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Over on Premier Guitars Facebook page, they posted some fresh shots of Nels Cline’s pedalboard while on tour with Wilco. It’s nice to see a recent photo of his pedals. There were two unidentified pedals there.. so if you can help ID them, please comment below (Pedals have been identified!).

Nels mentioned he feels awkward talking about his pedals on his website. Here is the relevant snippet:

OK, people. You all seem fixated, I dare say HYPNOTIZED, by all my damn effects boxes. So here you go: all about my NEW PEDAL BOARD, being used with Wilco and anything else I can find to drag all 75 pounds of it (including swanky road case) to! I confess that it is a bit irritating to me that people seem so fixated on HOW MANY pedals I have. This is because there seems to be something double-edged about it: a kind of fascination mixed with feelings of skepticism and/or disgust, as though it’s somehow amazing that I can keep track of it all and at the same time I must be some kind of charlatan to NEED so many pedals! Well, what can I say?

Nels has two boards. The first is his primary guitar pedal board and the second is his ‘ambient/noise’ board.

Board 1

Boss TU-3 Tuner
Boss CS-3 Compressor/Sustainer
Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe
ZVex Fuzz Factory
Digitech Whammy
Boss FV500H Expression Pedal
Crowther Audio Hot Cake
Boss VB-2 Vibrato
Fulltone ’69 Fuzz
Klon Centaur
Electro-Harmonix Pulsar
Bigfoot FX Magnavibe
Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight
Crazy Tube Circuits Vyagra Boost
Boss DD-7 Delay x2 (possibly Boss DD-2 Delay)
MXR Phase 90
Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ x2

Board 2

Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
Electro-Harmonix Ring Thing Modulator
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Plus Reverb
Mid-Fi Electronics Glitch Computer
Electro-Harmonix 16 second digital delay
Korg Kaos Pad

Let me know what you think by commenting below!

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Yesterday started off as somewhat of a shitty day. Not bad in the sense of anything major. Just one of those days that every task was complicated and difficult. Definitely things weren’t going my way easily. I hate these types of days.

In the afternoon, I noticed a post on Facebook from a local bar/club here in Missoula mentioning that The Appleseed Cast were playing tonight and they included a YouTube clip. I see these, literally, every day, but I usually don’t watch the videos. I either know the band… or frankly, don’t care. But for some reason, I wanted to check this out. I’ve never heard The Appleseed Cast before so I watched the video and was blown away with what I saw. Here is the video:

I’m really into bands that can capture emotion with their build up and release. To tell a story without spoon feeding me lyrics and going into detail as to what it’s about – “this next song is about my cat that ran away”… yadda yadda. Who gives a crap. But let me develop my own story. My own emotion. A band that invites you to go on a ride with them in a sense. I really liked what I saw and heard on the video, so now I started to research this band… I wanted more. I checked out their web site, bounced around on a few forums, and was super excited to see them brave the icy roads of Montana to play a show here on a Tuesday night.

Normally, a Tuesday night show has a pretty low turn out. I mean, come on, it’s Tuesday night. We all have something to do Wednesday right? Me being lazy (and tired) as I am, I almost talked myself out of going multiple times. It was cold outside, and I was quite comfortable hanging with the wife watching bad TV, but I stuck to the plan and rallied to see the show.

There were four bands in total. Two local (missed the first one), and I was really impressed with the second. The third was a two piece, which included members of the Appleseed Cast called the Hospital Ships. Finally, after a couple of tallboy PBRs, the Appleseed Cast took the stage, and literally blew my mind.

The sonic aspect of the band was extremely strong, but the guitar inner-play between Taylor Holenbeck (also in Hospital Ships) and Chris Crisci was the good stuff for sure. Perfect blend of melody and power but also could guide you softly to the next transition. Nate Whitman on bass plays the bass I so enjoy. Steady and driving. Locking in with the drums (John Momberg) perfectly. Jordan Geiger on keys (also a member of Hospital Ships) laid down the under/over tones, completing the sound scape. Minimal vocals. Maximum feelings and vibe.

I went home with a smile and excitement about a new band. Check out their tour, and if you have a chance to see them live (tour information), you have to do it. For those of you that know them already, you know where I’m coming from.

So I was able to talk with a few of the members briefly and I wanted to post their boards for the fans of The Appleseed Cast!

Chris Crisci’s Board:

Boss TU-2 Tuner
Boss DD-7 Delay (possibly DD-6)
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
Boss RC-20XL Loop Station
Spaceman Aphelion Overdrive
Fulltone Fulldrive2 MOSFET
Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man (older vintage version)

Taylor Holenbeck’s Board:

Boss TU-3 Tuner
Fulltone OCD Overdrive/Distortion
JHS Honey Comb Deluxe Dual Tremolo
Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sustainer
Electro-Harmonix 2880 Stereo Looper
Electro-Harmonix 2880 Foot Controller
Electro-Harmonix POG2
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Boy
Dunlop Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (Germanium – not pictured)

Nate Whitman’s Board:

Tech21 BSDR SansAmp Bass Driver DI
Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Stereo Reverb
Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive
Korg Pitchblack Tuner

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

Hi all,  I am following all your posts and let me tell you this website is very usefull. Thanks all!

BIO/ROUTING:
I have being playing since the 90s in South America, I founded Gaia  (Paraguay-alternative rock) with a few friends, which is now one of the most important bands down there in the Paraguayan rock scene.  I was on hold for a while and 3 years ago I started a new project with my 2 brothers, and 2 friends, “La Porca”, in Lima-Peru.

PEDALS:
535Q Crybaby
Pigtronix Philosopher King
EHX POG2
Fulltone GT-500
Line 6 M13
EHX Deluxe Memory Man
Roland EV-1 (missing in the picture)
Line 6 Expression Pedal
Mesa Boogie Electra Dyne AMP footswitch (missing on the picture)

My chain starts simple, but gets a little more fun while getting into the Line 6 M13, and using the first 2 FX slots for PRE and the last 2 for POST with the FX loop setup in 4 cable method (4CM) for getting benefit of the sound on my Mesa Electra Dyne:
Guitar > WAH > Philosopher King > EHXPOG2 > Fulltone GT-500 > LINE6M13 (FX 1&2 on PRE for filters use) > AMP INPUT > Line6 M13 FX Return  (FX 3&4 on POST for Mods and Delays use) > EHX Memory Man > AMP RETURN > AUDITORY SYSTEMS

Great interaction between the POG2/PHILOSOPHER KING (Which I think enhance the tone, everything sound better with it) and the DMM.  The Philosopher and the DMM, gave a HIGH QUALITY sounding signal, very clean, warm and organic, while the POG2 adds nice ambient texture. I love passing the signal through  the line 6 M13 Octoverb and particleverb, which I love (you can mimic violins and ambient sounds like the sounding of “Other Lives” in “For 12″ song).

GT-500 is a great all drive in one BOX, Great OD, KIller Distortion and also I can boost, aside from the amp tone and 3 channels Clean, Crunch and high gain setups.

M13 combined with the other analogue pedals rocks, synth strings, with delays and Pitch Gliding expressions with an octave up, can get Depeche Mode sounding . I can also combine this with POG2 and Philosopher one shot function creating more synth possibilities.

I also use the FADE on the Philosopher King with an expression pedal, it gives you a nice foot controlled tremolo.
Also you can mix the Swell with the POG Attack to create weird swells.

As you can see, all of these pedals are big boxes, but there is a lot of possibilities with them, it is very cool to have just one pedal for Drive/ Distortion and boost, other for compressor-sustaine-tremolo- filter synth, and other for octave-organ synth ( also you use less cables, less hum!). The M13 gives me whatever else is missing!

It’s a heavy pedalboard.
I am thinking on getting a tunner pedal as the M13 tunner is just OK.
Any recommendation on how to improve my board or any extra pedal that can help or setup, would be appreciated!

Thanks again for this pedal line friday idea!
Cheers

Giacomo Cicirello,
Band: La Porca (electro rock-pop)
Lima-Peru
Haven’t recorded professionally, yet!!!

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Today’s pedal line is from Josh Baez. 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, this is my pedalboard in hopes of making it into Pedal Line Friday.  I play solo and with an 8-person band, This Is Your Captain Speaking- indie rock, alternative, ambient stuff is where we shine.  For my solo work I play music that’s perfect for a rainy day (it’s kind of the only music there is if you live in Seattle!)  Apparently both myself and my band sounds like indie rock groups such as Death Cab for Cutie, Broken Social Scene, and Arcade Fire…

Now time for the real stars of the show…I start out with a Fender Telecaster, then, using a Mogami cable, I run into my Boss TU-2 Tuner.  Going down the line I hit the good ole’  Zvex Vexter Series Box of Rock, perfect for those Marshally sounds at a lower volume.  Then I go into the Fulltone GT-500 for it’s tweakable boost/overdrive and, if I really want things to get dirty, I’ll turn on the distortion side to blow up my house.  I then go to my MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay which I use for light delay/slapback for solos; next is the Boss DD-5 Digital Delay for reverse/dotted delay times.  Then I’ll put my signal through the Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb to make my sound fuller using the room or hall reverb settings, or I’ll use the modulation setting to play ambient progressions/lead lines.  After all is said and done I go into the Line 6 DL4 Delay Modular which I mainly use as a looper for soundscape/ambient stuff.

I connect all my pedals (with the exception of a cheap-o cable from Tuner to BOR, and a Planet Waves cable from RV-5 to DL4) using Hosa Pancake Cables, which have a bad reputation, but to me they’re brilliant and perfect if you want to have more space!

To power it all I use a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+, allowing me to power the MXR Carbon Copy with 12v and my GT-55 using 18v.

I am using a homemade pedalboard and Velcro strips to put it all together; I also use electric tape to make sure my settings stay in the right place.

I am playing all this through a Marshall Class 5 amplifier.

Solo:
www.facebook.com/jbaezmusic
www.youtube.com/joshbaezmusic
Band:
www.facebook.com/tiycs
www.youtube.com/captainspeakingmusic

Thanks a ton!
Josh Baez

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Today’s pedal line is from Jonathan Holloway. 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.

Just wanted to submit a pedalboard for the Friday pedalline submission, picture attached, description of board:

Boss RV-3 Reverb
Akai Headrush Mk 1 Delay
Digitech Whammy
Boss RE-20 Space Echo
Cusack Tap-a-whirl Tremolo
Boss PS-2 Pitchshifter
Boss CS-3 Compressor
Fulltone Fulldrive 2 Overdrive
Boss FZ-2 Fuzz
Boss TU-2 Tuner
Eventide Timefactor Delay
Eventide Pitchfactor
Ernie Ball 6166 Volume Pedal
Ernie Ball VP Jr – expression pedal for timefactor
Gigrig Pro-14 Switcher
(missing my Budda Wah)

Phew… I’m building another board shortly also for some other pedals, looking forward to that project.

Band Name is currently “The Gargantuan Pocket Shark Project”

Many thanks for the advice and all on the pedals over the last year or so, much appreciated.

Cheers,
Jon.

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Today’s pedal line is from Matthew Swasta. 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.

Hey there! I have been working on this signal chain for a few years. Like many others pedal chains, this one is constantly evolving. I have been playing in bands in the Little Rock AR area for a couple years. My current signal path is running one of three guitars, an Aria Pro II, Carvin single cut, Fender Jaguar HH and and older Carvin DC127 Koa, into a series of pedals and then into a Bogner Ecstasy 101b. My pedal path is as follows:

Fulltone Fuzz 70
Dunlop 535q
Ernie Ball VP Jr – Hardwire tuner
Carl Martin Octa-switch

Carl M loop 1 – MXR Micro Amp
Carl M loop 2 – Fulltone OCD
Carl M loop 3 – EHX Nano Smallstone
Carl M loop 4 – Boss CE-20 Chorus (looking to replace soon)
Carl M loop 5 – Boss DD-20 Digital Delay to Strymon El Capistan
Carl M loop 6 – Hardwire Reverb to Strymon blueSky

The effects loop on the Bogner has a Roland SRV 3030 reverb running between the pre and power amp sections.

Things get more complicated here. I then run a line out from the Bogner and split the signal with a Loop-master y splitter into an Akai Headrush and a Boss DD-20 running back to a Carvin power amp sending the looping signals to a Guytron cabinet loaded with Eminence Cannabis Rex speakers.

Band
www.strangeasfiction.com

Solo project
www.myspace.com/3000lumens

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Here is a great pedal that I wouldn’t mind having in my pedal quiver. It’s the Fulltone OctaFuzz OF-2. Great sounding octave fuzz for some classic ‘Jimi’ tone.

Here is the official description of hte Fulltone OCtaFuzz OF-2:

The Fulltone OF-2 Octafuzz guitar effects pedal is the only exact circuit copy of the legendary Tycobrahe Octavia on the market. With this killer fuzz pedal you can achieve cool octave-up sounds ala Hendrix’s “Band of Gypsies” and SRV’s many live shows, while the fuzz delivers just what it says: classic fuzz tone.

Housed in a 14-gauge steel enclosure with a beautiful Ranar-blue gloss powdercoat finish and Antique-white logo, this Fulltone Octafuzz pedal is the reincarnation of the Tycobrahe. Its synth-like ring-modulation and “steel-drum” vibe will turn heads.

Features

* Octa/Fuzz toggle
* Volume control
* Boost control
* Footswitch
* LED light
* 14-gauge steel enclosure
* Ranar-blue gloss powdercoat finish
* Antique-white logo

I found this video by DerDemoMeisters:

You can pick up the Fulltone OctaFuzz OF-2 for $143.65 at Musician’s Friend.

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Do any of you play with another guitarist, and when that said guitarist steps on a pedal, you get pissed with envy for that particular pedal? Well I do. You guys might be familiar with Jimmy Rolle who does the playing on the demos here at EffectsBay.com. I’ve been in various musical projects over the years with him, and there is one pedal he uses, that I wish I could steal and put on my board without him missing it. That pedal is the Fulltone ’69 fuzz. That to me is the best sounding fuzz hands down. Every time I play his rig, I ended up messing with that fuzz. Love it.

Fulltone discontinued that pedal since the transistors (germanium) were hard to come by.. and hard to find a matched pair of transistors to meet his specs. Later he released a small batch called the Fulltone ’69 Slight Return which were quickly snatched up. My head was in the sand during that time.. or I would have picked one up. The original Fulltone ’69 fuzzes are pretty hard to come by.. and usually fetch hefty prices on eBay.

So today, while I was sipping my coffee, things got perky when I saw that Fulltone is releasing the Fulltone ’69 mkII! Basically, he’s able to get the transistors sorted out, and now he’s bringing the ’69 back!

Here is a snippet from fulltone.com

3/14/2011 Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent limited-edition 69-”Slight Return” (Sold out!) and the fact that I have patched things up with the transistor company that made my germaniums during the heyday of the 69 pedal (1994-1997).

I can now get perfect germanium transistor matched pairs (same as used in the recent 69 Slight Return and same that were used in the 1994-1997 69′s)…so am officially coming out with a small box version of the 69 pedal (in a OCD, FatBoost3 sized enclosure) called “69 mkII.” Boxes are done, pcb is done, silk-screens are done, we start building in a couple of weeks.

Now, I was curious how much the ’69 Slight Return differed from the original, and how this pedal will differ. I found this comparison video between the vintage ’69 and the Slight Return by TheToneshack:

You can pick up the Fulltone ’69 mkII for $169.15 at Musician’s Friend. It’s not out quite yet, but you can preorder. They will be officially available on 7/14/11! This time I’m not going to miss out!

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Today’s pedal line is from Karl Ward of Ghost Ghost. 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 pedallineateffectsbaydotcom. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

*History of the Space Shuttle* or the pedalboards of Karl Ward from Ghost Ghost

In 2008, I started putting together my pedalboard for live shows with Ghost Ghost. I knew several things from the very beginning, before I spent any money.  First, I knew I would need many different kinds of delay.  Second, I knew I would need many different distortion options.  Third, I knew that fast setup would be essential for live shows in NYC rock clubs, where setup time between acts is frequently 15 minutes (if that).

From these basic goals, I put together a series of increasingly more complex and versatile pedalboard configurations over the last three years–which the article describes in much more detail.  Version 1 of the pedalboard has one of the most important features of all subsequent versions, which is the dual signal path.  I built a splitter to split the guitar signal into two paths.

One path contains the Fulltone GT-500 combination overdrive/distortion, while the other path contains the Electro-Harmonix HOG analog synth and the Electro-Harmonix Tube Zipper combination envelope follower/distortion.  The two paths meet at the Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man digital delay.  After that, the two paths go out to two inputs on my amp.

Later versions incorporate more effects, more and different distortion, and eventually a full two channel rig that takes advantage of the piezo saddle transducers I added to my Strat to get acoustic sounds.  I hope you enjoy the History of the Space Shuttle.
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New additions to his Version 2.3 board would include the Furman SPB-8C Stereo Pedalboard,  L.R. Baggs Venue DI Pre Amp and Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah. To view the complete evolution of Karl’s board(s), please check out his great and very thorough post at ghostghost.net!

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Last night I caught the tail end of Foo Fighter’s performance on Austin City Limits. I’ve seen this before, and I always seem to catch the last 2-3 songs. One day I’ll watch it from the beginning. Of course I would keep a third eye on the floor of the stage to see if I can see anything interesting going on with the effects/set up. I did notice Chris Shiflett and his two Line 6 DL4s so for today, I thought I’d do some research and break down his pedal board. Without further ado I present Chris Shiflett’s pedal board.

I didn’t have to look hard at all to find something recent. At HC, niceguyollie posted some fresh photos of his board (posted 3/24/2011).

Below are the shots of the board:

Here is a break down of pedals:

Dunlop DVP1 Volume Pedal
Boss TU-3 Tuner
Voodoo Labs Amp Selector
Vox Input Selector/Jumper Switch? (custom)
Menatone Red Snapper
Fulltone Fulldrive 2 MOSFET
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano
Electro-Harmonix Micro POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator)
Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler x2
Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeler

The only one I wasn’t sure about was the black pedal labeled ‘Vox’. I’m assuming it’s a jumper pedal to blend inputs on the AC30.. not 100% sure.

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