I am a serious ‘hobbyist’. While I dabbled with acoustic s on and off since the late 1980s, I became very serious about my playing after spending an extended time at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota attending to health matters. I take lessons weekly and practice hours every day, so my playing is coming along to the point of playing solo at local coffee houses here in Iowa.
Since I am now a retired university professor, I plan to spend even more time in this pursuit. My genre of interest is fingerstyle country blues that I play on a range of s, including acoustic, electric and resonator.
My pedalboard is a relatively recent phenomenon measured in months not years. Actually, I purchased my first pedal, an Electro-Harmonix Soul Food overdrive to throw some dirt into the sound of my Gretsch Silver Falcon; however, I decided that I am mostly a ‘clean player’, so I set the pedal aside.
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Nevertheless, the technology interested me, and so recently I decided that I would like to build a board so that I could make my own country blues sound that differed a bit from traditional. I think I was impacted initially by the rows and rows of cool-looking pedals on display when I entered Bob’s s in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
I built a small Pedaltrain Nano board with a Boss Loop Station, Electro-Harmonix Delay, and Boss Chorus pedals, as well as my original overdrive. Then later I added an Orange Detonator ABY switch so I could easily shift between an acoustic and electric amp.
Shortly thereafter, I had to toss aside the single pedal row Nano and expand to a double row Pedaltrain Classic (pictured above) so that I could add a Boss tuner and a JangleBox compressor, and then over a period of weeks I added a Boss Tremolo, Boss Reverb, and finally a Boss Equaliser.
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The board is now full and has what I consider the basic pedals for a balanced board. I think I will stick with this configuration for a while as I learn how to best ‘dial-in’ the various s I play!
With country blues, the selection of pedals I use depends on the tune. I always use a compressor with chorus and reverb to ‘fatten’ the sound. Depending on how I wish the tune to finally sound, I may choose to add either a tremolo effect or a delay. Mostly, I just want to add my own aesthetic/ethereal effects to what was initially a straight forward acoustic sound when first played decades ago. I do really like to boost the delay when I play bottleneck on my resonators as it adds a haunting echo and really attenuates the sustain.
My board can be a bit fiddly, which I understand is not an uncommon issue with a long sound chain setup. I use George L patch cables that I hand-built and unless you do it just right, they can cause minor problems. I am currently trying to hunt down the source of a ghostly whistle noise that transients in and out in a random manner. I did add a Pedaltrain Spark to offer isolated power to the various pedals to help reduce unwanted noise.
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If you can, go with a large board and grow into it. I quickly outgrew the smaller one. Watch Youtube for advice on how to build a board and select its key components. Google for advice on how to order your pedals. Do not only trust the guys at the store.
I am currently playing two electrics: Taylor T3 with a Bigsby and a Taylor T5C. I threw my Gretsch Silver Falcon under the bus for the Taylor T3, which I really like. I felt like a poseur with the Gretsch.
I also run my acoustic s through the board, though I am light with added effects. Those s are: Taylor 812ce, 12-fret slot head and Taylor 914ce. Both are Indian rosewood back and sides with Sitka spruce top – I love those woods in combination.
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Finally, I play two resonators through the board: A National NRP ‘B’ steel body and a National Reso Rocket WB (wood body).
The board is simultaneously connected, through an Orange Detonator ABY switch, to both a Fender Princeton Reverb (Blackface) and a Fishman Loudbox Artist Acoustic amp.
If you can, go with a large board and grow into it. I quickly outgrew the smaller one. Watch Youtube for advice on how to build a board and select its key components. Google for advice on how to order your pedals. Do not only trust the guys at the store.
I am currently playing two electrics: Taylor T3 with a Bigsby and a Taylor T5C. I threw my Gretsch Silver Falcon under the bus for the Taylor T3, which I really like. I felt like a poseur with the Gretsch.
I also run my acoustic s through the board, though I am light with added effects. Those s are: Taylor 812ce, 12-fret slot head and Taylor 914ce. Both are Indian rosewood back and sides with Sitka spruce top – I love those woods in combination.
Laney Black Country Customs The Difference Engine Guitar Delay Pedal
Finally, I play two resonators through the board: A National NRP ‘B’ steel body and a National Reso Rocket WB (wood body).
The board is simultaneously connected, through an Orange Detonator ABY switch, to both a Fender Princeton Reverb (Blackface) and a Fishman Loudbox Artist Acoustic amp.
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