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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

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This set up might make it a week or more
 
Talk to me about the Wet. I'm back and forth between a Wet plus some delay or a Dispatch Master.

tl/dr: Its a great pedal and it plays wonderfully with bass.

I flip through delays and reverbs a good bit. Here are some of my favorites and thoughts on each. I suffer from option paralysis so simple is better for me.

ED Dispatch Master: This is the best sounding IMO. It doesn't have a bad sound in it. It does not handle hot signals very well. If it had more headroom and tails it would be superglued to my board.

Boss RV-3: Mode 7 is awesome. It sounds kind of shrill when solo, but it really shines in a band context.

Keeley Caverns V2: The delay is beautiful. The reverb sounded great until I tried a W3T. Easy to dial in and the separate footswitches rule.

Matthews Cosmonaut V2: This one has the best control and footswitch layout of any pedal period IMO. The sounds are fine, but left something to be desired. I couldn't get a big wash without going to mud.

Neunaber Wet V5: So nice! It can get subtle or washed out without going to mud. It takes dirt better than any other reverb I have tried. It doesn't have delay, but I haven't found my self wanting it since I got it.

Ibanez DE-7: I have two. Honestly one of the best reverbish delays ever made. The construction is what kills these. It is absolutely beautiful in Echo mode

On my shortlist:
Wampler Ethereal
Neunaber Immerse V2
 
Hello All,

Is the Pedaltrain Nano the smallest pedal board available?

Are there other brands/models that I should be looking at for the smallest pedal board?

I've used my BOSS BCB-30 for over 10years with no problems and have never needed more than 3x pedal slots,... but I'm starting to experiment with compressors.

Cheers all!
 

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Surprise surprise. Apparently, placing the BRBM first (after the receiver of course) made it less quirky and it actually sounds great. Nevermind those settings, those knobs move just by looking at them. Now it's really "full". I love it!

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Question about your Boss EQ-200 if you don't mind.

Can it take an incoming signal, split it into two separate parallel signals, treat those signals individually (one high passed and the other low passed), then recombine them into one output?
 
Hello All,

Is the Pedaltrain Nano the smallest pedal board available?

Are there other brands/models that I should be looking at for the smallest pedal board?

I've used my BOSS BCB-30 for over 10years with no problems and have never needed more than 3x pedal slots,... but I'm starting to experiment with compressors.

Cheers all!

To the best of my knowledge, the smallest actual pedalboard out there is a Rockboard Duo 2.0 (12" x 5.5"). I use it myself and you can fit 4 pedals on it. I like it because it's compact, lightweight, sturdy, and it isn't a flat-style pedalboard.
 
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To the best of my knowledge, the smallest actual pedalboard out there is a Rockboard Duo 2.0 (12" x 5.5"). I use it myself and you can fit 4 pedals on it. I like it because it's compact, lightweight, sturdy, and it isn't a flat-style pedalboard.

Like this one.
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The pedals are definitely edge to edge plus a hair on each side.
 
Question about your Boss EQ-200 if you don't mind.

Can it take an incoming signal, split it into two separate parallel signals, treat those signals individually (one high passed and the other low passed), then recombine them into one output?

Not sure. According the manual, you can't. But you can EQ line A, send it to your effects, then re-EQ it via line B as if you were using two separate EQ pedals at the beginning and at the end of the chain.

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Okay so this is 'finished' (haha, yeah I know)!
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Without the Blackstar attached I can use the Boss and DMC switches for banks up and down, then adding the Blackstar gives me more on/offs within the Boss. Sometimes the Bright Switch is swapped for a Chronograph. There's also usually an expression pedal going into the DMC. All powered from Cioks 4, underneath. I don't have any gigs until next year, so this will be purely a home/studio device until then.