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Show me your compact pedalboard setup
- Thread starter garmenteros
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As long as you are within the appropriate amps put out you should be fine. I've even found some pedals to run different/better when starved a bit on Amps (some builders also rate their stuff as needing more than it actually draws). The one thing to be aware of is the impacts of daisy chaining. I did a board rebuild not too long ago that required a LOT of experimenting to get things just right to have minimal noise and optimal tonal performance. It's always a work in progress, but this stuff is more forgiving than you'd imagine (as long as you don't AC a DC or something really dumb like that) so experiment a bit. Cioks stuff is top notch.
Played my first gig adding the Sonic Stomp (mini) to my HX Stomp board. Both battery powered and worked flawlessly, and sounded great!
Here’s my compact board - there’s a Junior Fuel Tank underneath - the board is a Pedaltrain Nano Plus:
I’m building a new (bigger) one though as I’ve just bought the Agro and Chorusaurus
I’m building a new (bigger) one though as I’ve just bought the Agro and Chorusaurus
Yeah it's a bit more subtle so you dial in quite a subtle growl which works for me. Treble control on there is a bit of waste for me as I don't want my sound to be too bright. If I need more overdrive I have that option by using the SpectraDrive.
I do think that my “big” board is compact but today I took my time to build a small one with my bare essentials. A cutting board and two pieces of velcro and voila! This together with a P with flats sound marvelous!
Finally filled the last spot on my pedalboard.
Signal Chain: Polytune3 > Union Tube and Transistor LAB (Compressor) > Union Tube and Transistor Tone Druid (Drive) > 3Leaf Audio Proton v3 (Filter) > Horrothia Type-One (Chorus) > SansAmp BDDI.
Powered by CIOKS 4 on an Aclam Pedalboard.
Signal Chain: Polytune3 > Union Tube and Transistor LAB (Compressor) > Union Tube and Transistor Tone Druid (Drive) > 3Leaf Audio Proton v3 (Filter) > Horrothia Type-One (Chorus) > SansAmp BDDI.
Powered by CIOKS 4 on an Aclam Pedalboard.
Thanks, credit goes to Revelation Cable Company from BC, he put those together for me and even added some red screws to them which I think was a nice touch.
Really nice board! What do you have to say about the Tone Druid? I’ve been looking for that one but haven’t heard much about it.
I love it! What I enjoy the most is that it can add a bit of dirt to your signal without coloring it too much. I usually run mine pretty subtly (not indicated by the photo though) just to add a bit of depth to my tone. Highly recommend.
Just put this together only to find that the PS unit doesn’t quite fit underneath. Some hacksawing required:
Downsized my “big” board some more. I think it will qualify for the compact label now. With some smart use of preset, snapshots and midi programming I can get all I need for our cover band from this. More pedals is more fun but this is easy to carry and with all the thinking and programming already done I can concentrate on the gig at hand instead of knob tweeking and tap dancing. Split path on the stomp with ampsim to PA and without to stage amp makes it easy to adapt to different places.
Here's where I'm at for now.
Nothing has really changed on my board since last year, i’m set lol. Two stomps covers everything i need, but I’ve put the eq2 back on the board for convenience.
I treat the white stomp as a preamp/distortion with extras, and the black as a hub. With pitch, synth, modulation and out to amp and recording and so on.
I treat the white stomp as a preamp/distortion with extras, and the black as a hub. With pitch, synth, modulation and out to amp and recording and so on.
My last submission was in 2019 but I thave a new gig and just put together this board and have used it on a few ampless gigs with in-ears and love it.
My board has grown to this:
I may just have to get a Darkgkass Adam for my compact board!
I may just have to get a Darkgkass Adam for my compact board!
