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Pedal Line Friday – 4/20 – Steve N. Mavronis

Today’s pedal line is from Steve N. Mavronis. 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.

Pedal Line Friday - 4/20 - Steve N. MavronisHere are some photos of my Pedaltrain Mini pedal board for your Pedal Line Friday feature. My signal chain is: Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster guitar into Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor to Neo-Classic 3080 Compressor and Neo-Classic 741 Overdrive (both in the send/return NS-2 effects loop) to MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay to Boss RC-3 Loop Station out to Marshall MG15FX Series 4 home practice amp, only using the clean channel and no on-board amp effects. I’m only a home guitar music enthusiast so this small effects rig is a perfect fit for my small row house environment.

Pedal Line Friday - 4/20 - Steve N. MavronisThe 2 Neo-Classic pedals are completely from scratch first time DIY builds that I made (in 2010 and 2011) of a 1979 ‘gray spec’ DOD 250 Overdrive and 1977 ‘script spec’ MXR Dyna Comp with no changes from the original circuit schematics and sound except the addition of true bypass, LED power indicator, and Boss style DC jack. You can get more details on these ‘non-commercial’ DIY effects projects on my Neo-Classic FX showcase website including interior gut shots. No one else has these pedals except my good friend American neoclassical shred guitarist Dean Cascione who I had made an extra copy of each as my special gift of appreciation for the music he creates, which inspires me to want to play better. Dean liked my gray 250 clone so much compared to others that he recorded all the guitar leads on his 2011 instrumental album Neoclassical Fire with it which made me feel honored! He will be recording his next album with both of them on his Furman SPB-8C pedal board. Of course with both of these type of gain increasing pedals used on at the same time a noise suppressor is recommended if higher settings are dialed in.

Pedal Line Friday - 4/20 - Steve N. Mavronis 3My next favorite pedals are the MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay and the Boss RC-3 Loop Station. I like moderately low slap back echo type delay with an almost reverb like effect at the same time. I’m also having fun with the RC-3 creating loops to play along with as well as backing tracks copied to it via USB from my PC. It’s a great practice tool. I hope others find this relatively tame and simple setup interesting. It gets the job done without the temptation of effects overkill that a large pedal board rig would spoil me with.

Steve N. Mavronis

Apr 20, 2012admin

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Comments: 4
  1. Riff Wolf
    11 years ago

    I’d never heard of Neo-Classic’s pedals. I just checked them out… pretty cool. I love the graphic on the Overdrive.

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  2. Steve N. Mavronis
    11 years ago

    Thanks! I’m only a DIY hobbyist and self-branded my projects as Neo-Classic just for fun. The 741 graphic is a reverse circuit schematic. Both pedal graphics are UV etched onto a photopolymer resist coated aluminum and polyester sheets. Very durable and chemical resistant. Same stuff as street signs, but very thin. Great for panel labels.

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  3. Elliott
    11 years ago

    Cool pedal board and description. I’ve been curious about the DIY pedals and am happy to hear of your various successes with them. Rock on!

    What cables do you use for your connections?

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  4. Steve N. Mavronis
    11 years ago

    @Elliott – The small interconnecting pedal cables are Ibanez 6″ low noise DS series. The 18″ cable between the NS-2 and Delay is Hosa CPE-118 and the 3′ cable for the NS-2 effects loop is CBI performer series. I’m using Visual Sound daisy chain power cable kit, with a Boss PSA-120S adapter. My longer cables to the amp and guitar and Ibanez DS series.

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