Pedalboard 2013 - a few tweaks
So here is my pedalboard for this year, for those of you out there that like this kind of thing (and I know there are a few of you who do!). Not much change from the last couple of years, I am pretty much happy with everything. One of the main changes is using a TC Polytune mini, rather than the Boss TU-3 Tuner, to be honest I prefer the Boss (probably because I have been using Boss tuners since I was 9!) but as you can see space is premium, so the TC wins out, and I have to say polyphonic tuning rocks! I have replaced the wah, primarily as I have a habit of breaking wah pedals, must be my big feet...but as you can see from my review, I love the fact you can adjust the sweep of the Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah...oh and I love Alice in Chains, so it looks cool!Biggest change of all is that I have recently switched to using the Eganter Tweaker 40 head instead of the Fender Blues Junior III, which has been an absolute trooper of an amp, and I won't hear a word said against it....so why the change...well I just fancied having some good old Amp distortion for a bit, and you know what us guitarists are like, like to mix things up a bit sometimes. So because of this change I am now using my favourite piece of gear (the TC Nova System) in the loop, I am sad to loose the distortion and overdrive (I know I have discussed this at great length), but it really does also excel in the loop, I love having the boost in the loop to give that extra boost and drive to solos (and the compresor too.So, if I am using amp distortion, why the overdrive/distortion pedals? Well1) They were already on the board2) I really do love both pedals and the do give some different flavours to my sound, giving me a whole pallet of sounds which I need to cover all the eras we do in www.groovething.co.uk3) By dropping the gain on the amp, I can get some lovely crunchy over driven tones, kick in either of the pedals and boom instant overdriven blues or lovely saturated fusion!All in all it is working quite well!EnjoyPeaceNeil