Pedal order, settings (was: how do you store your cables?)

[ditch wrestler <ditchwrestler@yahoo.com>]

 

A 3rd or 4th "Amen!" for ziploc bags for short cables, batteries, any all that indispensable  misc. crap.

 

And, like Rick, I'm also all-in for the non-stable pedal order.  For gigs, I get my pedals out, line 'em up, hook 'em up, mix 'em up, add & remove, etc. while practising and when I find a route I'm happy with, I sketch it out and do the gig.  Next gig, I start all over again.

 

Which is a hassle and every now and again I get the itch to get some kind of regular order but I like the new sounds I get, mostly by accident.

 

I'm also splitting my signal and running two parrallel chains, one mostly straight (DL4, reverb, distortion) and the other not (DL4, DAED-modded DS-1, pitch shifter, etc.)  with the latter having a volume pedal at the end so I can bring it up and down.  The one 'trick' that I've really latched on to is to have the first pedal in the "freaky" chain with the dry/effect signal blend cranked all the to effect.

 

ted.

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--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
Subject: Re: how do you store your cables?
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Received: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:13 AM

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I don't know if I"m too weird or not (go ahead, brothers and sisters, let the flames begin)
but I like to just put different pedals together in different combinations and just go
to a gig without knowing exactly what they'll do.

I know that someone like my brother who is so meticulous about his guitar sound, both regular and processed
that this won't do, but I like to be surprised and try to make something out of what the processing gives me.
This is also,  to be honest,  pretty easy when you are dealing with noise as I am currently doing with a
large part of my live performances.

Rick Walker

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