my pedalboard

For the past 10 years, I haven’t used any effects save a rat distortion pedal when I was on the road with dem brooklyn bums. my amp doesn’t have reverb, and I always meant to get a reverb pedal, but I never pulled the trigger. A few years back, I got a looping pedal, which is one of the most useful practice tools I know of, and after needing overdrive on some gigs recently, I decided to spring for a pedalboard.

sonic research turbo tuner – ridiculously accurate tuner. I have shied away from using tuners in the past, preferring to tune to the piano or bass on a gig, but I’ve been doing more big band gigs recently and it’s really nice to be able to check tuning silently and quickly.

fulltone fulldrive 2 – I borrowed one of these from my friend Dan for a gig recently, and it’s the best sounding overdrive pedal I’ve tried for an archtop and solid state amp combo. I tried a few of the other fulltone models, but nothing sounded as good as this for my setup.

digitech rv-3 reverb – pretty standard reverb pedal, sounds great and I don’t have any complaints.

electro harmonix POG2 – I have always liked octave pedals and this really takes it to the next level. you can create some really cool, organ like sounds with this.

digitech jamman – standard looping pedal, really great for practicing. I frequently record a bassline with the POG2 and loop that.

The power supply is a voodoo labs pp2+. this was expensive, but really worth it, as it has an AC outlet, which the jamman needs, in addition to lots of other power slots for the other pedals. I questioned getting this at first, but I’m really glad I did.

the board itself is a pedaltrain board, which is designed to work with the voodoo labs power supply, in that it mounts comfortably underneath.