Final assembly of my pedalboard, comments and suggestions welcomed.

[rustynuts]

Okay, it's taken me a couple of months of gathering pedals and trying them out in various positions in the chain but I think I've finally got it. Yeah, I guess this is another one of those "signal path" threads (my apologies for that) but I think I've got it down, really. Just looking for ideas I may have overlooked before I velcro everything down and cable it up.

Here's what I have right now, in series:

Bass into

EB VP JR (out to rack tuner), into

Keeley loop to
Fulltone BassDrive out to
Boss HM-2 out to
MXR Blowtorch back to
Keeley loop

Into a second Keeley looper to
Boss OC-2
Back into the looper

to a Dunlop 105Q

Into a third loop to
HBE Psilocybe to
HBE Mimic Mock II to
EHX Bassballs to
EHX Stereo Electric Mistress* to
Looper

to MXR SmartGate
to amp

*I've got the stereo out of the SEM running to a small guitar combo amp right now and have to say it makes some interesting sounds in combination with everything else.

I've tried dozens of combinations but I'm sure there are some obvious ones that I may have overlooked. I run a rack compressor and 31 band EQ so they won't be on the pedalboard.

Sorry to add another one of these to the forum but just wanted to get a few educated opinions before I "glue" it all together.

Thanks.....

[grace & groove]

Woah. No advice here just wanted to say congrats on an awesome sounding board.

[RickenBoogie]

Seems like a very workable order you've got already. How do you like the Keeley loops? I sometimes use a Little Lehle when I use more pedals than what's on my board.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by RickenBoogie

Seems like a very workable order you've got already. How do you like the Keeley loops? I sometimes use a Little Lehle when I use more pedals than what's on my board.

I really like the Keeleys. I originally bought one here on TB used but it worked so well I went out and bought a new one, and then a third. A couple of the pedals, the two older Bosses, can be a bit noisy so the loops are great as bypasses. I should probably pick up another one to use for an off-board loop.....I hadn't thought of that, thanks. Now I just need to find room to squeeze another one in.

Originally Posted by grace & groove

Woah. No advice here just wanted to say congrats on an awesome sounding board.

Thank you! Can't wait for the damned cables to get here so I can be done with it.

[Valerus]

That's a huge board idea!

[Nyarlathotep]

You and TaySte......

[beyondthe48]

try putting the wah before the distortion

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Valerus

That's a huge board idea!

So....How's the downsizing working out for you? And did you ever sell that PT-2?

Originally Posted by DanielTulip

You and TaySte......

Now, why would you want to insult TaySte like that?

Originally Posted by beyondthe48

try putting the wah before the distortion

That's something I've been going back and forth on. I like it both ways, but think I like the dirt in front of the wah just a little bit more.

Of course, that's always subject to change.

[Mr. Pickles]

Rusty,
How's the HBE Mimic working out for you. I had to sell mine as I was getting an unacceptable distortion on the delays. The guys at HBE said that there may not be enough headroom to run it on bass.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pickles

Rusty,
How's the HBE Mimic working out for you. I had to sell mine as I was getting an unacceptable distortion on the delays. The guys at HBE said that there may not be enough headroom to run it on bass.

Depending on the settings, I get that too. I've only had it a few weeks and really haven't had the time to play through it much so I thought it was just me....Given that information, I may be in the market for a delay soon.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by DanielTulip

You and TaySte......

Oh....What a humbling experience. I just went back and read through TaySte's Master Plan again and all I can say is my board is a piker compared to his goal.

No.....My name, and my board, can't even be considered in the same category as that. But that's definitely something to start working toward. On to Part II: The Addition!

[Mr. Pickles]

Rusty,
Glad to hear that I didn't have a defective unit. The Mimic II is an awesome analog delay on guitar though, so I'm sure that if you choose to sell it, you'll get what you paid for it. I swapped to the EHX #1 Echo (yes, digital, I know) and I'm not getting the disto. delays anymore. The builder of the Malekko delays told me the same thing that the HBE techs told me about running out of headroom on bass.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pickles

Rusty,
Glad to hear that I didn't have a defective unit. The Mimic II is an awesome analog delay on guitar though, so I'm sure that if you choose to sell it, you'll get what you paid for it. I swapped to the EHX #1 Echo (yes, digital, I know) and I'm not getting the disto. delays anymore. The builder of the Malekko delays told me the same thing that the HBE techs told me about running out of headroom on bass.

I played around with it a bit more today and am finding it to be a bit more distorted than I'd like for a clean delay. But....It's distorted and glitchy enough to keep it. Not sure I want to go digital, any suggestions for an analog delay with headroom?

On a side note, I made a couple of changes to the board. I moved the octaver loop in front of the dirt loop (of course, not until after I'd already cut the cables and mounted the pedals...) and added a fourth loop in front of the smart gate for my send/return loop to a second pedalboard. If I'd realized earlier I was going to use so many loops I'd have bought a multiple loop pedal.

Live and learn.

[Toasted]

Advice: bring a forklift / willing friends.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Toasted

Advice: bring a forklift / willing friends.

It's really not that heavy, believe it or not. I've been moving it back and forth from the workshop into the house for the past few days and it's not bad at all. The board itself weighs eight pounds, but that includes the power block, two ten foot instrument cables and a ten foot power cord wired into it.

It's not as bad as I thought it would be. Here's a fuzzy cellphone pic I took of it the other day....

[KarateKid25]

Three floors high... Nice

[rustynuts]

I'm liking it. The power block is underneath the rear tier and 95% of the cables and power cords run underneath the raised sections. Plus, I don't have to tap dance around close pedals.

[Swimming Bird]

I have an EHX DMM and it has the same problem as your Mimic. My new setup is going to have my BBE Opto-Stomp before (with the 15 dB cut) and into a powered mixer. You could do this with a volume pedal (to control glitch) and a boost or some such.

[rustynuts]

Originally Posted by Swimming Bird

I have an EHX DMM and it has the same problem as your Mimic. My new setup is going to have my BBE Opto-Stomp before (with the 15 dB cut) and into a powered mixer. You could do this with a volume pedal (to control glitch) and a boost or some such.

That's an idea.

[Nyarlathotep]

I believe FX Doctor makes a stomp/knob version of a volume pedal called a "scalpal" iirc.
That and a boost after should solve the headroom problem.

Cool lookin board with the 3 tiers