TylerDeadPine wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 3:52 pm
twelvepoint wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 7:46 am
Kudos to everyone here, but I have a soft spot for folks with pedals that are askew, wires everywhere, as though the whole setup could change in the blink of an eye.
That’s usually how it is. I am envious of tidy, less problematic setups, and I’ll get my stuff organized but then sure enough I’ll rip it apart soon after. Younger days I just remember these metalcore bands with pristine organized setups, making terrible music I figured the opposite must be correct
Loose pedals are fine for home studios and unshared rehearsal spaces, but if you gig then you have to have some sort of board or case for your junk. People who take forever to set up and start their set because they have patch to a bunch of pedals together with janky wires should be blacklisted.
I should record a demo of this board because I'm really proud of what it does, from twee jangles to riff rockin' to gut busting metallicisms. It's evolved over the past 10 years since I started playing guitar with Escape Rope, but always at the core has been a version of the Wilson Lotus Drive (Dumble style), from a single to the Dual with one output to the Dual with two ins and outs, and other variations including a custom build. All forms are great, with lots of low end, transparency, very low noise floor, clipping diode options, and excellent stackability. It's also always been in an effects loop pedal that is blendable with the expression pedal, so I can fade in and out from my clean signal. Once you go fade you'll never go back to click.
Reverbs and delays have come and gone, though I'm very happy with the Boss units I have now, and though I have dabbled with tremolo pedals and used to have a pitch shifter with an excellent Detune feature, but those kind of effects were used on one or two songs tops, and I have a personal rule that if it doesn't get used that often then it doesn't need to live on my board.
The Saturnworks dual footswitch with the Barefoot Buttons controls the delay's tap tempo and "runaway" feature, and the other single Saturnworks pedal is a killswitch from the second out of the tuner to the bass effects (we use a crossover and pitch shifter as our bassist). The wah is a bass wah because I prefer its range, adjustability, and spring action to that of regular guitar wahs. The American Loopers fx loop switcher gives me the Lotus channels 1, 2, or both stacked.
I scoffed at the Waza Craft tuner when it came out, but I tried it and I'm a convert. And finally, yes that is a Hotone "Djent" pedal tucked in the midst of it all. It's so small! It has a really fat bottom and the tone controls do interesting things, so it's a good alternative to my main stacked overdrive sound and when stacked with them it takes things over the top when I need a totally chungused lead sound.
