Amateur guitarist here, posting from Paris, France.
My initial intention was to reduce my pedalboard to very few essential effects pedals... Finally I'm adding some new ones... so I ended up with 11 pedals (starting with 8 ones).
Brands are Kokko, Ammoon, Behringer, TC Electronics, Dunlop, Mooer, Ibanez.
Chained like this: Comp > Wah > Overdrive > Distortion > Fuzz > Phaser > Tremolo > Mods (chorus/Vibrato/Rotary) > Delay > Reverb > Looper
Some updates:
I'm playing pop rock and hard rock songs in a four piece band, with some "space rock" bits here and there.
The looper is essentialy a training device when I'm alone at home. This model allows for a Reverse effet and I intend to use it live when I'm comfy with it.
The Kokko Space is a really nice reverb for the cheap price, cranked up to max it produces a very cool and subtle dreamy/spacy effect.
The Behringer Vintage Phaser is the best phaser I could test (and I tested a lot of cheap phasers...). It's very smooth and creamy, and doesn't boost the signal when switched on (more expansive pedals tend to do it...).
Any comment?
16 Comments
higgsboson@piefed.social · 16 pts · 286d
Not a guitar guy (drive-by from c/all) but no one is roasting you, so I'll do my best:
fulm@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 286d
I agree with the other posters, nothing to roast!
Everything looks good to me, but I'd experiment with putting the fuzz sooner in the chain, either right before or right after the wah, personally. I'm not too familiar with the superfuzz circuit, but some fuzzes I would put before a compressor, also.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 286d
Nothing to roast here, looks like a solid setup and signal chain. Fuzz in the middle is an interesting choice for sure, I'm curious how that stacks.
berty@feddit.org · 5 pts · 286d
Looks good. Compressor first thats how I like it too. I have phaser in front of distortion because it sounds more natural to me but that's personal preference. Some like tremolo after reverb cause Fender amps used to have that.
What power supply do you use? Is that wah a mini crybaby? How do you like mooer mod pedal?
greguti@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
Thanks for your comment!
Tremolo after reverb, I'll give it a try!
Yes it's a mini CryBaby but it needs some connexion cleaner (spent few years in a drawer...).
The power supply is the Donner DP-01, bought it new few years ago and always worked well.
jontree255@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 286d
Starting cheap is always good! Lets you figure out what you like and don’t like without breaking the bank.
asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
The pedalboard equivalent of a Kerry Catona Iceland buffet advert.
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 285d
whut up with those fugly neon switch caps? disgusting
greguti@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
Helps me to reach some kind of "unity" upon my pedalboard, like every pedal is part of a bigger plan.
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 286d
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d
not how roasting works??? dafuq!?
berty@feddit.org · 1 pts · 286d
You know that behringer owns TC nowadays?
greguti@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
Didn't know it yet, thanks for this information :)
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 285d
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 0 pts · 285d
Compressor before the Wah, hmm. How does the CryBaby behave? Because mine (Jim Dunlop GC95, 1990), directly after the guitar is quite a treble soak when inactive which makes it mostly useless for me. I got an old Morley as a replacement which is nice but just doesn't have that characteristic bite of the GC95.
berty@feddit.org · 1 pts · 285d
That's because the bigger crybaby such as GCB95 doesn't have true bypass and their buffer is quiet bad. I had the same treble soak problem as you describe and modded mine to true bypass by soldering a new switch and removing that buffer. Works great now.
b_tr3e@feddit.org · 1 pts · 285d
Mine is the weird "inbetween" nodel from 1990. It doesn't have a buffer.
greguti@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
I'm not happy with the Dunlop mini Cry Baby, for a very simple drawback: sometimes I don't know if it's on or off, there is no visual feedback about it. So I have to play something to check. I bought a cheap Sonicake Vol/Wah mini pedal and I'm soon to test it (it comes with blue light when on Volume mode, red light on Wah mode).