State of the board
I'm using this board in an upcoming show, and it's been working great for me so far, so I thought I'd share. The pedal order is a little weird, but It's what worked to make it all juuuust barely kinda fit. It goes: Tuner (love the strobostomp!) > KO noisegate (simple, cheap, effective) > Morley power fuzz wah > Cali 76 > JHS Bonsai (got it to try out a bunch of ts styles, but I think I've just landed on the ts10 so I may just get one of those and simplify a bit) > Caroline Somersault (I like some drive before and some drive after modulation) > Turbo Bandicoot (my own design! This is a rat with an added bass control, switchable parametric eq, and clipping options) > Boss RE-202 (almost always on to provide a bit of halo) > Blue Colander Tibetan Quaalude (colors everything and adds a bit of tasty dirt before heading to the amp).
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Here's the amp. It's a Hilbish beta 200, which is similar to a Sunn beta lead/bass. Cab is a mesa 4x12 w/ v30's and k-100's in an X pattern. It riiiiiiips. On top is a Strymon Deco, which sits in the loop. It's always on (just the delay side), and I control the mix from 0% to 40%ish with an expression pedal that sits next to my pedalboard. I just use that in a couple spots for solos to give it some more cool soupiness.
Is the expression pedal controlling an amp setting? Or the Deco?
The Deco. There's a really cool feature on that pedal that lets you ramp between two different knob states with an expression pedal. I have it set just to sweep up the mix amount on the delay, but you could have it change all of the knobs if you wanted. I use that just on one song during a solo to add some extra sauce, lols
Very nice! What kind of music do you play?
Thank you! This setup is for metal/punk-adjacent stuff, along with a few melvins and red fang covers.
awesome.