admiralchew

I recently bought a pedal from Marc. The whole transaction was a breeze: the pedal arrived in perfect condition, promptly and was packaged well. A pleasure to deal with.

I recently sold a fuzz pedal to Andy. Everything was a breeze. Good communication, quick payment and a pleasure to deal with.

I recently sold a mini pedal to Paul. Everything was smooth and straightforward and communication was quick (and pleasant). Good stuff.

I recently sold three mini pedals to Lukeh. Everything went smoothly and communication was good (and enjoyable - always good to chat about pedals!). Thanks for a good transaction.

I recently sold a few pedal-related bits to Paul. The transaction was straightforward, quick and communication was good, Couldn't ask for any more! Thanks!

That is an amazing looking board!

One tuner: Strobostomp HD - it's very accurate (even when I had a low F# on a Dingwall) and it is great for setting intonation. One drive: Pike Vulcan - I don't typically get along well with overdrive circuits but that sounded full and airy, especially at 18v. I like it so much I asked Moose Electronics to put one in a custom unit. One fuzz/distortion: COG Grand Tarkin - a lovely Muff-style fuzz with filtered clean blend so the fuzz and clean signals sound like one thick whole. One envelope filter: Probably the hardest one to choose. If I had to keep one it would be a 3 Leaf Chromatron I had refinished (just because I think it looks cool) but I find the Triungulo Barbanera more easily hits the funky sweet spot I like (which isn't a suprise as it's based on the MF-101). One octave: Octabvre - it's the octave I've owned longest, it's flexible and the dub channel is superb. Special mention to my Poirot-themed pedal Celebrity Pedals put together though. One modulation: Boss BF-3 Flanger - just sounds great and has a crazy range of sounds. Sounds brilliant when fed a distorted signal. One of these is incorporated in the custom unit Moose kindly put together for me (drive > flanger > delay). One preamp: Noble DI - I notice when I'm not using it. I can hear every nuance of my playing. My playing is bad so it's not always fun to hear, but at least I can hear the nuances! One delay or reverb: JAM Delay Llama Xtreme - The first birthday present I received from my now wife. It also sounds brilliant (it's worth checking out Janek's demo video). One wildcard: DLA-2A - a bit like the Noble, it's a serious bit of kit but everything sounds good going through it. I wouldn't necessarily want to use the above as my pedalboard but they are my favourites in those categories. I've got a few other sentimental favourites and some one-offs that I love too but that didn't really suit the list. I'm curious to see what others put down too! @MrDinsdale excellent choices on the SLO and Slow Loris!

I recently bought a pedal from Simon. Communication was great, packing was very secure and delivery was prompt in the extreme. I would happily deal with Simon again. Thanks for a good experience!

I've used the FTe pedal but I didn't A/B it with the real deal. It had a great range of tones in it and it was easy to get it quacking, bubbling and gurgling. Having played a few of Valerio's clones, I can say he does a pretty good job of getting it right. Having said that, @ped's new toy looks absolutely glorious!

Haha, the nondescript ones are always the best and most destructive. The Sanford and Sonny Bluebeard fuzz looks nondescript but it's an absolute beast of a pedal.

I'm afraid they're all 2.X or 4.X boards. I found that the lattice sits in an awkward place when using top jack pedals so most I would be able to get out of a 3.X would be one row, or two rows for a 5.X. I think that would be different for side jacks pedals and for those willing to turn them side ways like a heretic (I'm kidding but the compulsion is strong!). One issue I have found with the 2.X cases is that I can't close some of the cases when I have full size pedals on (the minis are fine). I ordered a 4.1 case from Thomann but that's the only case I've bought separately. Other than one or two boards from Andersons, everything the boards have all come from Thomann. Nice! Great idea to control the patches. Cool! What's the pedal on the bottom right? I like how clean it is and I'm enjoying your OC-2's origin story.

I'm echoing @lidl e, @Homatron, I always like to see what others have put together. It's terrible for GAS but cool to see what people are aiming for and how they achieve it. Thanks to you both for the kind words too!

I'll keep an eye out and try to figure out the logistics! I've met a few folks on here in person but it would be good to meet more. That's really nice to hear, thanks! Hopefully they're not used as an example of what happens when a person is still dealing with the remnants of 20+ years of obsessive compulsive disorder. Always happy to oblige with more pedal pictures if it helps get you over the line. Haha, thanks. I've got boxes and packing peanuts galore here. You've got some properly good stuff already though!

I understand that! I find the process of assembly therapeutic (and it's always a relief if it works first time!). I should keep a better eye out for the Basschat meets and bring one or two along. Ah! Sorry! That's a Nightowl Industries Parabellum v2, a tube-based distortion-type circuit developed with Nick Williams at Dunwich (https://www.nightowl.industries/parabellumdrive).

Thank you. I know that the boards (including the number) won't be too everyone's taste and it may look gratuitous, but using pedals are my main hobby and I also enjoy them also as art-like objects. I would likely trade my pedals for more skill on the instrument but life/time constraints that mean I take my bass-related enjoyment disproportionately from pedal-usage. The mini board weighs a ton but I tried to recreate the pedals on my bottom right board with minis (and the same with Broughton pedals). I've used the Minis board a few times (it may weigh a ton but the big boards weigh a lot more!) with a Broughton Proto DI and the only thing I would consider changing is to introduce a preamp for more EQ control. Which pedal is it you're trying to identify? Thank you for the kind comment too.

The quick answer is no, I don't make regular use of all of the boards but I play each as often as I can, they do all get used (even if not often) and I've tried to arrange them as sensibly as possible so that they are actually all useful and workable boards in their own right. I mainly use either my Noble board, practice board (bottom right) or, more recently, main board (bottom left). The practice board, minis board and Broughton boards have also been used to jam with too and the European board is getting an outing soon. The Broughton, European and minis boards are concept boards but are fully featured (compressor, octave, drive, fuzz, distortion, envelope, modulation) and can easily be used as full pedalboards. The 3 Leaf board too is an excellent board for synth tones and for general fat tone as the Vulcan and Enabler are fantastic bits of kit. The EAE board is more limited in comparison but it has a delay and reverb so I spend a decent amount of time with that board and a pair of headphones. The Iron Ether board is the most challenging to get regular use from but, after moving, it seemed a shame to keep them in boxes and I had a spare pedalboard lying around. Even that board sounds surprisingly good though as it has octave, fuzz, envelope, chorus and modulation on it. The sci-fi board is a pet project and, again, is fully featured (with a delay coming soon to round out the pedal-types I typically use). I see a lot of boards out there on Instagram and the like that look great but, I suspect, would sound pretty terrible. I've tried hard to make these useful. If I didn't have a big board like the bottom left or right board, I wouldn't make one-manufacturer boards. There's definitely an aesthetic/collector element to the concept boards but I'm fine with that: I spent a long time getting the pedals together and some of them are works of art so I'd rather display them on a board I can use than keep them in a box. The boards are totally overkill and, if I could keep one, it would be the bottom left board or the Noble board.

I've posted photos of my pedalboards relatively regularly over the last three months as I've been waiting for a shoulder injury to heal. As of a week ago, all of the boards I own are now fully assembled so I hope you'll permit me another group shot. As you'll see (although a lot of you know already), I am somewhat obsessed by pedals. They are my main interest and I enjoy the process of putting boards together and trying out new pedals. I'll never have more boards assembled at once than I do now (because why would anyone) so I wanted to take a photo for posterity. I've been playing cleaner preamps of late so I intend to assemble a much heavier board soon to sit alongside my main board (in the bottom left), which will involve disassembling three or four of the others. I'd also like at some point to put together Moose and Magic/Dunwich boards so I may take the opportunity after disassembling some of the others. Overall though, my intention now is to start downsizing the number of boards, pedals and power supplies, with a few of my pedals starting to appear in the classifieds already. I'm always keen to chat about pedals and frequently scour the effects thread, but please feel free to chat to me about pedals by message too! From top left to bottom right: Sci-fi > European > Iron Ether > EAE > Minis > Broughton > Grab-and-Go > 3 Leaf Audio > Clean Signal > Main > Practice Compared to my earlier group shot (29 February, I think), I've added the Main board (I was waiting on the DLA-2A), Sci-fi board (I was waiting on a couple of pedals and will be rejigging that slightly soon) and Grab-and-go board, rejigged my 3 Leaf board (to add the LBB), and reassembled my mini board.

The one with different knobs looks like an IE Divaricator?

There has been a lot of interest in 3 Leaf pedals and I feel for any pedal manufacturer whose had or is having a moment where there is pressure on them to produce. 3 Leaf, Iron Ether, Cog, Malaise Forever and others have all written about how testing it is to be a maker. I know Spencer in particular considers his pedals art rather than a commodity so being told he’s doing supply and demand wrong must really have grated given his commitment to putting out the best pedal he can. The No Gods No Master Volume podcast which interviews pedal makers gives a really good insight to the pressures these guys face just so we can have boutique pedals. I highly rate 3 Leaf pedals and I’m glad they are being regularly released again. Too many good manufacturers have stopped over the last couple of years (SSBS, Dwarfcraft, Earthbound Audio) and I’m glad 3 Leaf wasn’t added to the list.