Pedal Board
Haven’t done this before now but it’s a widespread practice on some of the guitar blogs I frequent to post a photo of your pedal board, so here goes (click on the picture for a higher resolution view)…
A couple of months ago I was fortunate to find on eBay this Gator pedal tote for thirty dollars. It’s brilliant – solid wood construction with a sturdy carry bag. All I lacked was some velcro to stick my effects down. A trip to Bunnings this weekend solved that and with a few hours work we have my current pedal board setup. Easy to carry and just requires plugging in to my amp, power and guitar and I’m ready to rock!
The current setup is :
Guitar —>> Boss FV-50H Volume >> Boss TU-2 tuner >> Boss AW-3 Auto-wah (to Boss FV-500L expression pedal for manual wah control) >> TC Electronics Nova System (with G-switch for preset selection) >> TC Electronics ND-1 Nova Delay —> Amplifier
I haven’t previously mentioned the Nova System but it’s a great unit with excellent effects including a range of reverbs, modulation effects, pitch shifters and of course delays. All of these are of a very high quality as one would expect from TC electronics. It also boasts analogue distortion and overdrive circuits which are quite good, and which I’m currently using as my main distortion sounds (until my own personal GFC passes and I can afford to invest in some new stomp boxes…) The added G-switch means I can change patches and still have complete control over the full palette of effects for each patch… works nice.
Nova system doesn’t include Wah – hence why I’ve added in my Boss AW-3. I’ve only recently tried this with the expression pedal and am very pleased with the quality of the manual wah. It’s better than my Cry Baby. With this on-board I can choose between manual-wah, humaniser (which I haven’t found a use for so far… maybe one day), and the quite handy auto-wah with tap tempo (good when I want to do a wah rhythm and sing and/or avoid the dreaded ‘wah face’).
This morning when I played I didn’t have my ND-1 Nova Delay on board but I decided to add it in, because really you can never have too much delay options at your disposal. And it’s too good a unit to leave gathering dust on a shelf with all my other lonely effects. The delays in the Nova system are very very good but the Nova Delay itself sounds just a bit better and is easier to adjust, in my opinion. This way I can program a range of other delays in with my presets on the Nova System, but always have my Edge style dotted-8th delay available on the ND-1 whenever I need it (which is increasingly often). I also quite like some of the other delays in this box, like the Slapback for example.
Anyway, that’s where it stands for now… might post more pics if I change it around (when I either solve my personal financial crisis or feel the need to swap in one of my other stomp boxes).
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