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[rickenbackerkid]

Well that is quite sexy

[sihirst]

Well that is quite sexy

Ha! Definitely the best looking board I’ve had!

Fortunately it sounds alright too.

[Jops]

Well that is quite sexy

Ha! Definitely the best looking board I’ve had!

Fortunately it sounds alright too.

Pettyjohn drives are insane. Have you seen his new creation? Lift, Gold, Iron and Chime all in one box. $1100 to get into NZ and yes I seriously looked into it.

[sihirst]

Pettyjohn drives are insane. Have you seen his new creation? Lift, Gold, Iron and Chime all in one box. $1100 to get into NZ and yes I seriously looked into it.

Yeah, the chime is such a great pedal. It’s magic stacked into the Lightspeed! It’s the only Pettyjohn I’ve played myself, but I’ve heard the Iron and that was awesome too.

I haven’t seen that!! That’s crazy. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the heads up on it

[robthemac]

This was many hours of work. Replaced all cables with solderless custom-length jobbies. Installed patchbay to minimise plugging and unplugging fuckery. Replaced remaining Velcro with DualLock.

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All ins and outs via the patchbay at the back. Set up for wet-dry-wet.

Input goes to fuzz, tuner then Flint. From there it splits to the 'dry' side, where it just gets the unlabelled white pedal (currently a very noisy analogue delay, but can/may replace with an OD) then out to the centre amp.

Other output from Flint goes to "wet" channels. Two more gain stages (Sunset and Benson), then mod, delay, reverb, looper.

Morningstar does MIDI things. Selects presets for the Sunset, Synaesthesia, Volante and Nightsky. Each bank is set up for a song, then I can access up to eight patches with each bank. Often one or two for each percussion, chords, melody, lead. Saves a lot of foot-tapping.

Some issues which are not currently bothersome but may lead to future changes. No loop selector, so fuzz, Flint and Benson have to be manually switched on and off. Flint is not MIDI controlled so to be honest is playing second-fiddle to Synaesthesia for tremolo and Nightsky for reverb. Can't fit the expression pedal on the board, so may lose a gain stage to free up space.

Very happy overall.

[Cdog]

Bet sounds good with those 3 amps wet/dry/wet.

[robthemac]

Bet sounds good with those 3 amps wet/dry/wet.

Nah, sounds like ass. But that's just my playing.

[Cdog]

Bet sounds good with those 3 amps wet/dry/wet.

Nah, sounds like ass. But that's just my playing.

[jeremyb]

Can't fit the expression pedal on the board, so may lose a gain stage to free up space.

If you put the tuner sideways on the top RHS of the board, would the expression pedal fit under it?

[Capt. Black]

Can't fit the expression pedal on the board, so may lose a gain stage to free up space.

If you put the tuner sideways on the top RHS of the board, would the expression pedal fit under it?

That's what I do with my board so the Wah fits on the right hand side.

[robthemac]

Can't fit the expression pedal on the board, so may lose a gain stage to free up space.

If you put the tuner sideways on the top RHS of the board, would the expression pedal fit under it?

Smart. Will have a think. I try to have the often-accessed pedals on the front row, but would be good to have the expression on the board.

[sihirst]

Changed a couple things in and out for the Blink tribute rehearsals. I’ve been trying different OD/Distortion options. I’d thought about running the Dirty Shirley and the Mesa V-Twin in parallel. A fun and cool idea, but it just didn’t quite hit like I hoped and I much preferred the DS on its own. (Thanks to the few forum members who chimed in on recommending it. What a sound). The DS dual-mono into the Tophat and Vox is quite a noise!

Swapped out the PettyJohn for the Belle Starr, but either is great so that spot might just be dependent on what I’m enjoying more at that moment.

Put the Julia up on a riser too. The positioning is designed around what I use most, especially when I’m doing more original music, but I need the Julia more for this set so decided to make it a bit easier to access

[AiRdAd]

Changed a couple things in and out for the Blink tribute rehearsals. I’ve been trying different OD/Distortion options. I’d thought about running the Dirty Shirley and the Mesa V-Twin in parallel. A fun and cool idea, but it just didn’t quite hit like I hoped and I much preferred the DS on its own. (Thanks to the few forum members who chimed in on recommending it. What a sound). The DS dual-mono into the Tophat and Vox is quite a noise!

Swapped out the PettyJohn for the Belle Starr, but either is great so that spot might just be dependent on what I’m enjoying more at that moment.

Put the Julia up on a riser too. The positioning is designed around what I use most, especially when I’m doing more original music, but I need the Julia more for this set so decided to make it a bit easier to access

Hey Si - we don't wanna see your Blink pedalboard.... we don't wanna see your Blink guitar.... we wanna see what you're wearing on stage!!!!

[sihirst]

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Changed a couple things in and out for the Blink tribute rehearsals. I’ve been trying different OD/Distortion options. I’d thought about running the Dirty Shirley and the Mesa V-Twin in parallel. A fun and cool idea, but it just didn’t quite hit like I hoped and I much preferred the DS on its own. (Thanks to the few forum members who chimed in on recommending it. What a sound). The DS dual-mono into the Tophat and Vox is quite a noise!

Swapped out the PettyJohn for the Belle Starr, but either is great so that spot might just be dependent on what I’m enjoying more at that moment.

Put the Julia up on a riser too. The positioning is designed around what I use most, especially when I’m doing more original music, but I need the Julia more for this set so decided to make it a bit easier to access

Hey Si - we don't wanna see your pedalboard.... we don't wanna see you guitar.... we wanna see what you're wearing on stage!!!!

Hahaha, well the video for ‘What’s My Age Again’ came up and…


We’re not doing that because we want people to actually turn up, ha!

But in all seriousness we thought it’d be funny to dress like they do in the music for ‘First Date’. Which would be a great laugh!

[GrantB]

But only the costume at the end…the Bee Gees inspired one