Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[qersty]

In celebration of the board coming back online, here's the rig I've been goofing off with recently. Chain is self explanatory.

me fux with this

[MechaGodzilla]

Here pictured the setup I'm using lately for my ambient sets:
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is that a morningstar midi switch? how do you like it? easy to setup and use?

Yes, that's a Morning Star MC6 midi controller. I use it to expand the controllability of the Looperlative LP2 looper.
I like it a lot. It's very powerful and with its editor it's pretty easy to setup to your needs.

that's good to know, thank you. i want to get one to control my digitakt while playing guitar. i could probably get by with the 3 button version but the 6 might open up possibilities i haven't even considered yet... much to think about!

[le lambin]

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Here pictured the setup I'm using lately for my ambient sets:
7E8F7075-EFCD-4BFA-99CF-591337526AA6.jpeg

is that a morningstar midi switch? how do you like it? easy to setup and use?
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Yes, that's a Morning Star MC6 midi controller. I use it to expand the controllability of the Looperlative LP2 looper.
I like it a lot. It's very powerful and with its editor it's pretty easy to setup to your needs.
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that's good to know, thank you. i want to get one to control my digitakt while playing guitar. i could probably get by with the 3 button version but the 6 might open up possibilities i haven't even considered yet... much to think about!
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Can confirm the MC6 is a beast- one of the best purchases I’ve made in musicland.

[dubkitty]

i revised the looping board a little...after using it with the full 3-board setup i found that it's better to have the 1440 all the way to the outside because i have to max out the loop level to get it near unity gain with the live guitar signal, so it's less useful than the Dittos. it does have a 99-second autofade feature i use a lot. eventually i'm probably going to have to replace the input and output boxes for something with individual channel volumes. tiny pedalboard-sized mixers are a thing, and i expect at least that an output mixer would be necessary to have everything controllable from one spot for fading/cross-fading loops, which is a big part of the concept for potential performance.

[Zork]

I rearranged my live board lately. I wanted to have a second delay and less tap dancing involved when switching effects. So out comes the trusty old M9.

Before:


After:


As a bonus I can now use the M9s noise gate which is just really, really good. Otherwise it's simply modulation > delay > reverb in two different flavours each.

[dubkitty]

sideways pedal mounting is underrated as a way of creating space.

[Zork]

I actually don't like the looks and try to avoid it but form follows function after all.

[dubkitty]

when my big board was at its peak i had several sideways pedals. there's fewer of them now.

[dubkitty]

i don't want to have to fuck with the big board layout, but i may have to. after some fiddling i figured out that the reason i couldn't get a sound i liked with the MK III Tone Bender was that the tone knob works backwards, which i've never seen on a fuzz before. i can now get something close to the sound i liked from the Tone Reaper when i was doing my loops a decade ago like the long legato notes here. the obvious answer would be to pull something from the Fuzz Section, but i really like and need everything there (Distortion+, Algal Bloom, Buzzaround, 3-knob Great Wall). the most likely thing to go would be the Buzzaround, but i kind of need it because the other fuzzes are fairly dark due to their inherent qualities and the way i adjust them so i need something with more treble edge. there's really no way to squeeze anything in without a lot of hassle and heartache and without fucking up the nice, logical layout that's currently in use. i could conceivably croak one of the delays, but they're both good for different things. or if i could smoosh the Villanova optical Uni-Vibe into the upper tier with the rest of the modulation options that would make room for the MK III. i'm going to have to think on this a bit.

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[dubkitty]

i revamped the big board last night. it wasn't quite as much trouble as i thought it might be. i moved everything on the top tier over to make room for the Villanova next to the PM7 and plonked the MK III down in the logical spot between the Buzzaround and the Great Wall where it fits the ascending gain levels. everything worked the first time i turned it on, but there's a high-pitched buzz/squeal in the background when the Buzzaround or Tone Bender are active. it disappears when i disconnect the FEB, so i'm assuming it's yet another problem caused by the MXR Iso Brick power supplies, which fuck up the Shallow Water (Fairfield specifically said the SW doesn't get along with MXR PSs) and cause terrible noise problems with the T-120 due to some kind of backtalk between the boards--they don't even run off the MXR bricks--which i have to use the buffered bypass option on the tuner to block. this stinks because i really can't afford a whole new PS for 16 pedals right now or for awhile until i see how my finances shake out with the big new car loan and insurance to suit. i actually think the modulation section makes more sense this way, keeping the mod units confined to the upper right and lower left. the fuzz is all in line except the Great Wall and in order of extremity, and neatly separate from the mod section and the tremolo spots at mid right. the array of various switches at top and center left are all far enough apart that i can hit them accurately with hiking shoes on without stepping on the knobs. given space considerations i think the MXR Layers, if i get one, will have to go on the FEB up at the front, perhaps right after the Attack Delay. but that's down the road (h/t Katy Powell). i suppose i could try to cram it in on the main board, but in the past i found that 16 9V pedals plus the TC SCF flanger which runs on AC is the effective limit for what this board can fit. i'm finding it makes my decision process a lot easier to have everything in more or less discrete sections i can work with at a glance. not having to hunt for stuff is a big consideration for me, along with general ergonomics.

[dubkitty]

thinking about a patch bay for the looping board that would allow me to route signal from one looper to either or both of the others. the main potential use case is sending one looper's looped output to a second looper where it could be recast in various ways, e.g. the Reverse and Half Speed functions on the Dittos and the variety of stunt features the 1440 offers that i haven't even tried yet including an Overdub setting where old layers gradually fade out as new ones come in that could be nice for Fripp/Eno reel overdub effects. i could conceivably also have a in/out for an effects loop where i could process the loops with e.g. the Deluxe Memory Man or the Behringer spring reverb. this would be separate from the pedalboard mixer, for which i'll either get the Red Panda or one of 2 Saturnworks 9V units depending on exactly what i think works best. the small SW and Red Panda boxes are similar, a single-space enclosure with 3 channel volume knobs; there's also a larger SW which includes on/off stomps for each channel and pilot lights. all are active and have isolated inputs.

[UglyCasanova]

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I'd lose so many hours playing this, in the bestest of ways.

[backwardsvoyager]

In celebration of the board coming back online, here's the rig I've been goofing off with recently. Chain is self explanatory.

Please tell me you've tried stacking everything to shift the pitch up and down 6 times in a row only to end up at the original pitch.
The PS-2/3/5 at full wet give a real cool lo-fi sound, esp. the way it introduces a kinda tremolo thing with the speed varying depending on the pitch setting. PS-2 down a full tone into PS-5 up a full tone is one of my fav sounds.

[Zork]

Yes. I, too, want to know more. Everytime I see that picture I get more and more curious. Please explain.

[Hobbes96]

Everything stacked one up one down sounds like a digital garbled mess, in a cool way. Definitely more of a studio effect than a practical live one though, imo.

I love the artificing on the PS-5, but usually only bring 2 put playing live, generally one set to the T-arm mode, either Octave up or depending on my mood, and then one doing a Maj 3rd up on E for a couple of Battles-y songs. On this board I ran 2 t arm, one harmonizer, and one doing the flutter mode on max speed. I also usually do use the PS-3 on either mode 6 or 8 for a glitchy 12 string with some chorusing.


The Pitchfactor is new to me, but I've been really enjoying the arpegiator function. I saw Melt Banana a few weeks ago, and I've really been aping Agata's sound.

Other pedals I almost always use that didn't make this particular picture: DOD Looking Glass (fine OD thats tweakable enough to always sound at least alright), a synth pedal (I like the FM4, the Future Impact, and Boss SYB-5 for different reasons), and the Red Panda Tensor (for those Sargent House glitches freezes).