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What's the 'unwanted' noise level with 100 pedals operating at once?

Funny, at the quick glance I gave it, it doesn't look photoshopped, but surely that's not real, or at least even functional, right?

jdogric12 wrote:Funny, at the quick glance I gave it, it doesn't look photoshopped, but surely that's not real, or at least even functional, right?

Very real and entirely functional.

http://vimeo.com/24796614

johnnysain wrote:What's the 'unwanted' noise level with 100 pedals operating at once?

If 100 pedals are all on, I imagine even the instrument signal constitutes unwanted noise...

So, it is art!

"The Picasso of Sound"

jps wrote:So, it is art!

Of course it's art there is no other explanation to having that many boss pedals [more then 5] at any time in the same place.

Here's the business end of my little pedalboard, playing the 370 WB at an event in July with Paulie and Joey
(photo courtesy of Diane V)

The current pedal line-up is:
Boss TU12 tuner >
Cry Baby Wah >
Original Jangle Box >
Fulltone Plimsoul Overdrive >
Boss Acoustic Simulator AC3 >
Boss Phase Shifter PS3 >
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9DX >
line out from pedalboard to a Morley Little Alligator Volume pedal >
Vox AC 30 CC2x

Christmas is over, and several sounds I've been searching for since I learned to play guitar 10 years ago are able to be recreated. I think I'm all set now...

Does anyone have any suggestions for a board to put it all on?

Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner > Janglebox Compressor > Way Huge Red Llama overdrive > Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer overdrive > Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble > Cry Baby Wah Hendrix signature

Guitar Center has what I understand to be an exclusive on a Pedaltrain Board called the PT-1, which comes with a heavy duty carrying case(not quite a flight case, but pretty good) that you can carry on a plane to travel. I've had mine for over a year and it's a great medium size board. I think all your pedals would fit on it Jake.

Best part-$119 bucks plus tax.

Again, I've only seen these at guitar center, and you can carry all of your pedals on the plane the next time you come out to do the alligator with us!

Pedaltrain boards themselves are professional grade and make routing cabbles and mounting pedala a snap. They have some pretty pricey ones that come with real flight cases that weigh a ton.

Let us know what you get

After Winter NAMM this year, I will post pics of my board. I just picked up an endorsement from Amptweaker pedals and will be working their booth showing the models and features. These are some killer pedals, I'm very honored and excited about it. So, after the show, when I have all the pedals mounted, I'll snap a pic and give my normal 20 paragraph rambling on how it works and how I use it.

Congrats, Mike, on the endorsement hookup.

Got any free samples?

Even though i don't use effects often,i just keep getting more of them. I may have to try setting up a pedalboard and start using them more. I just bought a BBE Tremor pedal,and have found a use for it that i would not have expected,that emulates a volume swell.(pretty cool,imo)

my effects include:
Tech 21 VT (not really an effect to me,more of a core tone device)
ART Phat boy multi-fx/compressor/limiter
BBE Tremor
EBS Bass IQ

Needs a vacuuming.

I just got started with a Byrds 2 Janglebox, and 2 tuners. I use the TC Electronics for 12 string tuning overview, then fine tune on the Korg Pitchback plus. Has anyone considered a multi-effects unit? I'm going to check around locally to see what everyone is using, but no one within 30 miles ever shows up playing a Ric 12 string to check with.