I used to own the DECO V1 and I was fascinated with that pedal. If you look back in my post history, there are a few different demo posts involving the DECO V1. I started playing in stereo mode and the V1 was suddenly less useful. The stereo input jumper is inside the pedal on the V1. Eventually, I traded it.

The Strymon DECO V2 has a few big improvements over the V1. A stereo/mono input switch is on the outside of the pedal now. There is a tone knob for the saturation side and a second “cassette” voice that sounds even better than the classic DECO saturation sound.

The modulation side of the pedal is the same as before. You control random modulation with the wobble knob. The lag knob controls delay on the modulated signal. You can get all kinds of cool sounds like slap back, phaser, flanger, and chorus. My favorite way to use it is blend at full, Lag at 0, and wobble all the way up. That’s my favorite lo fi vibrato sound.

If you use midi, the V2 does that. I don’t use midi, so I can’t comment on that part. I was a little disappointed when I realized there was only one input. The midi/expression jack makes it too crowded for another input jack. A TRS cable is needed for stereo input. At least I don’t have to open the pedal up anymore to switch to stereo.

The original DECO is one of my favorite pedals. People often call it a Swiss Army knife type pedal, and I agree with that. Especially with the Cassette voice. It has more gain than the classic sound.

I like to keep this pedal at the end of my chain right before delays if I’m using the saturation side mainly. If I use it for lo fi vibrato, I’ll run the EQD Arrows or a Dyna Comp in front of the DECO. If you add the saturation side after fuzz, that’s good times too. One of my favorite sounds is Ibanez Soundtank Chorus > Tumnus > Honey pot fuzz > DECO. It sounds heavy as fuck.

Do you have this pedal or have questions about it? Let me know and thank you for reading. (My bookshelf is now arranged by hard covers > paperbacks in the order they were written for the most part)

Just that little bit of warble really brings the room together, hot damn. Obviously I will also put it in momentary mode at high settings to mess with my bandmates but for now it's staying on.

I've been building my pedalboard recently and have been fortunate enough to get my hands on these pedals. The SD-1 and Big Muff are new, while the rest are pre-owned pedals I found on Adverts.

I used to play a bit back in uni, and after years away, I recently got my first electric guitar (Harley Benton Les Paul nothing crazy). I don't have much soloing experience yet, so the Loop Station has been a game changer for me. Here's a short demo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7pVkHAE7rmsx3yda6

I originally planned to have five pedals on the board. The Dynamic Wah wasn't part of the plan, but I picked it up today after finding a deal that was hard to say no to! I wasn't sure what to expect but oh boy, it is a new way to think about music for me.

Here is a short demo of the Wah, and other pedals. Recorded in garageband: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dP1wGjf8GvPRqeUT8

I'd love to hear your thoughts and any feedback you might have!

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Hey everyone,

After nearly a year of layout adjustments, wiring trials, and 8 months of heavy testing, I’m finally at a point where I feel this board is 100% complete. It has been absolutely flawless for me in practice.

The goal here was to build a bulletproof, high-gain, dual-amp rig that uses an outboard preamp pedal as my primary dirty channel, while completely isolating my time-based/modulation effects and splitting my outputs to multiple destinations with zero phase or ground loop issues.

Here is the exact breakdown of how this monster is wired up:

1. The Front End & Dynamics Loop (SaturnWorks 3-Loop)

• Input: Guitar runs straight into a Boss TU-3 Tuner -> DigiTech Drop -> the guitar section of an ISP Decimator G-String.

• From the Decimator, it goes into SaturnWorks 3-Loop Switcher to manage the front-of-amp shaping dynamics:

• Loop 1: Empress Compressor

• Loop 2: Boss BP-1W Booster/Preamp

• Loop 3: Keeley Noble Screamer

1. The High-Gain Preamp & Gate Stage (4-Cable Clamping)

• The output of the 3-Loop switcher feeds directly into the main input of a Diezel Zerrer, which acts as the core preamp and distortion engine of the rig.

• To keep the high-gain completely silent, the FX Out of the Diezel Zerrer routes back into the Decimator G-String's Gate section, clamping down hard on any residual preamp hiss before sending a pristine signal down the line.

• The gated output then goes into an Empress ParaEQ w/ Boost for final master tonal sculpting.

1. The Wet & Modulation Loop (SaturnWorks 5-Loop)

• From the ParaEQ, the signal hits a SaturnWorks 5-Loop Switcher which houses all time-based and modulation engines to keep them completely isolated when not in use:

• Loop 1: Boss BF-2 Flanger

• Loop 2: Eventide ModFactor

• Loop 3: Seymour Duncan Andromeda Delay

• Loop 4: EHX Cathedral Stereo Reverb

• Loop 5: Zoom MS-70CDR / MS-50G (for wild card utility/ambient patches)

1. The 3-Way Output Split (The Wall of Sound)

• The final output of the 5-Loop switcher goes into a Fortin Spliff (3-Way Splitter) to drive three independent destinations simultaneously:

• Out 1: Feeds a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier power section.

• Out 2: Pushes into an EVH 5150 III EL34.

• Out 3: Routes directly into a GFI Cabzeus (Cab Sim), which feeds a Walrus Canvas DI/LI for a direct line straight to the studio interface or front-of-house.

It took an incredible amount of planning to balance two independent loop switchers, a 4-cable gate method, and a 3-way output split without creating a nightmare of phase cancellations or ground loops—but it has been rock solid and completely quiet.

I've attached the hero shot, a rig context photo, and the full graphic signal flow diagram I built to keep track of the routing.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Is anyone else running a complex multi-amp split layout or relying on a dedicated preamp pedal

I posted this board a few weeks ago praising the Deco and La Brea.

After a few weeks I’ve decided that I don’t actually like what they did to my tone and I think I was trying to convince myself that they were what I needed. Luckily I bought them on Amazon so they’ve all been returned. The La Brea did have a certain thing I liked about a saturation overdrive, but with my ES335 it sounded too “honkish and dark”.

I replaced the Deco with the Zio, the La Brea and Sunset with the JHS AT, and the UA Enigmatic with the TC Combo 65.

I know the Zio is a totally different thing but I really like what it does to my overdrive pedals and my tone. Plus it was the $99 Stupid Deal of the Day last week.

The Enigmatic got too overwhelming dialing in a good tone and I actually like the sound of the Combo 65 and the straight forward settings over the Dream 65. I was also talking myself into being a Dumble guy when I’m really just a Fender guy.

I was buying expensive pedals and convincing myself they were the end all be all, when really I needed to step back and simplify my board. Plus getting my $1000 back was nice too!

Title says it. I’ve got a large collection, but have never really messed with octave effects besides fuzz. Thoughts on POG vs Boss Octave vs 🤷🏻‍♂️?

Ideally I would use this for ambient or shoegaze - OR - to give singer/songwriter acoustic guitar a little extra heft live.

What should I check out?

Added a Flint, have anyone ever heard of it? Jk. jokes aside, it does sound as great as I hoped it would. Been struggling with reverb. Most recently had a Red Panda Context 2 but it felt overwhelming and I used maybe 10% of its capacity. Sold it and found picked up a pre owned Flint v1 (and mini switch). Not looking back!

Also, happy (inter)national Black Cat Day, as I’m writing this. Let’s make it international! He loves the case. Sometimes I just open it so that he can crash on it. Might as well play some tunes then. Oh well…

Got a decent deal on this, came with everything like new and it's in great shape. Been loving playing around with it!

My board has been pretty stable the last few years, but working on a new record prompted some changes.

Signal flow:
Tele/Strat/Meteora into > Dream Reaper > Timmy > Brothers AM > VSXO > Comp JR > out to volume pedal > MD200 > Tap Delay > MOOD > DD500 > Blue Sky > and out to one of my traynors or DRRI

I’m really digging how easy/quick it is to dial in sounds with this board. I added the MD200 so that I could stop swapping mod pedals in and out, and for my fairly basic needs it’s been fantastic.

With a little od / boost on tap for mediocre solos etc.

Was going to get a helix stadium or something to have a convenient all in one, but I’m going to try working with what I’ve got here. And still no screens :)

My simple setup. Crybaby, Strobostomp, Plumes, Milkman, Dleuxe61, Element. The Darkglass Element lets me play through my FRFR or headphones and play along with anything Bluetooth.

I have been playing guitar with pedals since about 2007 and have mostly been conscious of "pedal order", but I have become sloppy with it over time. I re-ordered my board last night and damn did it make a difference. My fuzzes/rangemaster sound fatter and fuller, and my overall noise floor seems to have improved through my old amps.

Just a curious question for the masses; do you follow order, or just send it?

I recently converted to the GT-1000CORE for my live unit, and wanted to protect the knobs from any chance of being kicked or damaged. So I tried my hand at designing a guard for them. I used Tinkercad for the model and Creality Print to slice, and printed on my son's Creality Ender-3 V3 SE printer. I left the tops open so you could still make adjustments in a pinch, but I mount mine with velcro so it's removeable...probably could have thought that through a bit more lol. Cheers all!

Boss GT-1000CORE Control Guard (Free)

Hey. I'm a big fan of the WA Slotva, and mainly keep it at the end of my pedal chain, however I've been playing around with having it in front of the gain stages, which sounds mint. The problem is i play in a band and therefore i can't change the order of my pedals between songs when playing live. I was wondering if there was any sort of loop switcher that enables me to change the location of the slotva in the signal chain? my current signal chain is tuna -> canyon -> wah -> rat -> simplifier -> mods -> delay -> slotva -> fx return -> DI. i want to be able to switch between that and tuna -> canyon -> wah -> slotva -> rat -> simplifier -> mods -> delay -> fx return -> DI at the press of a button. is this possible? are there any commercial switchers like this available on a budget? thank you.

Looking to build myself a pedalboard and need an overdrive pedal.(and a distortion coming on top of that). I have a PRS swamp ash studio 2012 guitar and a Laney cub12r. Usually play blues rock stuff.I need a pedal duo or possibly a dual pedal that can get me from clean to crunch tone that I can dial the tone down and get a clean tone again.

I can say that crunch tone is probably more important than the distortion tone for me as it is what i use most of the time. It needs to be a tone that when I strum a chord softly it still gives me that chord sounds without muddying it to much but when i play single notes with hardpicking sounds almost like a distortion.

And a 2nd drive that can get me the Gary Moore kind of tone. I'm thinking about getting a blues driver into OD-1/SD-1. I'm open to more ideas that you can give me. I'm in turkey so it is hard for me to get boutique kind of pedals so pls nothing too hard to find.

Do please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thx a lot!!

TLDR: It's ugly as shit but it's the best fuzz pedal I've ever played and rolled back it's legitimately one of the best overdrive pedals I've ever played. Sounds incredible on a LP.

There's very little about this company or pedal in the way of reviews or even information online, so I'll write a little review:

Note: each DanDrive pedal is uniquely designed. My specific run was made with some paisley tapestry design fabric and my pedal happened to get some unfortunate section of it. The red is quite jarring. The fabric is also inside the pedal (photo included) but looks quite different.

The Equilibrium uses vintage BC183 silicon transistors so they're more creamy and warm like germanium. When you roll the volume back you get a beautiful clean tone without distortion or muddiness but roll it back up a bit and it sounds like a blues breaker circuit. Keep going and you'll get to a full on Fuzz Face pedal. Very much like a germanium circuit.

The knobs controls Volume, Fuzz, Clean-Up and Bias. I've never had a Fuzz pedal with a clean-up and bias before and I'm pretty mad I've gone this long without it.

The toggle switch controls the bass cut filter. In the down position it's a traditional fuzz face circuit with lots of low end (for single coils). In the up position it filters out heavy muddy bass to make it more punchy (for humbuckers).

Want yall thoughts, suggestions, opinions.

Super into Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, anyone else in that general scene and want some suggestions for other pedals I can add

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10 years ago I posted my "minimal pedalboard" :)

After a lot of career developments, a divorce, a new wonderful partner, and a little bit of playing in between, I'm happy to show you the current state of the same budget pedalboard (still the same Gator with pre-applied velcro, but this time using a 1 SPOT Pro underneath, and a hidden USB hub for quick connection to PC and firmware updates.)

I feel this evolution represents my life: colorful and complete now - lifeless and empty then.

Path is impedance optimized for low noise. Sonicake VolWah > Yellow Comp > Blues Crab > JHS AT > Pure Sky > Ditto+ > HX Stomp with Logidy EPSi (using converted IRs of a Bricasti unit) in FX loop and Ampero footswitch for tuner and extra function access.

The footswitch covers for HX Stomp, Ditto + and EPSi are custom designed and 3D printed. I will be selling them soon. Please check out my Printables profile

As the title suggests, I'm after a low-gain overdrive that I can leave on most of the time but it's not a hard requirement.

I think I'm after a Tubescreamer although I'm not entirely convinced so I'm looking for some advice.

I'm chasing a specific type of sound but don't really know how to describe it, if anyone is familiar with Two Feet's music, it's his tone that I'm after and if I'm not mistaken he is using a Tubescreamer.

I've never used a Tubescreamer before so I'm a bit hesitant, I'm using an EAE Halberd at the moment.

I have my sights on these pedals:

• BOSS BD-2W
• Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop
• MXR Duke of Tone
• Ibanez TS808
• Klon clone, perhaps Wampler Tumnus

I’m constantly experimenting and am open to any helpful suggestions.

Between Alexander Rewind and History Lesson Vol 3, which one would you go for and why? Has anyone here tried both and prefer one or the other? How do they compare sonically?