6. Kurt Michael: Trailer Trash

This is my custom-built Trailer Trash board. Anyone can get good tone out of this rig! It features a JAM Chill tremolo, Spaceman Sputnik fuzz, Analogman King of Tone overdrive, JHS Honey Comb tremolo, JHS Emperor V2 chorus, JHS Unicorn V3, Teese Wah, TC Electronic PolyTune, Mad Professor Tiny Orange Phaser (handwired), Strymon Flint tremolo, and a Strymon Brigadier delay. I play a 1962 Les Paul Standard Ebony Block through a Jeff Beck-toured “Becktone” Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine MK II.

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!