I've been rethinking my set up for the past couple of months and put together two boards: a big one for the band and a small one for at home.
I think I've settled on these:
The board is a pedaltrain 1 and it's powered by a Strymon Zuma. Here's the chain and how I mainly use them:
- Korg tuner
- Mooer Yellow Comp (mainly for finger picking)
- Xotic Super Clean (almost always on)
- Mooer Tender Octaver (for organ like swells)
- Hungry Robot LG overdrive (very dynamic light to medium gain depending on how hard I play)
- JHS Moonshine v2 (light gain overdrive for rythm with clean knob set high and drive knob set low, sounds almost like doubled clean and crunchy guitars. Also use it to to gain boost the distortions, sounds nice because of the clean signal also being there)
- DOD Gunslinger (high gain distortion)
- Zvex Box of Rock (high gain distortion on the right, but less raspy than the Gunslinger, and overall volume boost on the left)
- Dunlop volume pedal mini (mainly for swells)
- Boss DD-7 with tap tempo mod (clean digital repeats)
- Boss RV-6 (modulated reverb)
- Mooer Trelicopter (basic trem)
- Zoom CDR-70 (made several presets for specific songs, mainly used for ambient sounds)
- Strymon El Capistan with favorite switch (warm modulated tape delay and brighter/cleaner tape delay in the favorite setting)
- Strymon blueSky (almost always on room reverb and shimmer reverb in the favorite setting)
The goal for small board was to be able to get similar sounds as the big one with a much smaller footprint. At the same time, I wanted it to be pretty versatile for experimenting and finding sounds at home.
Metro 16 with Truetone CS-6 powering it:
- Timmy clone (light and medium gain, acting like the Hungry Robot and JHS on the big board)
- Mooer Black Secret (distortion, acting like the DOD Gunslinger and right side of the Zvex)
- Broadcast clone (different than the original it has a 3-way switch for light, medium and high gain, I use it as a clean boost to add some sparkle or volume boost for the other drives, so functioning more or less like the Compressor, Super Clean and left side of the Box of Rock)
- Boss Volume pedal
- Line 6 Echo Park (love this pedal, functions like the DD-7 and El capistan on the big board)
- Zoom CDR-70 (same ambient presets as the one on the big board + modulated reverb to replace the RV-6, Tremolo and Tuner)
- Neunaber Seraphim (basic hall reverb + shimmer, functioning like the blueSky on the big board)