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Show me your compact pedalboard setup

My "Everything on a Nano board" got an update this week after going unchanged for the better part of a year. Not sure if this main change will stay yet. The Matryoshka Synth was added. There are some good sounds, but I am struggling to dial it in at this point. Will move it to the absolute front of the chain and try it again, but realistically with most things bypassed by the loopbox it shouldn't make any difference.
Changes are:
Matryoshka Synth added
Power supply added underneath - no more wallwart
Current signal chain is:
Pure Boost - Micro Thump - Swiff Tuner - Mosky Loopbox With VBOD, Black Rat, Dynamic Wah in the loop - CompIQ - Chorus mini -ToneX One - Radial SB-2 - Spark mini.
Spark mini is after the DI to drive a power amp or powered wedge without impacting levels to FOH

Flame away :D

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I've always loved this board. Just my compressor and preamp would take up a whole Nano, but I love how you have built this over the years.
 
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Moved to a Nano+ to accommodate the Messenger. PC-2A > Super Stack in Caveman’s loop. Messenger after that, end-of-chain, for filters and small EQ tweaks to the room. Good practice setup too. Everything always-on - sits on a cab (in case curious how the weird DI out positioning works on the Messenger).

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Still need to get some Velcro on the Greathammer and get it locked down but extremely happy with this setup.

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I’ve added an fx loop between The Accountant and the Element in case I want to add anything else like the Model FeT for guitars etc. TBH it’s a bit overkill so might take that out as it adds a bunch of extra wires and clutter.

Other than that I can see myself keeping this setup for the foreseeable as long as I can resist the QCmini 😬
 
Great board. How are you powering it?
Daisy chain with a OneSpot.


Nice feng shui, Ian! This one’s rather calming to look at.

Really? Thanks. Nothing special about it…. But I’ll take that.

Are these your actual settings on the BDDI?
If so, I like them as they should sound quite balanced with a passive bass.

It’s a ParaDriver, and yes they are the settings I last used. Works really well with my Pbass. Keeps the Pbass tone, not too much SansAmp color, punchy and nice in the mix.