r/PedalBoardBuilding

Rate my board
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Rate my board

Solar tuner+ -> boss ns2 -> diy ts9 -> LEL x-metal (soviet mf, use like Rat) -> Solar chug -> noname 7 band eq -> boss ns2 (return) -> amp

u/Polarius17 — 2 days ago
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Help revamp my board

I'm looking for some advice from people with more experience building versatile boards.
I'm 18 and can't realistically have a separate board for every project, so I'm trying to make one board that can cover quite a wide range:
MBV / Loveliescrushing / Fleeting Joys / shoegaze
Ambient guitar
Sonic Youth / Dinosaur Jr
Cocteau Twins / The Cure / dream pop
My main amp is a Roland JC-120, which I absolutely love, and my main guitars are a Player II Jazzmaster and Gibson SG Special with P90s.
Current board:
Jazzmaster/SG → Boss GE-7 → tuner → Yamaha SPX90 → Keeley Compressor Plus → EHX String9 → EHX Freeze → Rams Head Big Muff → Rat 2 → Behringer UV300 → Boss CH-1 → EQD Grand Orbiter → Line 6 DL4 MkI → EHX Memory Man with Hazarai → Strymon BlueSky → JC-120
My thoughts on the individual pedals:
GE-7 — 9/10: absolutely staying.
Keeley Compressor Plus — 7/10: relatively new to me, so I probably just need to spend more time with it.
SPX90 — 6/10: I mainly use it for reverse reverb, hall and occasionally symphonic. I love the idea of it but don't really get on with the sounds I'm getting.
String9 — 6/10: only really use it for ambient layers. It sounds a little too digital/obvious to me, so this is probably the slot I'd most like to completely transform.
Freeze — 8/10: impartial
Rams Head — 10/10: staying.
Rat — 9/10: staying.
UV300 — 6/10: useful, but probably redundant with the CH-1 and Orbiter.
CH-1 — 10/10: one of my favourite pedals.
Grand Orbiter — 11/10: absolutely staying.
DL4 MkI — 10/10: staying. It's stereo and I love what it does.
Memory Man Hazarai — 6.5/10: I've never completely clicked with it, so I'm considering replacing it with a DD-200.
BlueSky — 9/10: great pedal, although sometimes I wonder if it's slightly too clean/sterile for what I'm doing.
I also have an EHX Pitchfork that I've never really experimented with, so that could be used or sold, aswell as a big muff and sf300 I’m selling
At the moment I'm thinking about replacing the SPX90 with a pedal that can do reverse + hall reverb early in the chain, replacing the String9 with something much more transformative/textural, maybe replacing the freeze, potentially the bluesky, and replacing the Hazarai with a dd-200

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u/MESSMER_The_Impaler — 2 days ago
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The true final form

I'm out of room, and if I add an eighteenth pedal, there is hiss in the background. At 17, it's still clear when using 3 separate isolated power supplies

u/Unable_Builder_7232 — 9 days ago