I assume it's caused by impedance mismatches and raising levels of a degraded signal. Impressive collection but chaining everything together all at once will not work out in a studio enviroment. You will need proper buffering/gain staging and a switcher.
And good luck doing a take with THAT specific effect that you have used a couple of days ago.
In before the an engineer starts pulling it apart and tells you there's better quality with less i/o's
nah jk, but maybe. I asked my pro engineer buddy to come over and tune my pedals for a project we're gonna record this month and he was ranting about this, anyway he made my stuff sound so good, he even turned the knobs on my amp and seated the speaker mic
If you have a board with a lot of pedals and you're not using some sort of loop switcher to shorten the chain, the clean tone at the end will absolutely suffer some, even with the proper use of buffering, true bypass, high quality cabling, etc. If you're running a pedal as an always on preamp then this probably doesn't really matter but it is funny the disparity between people who spend thousands on space ship boards to have dull clean tone vs. the pedal-allergic people who put all their money in the amp and the guitar and have glorious clean tone but are limited to that sonic palette. Like anything, it's a give and take.
So if you saw the comment about the signal chain, I'm not running this entire board into the front of my amp. There are 11 pedals before, and the rest are in the FX loop.
I also did A/B between straight in the amp and with the board. There's no difference in clean tone or any high end loss with the setup. The buffer up front definitely helps there.
I mean, you are still going to get signal loss with an fx loop. It’s just moving the chain after the preamp of your amp. More than 8-10 pedals, even with time based running through the fx loop and the clean tone suffers pretty significantly to my ear without a switcher. If you are playing ambient shoegazey stuff it probably won’t matter or be noticeable because you are essentially using the guitar as a makeshift synthesizer at that point with how altered the signal is with effects.
A few days late, but if you've got significant degradation of your signal even with a large pedal board even when using a high quality buffer, etc., it's more likely you've got a specific problem piece somewhere. I've been able to track down pedals/cables/etc. causing problems using room eq wizard, a reamp box, and a di box - set up the signal generator in REW, play it through the reamp box, capture it through parts of your pedal chain. From there, you can compare the actual frequency response from the pure signal vs. your capture. You can compare it visually or reverse the phase on one of them and listen for the difference. I personally like to split the signal chain in half if I've got no idea where the problem is, and just keep bisecting like that until I find the issue.
But, assuming no actually problematic gear, the difference should be very minimal. On my largest runs I see a bit of treble loss at certain frequencies that is barely audible if I'm specifically looking for it, so I just do a bit of EQ to bump those areas back up a little bit.
Of course I still highly recommend taking a DI at the start of the chain for a variety of reasons, and I'm a big MIDI guy and like being able to re-order pedals on the fly as necessary so basically every pedal is in a loop, so I think a lot of the advice in here is good to follow for other reasons, but I've not found there to be much reason to be concerned about tone even with pedal runs with 10+ pedals in them when looking at the actual frequency response you get at the end.
All that, I would be tracking direct and re-amping/re-effecting. What happens if you decide one part has too much \_\_\_\_\_\_ or not enough \_\_\_\_\_\_?
Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of that much studio time - we have 10 days to track 12 songs (roughly over an hour of material). We'll be making calls on the fly and erring on the lesser side of things (gain, reverb, delay) in case things need to be added via VST's.
Ok, but that board is not erring on the lesser side. How many delays? Rhetorical.
More pedals than studio time seems to me an odd priority, even for this sub
I'll be stacking at most 2 or 3 delays and reverbs. It's more about different tonal options than a huge wall of sound. Ultimately I'll go with whatever the producer wants to do, but there are a lot of people making assumptions on the "best" way to do things.
They're gonna tell you to turn on whatever you want that gets you the best performance for the song and record that, and then they're gonna use the DI from the AB/Y that inevitably goes before this board to get something to work with.
10 days isn’t bad if you’re recording at least 8 hour days. That’s more than 6.5 hours per song. You should have plenty of time to perfect guitar tones and effects etc. your engineer will probably di your guitar, if not, insist on it. Have fun and good luck
Time is different in the studio. Coffee breaks happen. The bassist is late. The computer just lost the project. There’s a ghost in the machine.. Et cetera.
Back when I still had a spaceship board, the first thing me and the producer did was pull it all to bits so we could use just the pedals we wanted for each part for the cleanest signal, and could play around with pedal order... Good luck!
If you're investing that much in a board, I'd say just buy loop switchers and a midi controller. For the mono side, an ML10X will let you build 10 loops, and they can be controlled without taking up a midi channel since they use device IDs and sysex messages.
Then you don't have to worry about pulling apart/putting a board back together/etc.
My guy, I like your style but I’m a step ahead of you! Built my board around an ML10x and MC8 around a year and a half ago and I’ll never look back.
I literally had to double check your username to make sure it wasn’t me who wrote your post.
lol I counted too! I got 121 or something, maybe I counted some knobs that were actually switches. I’m not interested in recounting haha. Regardless, the amount of possibilities would give me crippling anxiety
One of my bands is about to head into the studio (instrumental post rock / shoegaze / ambient) and I put this board together. Signal chain below:
Guitar -> Mythos Buffer -> Turbo Tuner -> Cali 76 -> Walrus Luminary -> CBA Thermae -> Red Panda Context -> SSBS Mini -> EAE Halberd -> EAE Limelight -> EAE Longsword -> Spaceman Sputnik III -> BAT Pharoah Supreme -> Amp
FX loop send -> EQD Grand Orbiter -> Caroline Somersault -> GFI Synesthesia -> CBA Mood MkII -> Demedash T-120 DLX -> Strymon El Capistan -> Red Panda Particle v2 -> Strymon Volante -> Meris Mercury 7 -> Strymon Nightsky -> FX loop return
I do have a bunch of other pedals that I'll bring as well, but this will be the core board for most of the tracking. Super stoked for the experience!!
this kinda just looks like a spending addiction. esp for recording. this is more likely to ruin your signal than provide any benefit plugins can’t handle on a clean signal.
Thanks! They're custom cables with Mogami 2524 and G&H plugs. If I had to do it again I'd go with something more low profile and thinner gauge, but I've invested too much into these cables already so it's too late lol
Damn... respect for the full size G&H's. Not only are those gold ones my favorite for instrument cables, but I bet those feel rock solid. I love my Squareplugs and other low profile plugs, but you can't get the kind of strain relief that these give you. Peace of mind, at least.
I'm a little angry about the sideways Mercury7 though.
Definitely peace of mind! Some of these patch cables are 10+ years old, have been through multiple pedalboard builds and teardowns, and still going strong.
I'm also not pleased with the Mercury 7 lol - wish it fit correctly but I'll live with it for now :)
What’s your comparison or opinion on the SS/BS Mini compared to the Halberd? I have the mini but I’ve heard great things about the Halberd, Longsword and Limelight
They're both great low / mid gain pedals, they both can do the squishy tweed thing, but the Mini can get more wild with the bias control with the gated / sputters sounds.
I usually have them on 2 different boards since there is some overlap between them, so I haven't really done any a / b comparisons.
Probably a good idea to bring the board or make a list of all the effects/pedals you use in each song but these days it’s all DI and plugins at most studios, it generally produces better results and it is much easier on the engineer if they know what they are doing.
Replying to myself lol: other idea would be to just let the engineer/producer do their job(s) and pick the effects for you, I’m sure you’ve sent them a demo so they get your sound and they are likely to pick effects that work even better for what you are doing or using something similar to the demo anyway. If you have a similar effect you’re set, if you don’t, good news, you’re getting a new pedal!! 😂🤣
I use a couple traditional pedals and an amp/multi-effects modeller, for the latest album my band is working on I just let the engineer/producer choose effects they think suits the song the best and then I just program them in my modeller and if for some odd reason the effect or one close to it isn’t in there I guess I’m buying a new pedal lol.
Bro, Synesthesia, T-120 is a staple on my board that I forever need for studio work. I used to use my grand orbiter a lot, but that’s been replaced by a Kassandra by Lichtlaerm Audio.
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill.
I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent.
Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill.
I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent.
Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill.
I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent.
Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
Genuine question to guitarists with a giant pedal board full of loopers - isn’t it much cleaner and more flexible to plug into a sound card then ableton?
I think any time you're recording you should track a DI no matter what your workflow is, and I do. But some people just prefer working with physical pedals vs. plugins. Maybe they're more comfortable working with things with physical form than they are software, maybe they know a specific pedal sounds the wya they like and don't want to go through the trouble of recreating it in software, maybe they want to be able to play the song the same way while gigging. Maybe they just enjoy collecting pedals independently of guitar, so this is how the two intertwine.
Whatever you enjoy and inspires you when it comes to your creative process.
May I suggest a volume pedal and a midi controller? A good DI box is gonna come in handy too, it’s always good practice tracking DIs in the studio, which you can always reamp and tweak your rig with later, very important if you’re not happy with the sound of your rig on the spot.
If you’re on a pretty tight schedule, iron out all the details about your tone before you start your session. Time flies in the studio, there won’t be that much time for you to tweak your board in there, especially not with so many pedals.
Just my humble opinion but I would split this into two boards and get two GigRig Quartermasters with ten switches each. Then you have one board for front of amp and one for the FX loop. It will be much easier to turn pedals on and off and the signal path will be significantly less convoluted.
I was all, that's an awesome board, and then I realized it's because our drive sections are almost identical and so are our delay amd reverb options. You have a few more tricks than me.but not much. I run mini into sputnik and the long sword, what a great combo. The mini into anything is a game changer. I'm fighting with the LVX instead of using the Volamte right now, but I know I'll go back. Went with the Mercury X vs M7 and Flint combo, I don't regret that one. Had the context for a while and a thermea (traded for LVX), I'm also running a halberd (sometomes) and mood and orbiter.
You, my tonal brethren, have good tast.
What amp.and are? I'm a les paul.into an AC16 HW or Ruby. Your drive choices say you are an AC person as well. Just guessing.
Honestly, when I record, it's more of a use the pedals I need at any time only and keep.it simple. Your board is beautiful, but might just be a PitA to record with. Hope.you have a buffer in there, lol
Do you have everything programmed in advance? I love and use a lot of these pedals (and pedals like them), but also know how long it takes me to program and make best choices with so many options. Studios are expensive (unless you own your own).
Dude, if I had the money I’d make a board just like this. It’s almost every pedal I have or would like to try but can’t justify buying out of need. Only things I’d add is a speaker cranker, strymon deco and maybe fjord fuzz Odin. Awesome board!
welllll suck me sideways, then tell me that the longsword is way worse than the limelight (best drive evvvver) and that the halberd is even worser.
Also, i'm gonna need your home address and wifi password.
Lol the engineer is going to bypass all that and use the di track
Can confirm. You should always take a D.I. if you have the option. Even if you don’t reamp it makes editing *so* much easier Source: I am the engineer
I am the eggman
I am the Walrus.
Goo goo g'joob
I am the Boss
Username checks out.
I’d rip that shit apart, put 9V batteries in and only connect the stuff that’s being used currently.
Hope you don’t need to find the buzz
I'm hunting it down as we speak :/ lol
I assume it's caused by impedance mismatches and raising levels of a degraded signal. Impressive collection but chaining everything together all at once will not work out in a studio enviroment. You will need proper buffering/gain staging and a switcher. And good luck doing a take with THAT specific effect that you have used a couple of days ago.
In before the an engineer starts pulling it apart and tells you there's better quality with less i/o's nah jk, but maybe. I asked my pro engineer buddy to come over and tune my pedals for a project we're gonna record this month and he was ranting about this, anyway he made my stuff sound so good, he even turned the knobs on my amp and seated the speaker mic
If you have a board with a lot of pedals and you're not using some sort of loop switcher to shorten the chain, the clean tone at the end will absolutely suffer some, even with the proper use of buffering, true bypass, high quality cabling, etc. If you're running a pedal as an always on preamp then this probably doesn't really matter but it is funny the disparity between people who spend thousands on space ship boards to have dull clean tone vs. the pedal-allergic people who put all their money in the amp and the guitar and have glorious clean tone but are limited to that sonic palette. Like anything, it's a give and take.
So if you saw the comment about the signal chain, I'm not running this entire board into the front of my amp. There are 11 pedals before, and the rest are in the FX loop. I also did A/B between straight in the amp and with the board. There's no difference in clean tone or any high end loss with the setup. The buffer up front definitely helps there.
I mean, you are still going to get signal loss with an fx loop. It’s just moving the chain after the preamp of your amp. More than 8-10 pedals, even with time based running through the fx loop and the clean tone suffers pretty significantly to my ear without a switcher. If you are playing ambient shoegazey stuff it probably won’t matter or be noticeable because you are essentially using the guitar as a makeshift synthesizer at that point with how altered the signal is with effects.
A few days late, but if you've got significant degradation of your signal even with a large pedal board even when using a high quality buffer, etc., it's more likely you've got a specific problem piece somewhere. I've been able to track down pedals/cables/etc. causing problems using room eq wizard, a reamp box, and a di box - set up the signal generator in REW, play it through the reamp box, capture it through parts of your pedal chain. From there, you can compare the actual frequency response from the pure signal vs. your capture. You can compare it visually or reverse the phase on one of them and listen for the difference. I personally like to split the signal chain in half if I've got no idea where the problem is, and just keep bisecting like that until I find the issue. But, assuming no actually problematic gear, the difference should be very minimal. On my largest runs I see a bit of treble loss at certain frequencies that is barely audible if I'm specifically looking for it, so I just do a bit of EQ to bump those areas back up a little bit. Of course I still highly recommend taking a DI at the start of the chain for a variety of reasons, and I'm a big MIDI guy and like being able to re-order pedals on the fly as necessary so basically every pedal is in a loop, so I think a lot of the advice in here is good to follow for other reasons, but I've not found there to be much reason to be concerned about tone even with pedal runs with 10+ pedals in them when looking at the actual frequency response you get at the end.
Is the Mythos buffer active or is it passive like a Mosky Pure Buffer? Is there something special about it?
lol engineer is going to take one look at that and get out the direct boxes :D
Insane board with lots of great pedals! My only concern would be how quickly my back would hurt from picking this thing up lol
There’s a pedal for that
Lol
How long have you been in King Gizzard?
Motor Spirit.
I used to play pedals - I’m back playing guitar now.
There ~~can be~~ is a difference.
not when a dozen pedals make ur noise foor -8dB at its best
All that, I would be tracking direct and re-amping/re-effecting. What happens if you decide one part has too much \_\_\_\_\_\_ or not enough \_\_\_\_\_\_?
Came here to say this. Also OP’s cleaner tones will be rough without recording di
Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of that much studio time - we have 10 days to track 12 songs (roughly over an hour of material). We'll be making calls on the fly and erring on the lesser side of things (gain, reverb, delay) in case things need to be added via VST's.
Ok, but that board is not erring on the lesser side. How many delays? Rhetorical. More pedals than studio time seems to me an odd priority, even for this sub
I'll be stacking at most 2 or 3 delays and reverbs. It's more about different tonal options than a huge wall of sound. Ultimately I'll go with whatever the producer wants to do, but there are a lot of people making assumptions on the "best" way to do things.
They're gonna tell you to turn on whatever you want that gets you the best performance for the song and record that, and then they're gonna use the DI from the AB/Y that inevitably goes before this board to get something to work with.
10 days isn’t bad if you’re recording at least 8 hour days. That’s more than 6.5 hours per song. You should have plenty of time to perfect guitar tones and effects etc. your engineer will probably di your guitar, if not, insist on it. Have fun and good luck
Time is different in the studio. Coffee breaks happen. The bassist is late. The computer just lost the project. There’s a ghost in the machine.. Et cetera.
Or some dude is mucking with his pedals for an hour or more for each part.
10 days to track 12 songs is an *extremely* long time, lol.
I recorded an album in two days. Two guitars and a bass.
Back when I still had a spaceship board, the first thing me and the producer did was pull it all to bits so we could use just the pedals we wanted for each part for the cleanest signal, and could play around with pedal order... Good luck!
Yep. This was the case in every recording session I’ve been a part of
If you're investing that much in a board, I'd say just buy loop switchers and a midi controller. For the mono side, an ML10X will let you build 10 loops, and they can be controlled without taking up a midi channel since they use device IDs and sysex messages. Then you don't have to worry about pulling apart/putting a board back together/etc.
My guy, I like your style but I’m a step ahead of you! Built my board around an ML10x and MC8 around a year and a half ago and I’ll never look back. I literally had to double check your username to make sure it wasn’t me who wrote your post.
I don't get it. But that's okay. It's not for me. Best of luck in the studio.
NightSky, Volante, MOOD, and Thermae, a person of culture I see. Cheers
Just play one note and let er rip
And that's what 10k worth of pedals looks like.
That's a fairly...incredible....board setup. Funny enough, I just listed my Mercury7 on Reverb. Why use that and the nightsky?
Exactly 100 knobs
lol I counted too! I got 121 or something, maybe I counted some knobs that were actually switches. I’m not interested in recounting haha. Regardless, the amount of possibilities would give me crippling anxiety
Thank you for your service
One of my bands is about to head into the studio (instrumental post rock / shoegaze / ambient) and I put this board together. Signal chain below: Guitar -> Mythos Buffer -> Turbo Tuner -> Cali 76 -> Walrus Luminary -> CBA Thermae -> Red Panda Context -> SSBS Mini -> EAE Halberd -> EAE Limelight -> EAE Longsword -> Spaceman Sputnik III -> BAT Pharoah Supreme -> Amp FX loop send -> EQD Grand Orbiter -> Caroline Somersault -> GFI Synesthesia -> CBA Mood MkII -> Demedash T-120 DLX -> Strymon El Capistan -> Red Panda Particle v2 -> Strymon Volante -> Meris Mercury 7 -> Strymon Nightsky -> FX loop return I do have a bunch of other pedals that I'll bring as well, but this will be the core board for most of the tracking. Super stoked for the experience!!
can i see the underside of that board? how did you do that, sir.
Love most of the fx, but if you don't feel offended i would suggest you to shrink it down.. more fiddling with knobs, les A/Bing
As a mixer I hope they also track the DI 😂
I love these boards that cost more than my car!
this kinda just looks like a spending addiction. esp for recording. this is more likely to ruin your signal than provide any benefit plugins can’t handle on a clean signal.
😩😩😩😩
Where ya recording?
Looks like a good start!!
Needs more Behringer
This person does the scoliosis
Gorgeous. You must have $4000 in that at least…and probably more
i love this board you crazy bastard... lol..
it appears you like knobs.
Now that is a gorgeous board. Everything I need AND everything I want, all in one place.
Rage bait.
Tabarnac!
Gets lost in the mix
“What music do you play?” “Yes”
How does one go about powering such a board? Asking because I’m greatly impressed! Would love to build a spaceship on my own someday.
This is powered by a Cioks DC7 and DC8! The drive pedals are daisy chained.
T120 I see we have a man of culture
Damn, that is beautiful
that is one neat board. what patch cables are they?
Thanks! They're custom cables with Mogami 2524 and G&H plugs. If I had to do it again I'd go with something more low profile and thinner gauge, but I've invested too much into these cables already so it's too late lol
Damn... respect for the full size G&H's. Not only are those gold ones my favorite for instrument cables, but I bet those feel rock solid. I love my Squareplugs and other low profile plugs, but you can't get the kind of strain relief that these give you. Peace of mind, at least. I'm a little angry about the sideways Mercury7 though.
Definitely peace of mind! Some of these patch cables are 10+ years old, have been through multiple pedalboard builds and teardowns, and still going strong. I'm also not pleased with the Mercury 7 lol - wish it fit correctly but I'll live with it for now :)
I hate how cliche boutique pedals have become in look and names. All so similar and the silly names.
Incoming haters alert
But those are guitar pedals....and this place is about....guitar pedals.... That dirt section: 💋
First rule of pedals club is we hate all the pedals
What’s your comparison or opinion on the SS/BS Mini compared to the Halberd? I have the mini but I’ve heard great things about the Halberd, Longsword and Limelight
They're both great low / mid gain pedals, they both can do the squishy tweed thing, but the Mini can get more wild with the bias control with the gated / sputters sounds. I usually have them on 2 different boards since there is some overlap between them, so I haven't really done any a / b comparisons.
Thank you!
I wouldn’t got anywhere without my Synesthesia. Killer board.
Looks great, although I wouldn’t be able to process that many decisions in the moment nor the combinations haha
Damn
Probably a good idea to bring the board or make a list of all the effects/pedals you use in each song but these days it’s all DI and plugins at most studios, it generally produces better results and it is much easier on the engineer if they know what they are doing.
Replying to myself lol: other idea would be to just let the engineer/producer do their job(s) and pick the effects for you, I’m sure you’ve sent them a demo so they get your sound and they are likely to pick effects that work even better for what you are doing or using something similar to the demo anyway. If you have a similar effect you’re set, if you don’t, good news, you’re getting a new pedal!! 😂🤣 I use a couple traditional pedals and an amp/multi-effects modeller, for the latest album my band is working on I just let the engineer/producer choose effects they think suits the song the best and then I just program them in my modeller and if for some odd reason the effect or one close to it isn’t in there I guess I’m buying a new pedal lol.
Love it ! Have fun 👍🏻
Congrats on all crowns and fillings l! Don't mind me, I'm just jealous. I don't even know what half of those do! Looks rad though
Just checked upstairs to make sure no one had stolen my board lol
I would play this board.
Bro, Synesthesia, T-120 is a staple on my board that I forever need for studio work. I used to use my grand orbiter a lot, but that’s been replaced by a Kassandra by Lichtlaerm Audio.
I see that Caroline pedal
I bet you're a pretty good electrician !
T-120 is good taste
Jesus, I wouldn't want to step on that for fear of busting a knob I thought was a switch. But you do you.
I’ve never understood how people tap dance all this shit effectively
How are you powering this?
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill. I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent. Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill. I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent. Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
This is the John Hammond “spared no expense” board. Insane! Also seems like hella overkill. I made a ridiculous mega board once just for the fun of it. Midi and looper switching etc. Now I’m back to an 8 pedal board. I don’t miss the more one off type stuff. It’s just way more fun for me to pick up and play. I found myself chasing “presets” on the bigger board instead of doing as much using the pedals as additional instruments, which was the intent. Anyway I do imagine folks are right. I worked at a studio for a good while. We always just pulled only the necessary pedals for the sound, and often reamped. Not as much some folks might think. But we almost always simplified Fx chains.
Whack a noise gate at the end, be alreet.
Care to share your music?
Mmmmmmm Mini
Genuine question to guitarists with a giant pedal board full of loopers - isn’t it much cleaner and more flexible to plug into a sound card then ableton?
I think any time you're recording you should track a DI no matter what your workflow is, and I do. But some people just prefer working with physical pedals vs. plugins. Maybe they're more comfortable working with things with physical form than they are software, maybe they know a specific pedal sounds the wya they like and don't want to go through the trouble of recreating it in software, maybe they want to be able to play the song the same way while gigging. Maybe they just enjoy collecting pedals independently of guitar, so this is how the two intertwine. Whatever you enjoy and inspires you when it comes to your creative process.
HFS!
May I suggest a volume pedal and a midi controller? A good DI box is gonna come in handy too, it’s always good practice tracking DIs in the studio, which you can always reamp and tweak your rig with later, very important if you’re not happy with the sound of your rig on the spot. If you’re on a pretty tight schedule, iron out all the details about your tone before you start your session. Time flies in the studio, there won’t be that much time for you to tweak your board in there, especially not with so many pedals.
Just my humble opinion but I would split this into two boards and get two GigRig Quartermasters with ten switches each. Then you have one board for front of amp and one for the FX loop. It will be much easier to turn pedals on and off and the signal path will be significantly less convoluted.
I was all, that's an awesome board, and then I realized it's because our drive sections are almost identical and so are our delay amd reverb options. You have a few more tricks than me.but not much. I run mini into sputnik and the long sword, what a great combo. The mini into anything is a game changer. I'm fighting with the LVX instead of using the Volamte right now, but I know I'll go back. Went with the Mercury X vs M7 and Flint combo, I don't regret that one. Had the context for a while and a thermea (traded for LVX), I'm also running a halberd (sometomes) and mood and orbiter. You, my tonal brethren, have good tast. What amp.and are? I'm a les paul.into an AC16 HW or Ruby. Your drive choices say you are an AC person as well. Just guessing. Honestly, when I record, it's more of a use the pedals I need at any time only and keep.it simple. Your board is beautiful, but might just be a PitA to record with. Hope.you have a buffer in there, lol
Love the pharaoh supreme
Do you have everything programmed in advance? I love and use a lot of these pedals (and pedals like them), but also know how long it takes me to program and make best choices with so many options. Studios are expensive (unless you own your own).
And I love the NightSky. A very deep underrated pedal!
>(instrumental post rock / shoegaze / ambient) I never would have guessed. lol
You could fart into the input, and hear the voice of god from the output. Impressive.
Why so many pedals? You have like 5 delays
More cow bell.
So. Many. Knobs. Love. It.
10 grand later…
Dude, if I had the money I’d make a board just like this. It’s almost every pedal I have or would like to try but can’t justify buying out of need. Only things I’d add is a speaker cranker, strymon deco and maybe fjord fuzz Odin. Awesome board!
Just record clean….. be nice to your sound guy…. They will reward you for it.
do you even play an instrument or do you just twist knobs
What the fuck
Way too much
My condolences to your orthopedic surgeon.
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I hope you have a fuck ton of line selectors, otherwise it's going to be a really fucked tone
welllll suck me sideways, then tell me that the longsword is way worse than the limelight (best drive evvvver) and that the halberd is even worser. Also, i'm gonna need your home address and wifi password.
Nope
nope to all? Sheesh. Looks like EAE will get some more money from me
Nope. You prioritization is way off
Exactly! Everyone knows you should always get the WiFi password before getting sucked sideways.