New pedals, new board

Schmo · October 2017

S'funny, I'm not into JM's at all...but yours is fantastic, can't stop looking at it ! Nice pedalboard build too...

Paul_C · October 2017

That Small Stone is not on straight.

stickyfiddle · October 2017

Paul_C said:

That Small Stone is not on straight.

I won't tell anyone if you don't :P

stickyfiddle · October 2017

Schmo said:

S'funny, I'm not into JM's at all...but yours is fantastic, can't stop looking at it ! Nice pedalboard build too...

It's cos mine's the best one, obviously!

stickyfiddle · November 2017

Tracking update... FINALLY. "ready for collection"

Woo!

stickyfiddle · November 2017

It's sparkly! That doesn't show in photos under my office lights. But it's really pretty. And quite small, which is nice. I wouldn't want 3 switches any closer together, but compact pedals are always good. Now I need to learn to drive it...

stickyfiddle · November 2017

Done!

Well, I say done, I don’t yet have the Plus, so I have a Rat taking up that spot for now. And my workaround for the Zuma us (literally) come unstuck, so I will need to pony up for the brackets, but that's temporarily cable-tidied in place, it’s all fully wired up and does sound marvellous.

Thoughts:

- the Empress Echosystem doesn’t have a bad sound in it, apart from the ring mod setting (srsly, who ever uses ring mods in music people want to listen to?). It's super easy to use, and I haven't even opened the manual yet. At some point I need to learn how presets work and what the shift button is for, but for now I'm in dual-parallel tape-delay heaven

- the Ditto is a really neat little thing that is going to make me want to buy a "proper" looper in no time.

- Cleggy & @juansolo know a thing or two about pedals. I'm loving this Small Stone, in small doses.

- the Supernatural is really nice, but I'm not sure I need a reverb on top of the Empress. Time will tell.

- Maybe I'll go for something like an H9 to replace the Whammy & Supernatural & phaser at some point, except you probably can't use multiple FX at once with those, and it can't be in 2 places in a signal chain at once. So maybe not.

- Also, this is too many drive pedals. 5 at present... I would *never* gig with this, unless in a overblown ambient wank type of band. Which would be loads of fun. At least for me.

- my Strat is a really nice sounding guitar, but the frets need work. And possibly a slightly chunkier neck...

Anyway, picture time!

JEPBLEP · November 2017

Love this thread. Love this board. Love the Strat. If I were to wear a hat, I would take it off.

GavRichList · November 2017

H9 won’t do what a Whammy does mate. Nothing does! Get a Ricochet if you need to save space.

stickyfiddle · November 2017

GavRichList said:

H9 won’t do what a Whammy does mate. Nothing does! Get a Ricochet if you need to save space.

Ya. I'm not keen to lose full Whammy capability, I just wish it wasn't so frickin huge. That's one of the things that drove me away from the Helix - its pitch-shifting is just awful.

I'd definitely try a Ricochet, but I wonder if even that would be too limited. But I'd enjoy a demo at least...

Anyway, I don't need to make more space atm. And if I did then the reverb could go and the Small Stone could always switch for a smaller-footprinted swirly.

GavRichList · November 2017

I went Ricochet for Space, and it’s doing just fine.

dindude · November 2017

Board looks great Sticky

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