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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

This is genius. I have often contemplated about the viability of using a wireless to get my pedalboard to my amp. Curious to see how this evolves for you and kudos to you for doing it.

Wireless to amp definitely works. One of the guitar players in my band does that using 5.8ghz dongles with no issues.

I’m also using xsw wireless to get my mic to the board. It’s all been working great at rehearsal, I can’t wait to use the whole setup at a gig. As of right now it looks like it won’t be until mid March.
 
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You've got me curious here. Does this mean "the floorboard" includes some non-pedal sections?

Also, I see your SubnUp is positioned to the front. Is this because you're working it a lot?

The SubNUp is only offset because the input/output jacks don't quick line up the same as the other pedals.
It's part of my custom floor sampler/effect processor.
Making my own effect processor with stuff laying around
 
Phaser, envelope filter, and octave pedal. All by EBS. I haven’t been able to get what I want out of the envelope filter but the other two are keepers.

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I figured it was time to compact my board a fair bit and this is what I’ve gotten it down to. It may be small, but it's oh so very doomy.

OBNE Signal Blender
Darkglass Alpha Omega Ultra
EHX Green Russian Big Muff Pi – Metal Zone (modded)
Fortin Zuul - (Darkglass Element for headphones practice) - Orange Terror Bass - OBC115

I’m loving the variations of dirt and grit that I can get out of this relatively simple setup. The Darkglass AOU is pretty much an always on pedal while the Russian and Metal Zone are an either/or situation as things just get way too noisy with both engaged at once. The Metal Zone has been modded according to this video. I removed both the C35 and C24 caps to get rid of the mid and high frequency boosts. I do have a Life Pedal clone kit coming, so chances are the Green Russian will get replaced with that as between the two, the modded Metal Zone definitely wins out over the Russian. The Signal Blender isn’t necessarily needed here, but I do really like the ability to control the volumes of each channel to avoid big volume spikes when throwing on some more dirt.
 
We are pedalboard brothers! I need to look at the Khan DI for recording, but I have my eye on the REDDI.
Reddi is great and I used one for a long time. I personally think the khan is better and I love that it will mount to a pedalboard. Especially the new smaller version. I gigged the older one with the Noble for a while and my band mates all agreed it was much better live. Obeid is a great guy to deal with also.
 
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Went to a music store over the weekend that only sells pedals just to look around. 2 hours later, left with a few new pedals. Got a BYW Blacky Blower going into a Walrus Audio Julianna going into a Polytune mini and finally into a Strymon Nightsky. Everything is powered by an MXR Mini Iso-brick. The Nightsky was the biggest surprise. Never tried a reverb before and this pedal can do that and so much more. Haven't even scratched the surface. Can't wait to try the board out full-volume at practice tonight.
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Finally got this guy essentially finished this weekend. I still need to finalize the power cable wiring and straighten everything out, but I’m pretty psyched so I’m just gonna post it now. Most of this stuff is used, so I’ve been slowly putting it together as the pedals I wanted would come up for sale used locally. The crowning piece is the Mu-Tron that I just saw come up the other day and picked up Friday.
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This is for my practice room/studio setup, so the drum machine, looper and ABY are on there so I can put together a complete little rhythm track for ideas that I can then work over with other instruments or, of course, I can just play bass against the drum machine. Or heck, I can just quickly play guitar through my bass pedalboard for a change o’ pace — that’s what the ABY switch is for. I have a guitar sitting on a stand to the side and hooked up to the ABY switch so that I can pick it up at any time. Guitar doesn’t sound/feel the best through the bass amp, but it’ll do in a pinch and it works well for its main purpose — quickly adding a rhythm guitar part.

Anyway, this little pedalboard, a "kitchen sink-er" for sure :roflmao:, has been a fun project that took a long time to finally come together how I’d originally envisioned it. Metro 24 board, 1SPOT CS6 power supply underneath
 
Went to a music store over the weekend that only sells pedals just to look around. 2 hours later, left with a few new pedals. Got a BYW Blacky Blower going into a Walrus Audio Julianna going into a Polytune mini and finally into a Strymon Nightsky. Everything is powered by an MXR Mini Iso-brick. The Nightsky was the biggest surprise. Never tried a reverb before and this pedal can do that and so much more. Haven't even scratched the surface. Can't wait to try the board out full-volume at practice tonight. View attachment 4154975
I'm very interested in that blower box. What are your thoughts on it?
 
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I have the tuner and Hyper Luminal in FX loop 1 the Harmonic Booster and B7K in FX Loop 2 so I can place them anywhere I want in the chain. Generally loop 2 last so I can utilize the Darkglass cabsims. I have loaded 16 IRs into the available slots of the GT-1000CORE and am able to utilize them as well.
Loop 1 is always on so I can monitor tuning and set the compression early. If I need any extra compression later I can add it in the Gt chain.