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GALLERY: Reader Pedalboards 2015, Part 1

Guitarists from around the globe give us tours of their stomping grounds.

Munk Duane: Working Man’s Board
“I do about 130 live gigs a year (not including recording sessions) with this rig and have found this configuration offers me the most flexibility and usable colors from stage to studio,” says singer/songwriter and Berklee alumn Munk Duane. His Pedaltrain PT-3 is powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus and has a Boss TU-2 tuner. Here’s the signal chain: Line 6 Relay G30 Wireless System, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, Boss TU-2, Keeley 4 Knob Compressor, Fulltone OCD, ZVEX Box of Rock, Malekko Vibrato, Mooer Trelicopter, Caroline Kilobyte Lo-Fi Delay (“big fan of the Havoc momentary switch which has the delay decay feedback on itself—very Jonny Greenwood), Strymon blueSky Reverberator, Electro-Harmonix Freeze, and an Xotic Effects EP Booster. “The back row has StageTrix Pedal Risers to lift the rear pedals so my heel doesn’t kick settings on the front row pedals,” Duane adds.

Ready for some self-inflicted pedal envy? Just check out the extraordinary setups from some of our fellow players. These recent submissions include a crafty “skateboard,” a fuzz “smorgasboard,” and submissions from a few players who may have gone “overboard.” (Puns intended.)

Pedal lust has no end—these pedalboard pics keep rolling in, and there are plenty more where these came from. Check out other reader boards at premierguitar.com.

Some of these are deep cuts—get ready for some instrumental bonus tracks and Van Halen III mentions—and some are among the biggest radio hits of their time. Just because their hits, though, doesn’t mean we don’t have more to add to the conversation.

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“Sometimes, I’d like very much for my guitar to sound exactly like a supa cobra.”

Luthier Creston Lea tells us about his favorite dirt pedal—an Athens, Georgia-made stomp that lets his guitar be a hero.

Let’s face it: Nobody can tell what overdrive pedal you’re using. Whether you’re in a carpeted suburban basement accompanying the hired clown at your nephew’s fifth birthday party or standing on the spot-lit monitor at Wembley, not one person knows whether the pedal at your feet cost $17 or $700, has true bypass, or has an internal DIP switch. Nobody leaning against the barn-dance corncrib or staunching a nosebleed up in the stadium’s cheap seats is thinking, “Heavens yes!! THAT is the sound of a silicone diode!”

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A dual-channel tube preamp and overdrive pedal inspired by the Top Boost channel of vintage VOX amps.

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The compact offspring of the Roland SDE-3000 rack unit is simple, flexible, and capable of a few cool new tricks of its own.

Tonalities bridge analog and digital characteristics. Cool polyrhythmic textures and easy-to-access, more-common echo subdivisions. Useful panning and stereo-routing options.

Interactivity among controls can yield some chaos and difficult-to-duplicate sounds.

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Boss SDE-3 Dual Digital Delay
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Though my affection for analog echo dwarfs my sentiments for digital delay, I don’t get doctrinaire about it. If the sound works, I’ll use it. Boss digital delays have been instructive in this way to me before: I used a Boss DD-5 in a A/B amp rig with an Echoplex for a long time, blending the slur and stretch of the reverse echo with the hazy, wobbly tape delay. It was delicious, deep, and complex. And the DD-5 still lives here just in case I get the urge to revisit that place.

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