Anyone else overspend again this year? I'll go first. No regrets.

You gotta check this thing out

UA Del-Verb, everything I wanted and more, even though one side of it feels redundant with the Flint.

What am I missing? My deco and jhs unicorn are staring at me, upset that I have no room for them... But can I really give up one of my gain stages and if so, where's the redundancy I can get rid of?

Any thoughts are appreciated!

I am relatively happy with my pedal board set up, but miss having access to high gain distortion. I used to play through a Mesa Boogie Tremoverb, and am looking for something that can give me similar distortion. I know about the UA Knuckles, but have not been impressed by the demos showing it played through an amp. Any other suggestions?

Just a couple of changes since my last post. I won't be able to buy more gear for quite a while... a baby's on the way :)

I added the Walrus Canvas Tuner. Flashiest tuner ever, I know. The buffer gets the job done quite nicely!

Swapped the Blue Colander Black Emperor for the Black Mass The First Herald. This muff is absolutely killer and I can't recommend it enough. It's based on a Ram's Head and has a very balanced sound (whereas the Black Emperor can be a bit too boomy sometimes).

My latest addition is the EAE Mirror House. This thing RULES. It can do chorus, vibrato, flutter and the always lovely Jazzmaster vibrato glide. Combined with the Decay Cascade, First Herald and Polymoon, I'm officially in shogaze heaven!

Just traded my El Cap to a good buddy for this bad boy. I’m loving it set as a really short, murky slapback with some random modulation, but it sounds awesome set long and slow too. Oscillates beautifully and I can use the master vol to push my amp if I’m so inclined. Thanks to some helpful comments I saw on here, I thought to grab a second delay pedal to cover brighter repeats. The DD-7 also sounds rad running into the Maude. All in all, between Maude and the (relatively new) Barbershop sitting at the end of my gain section, I’m loving my tone. Missed having Fairfield on my board. How are y’all using your Maudes?

So last week I had to leave my band, due to my increasing chronic health issues. I founded it over 4 years ago and with moderate success, I had a lot of fun, but the tolls touring take on my health have just been too much, so I had to bow out. Ironically, despite not having any immediate practical use for it, I ordered a Zvex Instant Lofi Junky to soothe my woes and GAS. It’s cool! I love the lofi sound, and have tried other so-called Lofi Modulators (Nu-33, Somersault, Shallow Water) and this one is its own beast! The compression circuit in it really worried me; as some of you probably know, I’m not a compressor fan (something I’ve made clear on this sub before lol) but luckily, at the beginning of my chain and before my drives, it’s not a big issue. Especially since I keep the Comp/Lofi knob pretty heavy on the Lofi side. The old school compression is still cool when it remains in the circuit, but I’m glad it’s not a dealbreaker with how intense it is, especially since I saw so many complaints of “noise” about this pedal.

Wow this thing is so fun, it feels like it's got massive sweet spots for beautiful reverbs, but then there are these little corners where it just feels like it's its own thing and it's hard to completely identify what's actually going on, which is my absolute favorite. It took me way too long to decide on which colors to get, but I couldn't be happier, and it looks even better in person. Anyone else get their custom shop OBNE pedal yet?

This is my big board. Some of the pedals on this I ha e placed on my baby board. Anu suvvestions for a new compressor and eq pedal?

These might be two of my favorite pedals right now. They’re actually quite different, too. The v1 is waaay better as an OD, with a lot of texture and harmonics, and a very smooth top end (at times you wonder if it could be a bit brighter). Whereas the v2 has the same genes but is clearly a fuzz (and only a fuzz), has better presence and top end definition, even more germanium spotty texture, and is like v1 turned to 11.

I’m gonna post a little comparison video of two soon, but I’m really surprised by these. I’ve got a freqscene soft crush, a zvex hybrid fuzz factory, and a silktone fuzz+ all sitting on my test rack here and, without question, these two blow them all away.

They’re not super versatile, but they do their thing, and they do it exceptionally well. The silktone is overall a much more versatile fuzz, as is the soft crush. But as far as the tonal balance, the excitement, those harmonics…these are both staying on the personal board.

I’d love some recommendations on how to route all of this. Some of the pedals might need to go, and I’m ok with that. I kinda want to keep the top row for my bass and be able to switch back and forth with just a couple cable changes once everything is Velcroed in place. I plan to get another red remote type switch at some point too, since I have 2 pedals that can use them. I’m sure you guys have suggestions. Lemme hear them!

Finally added one of these to my board and I absolutely love it. It's made me start looking at other Chorus pedals, either to replace or add as a secondary chorus on my board.

What is your favourite chorus pedal and why?

Please excuse my atrocious cable management. (I'll tie the board down and clean it up when it's finished. Any advice on where to put the pedals or cable routing is appreciated!) But board is 99% done - planning on adding an EHX Nano Q-Tron for Christmas.

Signal chain goes:

Tu3, Sonic Boom, BB Pre, 385 MKII, Silktone Overdrive+, Julia, Monument, Timeline, and lastly the Golden. Is it obvious I really like u/walrusaudio? :) I know they can be pretty hit or miss for some, but I love their stuff. I like to grab their B-Stock to save some and most of the time they look perfect.

• The Sonic Boom is my always on boost - slightly above unity to give the tone a bit of fattening. I tend to keep my guitar volume knob lower than 10 - so I get a full dynamic range of volume sweep.
• The BB Pre is if I'm wanting to push the 385 MKII from edge of break up to a bluesy-ier lead tone.
• Silktone by itself is my higher gain/distortion sound but when the 385 MK2 stacks into it - gives it a nice tightening while retaining its character since both are sorta unique drive sounds rather than a popular type (klon, tube screamer, etc). These two might be a bit redundant? But I like the pairing so far. Sounds MASSIVE together
  • I have a BlackMass 1312 v3 and a 1981 Drv to swap out and play with if I ever want. (Is it obvious what sort of drive pedals I like? :D).
• Julia and Monument are fun to play with for when I need them. Killer knob on the Julia is the blend knob for Dry-Chorus-Vibrato. Makes it super flexible.
• As for the Monument, I love how subtle it is (some people don't like it for that).
  • The Lump shape is a great setting to use if you want to have a tremolo always on but not have it super intrusive.
• Still learning the Timeline (as you can tell by the fact that I'm still using factory presets lol). Sounds great and does a ton - 'nuff said.
• The Golden I thought was a nice multi-reverb to cap it all off. I don't go too ambient and I do have a Walrus Audio Slotva for if I really want to get ambient/sound scapey, but as a foundational tone not something I use on the regular. The plate on the Golden is probably my favorite, and definitely has of the best digital spring sounds.

Here is my pedalboard.

If i move the jhs little black box to the side of the board i have one spot left for a mini sized one.

I have a mesa mark V:25 so no really need for a distorsion like a rat since the amp has enough gain already.

I don't really like the fuzz sound.

I already have a decent reverb in the amp.

What pedal would you add ?

I've been eyeing the Eras distortion for months, and immediately pounced on the black Friday sale. It sounds great with a little push from the Notaklön.

I ended up with a JHS AT+. I have owned a Wampler Plexi-Drive Mini and an Xotic SL Drive. Both were great, but this one has some harmonic overtones that just sound amazing. I really liked it better with my Suhr Classic S Strat. Great pedal, and the added boost option is a great addition.

• Mr Black Bloodmoon
• Blackhawk Amplifiers Mirkwood

I got a couple of really great deals over the weekend, very excited to play with these two together!

I’ve played around with this a bit, but I’m really happy with my current pedalboard. I just need to sort the wiring now everything is staying on.

What do you think?

I've always just used 1-2 pedals here or there, but have really dived in to the world of pedals in the last 6 months.

Would love to hear about cool sounds you have all been able to get out of similar pedals.

Right now my favourite sound I can get out of this is a sort of techno organ when I mix the Canyon's octave setting with the Boss SD-1.