How many pedals on your board?

[bobbybass85]

Hey TB! Hoping to do some market research for my own curiosity, and where better to start than TB!

So simple question: How many pedals are on your board? Poll is up and you can vote multiple times for multiple boards. For example, I occasionally pull just my Tone Hammer and tuner and take that. Usually it’s my full board, so I’d vote for 2-5 and 6-10.

Thanks in advance for voting! Helps me a ton!

 

[SaucyJackBass]

Better question, how many boards. I have my practice board with 8 pedals, my recording board with 9 (different pedals), and a condensed board with 5 (again, different pedals). We won't even talk about the ones not on those 3 boards.

 

[Standalone]

I found a deal on a Behringer board with 12 slots and a bunch of pedals. After switching some out and adding a few... I wound up with 12! Funny how that worked.

 

[bassbrad]

14 are on my F16 board in the current configuration, there are two pedals and a USB hub under the shelf that connect to a netbook.

 

[jefkritz]

I'm actually between boards right now (did some temporary pedal swapping with a friend), but I was hovering between 10 and 12 before that. Although the last gig I did was only three (tuner, fuzz, dirt)! So, two votes for me...

 

[gpTron]

4 pedals & a power strip.
Looper/tuner > Rusty Box > B7K Ultra > Noise Gate (because it powers the other 9 volt pedals).

I might add the Goatkeeper on there just because it's a badass pedal. But it mostly just hangs with the rest of my guitar pedal board.

 

[SidNitzerglobin]

Yeah, also a "which board?" question for me.

The simplest is generally at least 3 (tuner, compressor, preamp/EQ) but usually more like 5. Typically for bass I wind up ~9-10 (tuner, compressor, preamp, an OD/fuzz or 2, EQ, some form of modulation, a toy or 2 like a delay/synth/filter/etc., a loop switcher or 2, & often a buffer). Much more than that & it becomes unwieldy for me for actually playing.

 

[cosmicevan]

I've got 6 boards with pedals on them at the moment. The smallest board has 3 pedals on it, the largest has more than 20.

 

[SLPimp]

3 and an HPF right now. Adding a Particle Accelerator in May.

 

[thabassmon]

Let's see Ring Thing, Kingmaker, C4, Wahoo, V256, Volume, MD500

7 including Volume pedal, but not including expression pedals, Sequencer or Neuro Hub.

 

[Brich]

9? Tuner-octave-envelope-comp-preamp/drive-fuzz-chorus-delay-hpf

Just enough to get in trouble

 

[AaronVonRock]

Currently 4. Tuner-overdrive-fuzz-wah.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

4 boards of varying sizes with these to choose from:

 

[Nephilymbass]

5 at the moment

shure glxd (wireless/tuner)
Mxr bass octave deluxe
Darkglass microtubes x
Tc nova delay
Tech 21 gt2

 

[mobeme23]

my current setup hovers around 10-15:

 

[DrThumpenstein]

4

 

[SunByrne]

2 boards, one with 11 and one with 5.

Big board: TC Polytune 3 > Darkglass Hyper Luminal > DOD Meatbox > Source C4 > TC Mojomojo > DOD Boneshaker > Zvex Mastotron > EHX Bass Big Muff Pi > MXR Phase 90 > EHX Bass Chorus > Boss DD-3

Small board: Monoprice tuner > Joyo Voodoo Octave > Darkglass Duality > Deadbeat Modulation Station > Donner Yellow Fall Delay

In flux with some regularity. In particular, the 4 fuzzes tend to move back and forth.

 

[Low Down Brown]

Main board is Effectrode LA-1A > Barber Linden > HX Stomp > Broughton HPF > LBA T.I. Box > Quilter BB800.
Sometimes I add an octave at the front or a nice reverb or after the Stomp. Other times I patch a synth or IE Polytope into the FX loop of the Stomp. Sometimes, I just take a Markbass Compressore or the LA-1A and the HX Stomp and D.I. into the FOH. Depends on the application, but usually 2-5.

 

[Orion1985]

If you count the tuner, six.

 

[Jeff Hughes]

Another version of this poll should read: how many pedals do you activate more than twice at a gig?