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So in the past 6 months I sold off my electric guitar as I started playing mandolin. This has meant that a number of my previous pedals needed to be changed because... well, much of what I had didn't play nice with the mandolin. It turns out I'm building a pretty decent Dr. Scientist pedalboard. I currently have the Woofer Wailer, Cosmichorus V2, Tremolessence & The Cleanness and fully intend on picking up a Reverberator. These go along with my Wampler Faux Tape Echo, Red Panda Contect Reverb, and TC Electronics Ditto... plus the Radial PZ Pre to make it all work with the pickup on my mando. The abundance of Dr. Sci wasn't really intended... it's just they all sound so consistently good, even with my mando. I could see adding an Elements to the board to get a bit more fuzz than the Woofer Wailer can offer and I would love to add the SDD but, to be totally honest, I can't live without tap tempo on a delay pedal. Just can't do it. If/when I pick up a Reverberator I would still keep the Context but probably move the RRR to the front of the chain and put the Context at the end. That would give me the ability to put a touch of verb on the mando before it starts going through the other effects but then really hit it with depth at the end with the Context. So yeah... I'll get a pic up ASAP. Just wanted to an excuse to post my excitement over the direction my pedalboard is going.

(edit) I just realized this thread is really stupid without pics. I'm waiting on my Cosmichorus to arrive still so as soon as it does I will get pics. Sorry...

(Edit 2) pic added of the group of 4 Dr Sci pedals.

i recommend the rrr! i just got one and it hands down kills every reverb pedal ive ever tried (spring chicken, blue sky, etc..)

fishtankdork wrote:i recommend the rrr! i just got one and it hands down kills every reverb pedal ive ever tried (spring chicken, blue sky, etc..)

When I played electric solely I actually owned 3 different RRR's but they were never exactly what I was looking for. The Context is the best verb pedal I've found so I went with that. But now that I have the ability to use the RRR as a great shorter spring verb up front that gives me an excuse to own one of those also along with the Context.

Uhhh can we get some sound samples? I'd love to hear mandolin through that awesomeness

Yeah... my recording pc crashed on me so it will be a minute before I have a chance. But I want to eventually get something recorded.

Sounds cool, Ben, thank you very much and show us a pic! But don't get an RRR hoping for spring sounds, that will lead to disappointment. (it doesn't do spring)

Ryan wrote:Sounds cool, Ben, thank you very much and show us a pic! But don't get an RRR hoping for spring sounds, that will lead to disappointment. (it doesn't do spring)

No, I know. Mistyped.

ok whew, I worry about that kind of disappointment!

PS - I would love to hear a mandolin demo too, that would be so cool...

PPS - Christian, I notice you're a Hitchhiker's kinda guy.. me too.. did you spot the 42 on the pcb of your RRR? *big nerd smile*

I want a board of ONLY Dr. Scientist pedals

I'm a mando player myself, but only acoustic. I have a cheapo electric mando, maybe I should restring it and give it a try too...

Pic added. I'll work on a full board pic and some recordings as I can.

Awesome pic, Ben, what a cool board! All vinyl, that's pretty cool!

Missed this thread prior to now. Interesting. I wanna pickup in my mandolin too.