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I’ve had this set up for a while now so, time to make it official in the heady halls of the IFL pedalboard page.

le lambin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:09 pm IMG_8797.jpeg

I’ve had this set up for a while now so, time to make it official in the heady halls of the IFL pedalboard page.

Awesome board! Never heard of the Loupe, looked it up and man. What a bonkers features set. How are you liking it?

I embraced its quirks and it’s my numero uno pedal- I love it up and down. I used to be a foot looper guy- because of the loupe I am now a tabletop looper guy. It’s great because it forced me to learn a different style of live looping that’s not based on looping guitar riffs- I’m not very good at making interesting music like that.

Now it’s all about capturing little noises or notes ringing out and turning it into a niiiceeee soup. Or a salad. Or minced meat. Or whatever! The opposite of frippertronics.

It’s also why the rest of the board is pretty vanilla- it’s all food for the loupe.

John wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:58 am

Blackened Soul wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:39 pm Love the foil!

It keeps the Illuminati from using brainwaves to change my settings

Needs to be lead... or inside a Faraday cage!

le lambin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:18 pm It’s also why the rest of the board is pretty vanilla- it’s all food for the loupe.

I like the chop approach. Wish I could try out a Loupé.

In my loopelation efforts I've found that a filter sweep can allow me to differentiate subsequent passes from each other by nudging an expression pedal to control that sweep.
mtl.asm Your & You're really works a treat in this role.

Seance wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:54 pm In my loopelation efforts I've found that a filter sweep can allow me to differentiate subsequent passes from each other by nudging an expression pedal to control that sweep.
mtl.asm Your & You're really works a treat in this role.

Agreed- that is what I sometimes use the Long Life for. I keep it on most of the time and nudge away.

Nudge away.
Stay all day.
If you want to.

OK, so it hasn't been suuuuuuuuuuper long since my last post, but the board has been dialed in even more and I'm hoping its at a place now where I can leave it the fuck alone and let live for a minute. (yea right)



So, breaking this thing down some in order:

Mask Audio Electronics Massive Amp: Alec's take on the MXR Micro amp, custom made in a little black box as a wedding present for me years ago. An absolute staple of my board. Adds some high end and pushes signal across the board while staying quiet. Gets damn crazy if you dime it. I keep it at noon for my purposes. Think of it as doing what the black math does already, but putting that boost on e v e r y t h i n g.

Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine: Keeping the theme of gifted pedals going, this one was a present from Mrs. Pudding. I know what your thinking, yea yea chorus is good we all like Nick Reinhart here. BUT, I use it as a kind of aggro sounding slap back/spring reverb. Its really good at doing that, and the tone knob makes it super useful for cutting in a mix. The "time" of the delay constantly shifts in slight increments too, and I really like how alive it makes it sound. Its like it drifts between being a reverb and a delay. Magic is dimed for big scary fuck you siren noises, of which I have a great deal of love for. We give the audience tinnitus in this house.

Eventide Knife Drop: A hexmas gift from mi mamá. This thing is just as bananas as all the demos show it is. Does all the auto wah, filtered, pitch shift synth madness you could ever want. So of course, I underutilize it. After tinkering with it, my understanding is its basically a really angry POG with an auto wah and a synth section. So I just use it as an octaver. It tracks way better and looks way cooler than my micro pog, so I don't really see it going anywhere any time soon. I do wanna get a midi switcher for it to access presets and program some wilder stuff, so if y'all have any recs I'm all ears.

Whammy Ricochet: Small boi whammy pedal. I miss my big one, I really want the mononeon one. But until that happens, this little guy does the job just fine. We have a handful of big whammy moments in our songs, so this more than does the job. Fun to spam it during jams. REALLY wanna get a Hammer On to stick next to it. Shift all the pitches!

MXR Crybaby Q Zone: The key to my guitar solos sounding good. Used to use a Boss GE-7 to get this same effect, but this does that better with a little more push. This ones for all my Windhand fans out there who know Garret uses one of these bad boys all the time. It rips, and they're cheap used!

Boss Super Overdrive Waza: Got this years ago to be my "stage one" gain stage for palm muted crunchy stuff and I've never looked back. The stock SD-1 circuit is already amazing, but the Waza side adds way more gain and heft while still doing everything that the stock SD-1 does. Jacked marshall tones in a box, and it pairs well with...

Mask Audio Electronics Black Math: This is my end all be all Big Muff variant. Modeled after the fran muffs of the early 2000s with a built in MXR Mirco Amp style boost in front of it (IYKYK), internal mids knob and a blowout switch. Pretty much every flavor of fuzz goodness that I enjoy is right here in this pedal. Sick on its own as well as stacked with the SD-1 and q zone. It is filth incarnate. I want to try the Civil Math variant to see how it stacks up to my Black Russian muff, but until then, this thing is gonna be on every board I have until I'm dead and buried.

TC Electronic Polytune Noir: Small, black, keeps me in tune, sounds great. ILY TC.

NuX Tape Core Deluxe: I was in the market for a space echo variant, initially was looking at the small box boss one cause of course. Local shop pushed this little guy my way, and its honestly pretty sick. Responds in all the ways you'd want a Space Echo too, down to slowly catching up when you adjust the rate. It also has a surprisingly deep software companion that lets you edit things further. Plus its built like a tank, so hopefully it'll hold up to my stomping. So far so good.

That's it for now. I have a Rockman on preorder, sweetwater says those aren't coming until June. But that will go last cause fuck it. If it doesn't work out as an always on tone shaper then at least it'll be a really good chorus.

Nice!
Love the taped knobs, I use to do that.

Lmao yea, its the only thing that stands up to my big dumb feet. Presets the easy way.

Got my fun/jam/generic sounds board together Tuner >
Loop 1: Dreadbox Treminator

Loop 2: MXR bass octave deluxe

Loop 3: HeatherBrown Blessed Mother > Sentient Greenseer > Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt Fuzz > Walrus Audio Eras

Loop 4: EHX switchblade (loops set parallel loop A: Mutron microtron IV / loop B: DOD FX25 > orangesqueezer clone) > bass crybaby

Loop 5: t.c electronic thunderstorm flanger > Maxon CS9 > Boss VB-2w > MXR phase95 > Walrus Audio basic tremolo

Loop 6: Maxon AD-999 > TC Electronic Arena
> maxon rtc600

Y’all have monster boards it’s a beauty to see

So.. I decided to swap terms with one of my other boards… so group shop

Woah, space station console vibes

Blackened Soul wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:47 pm
So.. I decided to swap terms with one of my other boards… so group shop
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Seeing those MOOG pedals lined up like that is scrubbing my brain real nice. Did you remove the wood in between them too?