You'll love the VMT. Best bass fuzz tone I've stumbled on!
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Show your tidy pedalboard!
- Thread starter JakobT
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You'll love the VMT. Best bass fuzz tone I've stumbled on!
I realized I didn't answer your real question. Imagine your preamp circuit is a "dirt pedal". It colors the sound as signal flows through.
Now, do you want your reverb tails, octaves, and phazers affecting, or being affected by an (intentionally)distorted signal?
When you put your modulation effects into the effects loop, you are bypassing your dirt pedals(separate signal chain) AND your preamp, outputting them directly to the power stage alongside your preamp signal.
I hope that explanation made sense. It's how I understand it, and love the result in separating my pedal types thusly.
Now, do you want your reverb tails, octaves, and phazers affecting, or being affected by an (intentionally)distorted signal?
When you put your modulation effects into the effects loop, you are bypassing your dirt pedals(separate signal chain) AND your preamp, outputting them directly to the power stage alongside your preamp signal.
I hope that explanation made sense. It's how I understand it, and love the result in separating my pedal types thusly.
There's a lot of nice ones out there. I opted for this one because it had the sounds I like to use occasionally. It was cheap, most folks in the audience won't know the difference as it sounds fine for the little bit I use it
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So, super basic question here...what brand cables would everyone recommend for their pedal boards. Other than the standard length pedal to pedal cables, what other lengths would you recommend?
EBS flat patch cables rock! I ended up using four different lengths by trial-and-error and have a few left over (which often get used elsewhere), but planning out your board on Pedal Playground etc. helps you predict what you'll need.
My 1st prototype of the "double-decker / cabinet top" pedalboard. (patent pending 
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I plan on swapping out the EQ10 for the Empress Para EQ, and adding an HPF.
(just trying out the Spectracomp right now)
The lower level houses my wireless, Voodoo 4x4 - which also powers the Tube Compressor, and currently a CountryMan DI.
)I plan on swapping out the EQ10 for the Empress Para EQ, and adding an HPF.
(just trying out the Spectracomp right now)
The lower level houses my wireless, Voodoo 4x4 - which also powers the Tube Compressor, and currently a CountryMan DI.
Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
I pack the whole thing, unplug one of the leads, though. Pedaltrain ships the Nano+ with a comfy gig bag which is roomy enough for my needs. Our guitar player though needs transport crates for his two pedal boards, a gig bag wouldn't do. He too, though, keeps everything hooked and set up. Understandably, his boards are so complicated even looking at them makes my head spin. Can't imagine setting it up during soundcheck or something.
Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
I second the EBS Flat Patch vote. They keep stuff tidy and save a lot of space – in my case, it made it possible to add a mini Big Muff Pi on the same board that was pretty much fully loaded with more usual patch cables.
I use the shortest EBS there are, and the middle length for connecting the Broughton to my Diamond. I always pack spares, but never needed them so far, quality seems high. I've only used them for half a year though, time will tell.
I use Rockboard flat patch cables. I needed as much space as I could get, and the Fender Custom Shop patch cables I used before were just too big.
Very nice! As a point of interest: why have you covered up the display if your black PolyTune?
Another vote for the EBS cables. I have an assortment of lengths.
I like going with the pre-cut cables because it makes it easy to reconfigure the board on a whim. I like that the EBS are flat like fettuccini, flat enough that I can run them under the pedals in the gap created by the Dual Lock tape I use to mount the pedals to the board.
That's the original plastic film over the display. One day, it will be worth millions...
A couple of variants of boards I've put together.
I have a couple of pedal train set ups. They make some very small ones and have a heavy duty carry bag. My philosophy is keep it small, and light weight, and plug in ready. One is a nano, with a smaller set up. The other is the smallest metro a little larger, but holds the main stuff, a Tuner, Comp, Octave and Dist, and a Chorus.
Everything including power adapter is velcroed or tie wrapped.
So the metro goes everywhere cause I use those pedals all the time. The nano is only for odd stuff that can be added if necessary, it has synth, looper, and etc. on it. It has it's own power adapt that is tied down
So unzip the bag, set the entire pedal board on stage, one extension to AC for the power, instrument in cord, and cord to the amp. And it's operational. Knobs are set, and it is ready. BTW, if knobs are easy to move on a pedal if the board is handled, I put a small rubber band under it to add some friction against an unwanted move of a setting.
Pedaltrain Nano with Soft Case
Pedaltrain Metro 16 with Soft Case
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Sascha and Eddie, thanks for the info. I will do likewise and keep my board set up when I transport it.
Thanks! It's a BYOC Phase90 clone. I just started making my own pedals, and as an amateur photographer I'm super proud of that one. Gutting that K1000 was not easy!
