11. Walter Czachowski: Motley Big Board

I’m a longtime PG reader from Decatur, Georgia. I play around town in a spooky covers… no, standards band called Bad Friend. This is my motley big board, all housed in a large briefcase I found in a neighbor’s junk pile. Reuse, recycle! The pedals, in chain-order:

• TC Electronic PolyTune: Small, accurate, easy to see. What more do you want in a tuner?

• Behringer Super Fuzz: The most fun $25 can buy. Keeps displacing more expensive fuzzes, and plays well with the others on the board.

• Donner Boost Killer: Sounds great, and lets me balance low-output and high-output pickups.

• Catalinbread Belle Epoch: Set for psychobilly slapback. It also has a very beneficial preamp.

• Hardwire Tube Overdrive CM-2: A Bad Monkey on steroids, set for light overdrive.

• Ibanez TS7 Tube Screamer: I leave this one on the “Hot” setting for big rawk lead tones. Often stacked with the CM-2.

• Danelectro Billionaire Money Laundry Spinning Speaker: I like faux-Leslie sounds better than chorus or flanger, and this sounds pretty damned great.

• Danelectro Hash Browns Flanger: I only use flanger for crazier moments, and this one does the job.

• Hardwire TR-7 Tremolo/Rotary: Used mostly for the “Opto” trem, it also has a good Vibe sound I intend to explore soon. The Money Laundry has a better Leslie sound, though.

• Behringer Reverb Machine: Was looking for a nice shimmer sound and this did it for $22, used. Sold.

• Catalinbread Adineko: I had no idea I needed an oilcan delay until I heard this pedal. Murky, spooky, and addictive.

• Boss FRV-1 (1963 Fender Spring Reverb): Drippy spring sounds make me happy and this gets me close enough—without adding 20 pounds to my load.