u/Cautious_Bobcat_1101

Pretty impressed with how this one turned out. I like my PME board much more than the builder's representation.

Burled maple top

Alder body

Kiesel treated birdseye maple fingerboard

Black limba/maple neck

Empyrean/Thorium

I have a Kyber Headless from the run with a single Vantium pickup and a 6 string A2 that this new one will essentially be the big brother to.

I think this one will stick around for quite a while.

Signal chain: Empress Bass Compressor > 3Leaf Octaves > Crowther Prunes & Custard > Keeley Octa Psi > Damnation Audio Bass Amp Grinder> EHX Bad Stone > Fairfield Randy's Revenge> Iron Ether Xerograph Deluxe> Benson Delay

So I wired up my new board with both the Suhr Eclipse and Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd. And then I realized that my favorite mid gain setting in the Eclipse sounded a LOT like the Halberd. So I dialed in the Halberd to try and match them and they are flat out identical. To where when I had my wife switch between them I couldn't tell which was which.

So then I tried to dial in the Dagger to match my higher gain setting on the Eclipse. After a lot of tweaking I can get it close but not exact, with the toggle in the down position and pretty extreme EQ. The Dagger is always a bit thinner with better string separation and the Eclipse is always a bit fuller and more "congested" sounding.

But overall I'm just surprised that pedals with such different design philosophies and topologies can get such similar sounds.

Not where I thought I'd end up. Went from a MUCH more experimental board to something very traditional, for lack of a better word. But it works for me.

I think it turned out alright . . .

It sounds like the Stage 1 builds from the Kyber Headless run just started shipping. Which means I'll get my guitar from the run before I get the A2 I ordered 2+ months earlier.

Minor tweaks to the first board. The second hasn't changed in over a year, which may be a record for me.