In the blog from April I removed all my drive pedals, and basically produced a “modulation” pedalboard. Having used it now for a few months certain things became apparent.
- the “treadle” style pedals for the Univibe, Volume and Wah were too close together – when I altered volume I also turned on the Univibe.
- the Wah “theremin” was occasionally being affected by the main signal lead that went into the TU3 tuner.
- Sometimes I wanted to add other pedals eg loopers for rehearsal, and drive (yeah I know I removed them last time!!)
- Sometimes the amp I’m using doesn’t have an effects loop, so I can use a patch cable and jump all the effects into one long chain!
- For some reason the BBE Maximiser (Doom switch) and the Moonphaser were AFTER the delay – so if I was using the loop on the DL4 they were redundant.
As a consequence of this I developed the “Hypothalamus” patchbay (see previous), and redesigned the circuit.
The new signal chain is….
- Hypothalamus SOCKET 4
- Boss TU3 Tuner
- Z Vex Wah Probe
- Keeley 2 knob compressor
- Jacques Meistersinger – Chorus
- Jim Dunlop UV1 Univibe and foot control
- Z Vex Super Hard On
- Hypothalamus SOCKET 1 – to amp….
- Hypothalamus SOCKET 2 – from effects SEND of amp.
- Red Witch MoonPhaser
- BBE Sonic Maximiser – (THE DOOM SWITCH)
- Line 6 DL4
- Ernie Ball Volume Pedal VPJR
- Hypothalamus SOCKET 3 – to effects RETURN on amp.
Happy…… for now!
Tags: pedal board, pedals, Performance
