning sixty. And I still have that one.
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I know Robert Herndon wasn't the only member here that isn't into acoustic guitars.
He was just one of the most outspoken members
on how NOT into acoustics he was. *grins
I let it go... he had a lot of authority. And I always liked reading what he had to say, except for that.
And except for how much he hated his beautiful new SG. But he was a Les Paul guy.
I always felt bad reading about how much he couldn't stand his SG. He prolly sold it to someone
who is still playing it and having no problems. I always thought he should send it to me. *grins
 
I had good luck with the Radial Tonebone Pre-Z. On worship team it gave me some tweak ability when the volunteer guys upstairs on the board couldn’t quite get my sound fixed.
 
I just rarely play acoustic.
Live our sets don't go there.
For shows if something similar is required however briefly, I sometimes use an acoustic sim and sometimes one of the piezo equipped electrics. The Godins sound remarkably like my Takamine with the piezo, very good.
 
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