Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[greeny23]

[Grrface]

yeah the MXR bass DI is pretty awesome really miss mine....

Yeah, as long as you keep that Color switch off, it's a pretty decently little preamp.

[fetch]

got a big kid pedalboard

I tried to find a gif to describe how I feel about this board but I couldn't settle on one so...

SPOILER : show

[kbit]

That .gif of Velma is disturbing (but that is a really nice board).

[madmax1012]

this apparently happened during a college football game, but I feel like it's relevant. also, my new favorite GIF when it comes to creepin.

[bigchiefbc]

this apparently happened during a college football game, but I feel like it's relevant. also, my new favorite GIF when it comes to creepin.

I am so stealing this gif

[skullservant]

I always go through the feeling that I've got wayyyy too much on my board when I see something as simple as fungalattack's board, but then I feel like I'm limiting myself when I see stripes' board. Anyone else ever get that feeling?

[bigchiefbc]

I always go through the feeling that I've got wayyyy too much on my board when I see something as simple as fungalattack's board, but then I feel like I'm limiting myself when I see stripes' board. Anyone else ever get that feeling?

Not me. I have to admit, I never understand all of the threads I see both here and at Talkbass about people trying to downsize/simplify. It just makes no sense to me. I've never heard anyone actually explain why. They just talk about it as if it were a given that downsizing is an obvious good. Both of my boards have at least a dozen pedals on it, and downsizing is not an impulse I have ever had or understood

[madmax1012]

i don't own a dozen pedals...yet. But one more semester of college means a lot more money that doesn't have to go towards things that aren't musical.

[excane]

I always go through the feeling that I've got wayyyy too much on my board when I see something as simple as fungalattack's board, but then I feel like I'm limiting myself when I see stripes' board. Anyone else ever get that feeling?

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[skullservant]

I'd done the moster board thing for a while, which was awesome, but after actually playing with everything on the 12+ pedal board, I just realized I only used fuzz/delay/reverb/boost. It's weird. Like I definitely keep the other pedals around to record with, but for my actual board its barbaric

[the Life Aquatic]

Whenever I've had a big board I just am all over the place playing wise. Can't really keep to one kind of idea. An hour of noodling later I feel like I didn't write anything or accomplish anything. Sometimes it's fun, but I'd rather play with a simple board for an hour

[01010111]

There are a few reasons I no longer tote around a 40lb pedalboard:

It can be distracting/counterproductive if you're trying to work on something. If you spend an hour trying to line up the phased signal with both the tremolo and the delay just right for the song you're working on, you're no longer workin on the song, you're just experimenting with pedals.

Even if you know exactly how you want something to sound and how to adjust each pedal, with a big board making the necessary knob adjustments in between songs can take a long time and still not come out just right. And sometimes it's physically challenging to stomp on all the necessary switches, mid-song, to get that cool sound.

And then there's the whole "smaller board makes you think more creatively" argument, which I guess makes some sense. For me it was sometimes just about, "hey that pedal looks crazy! Maybe if I fill up a huge pedalboard with crazy shit I can come up with an original/cool sound." A small board forced me to think in terms of "what would sound cool here" as opposed to "I don't know what to do...so, let's play around with knobs until we find something that sounds cool." Though, I still am partial to the sonic experimentation leading to song creation thing.

Last thing: if I want to make my guitar sound like a synthesizer, why don't I just pull out a synthesizer? I could make a pedalboard with lots of octaves and fuzzes and filters and compressors and volume pedals and choruses/phaser/flangers and ring mods to give my guitar that atmospheric sound that only gets crazier as you add crazy delays and reverbs...but why? While it is pretty cool and an accomplishment to do something like that, why should I go through the herculean effort involved when I can just pull out a synthesizer instead?

So that's why my pedalboard is five pedals, a mixer and a looper; that I use with my guitar and my synth.

[Mudfuzz]

There are a few reasons I no longer tote around a 40lb pedalboard:

It can be distracting/counterproductive if you're trying to work on something. If you spend an hour trying to line up the phased signal with both the tremolo and the delay just right for the song you're working on, you're no longer workin on the song, you're just experimenting with pedals.

Even if you know exactly how you want something to sound and how to adjust each pedal, with a big board making the necessary knob adjustments in between songs can take a long time and still not come out just right. And sometimes it's physically challenging to stomp on all the necessary switches, mid-song, to get that cool sound.

And then there's the whole "smaller board makes you think more creatively" argument, which I guess makes some sense. For me it was sometimes just about, "hey that pedal looks crazy! Maybe if I fill up a huge pedalboard with crazy shit I can come up with an original/cool sound." A small board forced me to think in terms of "what would sound cool here" as opposed to "I don't know what to do...so, let's play around with knobs until we find something that sounds cool." Though, I still am partial to the sonic experimentation leading to song creation thing.

Last thing: if I want to make my guitar sound like a synthesizer, why don't I just pull out a synthesizer? I could make a pedalboard with lots of octaves and fuzzes and filters and compressors and volume pedals and choruses/phaser/flangers and ring mods to give my guitar that atmospheric sound that only gets crazier as you add crazy delays and reverbs...but why? While it is pretty cool and an accomplishment to do something like that, why should I go through the herculean effort involved when I can just pull out a synthesizer instead?

So that's why my pedalboard is five pedals, a mixer and a looper; that I use with my guitar and my synth.

that's....nice... granted I disagree with AOTA but still that's... nice..

[Mudfuzz]

I always go through the feeling that I've got wayyyy too much on my board when I see something as simple as fungalattack's board, but then I feel like I'm limiting myself when I see stripes' board. Anyone else ever get that feeling?

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