Pedal Line Friday – 6/17 – Shane Pachica

Today’s pedal line is from Shane Pachica (@Shane_TheCowboy). If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedalline@nulleffectsbay.com. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

This is my double board

Boards:

Furman sbp8
home made pedal board with electric tape

One Spot w/ daisy chain connected to the furman to power the homemade pedal board

Pedal Chain:

(amp) Crate V33H class A tube head on a Crate V212 cab >
– Line 6 echo park– tons of features, tape, analog or digital delay sounds, swell, dotted eighth, triplets, ducking, panning, and 2 random rhythm modes, tap tempo
– Rogues analog delay– to beefen up solos, cheap one trick pony
– TC Electronics Nova Modulator– my newest toy, unbelievable amount of features, yet can be very simple if you want it. You can have it in manual mode and use it like a single effect, or program up to 18 presets,. You can set each preset to have two different effects at the same time. Modes are: Chorus, Trichorus, Flanger, Through Zero Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, and Vibrato. Perfect for saving space and money if you use modulation sparingly. Tap tempo
– BBE Sonic Maximizer– cleans up the muddiness of any amp, gives life and punch back to your sound. This pedal is ALWAYS ON
– Digitech Bad Monkey OD– great sound and versatility for a very small price
– Vox Valvetone V810 OD– discontinued. Very sweet, transparent, Vox-y sounding OD. Killer looks with its chrome design, and that signature VOX logo. You stay classy San Diego!
– Rogue Compressor– when you need that extra squeeze and sustain out of your solos
– Boss FV50 Volume pedal– for siren swells, or to control the grit on my OD’s
– (tuner out) Korg Pitch Black Tuner– if all I could have is one pedal… The tuner is left on constantly, connected to the volume pedals tuner out, so i can tune with sound, or silently depending on the volume pedal
– Digitech EX-7 Expression Factory– 7 modes, Crybaby Wah, Vox Wah, Digitech Space Station, Digitech Whammy, Unichord Univibe, Leslie 145 Rotary Speaker, A/DAFlanger. Amazing sounds, great versatility, great features, especially for the money. Plus there is a Digitech DF7 distortion factory built inside. Space Station and Whammy alone are worth the price
– (home made FS3X footswitch) allows me to go up or down the modes, or turn on the distortion on the EX-7
– Digitech Flanger– my old langer, no longer needed since i got the Nova Mod. Although, it does have a lot of features including trigger flange, constant fall/rise flange, and a synth-like step flanger
– Danelectro Fish and Chips EQ– used as a mid/volume boost, and also coupled with distortion to get that underwater distortion sound
– Marshall JH-1 Jackhammer Metal Distortion– a very convincing Marshall stack crunch
– Digitech DF-7 Distortion Factory– 7 classic distortion modes that sound fantastic. TS9, DOD 250, Boss DS1, ProCo RAT, Boss Metal Zone, Digitech Metal Master, and Big Muff Pi Fuzz
– Morley Tremonti Wah– ultimate shrieking solo wah

> (guitar) Les Paul Ultra II- Classic LP with quilt top and a Shadow Nanomag
> Acoustic pickup in the 24th fret, w/ stereo outputs

– (not connected) BBE AM64 American Metal distortion

And those are my babies, each with their own individual characteristics. And I know the ins and outs of all of them. Since I play in a worship team at church, I need all my equipment to be very versatile, without compromising tone. I have to be able to get virtually any kind of sound out of my rig. The left board is the main, worship essential board. No heavy distortion needed, just layered OD, and multiple delays with tap tempo. Volume pedal and Space station for ethereal swells, and angel like organ sounds. I guess the second board is for heavier rock. Marshall Jackhammer, EQ and a solo wah. With all my equipment, I get what I want… a lot of versatility, and great tone!

thanks,
Shane

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