What’s on your (acoustic) pedalboard?

[RockerDuck]

This is all I need.

[guitarman68]

These days I gig with an Elite Acoustic StompMix X6 - nothing else on my pedal board. With its storable mixer scenes that can be activated via stomp buttons it does all I need including external microphone, solo boost with different EQ setting or reverb/comp. Beside guitars I play slide, banjo, mandolin, bouzouki ... opened a new thread at AGF displaying my approach last week.

[lppier]

Originally Posted by guitarman68

These days I gig with an Elite Acoustic StompMix X6 - nothing else on my pedal board. With its storable mixer scenes that can be activated via stomp buttons it does all I need including external microphone, solo boost with different EQ setting or reverb/comp. Beside guitars I play slide, banjo, mandolin, bouzouki ... opened a new thread at AGF displaying my approach last week.

I keep hearing about this, does this replace a two channel preamp for different acoustic guitar pickup sources?

[guitarman68]

Originally Posted by lppier

I keep hearing about this, does this replace a two channel preamp for different acoustic guitar pickup sources?

As long as you use only pickups - no problem. You can use a Y-cable for splitting the two pickup-signals in one guitar into two mono signals and plug in two channels of the StompMix X 6. It even offers two HiZ-inputs (channel 1 and channel 2) you would use for passive pickups like I do. I tried several passive PUs (K&K, Dazzo, Schatten, Sunrise magnetic soundhole PU) and they all sounded great.

Limitation starts when you want to send phantom power to an internal mic of your dual source - rig. That's a thing the StompMix won't do. You will need a dedicated blender/preamp like Grace Felix, K&K Trinity, DTAR Solstice ... for that application.

Think of the StompMix X6 as a fully featured digital mixer with ten storable scenes married to a floor pedal. The stomp buttons are for switching between scenes and for muting the whole unit.

[fingeryoga]

Felix 1 simple setup guitar 1
Felix 2 ambient style setup guitar 2
Bix ukulele

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[pf400]

I use chorus plus either delay or reverb. Chorus is either a Danelectro Cool Cat (vintage light blue one) or a Digitek from the 80s. Boss RV6 for reverb, Behringer VD400 for delay. The latter has beat out several other, more expensive, delay pedals. Looper pedal gets lots of use too.

[Health Freak]

Going to be running this for about six months to make sure I’m happy with it before I send everything out for a custom build and wiring setup.

Acoustic:

Grace FELiX2 with Empress Mkii Compressor>Strymon Deco v2>Strymon Cloudburst in the FX loop. TurboTuner Mini on the Tuner Out. Running SBT on the Tip and Audix mini condenser on the ring.

Vocal:

Grace ROXi with Universal Audio Max>Strymon Cloudburst in the FX loop. Mic is either an Audix OM7 or Heil PR35, depending on stage/room setup.

All DC pedals are powered by a TRUTONE 1SPOT Pro CS6. Probably swap out for a CIOKS so I have a spare output and more robust RCA connectors under the board.

Waiting on a couple custom looms for the XLR out and AC. 10 footer for when I’m near a drop snake, 25 footer for when I need to run a home run to the main snake/split.

Been running the acoustic side for awhile. Going to make a new temp board at work to accommodate the vocal chain. I’ll post pics once I get everything mounted on the temp board.

[RCGuitar]

I have a red eye dual preamp, in the preamp loop there is a : boss waza tuner, into waza CE2 chorus , fender smolder, boss 7 band eq, boss digital delay, boss digital reverb, RC30 looper then back to red eye loop return. Powered by voodo labs power supply

[Daniel Grenier]

Well, when I plug in I use this current version. At home, I feed this into an Audient EVO8 controlled via my laptop (w/Reaper). The EVO output goes to 2 Yamaha HS5 speakers on my desk. If this rig needs to go out, I bring a A&H ZEDi10FX mixer and a pair of QSC CP8 pwr speakers.

Left to right I have a:

• ZOOM F3 32-bit recorder bluetooth-controlled by my iPhone. The input is from the Sunnaudio MS-2 1/4" outs and the Zoom line out goes to the EVO8 ch3 and 4 i/p if needed.
• VOODOO ISO5 power supply is under the Zoom
• BOSS FS-7 A-B switch controls the looper (A=next loop. B=Start/Stop loop. It just saves me from bending down every time I want a different loop)
• Neunaber Immerse reverb is next and is first in the MS-2 FX loop (post).
• BOSS RC-5 stereo looper is next and (electronically) last in the MS-2 FX loop (looper is sometimes used to play my pre-recorded backing tracks).
• Sunnaudio MS-2 is next and it is fed by a K&K on ch1 and internal mic on ch2 using a TRS setup (these are in my Boucher OM). The MS-2 op goes to the EVO8 ch1 and 2
• TCE IR looper is last on the board and is on the K&K side in ch1 pre. (Populated by terrific IRs made by John Fields)
• All this sits on a D'Addario XPAND small board.

Works for me. (BTW I cannot recommend the Sunnaudio MS-2 pre-amp enough with it's amazing mid-side capability. It is crystal clear and it gives me a beautiful stereo sound.)

[edward993]

Been using this for yeeears! I had changed only the type of OD last year, but everything else has been there for many years. All imminently useful for my purposes!



Edward

[Charlie Bernstein]

Four Danelectro Fish & Chips EQs > Loop-Master ABCD switch box > Polytune 3 tuner > Fire-Eye Red-Eye preamp.

No effects. I like my acoustic instruments to sound like themselves. Only have effects on my electric rig.

Now you know!

[Health Freak]

That’s a sweet setup! I’ve got an MS-2 I’m going to build an mid-side rig with.

Have you found that your wishing you had full phase control over the pickup, or is it pretty well time-aligned with the mic?

Originally Posted by Daniel Grenier

Well, when I plug in I use this current version. At home, I feed this into an Audient EVO8 controlled via my laptop (w/Reaper). The EVO output goes to 2 Yamaha HS5 speakers on my desk. If this rig needs to go out, I bring a A&H ZEDi10FX mixer and a pair of QSC CP8 pwr speakers.

Left to right I have a:

• ZOOM F3 32-bit recorder bluetooth-controlled by my iPhone. The input is from the Sunnaudio MS-2 1/4" outs and the Zoom line out goes to the EVO8 ch3 and 4 i/p if needed.
• VOODOO ISO5 power supply is under the Zoom
• BOSS FS-7 A-B switch controls the looper (A=next loop. B=Start/Stop loop. It just saves me from bending down every time I want a different loop)
• Neunaber Immerse reverb is next and is first in the MS-2 FX loop (post).
• BOSS RC-5 stereo looper is next and (electronically) last in the MS-2 FX loop (looper is sometimes used to play my pre-recorded backing tracks).
• Sunnaudio MS-2 is next and it is fed by a K&K on ch1 and internal mic on ch2 using a TRS setup (these are in my Boucher OM). The MS-2 op goes to the EVO8 ch1 and 2
• TCE IR looper is last on the board and is on the K&K side in ch1 pre. (Populated by terrific IRs made by John Fields)
• All this sits on a D'Addario XPAND small board.

Works for me. (BTW I cannot recommend the Sunnaudio MS-2 pre-amp enough with it's amazing mid-side capability. It is crystal clear and it gives me a beautiful stereo sound.)

[Health Freak]

I love how clean that setup is. That’s going to be the challenge for me. I’m building a Schmidt Array style board and need to route the AC away from the audio. Fortunately, most of my audio runs are from pedal to pedal, so just the FX send and returns need a path underneath.

How are you using the two reverbs?

Originally Posted by edward993

Been using this for yeeears! I had changed only the type of OD last year, but everything else has been there for many years. All imminently useful for my purposes!



Edward

[Daniel Grenier]

Originally Posted by Health Freak

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Have you found that your wishing you had full phase control over the pickup, or is it pretty well time-aligned with the mic?

No, haven't had to resort to any phase control as they are both pretty much bang on. Good luck with your new rig and post when you're done.

[dnf777]

Fishman ToneDEQ and Boss RC-1 looper.

Subject to change at operator's whim, but that works 99% of the time.

Edit: lately, with the recording setup, due to laziness, I have run through a TC Play VG (the stand mounted vocal/guitar processor). I have to admit, it does quite a good job for what I'm looking for. The BodyRez really surprised me.