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Post Your Pedalboard - Part I

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I gave a homemade pedal board a go and here it is:

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This cost me £30 in materials and took about 6 hours in total, not bad considering I had no power tools except a drill!
 
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Terrorstorm said:
I especially like the way it looks with the wood.
I wouldn't paint it, because it looks so great.
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Yeah I was going to cover it or paint it but then I really liked the natural finish of the wood too.

Thanks for all the kind comments guys, I am really happy with it :D. I have just ordered a Digitech Bass synth wah and am going to get some nice patch leads then I am getting closer to that board in my head.
 
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Finally snapped a picture of the pedal board I am presently using. Long overdue, boards seem to always be in a state of flux anyway, but here is a link to a page I put up for the photo. Soon as the camera battery recharges I will replace the photo with the finger prints removed from the Red Witch pedals.

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Nice board! How do you like that THC? My local shop has one that I've been eyeballing but I haven't had the chance to test it. What I need is an over the top chorus effect. Subtlety isn't important to me at all. Will the THC get crazy?

The army of Red Witches is awesome, too.:D
 
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bass-shy said:
Nice board! How do you like that THC? My local shop has one that I've been eyeballing but I haven't had the chance to test it. What I need is an over the top chorus effect. Subtlety isn't important to me at all. Will the THC get crazy?

The army of Red Witches is awesome, too.:D
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Thanks Bass Shy.
Even Ben from Red Witch was impressed by the Army of products, it made his day.

I like the THC because it retains the bottom end very well but it is a more politely voiced chorus pedal. It can do the crazy fast "Leslie Tones" but will introduce some high end noise when increasing the depth control. I use for the subtle finesse chorus sound that is only evident a long sustained notes.
Now the Red Witch Empress can very easily go over the top with that Seasick Wobble plus it can be toggled between Chorus and Vibrato settings. It is also stereo capable with wet/dry signal splitting plus wet/dry balance control onboard.
 
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conical johnson said:
....The 2880 does a lot more of what I want a looper to do than the Echoplex (though the EDP has way more features overall), so the EDP is going....
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so..... how do you like the 2880? i'm thinking of getting one.... what do you think about it, so far? do you use it to lay down a rhythm or two and then play over them, or do you do crazy multi overdubs and loops on loops? loop-de-loop?

basically, can you give us a quick review of it?

rock on! thank you.
 
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jetpackbassist said:
so..... how do you like the 2880? i'm thinking of getting one.... what do you think about it, so far? do you use it to lay down a rhythm or two and then play over them, or do you do crazy multi overdubs and loops on loops? loop-de-loop?

basically, can you give us a quick review of it?

rock on! thank you.
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Both. The 2880 is very cool. What it has over the Echoplex is the ability to pitch up or down the loop, oversomething like 4 octaves, in semitone steps; and the multiple layer thing, which is more useful to me than being able to have 16 separate loops that can be played simultaneously, as on the EDP. You can record, for instance, some chords on one track, a bass line on the next, a melody on the next, and some atmosphere on the last. Each of these can be infinitely overdubbed like an echoplex, so you aren't just limited to four sounds at once. Each track has a volume/feedback control (depending on whether you're overdubbing or not) and a pan control. You can mixdown these four tracks to the stereo master track. The thing that got me to buy the 2880 is its ability to do stereo loops (which you would need 2 Echoplexes to accomplish), so I can loop my stereo effects.

What it can't do is the stuttering, glitchy stuff that you can do on an Echoplex (Andre LaFosse exemplifies this). I mean, you can technically, but it's harder because the overdub and punch-in stomps can't be set for momentary, so you have stomp twice for every little grain of sound you want in there. I used to enjoy doing this because it's weird, but I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really produce good music, IMO. It's much simpler to operate than the EDP (no menus), but it has more useful options for me. I would recommend going to the ehx.com website and downloading the manual to get a feel for how it works and whether it can do what you need it to do. If you want a really simple looper, just so you can solo over a bassline or something, there are cheaper loopers out there. But for me, it's great. Plus, if you get a 2gig flash card for it, you could record an entire 6-track album on the thing (with infinite overdubs!). How many loopers can do that?
 
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