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So I've been pondering lately what my ultimate pedalboard would be for writing the music I hear in my head. My current pedalboard does amazing at covering a HUGE array of tones, but I wanted something more specialized so I came up with this:


Guitar -> Polytune > Engineers Thumb Compressor > MXR Micro Amp > Verellen Big Spider > Verellen Skyhammer Preamp > Custom I/O box buffered Amp out -> Amp Input

Amp FX loop send -> I/O box FX Loop in > EB VPjr > Moog LPF > Moog MF-104M Delay > Custom Rub-a-Dub Verb > I/O box buffered FX loop out -> Amp FX loop return


The goal is to be able to cover the variety of tones used by bands such as Old Man Gloom, Young Widows, and Kowloon Walled City. Earthy / Ambient / Gritty / Textural / Distant tones abound with various Dynamic levels within the click of a footswitch.

What would be your ultimate board and why?

I think mine would be:

Guitar/bass -> Polytune -> Madbean Compressor -> reverb of some sort -> EHX Ring Thing (for pitch shifting)-> A/B/Y looper -> (A: DOD Death Metal/Noise Swash -> Monarch) (B: Mini -> Sovtek Tall Font) -> DMM (with either a true bypass loop or true bypass mod) -> Trinity Reverb -> Stereo Jam Man -> Amp 1 + Amp 2

I would have loop A be for the fast parts of my playing, and loop B for the slower heavier parts, and then you could combine them both for the end of the world. Reverb before and after always for the quiet parts, and I can't live without that damn Madbean compressor

I think I'd just add a headrush, a chorus, and a pitch shifter to my "board" (the Dirge250 and the Supercollider).

But that's because i've been listening to a lot of Bong, Nadja, and QE.

Getting closer month by month...I go through terrible phases of being totally set on my setup for 2-3 years then over that time all the holes I want to fill reveal what I potentially needs and once it gets real heavy I go on a GAS binge...

Front End: Guitar -> a volume pedal that doesn't suck(literally and figuratively)-> TU-2 -> Digitech Whammy DT -> Fulltone OCD(or similar) -> Black Arts Pharaoh -> Homebrew UFO -> Some sort of Lead Boost -> ISP Decimator -> Amp

FX Loop: Send -> TC Electronic Flashback 4x -> Any decent sounding analog chorus -> MXR Phase 90 -> TC Electronic Hall of fame -> Return.

reverb,trem, delay, phase, some kind of octave thing like a pog 2 or micropog, and then a weird effect like a copilot antenna or orbit in my setup. Almost there with it, just tracking down all this crap again will; take a minute. then a second small board with just a tuner and delay for when i get in the mood to downsize.

Ezekiel Clone>Siamese Beard>Huge Box II>Big Spider>Megalith>Freq LSD>Organizer>Behemoth II>Disaster Transport>Deluxe Memory Boy>RC-3>Polytune
I've got about half of these already.

Bass -> 616 -> Mini -> Baby Thundaa -> Volume pedal -> Cathedral -> Amp

Could throw in a TAFM after the Thundaa, a phaser after everything, and a super ego with some shit in the loop if I wanted to get more crazy.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:The goal is to be able to cover the variety of tones used by bands such as Old Man Gloom, Young Widows, and Kowloon Walled City. Earthy / Ambient / Gritty / Textural / Distant tones abound with various Dynamic levels within the click of a footswitch.

I like the way you think. A LPF would be killer.

kbithecrowing wrote:I like the way you think. A LPF would be killer.

Thanks!!! and agreed! I like the way you think, 616 into thundaa =

For gigging:

Guitar -> TC Electronic Polytune Mini Noir -> MojoHand FX Villanova -> Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh -> D*A*M Sonic Titan or Smallsound/Bigsound Mini -> Catalinbread Semaphore Tremolo -> EHX Deluxe Memory Man 1100 w/Tap Tempo -> Earthquaker Devices Ghost Echo -> TC Electronic Ditto Looper -> Amp input

For home:

Guitar -> Sonic Research Turbo Tuner -> Subdecay Octasynth -> Earthquaker Devices Organizer -> Fairfield Circuitry Unpleasant Surprise -> ZVex Loop Gate -> Smallsound/Bigsound Sparkle Motion -> Smallsound/Bigsound Fuck -> Empress Multidrive -> Fairfield Circuitry Randy's Revenge -> Amp input

FX Loop Send -> Subdecay Quasar Dlx -> Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus V3 -> Empress Phaser -> Empress Tremolo -> Strymon Timeline -> Red Panda Context Reverb -> Pigtronix Infinity Looper - FX Loop Return

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:I like the way you think. A LPF would be killer.

Thanks!!! and agreed! I like the way you think, 616 into thundaa =

the 616 is a great delay to run into dirt. With the buffer on the repeats have a niecly balanced sound so that the delay is pronounced and smears things a little bit without making everything sound too messy. Sex.

tuner to replace TU-2 > Sunmachine Fuzz O))) > Blackout Musket > ss/bs bass super puzzle (or similarly mean Superfuzz) > Wilson Freaker > MXR Bass Chorus > delay/reverb yet to be determined.

This is for seriously down-tuned bass and guitar. Been trying to find a decent-sounding delay/reverb that won't turn to shit under booming low end.

Guitar -> Hi Gain FF Thing -> Univibe Clone -> Amp Input

Matamp based FX loop -> Spring Verb with parallel buffered I/O for Moog 104FM or Echorec (if you have the $$$) -> FX Loop Return

Small mod on the FX loop for that amp to be in parallel or series

hashshashin wrote:tuner to replace TU-2 > Sunmachine Fuzz O))) > Blackout Musket > ss/bs bass super puzzle (or similarly mean Superfuzz) > Wilson Freaker > MXR Bass Chorus > delay/reverb yet to be determined.

This is for seriously down-tuned bass and guitar. Been trying to find a decent-sounding delay/reverb that won't turn to shit under booming low end.

The Super Puzzle is Doom through and through. I miss mine.

hashshashin wrote:ss/bs bass super puzzle (or similarly mean Superfuzz)

If you want to try an alternative superfuzz, you could give a try to the Custom Super Harakiri from Creepy Fingers. Massive!

Abanoise wrote:

hashshashin wrote:ss/bs bass super puzzle (or similarly mean Superfuzz)

If you want to try an alternative superfuzz, you could give a try to the Custom Super Harakiri from Creepy Fingers. Massive!

I can't find a demo displaying the sound I'm looking for from a SF clone with the Harakiri (basically, a quality Boss FZ-2 cranked Fuzz II tone a la "Dopethrone" / "...Come, My Fanatics"). I scoped Excane's bass-modded SP and didn't hear a tone I didn't like.
Shame, since I'd love to support Fu Manchu's efforts.