Taking less pedals to rehearsal tonight

[Elessar [Sly]]

In an effort to cause less stress in terms of moving equipment around (especially for gigging) I have been downsizing my board slowly over the last few weeks.

I have gone from about 14/15 down to 10. I am now struggling to lose anything else on the board. I keep experimenting with different pedals, I may get an M5 at some point...

Tonights board:

Boss CS-2
Wilson effects funk factory (Wah)
Boss NS-2
Planet waves tuner
Wilson effects Uber Fubar Bliss (Buzzaround circuit)
Xotic effects EP Booster
MXR 6-band EQ
Wilson effects Deluxe Haze (OTT chorus/Vibe)
Boss CE-2
Boss DD-6

I still may take the Mooer pitch box and my Wampler crush the button... =/

I still feel that 12 isn't really needed. I have dirt on the amp so I could rule the cruch the button out (but it's a cool pedal!!). The pitch box is a 'less is more' pedal and would rarely get used. So I probably won't take that tonight. I need to get a true bypass looper at some point...

All the other pedals will be gathering dust at home...

[Marc G]

I currently own a M5 and they are great, and it could safely replace 3 of your pedals, the chorus, delay and tuner... however if you use those together I would say go for the M9... I had the M9 before I got the M5 and I do miss it at times, mostly because all the effects can be there one stomp away instead of going up and down a list to find the one you're looking for... nothing sucks more than being in the middle of a song and THEN remembering you need a dotted 8th delay for the bridge and you're in the chorus bank... took me a few gigs to realize I needed to pretty much PLAN my effects settings for the set, some nights I would have to make notes on the set list so I wouldn't forget which effect to have loaded in the M5... with the M9 it was just there... waiting...in the end it was the size that made me sell it though I really wanted to shrink my pedal board and the fact that I seldom used more than one Mod or Delay at time made the decision easier...

[JiveTurkey]

In an effort to cause less stress in terms of moving equipment around (especially for gigging) I have been downsizing my board slowly over the last few weeks.

I have gone from about 14/15 down to 10. I am now struggling to lose anything else on the board. I keep experimenting with different pedals, I may get an M5 at some point...

Tonights board:

Boss CS-2
Wilson effects funk factory (Wah)
Boss NS-2
Planet waves tuner
Wilson effects Uber Fubar Bliss (Buzzaround circuit)
Xotic effects EP Booster
MXR 6-band EQ
Wilson effects Deluxe Haze (OTT chorus/Vibe)
Boss CE-2
Boss DD-6

I still may take the Mooer pitch box and my Wampler crush the button... =/

I still feel that 12 isn't really needed. I have dirt on the amp so I could rule the cruch the button out (but it's a cool pedal!!). The pitch box is a 'less is more' pedal and would rarely get used. So I probably won't take that tonight. I need to get a true bypass looper at some point...

All the other pedals will be gathering dust at home...

I have an MXR true bypass loop pedal I bought off amazon a few weeks ago. It is very robust in construction and works great. I have 4 pedals in its loop I use for synthy lead tones and leave them on all the time. The MXR lets me turn them all on at once which for me is great.

[JiveTurkey]

MXR M197 is the pedal I got. Had to dig up my amazon records lol They have a dual loop pedal that looked great but honestly didn't need the second loop. Either way, built like a tank.

[benjamin801]

Lose the tuner pedal and clip a $12 headstock tuner to your guitar.

[Elessar [Sly]]

I ended up taking the Crush the button and didn't really use it. That's off the board then! I need to put my OD back on there though.