Utility or Futility? your favourite fixing problems pedals

[Ghost Hip]

Patchulator 8000

I've never understood the point of these.
Matris is awesome, especially the way Vid uses it, but the parchulator just looks like something for someone who can't decide on a sensible order for their pedalboard. Or am I missing something?

8 routable, balanced aux sends & returns wired to link 1/4" and 1/8" TRS or TS connections.
Also means to connect multiple instruments or amps. Quite a bit of value for the cost of admission.
Seems like a must for users who quickly grow restless and seek to rearrange their rig every week.

Also, hypothetically, maybe a sensible order becomes impractical for a specific/selection of purposes. Say, 3 out of 12 songs in your set venture into a 'gaze haze and you want your reverb and delay up front in the signal chain, but the rest of your stuff has them at the end/sandwiched in the middle. You can nondestructively make it happen by plugging/unplugging...a sequence of what, 4 patch cables to do/undo it? Super practical with practice, and some planning.

Yeah, I always saw it as a great tool for a recording set up personally. I personally wouldn't prefer playing a live set with one, I'd rather get to the next song as fast as possible and keep people moving. (shoot, if you have a tabletop rig, that may not be an issue) But when I am recording I am constantly rearranging and plugging new shit in line to try different parts/textures/melodies etc. and the patchulator sounds like a great way to speed up that process without fucking up velcro/making a mess.

[fcknoise]

Patchulator 8000

I've never understood the point of these.
Matris is awesome, especially the way Vid uses it, but the parchulator just looks like something for someone who can't decide on a sensible order for their pedalboard. Or am I missing something?

As someone who uses looping a lot I feel like it makes sense to use it for moving stuff before and after the looping. Or if you have multiple loopers being able to move them after eachother so they don't record eachothers loops on the other one. Idk

I have a two channel true bypass looper which I really enjoy. Used it for BILF 2017 to use my tape recorder as a fuzz and loop player

[rustywire]

Hella

[dubkitty]

volume pedal, and one of those little SolidgoldFX buffers at the end of the loop board.

[whoismarykelly]

Top left pedal on this board is pretty much my control center for everything. It takes two signals from separate chains and allows me to mute either one at any time. It also routes all my signals to my amps including effects loop signals. With my snake it lets me set up 4 cabs, two heads, and this board in about 5 minutes and lets me sound like two people playing at the same time.

[tremolo3]

EQ, because fuzz pedals suck without one.
And delay, to make me sound more interesting.

[BoatRich]

Top left pedal on this board is pretty much my control center for everything. It takes two signals from separate chains and allows me to mute either one at any time. It also routes all my signals to my amps including effects loop signals. With my snake it lets me set up 4 cabs, two heads, and this board in about 5 minutes and lets me sound like two people playing at the same time.

What’s that EQ/Boost deal?

[whoismarykelly]

Its a wounded paw boost eq. Just what it sounds like.

[retinal orbita]

Boss LS-2 - bought used on a whim to "blend" my bass/fuzz which I rarely do, now I use it in my noisecore band to turn off the 2 DOD Death Metals & HM2 all at once.

I use it on my other setup to run my Moog Ringmod on loop 1 and my fuzz on loop 2 so I can blend or take the Ringmod out of the chain if need be.

Frankly it was definitely worth the $60 I paid and I bought it from a guy down the street which was very nice.

[rfurtkamp]

Boss ES-8. Not small, not cheap, but it lets me do things with pedals and expression-controllable gear (as well as MIDI) that's unholy.