That pedalboard gets gigs done

I love that you are wearing two different Snapper Magee's shirts in the different takes

Here's my board. As a senior on a fixed income, I don't go for pricey things and aim for the cheapest route to the sounds I want, including DIY pedals. Bottom row, R to L: Homemade wah, clone of my favorite compressor-the Univox Unicomp (not transparent - it's an *effect* ), double pedal of my own design with The Crank booster and Wattbreaker drive (variant of the Bluebreaker with more heft and double clipping, Toggle with arrows flips the order. Schematics for both available on-line.), DIY Foxx Tone Machine, MXR 6-Band. Middle row: clone of MXR Envelope Filter with multiple mods, clone of Phase 90 with multiple mods (including variable offset and envelope control of Rate), Top row, R to L: Tonecore Roto-Machine (great pedal, and like all rotary simulators *better* in stereo), Behringer clone of DC-2 (great pedal...if you can find one), Donner multi-modulation pedal, Muza delay/reverb (lotsa power in a small inexpensive package, including 4 storable presets). The whole thing sits on a 12" x 12" wooden tile from the Dollar Store, and is powered by a regulated 8 x 9V@100ma supply I built. Total expenditure

Love it, reminds me of my board, lol. No $750 dollar pedals. No missile guidance systems. Just a rugged chain gain.

A real working man's board there. Nothing to be apologetic for. Matching cables? What?! This isn't a "fashion show" it's about getting the job done. Reminds me a lot of my pedal board- Non-matching cables, pedals in weird positions, and I even have one at an angle from the rest so the foot switch sticks out in a more convenient way. Whatever works man! I'm with ya 100%. Rock on.

Really love the simplicity of the board! I too am in the journey of building a small, but functional board where I can focus on playing and not power requirements and size. Thank you for making this video!

Fantastic setup, all of the essentials, and everything can fit many scenarios

Looks and sounds great. Many versatile tones and the delays "sit-back" in the mix = perfectly. Lots of luck with it.

That is a really interesting video! Thank you for sharing your pedalboard and it's great to see what made the cut from your pedal collection. I think that says a lot about the calibre of those you chose.

The Drop is so useful. It does feel weird since you hear the strings at their actual tuning in the room, but I notice it a lot less when I’m using distortion or octave fuzz. Yay for not caring if people think your board is not cool enough for them. Ours are almost totally different, but I feel this. I am old, tired, and am no longer bothered by hot takes on these things. You don’t have to use it, it’s fine. 😆

Great board that gets the job done. You got some cool pedals and now I want a that phase 100, it sounded great 👍🏻

Love it, man! That’s a super useful board. I use the Faux Tape Echo and the Supro Trem on my travel board, too, and love them both. We don’t all need to be Jonny Greenwood and Ed O’Brien. Not that I’d mind… Thanks for sharing this. Keep doing what you do, sir!

I love the utility nature of your board! Sounds like each pedal was chosen for function, not form. You have a humble, zero-ego approach to building your board -- well done!

Don't know who you are, no idea how this video ended up on my feed or why I added it to my watch later list, but I'm glad I checked it out. Great video! Love your board & the logic behind it. 🍻

Excellent board. No issue here.

I like how your board is a lot like mine, nothing really fancy or flashy (people would freak out if they saw how my OneStop power supply brick is attached underneath lol i did it myself without the proper brackets) and we both have a CFH wah pedal. I never see anyone with those. Its the best wah I've ever used. You can really tweak it and get some interesting sounds. And you're right, those LED lights on the back help a lot to see if the pedal is still on or not lol. I used to have that problem all the time with other wah pedals. Oh and dont feel bad about your patch cables not matching and all that. On my board there are 4 different style of cables connecting everything lol. I dont play music to impress people with my pedal board haha

Great board. Thanks for sharing!

Snapper McGee’s. I live 10 minutes away from there. Nice shirt!

Love those Rivera amps. I have a Thirty-Twelve and for what it's worth I have a Rivera-era Fender Champ 2 (1982).

If it does the job and you're happy with the sound, that's all you need. I doubt the audience would notice any difference in sound if the pedals cost double or more

I have a huge mothership board, and a smaller basic board. As much as i love the crazy nonsense the big board can produce, there's something really satisfying about the smaller one that has me coming back to it a lot lately.

Board looks great to me, if it gets the job done that’s the important part. I rarely play outside the house so my pedals are just on the floor, but it’s probably time to get a proper board. Thankfully, I’ve gotten to a place where I am very satisfied with the 9 or so pedals I own, so my board should be fairly sorted once I’m done building it. I think I’m gonna go with a holey board because I personally can’t stand velcro or dual lock on pedals.

That is a perfectly acceptable board - and don't let anyone say otherwise! For my preference I'd probably swap out a modulation for a verb but again that's MY preference. If I showed up to play somewhere and I was handed this board to use, I'd be pretty content and excited to use some toys I normally wouldn't use.

I don't find this board boring at all! I would straight up use this as is besides maybe a different overdrive pairing.

Love the TC SCF Gold ✌️😌🎸

I looked at one of those Fifty Five Twelve’s and a Nomad, from Mesa Boogie, when I was looking for a better amp for gigging. The guy was selling it for $800, but it ended up being a bit heavy, and with the age of the amp, I just didn’t trust the guy, who was selling it. He had much crappier amps for sale, for almost as much money. In my experience, the unbelievably priced, used tube amp, that looks cosmetically fine, usually has a serious problem that either takes getting the amp really hot, or some other issue. The Nomad, which I found was was a great multichannel combo, that sell for half the price of the standard Mesa Boogie line. The guy called it the One Hundred-Fifty Five-Forty Five-Nomad. It had killer sound, with three channels, and a lead boost, that I thought could get me through a gig, if my pedalboard wasn’t an option, or a small board was the only other. Yet, it was far too big. It was a 4x10. If I had the space, I’d probably bought it for home/studio use, as it was priced at $700, and the guy told me he had people come look when he had it at $1000, then $900, and $800, but the 4x12 was always the dealbreaker. It did inadvertently lead me to the amp I eventually got, which is an Egnater Rebel 30, which just has more features, snd a line out, with its own Cab Sim and IR, that can go right into a board, and uses the actual power amp, instead of a modeler. Live, the direct sound, is the first amp I’ve found that sounds just as good direct as mic’d. I had found these amps, and others with similar direct outs, and setups, but the person was selling the 1x12 combo and a 1x12 extension cab, they had bought for it, for the same price most sold just the amp. I did some research, then made an offer, and ended up with the combo amp and a 1x12 cab, for $675 after shipping. The cabs alone, were selling for $200-250 used, so I thought it was a no brainer, after some searching. The guy selling it, just had so many amps, he was simply trying to make enough worth packing and shipping it. He talked with me several times, answering questions about the amp and the cab, even pulling it out and plugging it in, and asking what music I was playing, what my pedalboard looked like, and what my favorite gear is, like a local shop used to be like. He was cool, and he took my first offer, which was me offering to just buy the combo. He then basically threw in the extension cab for the shipping cost. Great guy. That was two years ago, and I gigged it last summer, through New Years Eve, with many practices, and a year and a half of random gigs and playing it nearly everyday. The tubes are probably due for a change, but the amp sounds killer. These amps are being slept on, because the Rebel Mark-2, is still selling for obverse a $1000 used, and a Head with a cabinet, will cost close to that used.

That's a solid board, right there! Also, I too prefer to run straight into the front of my amp. But then, I only use the clean channel anyway. 😁 I'm surprised to see your tremolo before your drive section, as I always thought it sounded best as an end-of-chain effect. Although harmonic trem can sound kinda "univibey" to me, and I always put that before my drives, so maybe that's your thinking, too?

I have a Rivera Clubster Royale Recording amp and it is absolutely perfect. The clean channel is so killer for pedals and the overdrive is like no other; super heavy but maintains articulation and punch. Very underrated brand.

Good solid board The word boring in situations like this is usually from aimless people Board does what you need it to do then thats it My board setup completely different Different application

Loving everything i'm seeing and hearing here. Utilitarianism uber allies. My only switchout and/or substitute would be ...um... That badass ART rackmount shoved in there somewhere. Easy, right? Thanks for the board tour. It sounds fantastic!

I got a ridiculously big board that requires a smaller satellite board for the real crazy stuff but really I could get by with a handful of pedals instead like a good overdrive and fuzz that stack together nicely a phaser,chorus with vibrato mode,delay with tap tempo and a good spring reverb on the amp and for my extra pedal I'd use my digitech expression factory it covers alot of stuff I don't use all the time and has a few good drives on it also

I would say the double barrel qualifies as boutique. I think of Wampler as a boutique brand too. The Wampler delay sounds great. And if you like how it sounds running everything in front, then more power to you. Miles said there are no mistakes in music. Would there even be shoegaze if somebody didn't like putting the reverb in the wrong place?

The wah pedal with the LEDs is so ingenious, I have no idea how that's not the standard now. Yes it looks kinda dumb, but it's way too easy to leave the wah on and screw up your whole tone.

I'm with you about everything going through the front and NOT using an effects loop. I'm not looking for pristine delay or modulation. It's freaking rock and roll! It's supposed to be a little dirty and noisy!

Everytime I get a cool expensive pedal I end up loving it for like a month and forget about it, then I say..well, all I really need are these 3 or 4 pedals. I could do without everything else. Plus all my fav guitarists never had huge pedalboards, anyway

This was interesting. Thanks. How about a video how a simple loop switcher can enhance tone rather than running the signal through the whole board even though some pedals might be true bypass. Good luck.

Nice one I think I'd be happy with that. any particular reason the drop goes before the wah? Is the drop buffered? I could see a fuzz face style thing opening up some grit and texture but you for lots of modulation goodness

Big disagree on the coloring added by the Supro Tremolo. I find it shifts your tone quite a bit even with the gain knob all the way down. It's not a bad change, but it does change. Still a good pedal.

What is the reason you put the mod pedals in front of the OD?

No need for such a self flagellating tone. Its a cool pedalboard, nobody is going to call out anybody for using a simple and effective chain and if they do, they don't know what they're talking about.

Hey i need you to send me your rivera amps please and thanks 👍

Life is a "working-in-progress" why should your pedalboard be any different ? you're not a prisonner of your audience's expected repertoire demands, even then... the fun is finding out what gets the job done ! congrats on your frank simplicity

Thats the most meh pedalboard ever.....I am kidding, looks like it covers a lot.