Monday, January 14, 2013

Latest in Guitar/Pedal Collecting

Here's the latest on my recent acquisitions of guitars and effects pedals. About a week ago I bought an Epiphone Dot Studio for a smashing deal. Unfortunately it had a couple of dents in the body. One more noticeable than the other. As you can see here, by the bridge:




Not too bad though for the price I paid for the guitar. I decided to go ahead and switch the knobs that it came with. I prefer the "tophat" knob over the ones that the Dot originally comes with.  Here you can see the new knobs:


As far as effects pedals go, I've added 3 to my collection within the past month. Two of them are Behringer pedals. The Super Octaver SO400 and the Bass Limiter/Enhancer BLE400. I also snagged a Stupid Deal of the Day over at Musician'sFriend.com - an Akai Professional Drive 3 Overdrive pedal. So the problem now is that my current pedalboard made from an IKEA GORM shelf is full. I don't have room for these new pedals. So I'm planning to add another level to the pedalboard. Here's what I'm thinking:







So the Digitech RP200 is going to go on the board more or less just to add space so it doesn't look too empty. Once I get more pedals, that will be the first to go. These pictures present the idea I have for my pedalboard but I will put it together properly within the next few weeks.

So the pedal order I'm thinking of arranging will be the following:

Starting with the first in line:
-Dunlop Crybaby Wah
-MXR Super Comp
-Behringer Bass Limiter/Enhancer BLE400
-Behringer Super Octaver SO400
-Akai Professional Drive 3 Overdrive
-EHX Big Muff Pi (Russian Made)
-Boss DS-1 Distortion
-Boss PH-2 Super Phaser
-Boss TR-2 Tremolo
-Behringer VM1 Vintage Time Machine (analog delay)
-Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler (digital delay)
-TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
-Volume/Wah pedal
-Digitech JamMan (loop station)

Not sure where to put the Digitech RP200 in the line up. Any suggestions? Or any other suggestions as to switching up the current pedal order??


1 comment:

  1. looks good. I am thinking about doing the same 2 level board made with gorm shelves.

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