Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Tone Journeys: The New Pedalboard

A pedalboard to a guitar player is like a utility belt to Batman. I am now on my journey of reorganizing my “utility belt.”

Some of you know that my tools have outgrown my toolbox. My pedalboard is too small. For those who have seen my rig you have seen that I often hook up one or two more pedals next to the board. It really is sad to see.

The solution: a bigger pedalboard.

My friend Jason found a pedalboard online at Rondo Music It’s not as high quality as my old Pedeltrain, but it was also half as much.

So now I get to go on the exciting tone journey of organizing my chain of effects. When I used to be confined by space I am now able to have the order I have always dreamed about having.

And here it is:

Cry Baby Wah>CS-3>Tube Screamer>Twin Tube>Micro Amp (Boost)>VP Jr.> A Phaser I’m ashamed of>Carbon Copy (Analog Delay)>DL-4

I’ve always wanted to have the Volume Pedal after the distortions and compressions because they create so much hum in the signal.

In the future I would like to replace the DL-4 with a TREX Replica.


Then replace the Tube Screamer with something like the Phantom Drive.


This is a journey and I’m having a whole lot of fun on the way.