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Had this footrest kicking around under my desk at work. Had a fucking eureka moment, slapped some velcro on it, viola - instant pedalboard!

Dowi wrote:

AZX309 wrote:

Brandsmannen wrote: Then again, bigger pedals =better sound

Sold my brig again, picked up a black forrest, and my Model FET came today. A Nice end of the semester gift from me at the beginning of the semester

How do you like the Model FET? from the demos i heard i always thought it was a bit too mid range oriented-

Ive Had about two hours with it, and i'm enjoying it. It nails the low end character and compatibility with dirt that the amp has. You cant set it to be super clean, unlike other pedal versions. I cant peak much to the mids because I like them cranked. I just played with the mid knob a bit an it can go from a slight scoop to a mid boost, with "flat" mids around 11:00.

lost in music wrote:

Thats sweet! You could fit a PSU under there I bet.

Perfect size. I need more household layabout stuff like that.

Here's where all my worldly wealth us tied up:

What's the bottom of that look like? Just curious because I can't figure it out at all haha. Looks like you have a permanent handful of pedals, then some that go to the patchulator?

Regardless, looks incredible.

The bottom looks like a telecom closet switchboard from hell. I wasnt nearly as neat under there. I have the pedals divided into groups:

1. Green - Superego
2. Blue - Superego Effects Loop...switchable to Meet Maude's effects loop
3. Purple - Arpanoid, Juicer (compressor), and a rack mounted EHX Bi-filter
4. Red - Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz
5. Orange - MEL9
6. White - Modulation
7. Grey - Delay/Reverb

Everything on the board is in one of those groups, and I decide which groups and what order to put them in, set the routing on the patchulator, and then turn individual pedals off and on within each group...

So for example, if the dirt pedals are patched into, I can then turn on the beano boost to drive the signal into the AstroTone really hard, or can turn on just the OD side of the King of Tone or whatever to get my exact distortion I'm looking for...then I can move the compressor to either before or after the dirt group if I decide I want compression...

The downside is that I cant, for example, have dirt both inside the effects loop of Meet Maude, and on my normal signal. The purple group is where that's the biggest concern. I can't use the Arpanoid in the superego's effects loop, and the Bi-filter on my straight signal because they've been grouped together. I just did my best at trying to group them to allow my most likely used combinations.

HighDeaf1080p wrote:Here's where all my worldly wealth us tied up

Worth it

HighDeaf1080p wrote:The bottom looks like a telecom closet switchboard from hell. I wasnt nearly as neat under there. I have the pedals divided into groups:

1. Green - Superego
2. Blue - Superego Effects Loop...switchable to Meet Maude's effects loop
3. Purple - Arpanoid, Juicer (compressor), and a rack mounted EHX Bi-filter
4. Red - Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz
5. Orange - MEL9
6. White - Modulation
7. Grey - Delay/Reverb

Everything on the board is in one of those groups, and I decide which groups and what order to put them in, set the routing on the patchulator, and then turn individual pedals off and on within each group...

So for example, if the dirt pedals are patched into, I can then turn on the beano boost to drive the signal into the AstroTone really hard, or can turn on just the OD side of the King of Tone or whatever to get my exact distortion I'm looking for...then I can move the compressor to either before or after the dirt group if I decide I want compression...

The downside is that I cant, for example, have dirt both inside the effects loop of Meet Maude, and on my normal signal. The purple group is where that's the biggest concern. I can't use the Arpanoid in the superego's effects loop, and the Bi-filter on my straight signal because they've been grouped together. I just did my best at trying to group them to allow my most likely used combinations.

I REALLY like the way you've grouped those pedals together for the patchulator! I hope to do something similar with mine when I get a few months/pedals down the road.

Put together this rox box for an alt/grab'n'go fun kit

HighDeaf1080p wrote:The bottom looks like a telecom closet switchboard from hell. I wasnt nearly as neat under there. I have the pedals divided into groups:

1. Green - Superego
2. Blue - Superego Effects Loop...switchable to Meet Maude's effects loop
3. Purple - Arpanoid, Juicer (compressor), and a rack mounted EHX Bi-filter
4. Red - Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz
5. Orange - MEL9
6. White - Modulation
7. Grey - Delay/Reverb

Everything on the board is in one of those groups, and I decide which groups and what order to put them in, set the routing on the patchulator, and then turn individual pedals off and on within each group...

So for example, if the dirt pedals are patched into, I can then turn on the beano boost to drive the signal into the AstroTone really hard, or can turn on just the OD side of the King of Tone or whatever to get my exact distortion I'm looking for...then I can move the compressor to either before or after the dirt group if I decide I want compression...

The downside is that I cant, for example, have dirt both inside the effects loop of Meet Maude, and on my normal signal. The purple group is where that's the biggest concern. I can't use the Arpanoid in the superego's effects loop, and the Bi-filter on my straight signal because they've been grouped together. I just did my best at trying to group them to allow my most likely used combinations.

Thanks for the great reply! That makes so much sense. The grouping is the main thing holding me back from a patchulator. Sounds like such a blast. Trying to make it as flexible as possible as well as efficient sounds to stressful for me right now haha

The flexibility is life-changing, but so is the fact that if I want just one pedal, I don't have to run my signal through 14 pedals that are turned off. Now it's just the few other pedals in that group, and everything else is literally bypassed. I'm getting my cleanest, most beautiful and detailed sound yet, out of my rig.

Is it more a studio board then or would you consider using the Patchulator live as well?
Looks and probably sounds awesome I must say.

HighDeaf1080p wrote:Here's where all my worldly wealth us tied up:

Damn. That looks so good.

rustywire wrote:Put together this rox box for an alt/grab'n'go fun kit

Beautiful! 8/8 would rock.

But wait, why haven't you put the Misty Cave the other way around?

Tristan wrote:Is it more a studio board then or would you consider using the Patchulator live as well?
Looks and probably sounds awesome I must say.

For me it is just a studio board for experimentation, songwriting, and recording. It is relatively quick and easy to change around, but honestly with the pressure and nerves of live performance, mixed with questionable lighting on stage...I think it would come down to how much of a gap your typical set has between songs...how many songs use different group order in them (how many changes per set you'd have to do), and how many times you practiced each of the swaps.

I won't say it can't be done, but it would be challenging to use the patchulator live on stage.