Alan's Pedalboard
Pedal Boards are always ongoing and mine changes monthly. My latest Pedal Board is as analog as I can make it. All the COSM stuff is gone and very little remains of the 2010 board used with the last Floydian Slips lineup. THIS board is far superior and closer to Gilmours tone than the 2010 board. The signal path starts with the Crybaby Wha which has been modified with status LEDs and a reversing switch to eliminate rewiring when needing to perform “Echoes”.
Compression is applied next using the fantastic Mad Professor Forrest Green Compressor. From there the signal moves to the overdrive and distortion section. Overdrive is supplied by my home built and modified ITS8 tube screamer. Distortion is, of course, provided by a Big Muff - in this case a Stomp Under Foot CIVIL WAR Clone. There is a whole history behind the Big Muff which is VERY well documented by Big Muff collector Kit Rae on The Big Muff Pi Home Page as well as techniques on David Gilmour Tone Building which is invaluable to anyone wanting that Gilmour tone.
Compression is applied next using the fantastic Mad Professor Forrest Green Compressor. From there the signal moves to the overdrive and distortion section. Overdrive is supplied by my home built and modified ITS8 tube screamer. Distortion is, of course, provided by a Big Muff - in this case a Stomp Under Foot CIVIL WAR Clone. There is a whole history behind the Big Muff which is VERY well documented by Big Muff collector Kit Rae on The Big Muff Pi Home Page as well as techniques on David Gilmour Tone Building which is invaluable to anyone wanting that Gilmour tone.
The signal then passes through a Boss TU-12 tuner and into the modulators and tone control. The first of these is a home built EA Tremolo and a home built MXR Phaser clone. EQ is applied by a modified Boss GE-7 which precedes a Modified Boss CE-2 Chorus used to provide a slowly rotating speaker sound and a Electro Harmonix Stereo Electric Mistress - Flanger/Chorus. After this, things get harder to follow as the Boss LS-2 is used in conjunction with an Ernie Ball Volume pedal and a Boss AB-2 “mute” switch to provide a send/return/mute effects loop for the echo. Echo and (up to 13 seconds of) looping is done using the amazing Empress Effects “Vintage Modified” Superdelay which has 8 programmable memories.
Almost all the Boss pedals (including past ones now sold off) have been modified with Monte Allums Mods.
After the pedal board, it's off to the Peavy Classic 30 Tube Amplifier. This is via a Line 6 JM-4 “Looper” when Playing the “Singular History” Show. Listen to the Pedalboard here
Almost all the Boss pedals (including past ones now sold off) have been modified with Monte Allums Mods.
After the pedal board, it's off to the Peavy Classic 30 Tube Amplifier. This is via a Line 6 JM-4 “Looper” when Playing the “Singular History” Show. Listen to the Pedalboard here
