Adventures in excess on a compact board. This is for a stoner rock/garage rock-focused kind of project. If you get the Voodoo Labs Small EX bag, it's actually the same width as the Voodoo Labs Small but with extra depth which you can use to strap in your wah and cables. The right Dingus patch bay lets me put the wah in the middle of the signal chain and the left Dingus lets me wedge in a delay without having to try to get an instrument cable in there.
Signal chain is:
>EHX Steel Leather - My only dream is for this pedal to someday become a mini pedal because it will be on probably every board I put together. The pinch of grind it adds to distortion pedals is too good.
>Sonic Research Mini Turbo Tuner
>MXR Bass Octave Deluxe - I'm not a big OC-2 guy. I prefer the EHX Octave Multiplexer kind of distorted, mid-range octave sound. The BOD is great because you get both.
>Keeley Fuzz Bender - One of the best fuzzes I have ever played. Unreasonably heavy sounding. Turned sideways here lets you adjust the Fuzz knob with your toe, and since this is one of the rare pedals where raising and lowering the fuzz volume doesn't dramatically change the output volume, it's like having an expression pedal
>One Control Mosquito Blender - Putting the Fuzz Wah in a blend loop makes both the wah and the included fuzz more usable
>Morley 20/20 Power Fuzz Wah - A really surprising pedal. The included fuzz sounded better than every "light overdrive" I tried to find to pair with it. I run it a lighter setting for grit and saturation and it works in that role with the Fuzz Bender for heavier stuff. I use it as a fuzz way more often than as a wah, but it's nice to have both.
>Frank the Anvil FX Snake Charmer Deluxe - An updated take on the Jen HF Modulator with a dry blend and a clean boost. This caveman's ring mod eats up fuzz and makes some really interesting rhythms and warbles. It kind of injects a slithering pulse to distorted sounds.
>Flower Pedals Castilleja Phaser - My favorite phaser ever because you can turn the intensity way down and crank the feedback for something really dark and chewy. How it packs in a univibe, vibrato modes for phaser and univibe both, tap tempo, rotary speaker speed up/slow down... boggles the mind
>Alexander F13 Flanger - Not super sold on this one. It does that kind of dry, crystal-clear sound like on old Type O Negative records but it has this vocal kind of quality you can't tweak out. In a perfect world I would put the MXR 117 flanger here but it doesn't fit!
>Becos CompIQ compressor - A solid hard limiter in a mini pedal format where I would normally put the larger Keeley Bassist
>Mr. Black Mini Echo/Delay - A crystal clear repeat for some subtle ambiance, sometimes for a rhythmic delay part
