where's the Metal Zone? All the gain. No mids.

I'm a total pedal-phile. Love pedals!

yes finally a rundown of your pedalboard how did you know that would be my next question.... Thanks again for the education and keep up the good work Collin!

Just as I was looking into pedalboards, this shows up in my feed! Awesome

Unless I'm more colorblind than I thought, I'm fairly certain that the FL9 isn't orange...

Great run through Colin! That yellow FL9 has got to have some good stories.

+CSGuitars Thank you for doing this video, really insightful!

been watching your videos for a while. you sound knowledgeable dude. thanks for the tips

Hi Colin, Great Video, nice to see what use, Thank you👍👍👍. Take care, Melbourne, Australia.

great video man!

Very nice and simple set-up. I admire your DIY ethic towards all of your gear as well. I've always wondered what was up with the in/out thing on tuners, thats good to know!

A point to consider in the "get your sound from your amp and guitar" is that when touring, there are backline amps to deal with. Vastly different styles of amps, wattages etc. Having a few options when it comes to gain, eq etc. becomes more of an urgent need.

finally a rundown

Great video as always, and I agree with all your choices! Except cable type. In 1980 I got my first amp, and I wanted the most high end cable available. They sold me the stuff that later became named George L's. I had that cable for 10 years no problems. Whenever I had to use someone else's cable it sounded horrible, dull, and dark. But that one 20' cable disappeared and I went back to regular self soldered cables. Got away from those solder-less cables because they became expensive, I couldn't afford them for my racks and pedals. After many years of soldered cable, about 7 years ago I decided to go with them for my rack, and what a difference. The tone just is better. It is VERY easy to notice the difference. I even experimented by surprising the band without telling them of redoing my pedalboard setup. So without a word, I shit you not- that night 2 of them asked me what I did different because it sounds so good. I'm never going back. I'm in NY, and all the cats here have the same cables. We all love 'em. When you do the cable ends properly, there's never a problem. Gig heavily and no issues. Easy to install and if I ever need to trouble shoot at a gig (never needed to yet)

I get what you mean about your view on pedals, but I typically use my amp as a pedal platform that I like and use dirt and modulation for the majority of my sound. Keep on keeping on! Love the vids!

Collin hits the nail on the head with regard to patch cables. Whilst everybody seems to be raving over all the nice and fancy lookin "solderless" cables, nothing beats a properly soldered quality cable. I have used the solderless cables some time ago but gone back to properly soldered quality cables. Much more reliable!

Hey man, good choice of pedals! I run a TS9 tube screamer into an ENGL modern rock pre-amp then through the front of a Vox AC30. The TS9 seems to get me pretty close to my favourite lead tone with whatever amp I plug into, they're good ae! Thanks for showing us your pedals!

Try putting the HOF after de Carbon Copy, sounds cleaner and more natural, reverb should be the last thing in the chain as a natural reverb takes everything out of your amp and makes it resonate.

Pedals are love, pedals are life

Well sir, I get my main tone from a wampler pinnacle distortion, and it is glorious!

Well I learned a lot from this one! The Irish accent makes the word “yellow” sound like “orange” so I just need to pay attention to that if I ever go there. Haha I’m just messing around, I love you videos bro! Thanks for all the information!

I'm trying to learn about pedals and what type of effects I want. I found this to be very helpful... thx

Hell yeah!

you've done a vid explaining the difference between overdrive, distortion and fuzz. Now you should do the difference between Phaser, Flanger and Chorus

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That noise at the end was hysterical lol

interesting choices. currently I'm running a crybaby wah into a ibanez ts9 into the front of a marshall jcm2000 dsl 50 with a mxr ZW chorus and carbon copy into the fx loop!

I get a lot of tone from my TC Electronic Booster / Line Driver. Without it my tone is generic Marshall low gain. With it.. massive metal.

I have never seen anyone with such a strong opinion about solder-less cables 6:57

great video. I was wondering which connectors you are using for the patch cables? I'm in the UK so can probably get the same ones!

I agree with you on the solderless cables. I know how to solder, but I'm also lazy. So, I went with a pack of the Lava cables; they didn't last 6 months. Maybe I just suck at installing them, but I know a soldered connection won't come undone so easily.

"Learn to solder". Save money by doing your own simple repairs, gain knowledge, and ensure the quality is good by doing it yourself. That's good advice right there.

Thankyou Colin for such a great explanation. im really looking at my rig in a different way. simple seems like the key and im lucky with my guitar and amp for tone. Im using amphenol cables for the most part and have fender minis on the pedal rack.. im of a mind now to make or at least buy some custom links for my board. .. another question perhaps? both my amps have tube effect loops and im wondering how to best dedicate that to a 2 set off rack just for reverb and delay.. any thoughts appreciated. cheers !

Colin, I actually have my Boss SD1 on pretty much all of the time with the level maxed and the gain on zero. It gives you a hotter signal into the front of the amp and gives you some compression too to stop it getting flubby when you chug.

Hi Colin, just wondered if you sold your patch cables. The design seems pretty handy.

Disposable shirt, friends of mine that i've played with many times. :)

Personally I think that what's great to have is a tube screamer for general distortion and kinda leave it on for distortion I'm songs that need clean tones or just leave it on and separately have a either distortion or overdrive pedal with not much distortion or overdrive but one is quite loud so you use that for solos so then the tube screamer makes part of your tone and then have amp distortion to a point where turning all other distortions of will leave it quite week and if you lick out notes it will sound clean

+1 on learning to solder. Every guitarist needs to know how.

Nice Disposable shirt, first thing I noticed! I though I'd seen all of your videos, but I must have missed the Flanger one.

Hi Colin. What make cables are you using to make your cables? I've Decided it is time to make my own for my pedalboard to make it look much nicer as it's a little messy with the pre made patch cables! Also would you be able to tell me where you buy them to. I've been looking around then internet but not sure which brand and what exactly to look for in the cables to know which is the best to buy. Thanks in advance.

I'm using the SIS's by Evidence Audio cables. They're definetly not failed cables waiting to happen as they've been on my board for 2 years and the some of the artists that use them could afford every technician in the world... definetly roadworthy and high-quality.

Where do you buy the parts for making your own pancake patch cables? Cool videos btw

How do you attach your pedals to the board? I have the same pedal board as you, and have been having problems with the Velcro that it came with; especially with the tube screamer. Thx

The only thing I don't like about pedal train boards, is that I prefer to keep them in a hard case. I had somebody drop a cab on my custom pedal train style board, in a real pedal train bag, and crushed the switch to my tuner. So for safe keeping, I use a hard case with foam on all sides!

I'm thinking of getting a pedal train classic 2 but all I have at the moment is a cry baby wah a Moore baby tuner a Ibanez ts9 and a 3 channel blackstar foot switch and I will be getting a isp decimator soon is it worth getting a pedal board that size or should I get something around that size that you use

Hey man! You should check out Electromagnetic Witchcraft's stuff. They have some really, really unique pedals. All hand-built and whatnot.

Do you think you could do a soldering lesson?

what was the name of your band and is there any videos of you playing live, I'd love to see them if there is

He's right about the tu2 and cheap power supplies ruining tone. Change yours out and see!! Loving the approach.

I'm thinking of buying a HOF Mini as my reverb pedal. They look really good

I know this is an old video at this point, but what cabling do you use for your home-made patch cables and where do you buy it from???

Nice board

Nice one! Can you please tell me what happens when you have 3 buffered pedals out of 12 pedals total?

sonic research turbo tuner. no contrast issues with that, bloody fast too.

Hey all I just graduated from a boss metal zone to a Bugera 6262. I've been watching yours and others videos on Bugera 333 and everyone says they're using the crunch channel, is this in top of the screamer? Or would the lead channel get similar results without a screamer?

Personally I've never had any trouble using solderless patch cords in live gigging situations. I myself use D'addario patch cords which have survived 5 months' worth of studio and gigging sessions. Nice information though.

where are some places to find spools of cable and those pancake jacks?

How come you've put your reverb before your delay? I would have thought it'd be a lot smoother sounding to put it at the back so if you turn off your delay you don't kill the reverb trails?

You should totally start selling those sweet patch cables on your site

im planning to buy pitch shifter and harmonist pedal. in what order shall i put them?

As much as I agree with you saying that if you don't like the amp on its own then All the pedals in the world won't fix that, what's mainly due to the amps mid voicing and character. I do however feel that's there's nothing wrong with having some pedals constantly on for tone shaping. Mainly thinking of overdrives, I love the sound of my evh Stealth, but I very rarely use the dirty channels with one if my drives on, the only time I do is for softer riffs to roll off the volume. I use my drives as a tone shaping tool, a Maxon as a clean boost for tight rhythms and an amptweaker tightdrive pro for screaming leads. Also Reverbs, some people like my brother always have a Reverb on for a natural feel. Same with delay, i always have a delay on when playing cleans. So as much as I love my evh I always have 2 pedals on for my cleans (delay and Reverb) and 3 pedals for my Dirty (drive, gate and Reverb). I personally don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Do/Have you use(d) a pedal-based wireless system? What was it, how much did it cost, and would you recommend it?

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I think you should definitely get a guitar and amp that gives you a sound you are happy... but I don't think there is anything wrong with getting most of your sound from your board. There are a lot of players that use predominantly clean sounding amps and get the rest of their tone from their pedals. Of course this is genre dependent a bit as well, but it is just a different approach. Overall cool video though and I like the points about the buffers and them being both ibanez

were do you get the flat jacks for your cables

Your accent is just hilarious!

Make a video stating your opinion on noise gates

Haha 3:) we have the Same Amp!!! 333XL Infinium

Have you done a 2019 version? Please? :)

would you put the noise gate in the FX loop?

Hi Colin. I'm using a 9V 3-Ampere (laptop-like power supply) to power my pedals. I don't have any problem yet. Should I be worried?

It's funny. The way you pronounce while like chwile. Reminds me of Stewie from Family Guy and the "chwhip". :D

Unless I've not seen a vid yet, what's your view on multi effect pedals.... I use a Line 6 POD 2.0 with a channel switcher pedal. Should I just get my coat and leave?

Which boss tuner did you have a problem with?

Colin, do you listen to Gama Bomb?

do you play live in any bands?

I see all of these custom boards on Facebook with 20 pedals on them and can't understand why would you need so many? Surely too many takes away something from your basic sound? When I was a pro, I had a ts-9 (then a homemade treble booster) with a boss chorus, an old delay and reverb into the loop of my dsl 2000. That was more than enough and the sound was epic!

Colin! Can I buy patch cables from you!?!?

I looked down at my Carbon Copy when I saw you had one, and all of the knobs were set the same. I guess great minds think alike.

That flanger looks like Del Boy's van.

U have a forbidden planet poster - do u live in NYC?

I'm surprised to see your reverb before your delay. It's making it as if you're echoing the room the pedal creates; as opposed to putting the echoes of the delay within the room.

Are you in a band or were in one?

you put the reverb into the delay? interesting.

I got rid of all my pedals.....even my Boss DD-2 !!!! for a Mooer ge-200 and I think I'm OK with it so far !!!!

no eq pedal? eq pedals relay help in different environment because different room has different absorption of frequencies plus your amp eq is after the distortion. with fuzz I found out if cut 100 hz and below I get nice fuzz tone that has more mids which that my amp could not do because the eq is after distortion.

Any advice for making your own patch cables?

It's sad they don't make the Polytune 2 Blacklight anymore.

the buffer on the boss was a good thing...

Do you find the polyphonic tuning works well on the PolyTune? I've got one and I find that it really doesn't work that well at all. It's a great monophonic tuner, though, so I still use it.

hey bro ,sweet vid. don't u rather boost the signal of the wah before it enters it rather than putting it after? or atleast that's what I do . so does that work both ways or u supposed to boost the end of ur chain?

You asked if I have a question, well, I do. I've ordered my first pedal (I just started taking my guitar tone seriously; after being fed up with my Line 6, in the last few of months, which is actually how I found your channel) and it's the Aris Effects Savage Overdrive pedal. This thing has awesome distortion from all the demos I've seen. I'm also interested in getting a TS9, because I want something that will boost for a good punk tone but I want the distortion for when I play metal/death metal. Would you recommend me get the TS9 even though I'm getting a distortion pedal? I don't need 'ALL THE GAIN' I just want a good solid metal sound. If you're wondering, I'm running an ESP in to a Peavey 5150 (block letter model) and putting in some new JJ 6L6 power tubes on Tuesday when they come in the mail. I know the power tubes are kind of irrelevant, I'm just excited.

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Doesn't the carbon copy suck out all highs from your crunch channel?

So that power supply is good. But is Visual Sound 1spot a good alternative to that?

Is it a problem if I have a Graphic EQ and perhaps another pedal that are always on?

Interesting, that you put the reverb before the delay. Most peoplde do it the other way round, to get the reverb on the delayed notes. What do you think it gives to the sound doing it your way?

*runs distortion pedals thru solidstate amp that already has a decent cruch channel* I know that it's unnecessary, but I'm just lazy xD (I feel like the pedal gives a better tone anyway). Also, death to true bypass! Literally all of my pedals with the exception of a ditto looper are buffered bypass. Besides, any tonesucking from pedals can easily be compensated for using the settings on the amp.

OD into flanger?

Hey brother can you express your feelings over multi effects pedalboards?