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Easier than making several posts. And I'm going to apologize ahead of time, whenever I make a post on here, I like to talk. A lot. I know everyone hates reading but I like talking. Thanks for any help ya got!

I started building a pedalboard out of a pallete (however it's spelled) thing from a forklift thing today. I cut off one section of it and then I'm gonna make it so it's a little slanted when it's on the ground. SO! I've got spray paint and some industrial velcro! Which goes first? It's just some soft wood. Would the velcro stick better to the paint or to the wood itself?

Next, I have 8 pedals (MXR M-117r, Malekko Vibrato, Boss DS-1, BYOC Octave Fuzz, BYOC Comp, Volume/Boss TU-2, El Cap) and they only take up a little more than half of the board that I cut. I cut only one small section out of the pallete too but I figure just more space for more pedals. I have a wish list too for the future (MC404 Wah, Subdecay Baby or DLX Quasar, Boss CE-2, Young Pedals The Looker, Neunaber Stereo Wet) (<<<wow. rereading this, mostly burgs pedals. lol) but I'm done buying pedals until I get some more money cause I just got a nice finished this first basic lot to keep me going. For chorus, I have the CE-2 on there but are there many other "chorus ensembles" so to speak? I mean chorus with multiple voices. I've had several nice choruses and they only had one modulated voice and I couldn't get along with them. Way back, I had a CE-5 and it was miles better than any other I had. Much more lush. What other multi voice chorues are there? I know the CE's, Iron Ether's, and the CMat Waterbox. I would prefer stereo (which the CE-5 has but I think analog for chorus just sounds like a better idea although I hate the whole analog vs. digital argument. Look at Strymon!) and some nice really really deep, lush chorus. What is the deepest, lushest chorus you know? I like the CE-2 a lot, just seeing if there were some nice stereo options.

With BYOC Octave Fuzz. I just finished it last night and I've been loving/wishing for some octave fuzz for quite a while. I played it for about 30 minutes and it worked perfectly! Then today at practice, in my garage, it kept crapping out. Meaning it didn't work half the time, no matter the settings. I know that germanium fuzzes are sensitive to temperature, keep in mind it was 100+ degrees all day. But does that make the pedal completely stop working sometimes or just sound different? I have heard that it just makes it sound bad, not stop working. I haven't rechecked everything since I finished it and I will sometime this weekend but was it most likely just the temperature? Also, is it safe to even keep it in the heat or could that harm it in some way?

My amp is an Egnater Tweaker 40. I really like it and it works perfectly for me. The footswitch that came with it has two stomps. One for channel switching and one for the effects loop. I never use the effects loop and I'm pretty sure I never will since I put all my non stereo pedals before my gain. If I wasn't planning to be stereo in the future, I would put my el cap in front of them too. Anyway, I haven't emailed Eganter about this ever but any other time I've emailed them, they never got back to me. Is there a channel switching box I can just plug in to save space other than the big square two switch one that came with the amp? That box is bigger than my MXR, I'm pretty sure.

Sadly, the Neunaber stereo does not do 100% wet reverb and I love 100% wet reverb. What cheap(er) but good sounding 100% reverbs are there? Mono or stereo, don't matta since the Neunaber's got the stereo covered. I like spring too which the Neunaber isn't. I guess the cheap part doesn't really matter either because this is for a while in the future anyway and I've been learning to program. Speaking of coding, that seems like a really popular career for musicians. Maybe that's just me, I don't know.

I think that's all my questions...

Jesus, that's so much to read. I'm sorry to anyone that read it. Thank you, friend.

Only one I can really comment on is the first bit: Paint, then Velcro.

Grrface wrote:Only one I can really comment on is the first bit: Paint, then Velcro.

Thanks, dudebro. That's the only question I came here to ask but I had a few more up my sleeve... As you can tell.

yeah, definitely paint first...the paint will fuck up the velcro if you paint over it, and paint-first makes it less likely that you'll have big bare patches if the Velcro comes up.

"Is there a channel switching box I can just plug in to save space other than the big square two switch one that came with the amp?"
you should be able to get one or have one made. the questions will be what kind of leads the switches use (T/S or T/R/S) and just how they're wired.

You're missing the simple option: if you like the CE-2 and wish it was stereo...

Buy a second and hook it in your chain. Run parallel, tweak settings on each to taste, presto, may not do the pan from speaker to speaker silliness but it'll get even wierder and more fun.

rfurtkamp wrote:You're missing the simple option: if you like the CE-2 and wish it was stereo...

Buy a second and hook it in your chain. Run parallel, tweak settings on each to taste, presto, may not do the pan from speaker to speaker silliness but it'll get even wierder and more fun.

Good answer.

Or wait for the new cosmichorus...

Thanks, guys. And I was half way convinced about the Cosmichorus a couple days ago.

And now you're full convinced!