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Show your tidy pedalboard!
- Thread starter JakobT
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Tuner - octave up - compressor - reverb - pre-amp - hpf. Powered with a One Spot.
Swapped out most of my board over the last month save three pedals. Still a sucker for symmetrical layouts, cable lengths be damned. This time I actually ran out of 50 cm cables, so it could be tidier still I guess.
Easiest swap: Boss LS-2 > OBNE Signal Blender. Awesome pedal, though now I am gassing for an EHX Tri-Parallel Mixer.
Hardest swap: Letting go of the Boss ODB-3. I know, I know. The ODB-3 is divisive, but I love it. Dat clank. Turns out the MXR Bass DI gets pretty close.
Signal chain: Bass > Tuner > Looper > Comp > Blender > Wah > Delay/Looper.
Signal Blender runs three loops.
- Green: Clean. Not really a loop, but a pass through.
- Blue: MXR > B3K > Julia > Oceans 11.
- Red: Synth / Fuzz.
Old board for reference.
Even older board for no reason:
here's what I'm using...
underside...
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Dark pic I know but this is my latest board revision. Mooer Baby Tuner, Digitech Bass Squeeze compressor, TC Nether Octave, Ehx Bass Soul Food, Ehx Bass Big Muff Deluxe, Behringer BDI 21. Board itself welded from scrap steel at work.
Not sure if it's tidy or compact, but 100% sure these work super nice together ! It needs some cable management though. Is power cables beneath / patch cables above the way to go ?
To quote Snatch: "What are you trying to say Avi?"
I've had a really nice addition. It is not exactly on the board, but next to it. The Night Owl Edison Preamp uses a fairly vibration sensitive tube in the EF86. The Edison comes in a small wooden create. I built a foam suspension system in the create for the floor or top of amp use and will install an access hole for 1/4" cable input in the side.
I also replaced the factory tube, that sounds good, with a 60's Mullard 10M Master Series EF86. The tube is very smooth. The preamp is not designed for high gain breakup (think more like Hiwatt). Both my passive Fender P and my custom Warwick Stage I 5 with FD-3n pickups and Darkglass Tone Capsule sound markedly better!
Personally, I am very glad to have put this preamp in the tidy chain, even if not exactly on the tidy pedalboard...
I also replaced the factory tube, that sounds good, with a 60's Mullard 10M Master Series EF86. The tube is very smooth. The preamp is not designed for high gain breakup (think more like Hiwatt). Both my passive Fender P and my custom Warwick Stage I 5 with FD-3n pickups and Darkglass Tone Capsule sound markedly better!
Personally, I am very glad to have put this preamp in the tidy chain, even if not exactly on the tidy pedalboard...
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Love my Edison. Per Seth's suggestion, I replaced the original [nice sounding] EF86 w/ an NOS Tesla. It increased the headroom and can provide a nice OD effect if driven hard.
Correct, I can get breakup at the EXTREAM end of the volume control. I have the X for distortion. What this brings to the party is smooth rounded clarity to build on!
Seth did suggest a couple of tubes. I went for the Mullard if for no other reason than Hiwatt vibe that I like.
Would be cool the hear the Tesla, too!
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