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Today’s pedal line is from  Devin Ozel. 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 pedallineeffectsbaycom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Hi Effects Bay,

I’m Devin and I play bass in Le Panique. I wanted to make my bass sound like a guitar, and thus I use a Rickenbacker 4001, a vintage Marshall half-stack, an SWR Redhead, and the following pedals:

Planet Waves Chromatic Tuner
Boss  Fv-500H
Boss Bass Chorus CEB3
Boss Bass Equalizer GEB7 – I use this equalizer to take out the low frequencies, so that I do not blow out the Marshall half-stack.
Boss Mega Distortion MD2 – Good ol’ distortion makes the bass sound more like a guitar than anything.
Death by Audio Fuzz War – I have tried out many fuzz pedals, and this one generates the best tone and is so very loud.
Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation – I use this pedal with MD2 to generate feedback and using the volume knob on my bass, I can generate weird effects. You can hear what this pedal can do in the beginning of our song, “Santa Clara”.

We, Le Panique, just released a brand new EP and you can listen to it on our facebook page and if you like it buy it on iTunes.

I plan to replace the volume pedal with a booster, so if you have any suggestions, I would love to know. Thanks!
Devin

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Okay. I guess I’m in a Mogwai sort of mood today. I just posted Dominic’s board, and on Facebook, Michael pointed out a great video by Music Radar where they go into Mogwai’s full rig. The best part.. it’s recent. Post was posted on Mar 3,2011. You can read the full post and see the videos here.

From my earlier posts of John’s and Stuart’s rig, it looks like there have been significant changes to the boards, so this is a great opportunity to make some updates.

John Cummings’ Pedal Board:

Boss TU-3
MXR Kerry King 10 band EQ
Way Huge Pork Loin
Way Huge Swollen Pickle
Death By Audio Fuzz Gun
Death By Audio Intersteller Overdrive Deluxe
Boss OS-2 Overdrive
MXR Script Phase 90 (Custom Shop)
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Boss DD-7 Delay
Dunlop M159 Tremolo
Way Huge Aqua Puss Delay
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Way Huge Fat Sandwich
Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain
Boss LS-2 Line Selector
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ x2

John’s board had definitely changed from the earlier post. Removing the T-Rex Dr. Swamp and the new additions of Way Huge pedals is interesting. It’s also interesting to see he’s riding with Death By Audio pedals as well now for his distortion section. In the earlier post, he was using the EHX HOG with footswitch controller and expression pedal, and it’s not on this tour.

Stuart Braithwaite’s Pedal Board:

Boss TU-3
Danelectro Fab Tone
Pro Co Rat2
MXR Carbon Copy
Electro-Harmonix NYC Big Muff
Boss DD-20 Giga delay
Boss SL-20 Slicer
Electro-Harmonix Vocoder V256
MXR Micro Flanger
Kerry King KFK Q Zone
Boss RV-5 Reverb
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
Boss RC-20XL Loop Station
Vox Wah
Boss RE-20 Space Echo
Boss LS-2 Line Selector
Behringer MicroHD HD400 Hum Destroyer
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ x2

Interesting to see the inclusion of more Boss twin pedals from the previous post. Definitely ProCo Rat2 and Danelectro Fab Tone is big part of his distortion tone

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The following is a guest review of the Death By Audio – Intersteller Overdrive Deluxe by Giovanni Lanese (@joGlitterball). If you are interested in guest posting, please contact me!

Ok, what you can take out of this box is something very different from any other fuzz or overdrive. Two channels:

Channel 1
interstellar overdriver – the one on the right, with drive and master Knobs;

Channel 2
Master and drive knobs + the six position selector:

1 thin drive
2 matched interstellar overdriver
3 bass overdrive
4 octafuzz
5 oscillating fuzz
6 voltage controlled tremolo / fuzz

It can be powered both with 9v battery and standard power adapter + daisy chain (I use 1spot); no polarity problems…

Basically it comes with no manual, ’cause you really don’t need it; it’s a pedal to use with a lot of imagination…

I use a Fender Stratocaster made in Japan ’86,  and a Fender ’65 Super Reverb reissue, and with this one I’ve always had matching problems with fuzzes; only a few sound great with it and Interstellar Overdriver is one of these. The Channel one goes from a slight overdrive to a high gain sound, without affecting your touch and dynamic. It sounds HUGE. Basically, alone it gives you one sound, but when you add it to the second channel a whole world of sounds opens. The coolest thing is that the sound changes a lot according to the master and the drive knob distinctly(master a little bit more influential). Sometimes you get a particular sound only in a specific position on the master knob-This is its “Ki” ; obviously this will force you to keep the 1st channel master very low. However you can get lots of nuances and really create your own sound.

Channel two starts with a thin drive:  it sounds like a lo-fi sound ideal for strange kind of solos but works very well also with overdrive arpeggios.

Matched interstellar overdriver has a more ‘standard’ sound, compared to the others, very warm and full of harmonics, almost a tube-like sound.

Bass overdrive is very fat and loud. Your guitar seems to have the tone control all the way down.

Octafuzz is a crazy drive with a fantastic hiss (see WTF- Ok Go) starting from the master knob in a 10 o’clock position, your amplifier seems to be broken, but when you sound in a band it will be harder to notice it. Imagine your sound turned into pixels…

Oscillating fuzz is very vintage, reminds me of malekko b:assmaster, it’s the most compressed sound of the pedal.

Voltage controlled tremolo / fuzz – just a thing: the more you turn up 1st channel master, the more tremolo begins later and its rate decrease according to the intensity of your touch!

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I love shop or factory tours of pedal builders. Love ‘em. A few months ago I posted a tour of the Electro-Harmonix factory, and a friend of mine just recently sent me a great YouTube clip of a tour of the the Death by Audio factory. Death by Audio is out of Brooklyn, New York and are know for making some crazy pedals. If you’re into making insane noise come out of your guitar, you should seriously look to these guys!

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