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Here's what worked well on Saturday night with the cover band. The T70 and Prunes & Custard clone were for that dang "Uptown Funk"

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so here's what I'm taking with me this week. Rock and blues.

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Sweet board!

I tried searching prior to posting, but I am guilty of ignoring general post your board threads, I just searched for gig-specific stuff and came up mostly empty
Gigging is the main reason to have a pedalboard. For home playing and recording, there's not as much need to have a single thing to plug in that only takes a few seconds to unpack/pack up.

Here's mine:
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I'm amazed to see how many pedals and effects people use.
Well, this is the effects forum.

What's that giant thing at the bottom?

Here's what worked well on Saturday night with the cover band. The T70 and Prunes & Custard clone were for that dang "Uptown Funk"

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so here's what I'm taking with me this week. Rock and blues.

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Quantum Mystic spotted poking into the picture at the bottom.
 
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Gigging is the main reason to have a pedalboard. For home playing and recording, there's not as much need to have a single thing to plug in that only takes a few seconds to unpack/pack up.

Here's mine:
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Damn dude! You gig with both a Miku AND a Ravish?!? holy Band-envy Batman!
 
I really like to have a tuner that doubles as a mute, so i usually bring my board.
When there is no room or i don't want to bring so much, i rig a pedaltrain nano with
what i need for the evening. I don't have pics of the last setup, but it was
pitchblack tuner -> OD -> Fuzzrocious BDPG -> Strymon Bluesky -> LPF.

I used the OD for dirt (well, obviously)

and the BDPG together with the LPF to get an oldschool reggae sound.

The Bluesky was mainly for shimmering reverb effects with looong trails for some ambient picking, but i like a light reverb on the OD sound as well.
 
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I really like to have a tuner that doubles as a mute, so i usually bring my board.
When there is no room or i don't want to bring so much, i rig a pedaltrain nano with
what i need for the evening. I don't have pics of the last setup, but it was
pitchblack tuner -> OD -> Fuzzrocious BDPG -> Strymon Bluesky -> LPF.

I used the OD for dirt (well, obviously)

and the BDPG together with the LPF to get an oldschool reggae sound.

The Bluesky was mainly for shimmering reverb effects with looong trails for some ambient picking, but i like a light reverb on the OD sound as well.
Yeah, I use my tuner as a mute, too. It's at the beginning of my chain, though, whereas I see a lot of dudes here with it at what looks like the last position on the board.
 
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Yes, though usually I have to sneak the Miku into a feedback section.

I use the Ravish pretty heavily, though. Currently on four of Catapult's songs.

It's my control panel for everything. It's an extremely powerful switching unit with flip-flop capabilities, blending, switchable buffers, etc. I needed a switching unit as we use a fair amount of effects and I sucked at tap dancing. But the main reason I got the Pedal Palette two years ago was that I needed an easy solution to a problem I encountered using the EHX B9/c9/key9 series. What I wanted to do was give those pedals a clean, uncompressed, no-always on overdrive signal while still using my standard "clean tone" for the bass line. The best sounds I have gotten from the series is when I send the keys signal to the PA and keep my normal bass signal going to my amp/cab. When I switched on the keys sound, I wanted my basic sound out of my cab to not change while the PA got a nice keys signal. But at the same time, I didn't want the EHX pedals to receive a colored signal as they sounded best first in line.

So I set my Pedal Palette up like this:

loop 1 - Always on - e.g. Cali comp, Valvecaster
Loop 2 - dirt (irrelevant for this example)
Loop 3 - keys / organ - e.g. EHX Series into the Strymon Lex straight to the board
loop 4 - other (irrelevant for this example)

And my first preset is just loop 1. Preset 2 is my keys loop and the following happens:

The Pedal Palette flips the order of the loops (1,2,3,4 becomes 3,4,1,2) so Loop 3 sees a clean signal and sends it straight to the board/PA. Then Loop 1 in parallel is engaged with all my normal always on stuff and that goes to the amp. Since Loop 1 is in parallel, it sees a clean signal as though it was first in line and doesn't care that the Keys loop is ahead of it.

I use this setup often with the Ravish as well. Similarly useful if you want to do lines on Ravish that track your bass lines and have them coming from 2 separate speakers.

These days I think the Boss ES-5 / ES-8 series probably trump the Pedal Palette. But I am not sure. The ES-5 is longer but less deep. Costs pretty close to the same amount. I find they work great - perfectly quiet switching, easy to program, easy to switch between presets and manual mode. Just a great unit. Hasn't given me anything but help.

Sorry for the long explanation
 
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