I was willing to hear the Ray Butts Filtertrons through a Tonebender MK1, and now I've got to! Thank you, friend! probably the only RB Filtertron through fuzz demo on TH-cam
I bought a Cioks power supply for my board. Each out is voltage switchable 9-12-15-18. Mine has 7 outs, but they make larger as well. Super impressive power supply.
The MM is cool eh? :-) You can turn that modulation down, or off, and it's less crazy at slower delay times (it was set a _little_ faster than I'd usually have it in this video & it was a tad too seasick for me!) but it's a wonderful pedal for drowning in ambience! :-)
uh...10 mins into the video before I heard a single sound (on a guitar) G to D chords change. Woot-Woot! 2 mins later a fuzzy G to E with a bend lick. Great job and keep working/practicing - you are one of the greatest players ever!
Happy New Year, I really was gratlfled to see how the settings on my NKT275 SF is exactly the same as yours, will have more comments as I am watching rhe video.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼
HNY mate :-) Yep, I think the NKT Red Dot is pretty much exactly the same component as the red dot NKT275s...just a different part number printed on them for a specific client, back in the day!
I really enjoy his video, Joe. You’re fast becoming my favourite source of information for guitar tech stuff. The guardian of the rabbit hole, if you will! 😂
DREAM BOARD!! Incredible!! I have a couple of the pedals shown (Retro-Sonic Flanger and Origin Effects Cali 76). I really dig the Kingsley Jester and Page and feel G.A.S. coming on. Thanks for posting!! 🤟🤟
I’ve had one on there for the past few years (Gurus Sinusoid & Carl Martin Headroom) but found I was always using delay over reverb, so used the space for other things this time! But might put another on in the future :-)
I like this pedalboard more than the one you had last year. There is a sort of balance in the choice of pedals. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the year i'll have the Effectrode Mercury and the Small Trees on my board. It would be interesting using a Univibe, a Flanger or even a spring reverb on the effect loop of the ARDX20. Oh, and one last thing, that Gronlund is still one of the best sounding guitar you own. Those Ray Butts Filtertrons are amazing, i really enjoy my White Falcon equipped with those.
Glad you approve, Enrico! :-) Yeah, a spring in the loop of the ARDX could be great! So much love for the RB 'Trons too...definitely one of my favourite pickups I've ever played!! Happy new year mate :-)
Big Trees for the win! Two channels - Small Trees on one side and Kingsley-killer drive tones on the other, capable of going from low gain/edge of break-up to exploding amp meltdown and all points in between
This was a treat. I feel we attack pedal problems the same way. We rarely use a pedal for where and what the pedals is meant to do for the average player. My music sonically has early 70's vibe with several MIAB pedals. All are a little different to fit different tunes like a hand in a glove. A few parts in different tunes need a Modern high gain sound. In spite of needing this sound my playing can get complex and busy and not unlike you I am always about definition, clarity and sparkle. When I need this sound none of the pedals designed for it do the trick. It works better for me with a Fuzz or a Fuzz stacked on an OD. The OD can put back the definition.My third thing is flatpicking. It is integrated in songs where I am going from those two other sounds of MIAB and Metal high gain. Dead clean is too stark I need low pedals. The pricey Cornerstone Gladio SE an SRV goes thru a Dumble pedal is one. It uses a clean thing that borrows tech used to restore the dialog in antique audio. I also find the Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker which is faithfull clone of the Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal works well but with the gain pulled back, never more than 10 o'clock. I prefer classic modulation pedals and analog delays. I do sometimes use Digital delays but with analog stacked on them. I to NEVER use tap tempo. The only pedal I have my eye on now is Big Knob Pedals Colour Jumbo a very, very convincing take of the Colorsound Tonebender Jumbo :-)
I love my Fairfield Circuitry “Meet Maude” so much, for the reasons you speak of, but also because it is so beautifully reverb like when connected to an expression pedal. For some reason, I don’t get as much warble as you do, but that could be down to what the EQD guy referred to as “tolerances” to do with circuitry…and he was referring to a mostly digital Avalanche Run. I went through 3 of them, and all had wildly different ‘random synth patches’ when cranking the feedback and turning the time right down. Crazy stuff! A synth you have absolutely no control over but relies 100% on your patience to get musical phrases out of! Thank you for the insights!
I respect the hell out of you and your diligence towards all analog setup, but dang, I just can’t do it. 😂 I want to do it. It sounds amazing. But it almost seems limited in ways. You’re right, tap tempo delay can be analog but digital controls and I would almost be a purist at the point you’re at. At the same time, does it really matter if it’s analog or digital. Most of the time analog is better I agree. But is it really that much different. Just thinking out loud… Again, such a fan of your knowledge and diligence. Thanks for sharing your insights! 🎸
Hey Joe, Awesome video, love the board! If you were got invited to a last minute sit in, what would be your must have pedals (types and your go to ones)?
Thanks Chris :-) I think I'd want an overdrive (probably the Kingsley Jester), a delay (probably the Analogman ARDX20) and a modulation (bit tougher...but probably the Analogman Mini Chorus). Could do pretty much anything with that trio! :-)
New to your channel here, awesome job on your pedalboard! Can you tell us how you control all of your pedals and what do you use for loops? I really struggle with my pedalboard. Also take a look at jam pedals once you have the chance, all analog art!
Thanks mate :-) I use GigRig loopers - they bring the pedals in and out. All the details are in the video RE which pedals are in which loops. I love JAM Pedals - I've owned most of them over the years and the TD58 is on this board!
Great video. My main amp is an Orange Rocker 30 and I've been slowly removing distortion pedals from the board and adding boosters to use the Orange's dirty channel which is to me irreplaceable and incomparable. I watched your review for Effectrode's Tube Drive. Have you tried it with the Retro Custom 50? I've been using a cheap VT-999 to boost my Orange and even though it's a starved plate tube circuit, it sounds great. I'm considering the Tube Drive as my main booster. What do you reckon? Thanks for the great content.
Hey Márcio :-) The Tube Drive sounds pretty great with most things :P It wouldn't be my first choice for the Retro 50 though as that pedal is a bit of a gain monster and the Orange breakup sounds so good on its own already...I prefer shaped boosts (Rangemaster, Klon, etc) for the Orange so it retains more of its own character. But, I also run lower gain tubes in my TD to bring the gain down slightly, so it _could_ definitely work into the Orange....I'd probably use it into the clean channel though.
Did you upload this on the exact second it became 2022? also thanks for the advice on the guitar a few weeks back joe, i got one and have really been enjoying playing it
Very interesting and enjoyable video. In your experience Is the hudson broadcast really as noisy as a pedal as some say'? i would not mind if it is noisy at high gain settings, but if it has significant noise at low gain I could not use it in my rig.
Hi Joe. Really great video, love the new board. Interesting to hear your thoughts on boosting your amps natural overdrive. I wanted to ask you about reverb, do you not miss having a reverb pedal? I remember that you had the analogue Gurus Sinusoid. Maybe you just needed the space? I think analogue pedals sound much better than digital when you play at loud volume. I find at low volume the Strymon pedals sound pretty good. I use a Strymon Blue Sky which I couldn't live without. But I don't often get the opportunity to crank up the volume. If I did I would rather have all analogue pedals like you.
Hi Dale :-) To be honest, I don't miss having reverb all that much as I'm much more of a delay user - and, I've got a tube-driven spring tank in my little Tweed amp should I want to go all surfy :P The Sinusoid is pretty big, and given the amount of times I turned it on last year (ie. not many!) I figured that the space would be better used for something like the Kingsley/Effectrode pedals. From what I've heard you're absolutely right that digital modelling etc is much better for low volume stuff - but when cranking up 30+ watt tube amps, the clarity & integrity of analog is hard to beat :-)
I'm confused as to why tap tempo makes a pedal not "true" analog. If I have a robot walk over and push play on my vinyl record player, it doesn't make my record player digital. I guess if we are following Perky's "Why Do I Use Analog" logic (of which I am a believer in) Tap tempo digital control would make it harder to repair and draw more current. Either way, thanks for the content and I look forward to more analog goodness!
I'll try to cover this in the Jan Q&A video. But in short - for tap tempo to function, the pedal essentially needs to have 'intelligence'...to interpret your taps and convert them into a control voltage that then adjusts the tempo of the pedal. That can only be done with _some_ sort of digital algorithm. So whilst the signal path might be analog, and the actual 'effecting' be analog, a pedal with tap tempo must have an element of digital control within it...depends exactly how you define an 'analog' effect, really. Guess it's the difference between a robot changing your turntable; and the turntable being sold with a robot pre-wired within it as part of the product! (Poor analogy...but you get my drift!)
You are wrong about tap tempo feature... analog pedal means that signal remains in analog domain in/out all the way, that it never goes through AD and DA converters - that is all that there is to it... tap tempo being digitally designed does not absolutely anything to do with signal remaining analog, if implemented correctly, which is often the case... you NEED tap tempo if you play in a band and not just goof around at home, since songs benefit from having your delay being in proper BPM or msec tapped tempo so as not to collide with their rhytm. Tap tempo for delays is a MUST in real band situation and in studio recording situation as well ... I use DigiTech Rubberneck analog tap tempo delay, the best delay pedal on the market (at any price, while its price is very reasonable indeed).
Happy New Year, I really was gratlfled to see how the settings on my NKT275 SF is exactly the same as yours, will have more comments as I am watching rhe video.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼
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I really like your style. unpretentious and full of info and enthusiasm
Cheers mate - glad you enjoyed it :-)
I was willing to hear the Ray Butts Filtertrons through a Tonebender MK1, and now I've got to! Thank you, friend! probably the only RB Filtertron through fuzz demo on TH-cam
I bought a Cioks power supply for my board. Each out is voltage switchable 9-12-15-18. Mine has 7 outs, but they make larger as well. Super impressive power supply.
The Cioks is my backup plan in case the Effectrode doesn't come back in stock :-)
I have the DC10 and it can do anything I want it to, Cioks is amazing
I'll third the Cioks, noticeably better then then Zuma.
So much tube goodness, well done on this year's board! You have me wanting a Meet Maude, I love the modulation on those repeats.
The MM is cool eh? :-) You can turn that modulation down, or off, and it's less crazy at slower delay times (it was set a _little_ faster than I'd usually have it in this video & it was a tad too seasick for me!) but it's a wonderful pedal for drowning in ambience! :-)
Amazing Video, Board and narrative!! Def. On of my fav gear-men! Keep up and happy New year!!
Cheers!
Awesome pedalboard. Some big money hardware mounted up.
uh...10 mins into the video before I heard a single sound (on a guitar) G to D chords change. Woot-Woot! 2 mins later a fuzzy G to E with a bend lick. Great job and keep working/practicing - you are one of the greatest players ever!
Happy new year Joe!
Killer video as usual!
Cheers mate - HNY to you too!
Been looking forward to this. Thanks man. Happy new year.
Cheers mate...and to you :-)
Happy New Year, I really was gratlfled to see how the settings on my NKT275 SF is exactly the same as yours, will have more comments as I am watching rhe video.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼
HNY mate :-) Yep, I think the NKT Red Dot is pretty much exactly the same component as the red dot NKT275s...just a different part number printed on them for a specific client, back in the day!
I really enjoy his video, Joe. You’re fast becoming my favourite source of information for guitar tech stuff. The guardian of the rabbit hole, if you will! 😂
Hah - King Rabbit :P
DREAM BOARD!! Incredible!! I have a couple of the pedals shown (Retro-Sonic Flanger and Origin Effects Cali 76). I really dig the Kingsley Jester and Page and feel G.A.S. coming on. Thanks for posting!! 🤟🤟
Cheers mate! Cannot recommend the Kingsley stuff enough...it's incredible! 🙂
Feel like all your missing is a nice spring reverb tank. That would be ace. Love the setup!
I’ve had one on there for the past few years (Gurus Sinusoid & Carl Martin Headroom) but found I was always using delay over reverb, so used the space for other things this time! But might put another on in the future :-)
You rock kind sir!
I like this pedalboard more than the one you had last year. There is a sort of balance in the choice of pedals.
I'm pretty sure that by the end of the year i'll have the Effectrode Mercury and the Small Trees on my board.
It would be interesting using a Univibe, a Flanger or even a spring reverb on the effect loop of the ARDX20.
Oh, and one last thing, that Gronlund is still one of the best sounding guitar you own. Those Ray Butts Filtertrons are amazing, i really enjoy my White Falcon equipped with those.
Glad you approve, Enrico! :-) Yeah, a spring in the loop of the ARDX could be great! So much love for the RB 'Trons too...definitely one of my favourite pickups I've ever played!! Happy new year mate :-)
Big Trees for the win! Two channels - Small Trees on one side and Kingsley-killer drive tones on the other, capable of going from low gain/edge of break-up to exploding amp meltdown and all points in between
This was a treat. I feel we attack pedal problems the same way. We rarely use a pedal for where and what the pedals is meant to do for the average player. My music sonically has early 70's vibe with several MIAB pedals. All are a little different to fit different tunes like a hand in a glove. A few parts in different tunes need a Modern high gain sound. In spite of needing this sound my playing can get complex and busy and not unlike you I am always about definition, clarity and sparkle. When I need this sound none of the pedals designed for it do the trick. It works better for me with a Fuzz or a Fuzz stacked on an OD. The OD can put back the definition.My third thing is flatpicking. It is integrated in songs where I am going from those two other sounds of MIAB and Metal high gain. Dead clean is too stark I need low pedals. The pricey Cornerstone Gladio SE an SRV goes thru a Dumble pedal is one. It uses a clean thing that borrows tech used to restore the dialog in antique audio. I also find the Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker which is faithfull clone of the Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal works well but with the gain pulled back, never more than 10 o'clock. I prefer classic modulation pedals and analog delays. I do sometimes use Digital delays but with analog stacked on them. I to NEVER use tap tempo. The only pedal I have my eye on now is Big Knob Pedals Colour Jumbo a very, very convincing take of the Colorsound Tonebender Jumbo :-)
I love my Fairfield Circuitry “Meet Maude” so much, for the reasons you speak of, but also because it is so beautifully reverb like when connected to an expression pedal. For some reason, I don’t get as much warble as you do, but that could be down to what the EQD guy referred to as “tolerances” to do with circuitry…and he was referring to a mostly digital Avalanche Run. I went through 3 of them, and all had wildly different ‘random synth patches’ when cranking the feedback and turning the time right down. Crazy stuff! A synth you have absolutely no control over but relies 100% on your patience to get musical phrases out of! Thank you for the insights!
Definitely need to shoot a standalone demo of the MM soon :-)
Happy new year Joe! Great video as ever, looking forward to see what you have in store for 2022.
Thanks Dave :-) I'm excited to see what I have in store too :P hehe
I respect the hell out of you and your diligence towards all analog setup, but dang, I just can’t do it. 😂
I want to do it. It sounds amazing. But it almost seems limited in ways. You’re right, tap tempo delay can be analog but digital controls and I would almost be a purist at the point you’re at.
At the same time, does it really matter if it’s analog or digital. Most of the time analog is better I agree. But is it really that much different.
Just thinking out loud…
Again, such a fan of your knowledge and diligence. Thanks for sharing your insights! 🎸
In my world my 10 pedal board is big holy crap, although mine is purely for gigging with and generally basic easy to replace pedals.
Hey Joe,
Awesome video, love the board! If you were got invited to a last minute sit in, what would be your must have pedals (types and your go to ones)?
Thanks Chris :-) I think I'd want an overdrive (probably the Kingsley Jester), a delay (probably the Analogman ARDX20) and a modulation (bit tougher...but probably the Analogman Mini Chorus). Could do pretty much anything with that trio! :-)
I've never seen anything like this , unbelievable , great job
Cheers mate!
New to your channel here, awesome job on your pedalboard! Can you tell us how you control all of your pedals and what do you use for loops? I really struggle with my pedalboard. Also take a look at jam pedals once you have the chance, all analog art!
Thanks mate :-) I use GigRig loopers - they bring the pedals in and out. All the details are in the video RE which pedals are in which loops. I love JAM Pedals - I've owned most of them over the years and the TD58 is on this board!
Great video. My main amp is an Orange Rocker 30 and I've been slowly removing distortion pedals from the board and adding boosters to use the Orange's dirty channel which is to me irreplaceable and incomparable. I watched your review for Effectrode's Tube Drive. Have you tried it with the Retro Custom 50? I've been using a cheap VT-999 to boost my Orange and even though it's a starved plate tube circuit, it sounds great. I'm considering the Tube Drive as my main booster. What do you reckon? Thanks for the great content.
Hey Márcio :-) The Tube Drive sounds pretty great with most things :P It wouldn't be my first choice for the Retro 50 though as that pedal is a bit of a gain monster and the Orange breakup sounds so good on its own already...I prefer shaped boosts (Rangemaster, Klon, etc) for the Orange so it retains more of its own character. But, I also run lower gain tubes in my TD to bring the gain down slightly, so it _could_ definitely work into the Orange....I'd probably use it into the clean channel though.
Did you upload this on the exact second it became 2022?
also thanks for the advice on the guitar a few weeks back joe, i got one and have really been enjoying playing it
Nah, I actually uploaded it on Christmas Day but it was scheduled to go live at midnight! No worries at all mate - glad it was useful :-)
Glorious noise! When you were running some pedals with 15v or other, are those pedals spec’d for those volts, or were you trial-and-erroring it?
Oh yeah, all thoroughly spec’ed and checked…never power anything at a higher voltage if you’re not 100% certain it’s designed to take it!! 💥
@53:33 God tone engaged
Very interesting and enjoyable video. In your experience Is the hudson broadcast really as noisy as a pedal as some say'? i would not mind if it is noisy at high gain settings, but if it has significant noise at low gain I could not use it in my rig.
I've never found the Broadcast noisy in the slightest..especially at low gain. I've always found it pretty much silent 💁
@@JoePerkinsMusic Thanks for answering. Much appreciated.
Hi Joe. Really great video, love the new board. Interesting to hear your thoughts on boosting your amps natural overdrive. I wanted to ask you about reverb, do you not miss having a reverb pedal? I remember that you had the analogue Gurus Sinusoid. Maybe you just needed the space? I think analogue pedals sound much better than digital when you play at loud volume. I find at low volume the Strymon pedals sound pretty good. I use a Strymon Blue Sky which I couldn't live without. But I don't often get the opportunity to crank up the volume. If I did I would rather have all analogue pedals like you.
Hi Dale :-) To be honest, I don't miss having reverb all that much as I'm much more of a delay user - and, I've got a tube-driven spring tank in my little Tweed amp should I want to go all surfy :P The Sinusoid is pretty big, and given the amount of times I turned it on last year (ie. not many!) I figured that the space would be better used for something like the Kingsley/Effectrode pedals. From what I've heard you're absolutely right that digital modelling etc is much better for low volume stuff - but when cranking up 30+ watt tube amps, the clarity & integrity of analog is hard to beat :-)
I'm confused as to why tap tempo makes a pedal not "true" analog. If I have a robot walk over and push play on my vinyl record player, it doesn't make my record player digital. I guess if we are following Perky's "Why Do I Use Analog" logic (of which I am a believer in) Tap tempo digital control would make it harder to repair and draw more current. Either way, thanks for the content and I look forward to more analog goodness!
I'll try to cover this in the Jan Q&A video. But in short - for tap tempo to function, the pedal essentially needs to have 'intelligence'...to interpret your taps and convert them into a control voltage that then adjusts the tempo of the pedal. That can only be done with _some_ sort of digital algorithm. So whilst the signal path might be analog, and the actual 'effecting' be analog, a pedal with tap tempo must have an element of digital control within it...depends exactly how you define an 'analog' effect, really. Guess it's the difference between a robot changing your turntable; and the turntable being sold with a robot pre-wired within it as part of the product! (Poor analogy...but you get my drift!)
@@JoePerkinsMusic love this discussion, I could probably talk about this for hours haha
@fastguitar 😂
Hello, thanks for your channel! I'm searching for an analog pedal wilth a reverse reveb or a reverse delay. Is it exist?
Reverse effects require digital processing, as far as I know!
@@JoePerkinsMusic Thank a lot
You are wrong about tap tempo feature... analog pedal means that signal remains in analog domain in/out all the way, that it never goes through AD and DA converters - that is all that there is to it... tap tempo being digitally designed does not absolutely anything to do with signal remaining analog, if implemented correctly, which is often the case... you NEED tap tempo if you play in a band and not just goof around at home, since songs benefit from having your delay being in proper BPM or msec tapped tempo so as not to collide with their rhytm. Tap tempo for delays is a MUST in real band situation and in studio recording situation as well ... I use DigiTech Rubberneck analog tap tempo delay, the best delay pedal on the market (at any price, while its price is very reasonable indeed).
You are referring to an all-analog signal path, rather than a pedal with zero digital circuitry within it.
All Analog The Watchtower
Preference for Kingsley tube gain?
Jester (with Sizzle Mod) for me - wonderful thing, and covers pretty much all possible grounds!
@@JoePerkinsMusic I love his stuff. That is some board. Enjoy!
Doesn't seem a year since your 2021 pedalboard build......
Feels like a year to build the thing :P heh
@@JoePerkinsMusic it's the cabling I hate most! And I've got a smallish board, 13 pedals!
@@steveturner6770 I love how 13 pedals is considered 'smallish' in 2022 :P haha
@@JoePerkinsMusic 😂😂😂 - now that you've said that, I should really get it down to six......
"If Carlsberg built pedal boards....."
Haha!! I'll take that :P
Happy New Year, I really was gratlfled to see how the settings on my NKT275 SF is exactly the same as yours, will have more comments as I am watching rhe video.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼