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Pedal Alley 2019: Reader Boards

Whether it’s collections of old-school straightforward stomps or elaborate circuits for spacey experimentation, each year we’re blown away by the different pedalboard setups our readers come up with. Here’s a dozen for the tonal takeaway.

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10. Theodore Burghoff: Next Level

This is my traveling pedalboard, and it goes like this:
• New Standard Holeyboard by Chemical Design Werks
• All effects except TC Electronic Ditto Looper switched through OneControl Iguana Tail Loop 2 five loop with tuner out
• Oldest first: Voodoo Lab Proctavia distortion into Keeley Caverns delay/reverb
• J. Rockett Audio Designs Archer (Klon clone) into TC Electronic Alter Ego delay
• Boss FB-2 Feedbacker/Booster
• DLS Effects RotoSIM rotary speaker emulator into Keeley Compressor into TC Electronic Viscous Vibe modulator
• Dunlop CAE Wah (I could live with this thing alone.)
• Korg Pitchblack mini tuner
-Powered by Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus (and a couple of Trutone 1 SPOT power supplies)
• TC Electronic Ditto Looper

It’s that time of year, when Premier Guitar readers wow us with the intricate details of their pedalboards. A few highlights for 2019 include a surf board station, a bright board with LED lighting, a Nashville guitarist who gigs on Lower Broadway, and a pedal setup with no frills … and literally no board at all. (All this player needs is beer and broken glass.) As an added bonus, a pro pedal builder shares his demo board and tells us why and how he started building pedals from scratch. Read on, play on, stomp on!