The last house gig and memoirs of playing at Blu Jazz showed me that giant pedalboards are not the way when all you need is a basic overdrive and delay sound. I thus began my search for a combination of micro-sized pedals that would require minimal setup/tear-down and maximum tone.
I initially toyed with the idea of using my improvised plastic case pedalboard, put together by repurposing a piece of foam (that came with a laptop case), cutting it down to size and slapping on some fuzzy-side Velcro. I quickly realized there were too many of the small pedals for practical use--so I have set it aside as a backup nano-board for the acoustic or the bass.
I then realized I really wanted full-sized wah and volume pedals, and I use them pretty frequently in my playing. Hence, I decided to mix-and-match my current pedals, partially upsetting the initial creative vision I had for a fully-nano sized board. Two more revisions led to this board:
This is a Pedaltrain Junior board outfitted with the following signal chain:
Xotic SP Comp
Budda Bud-wah
Xotic EP Booster
Xotic SL Drive
Cmatmods Signa Drive
Ernie Ball VP Jr
TC Electronic Flashback Mini
TC Electronic Polytune Mini (to mute the signal when I change TonePrints with my phone)
Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master
TC Electronic Ditto Looper
Palmer PDI-09
All pedals are powered by a Diago Powerstation, and I repurposed a Fisherman's Friend tin as a pick/ear buds tin. I'll definitely be bringing this on a field test at the next service, and I'm excited to hear what happens!
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