Here’s my board. Admittedly, there’s only one EHX pedal on it at the moment: a Stereo Electric Mistress. However, it sees more action than all of my other pedals combined, and through all of my frequent pedal changes, it has stayed the longest. I don’t think I’ll be selling it anytime soon…

Still exploring wah pedals (again) however. It may not be a Dunlop 105Q for long, as I’m looking into Morley again (probably will pick up another Dual Bass Wah), and Chicago Iron (for their Tycobrahe Parapedal remake, the Parachute). But I’ve also heard rumors about an EHX wah…

Ok, as promised, I managed to find the camera (hidden in the strange compartment at the top of a chest of draws with a door that opens from the bottom that i used to call the “cakey” when i was a kid).

Some mysterious stuff there. I tried to get my amp in the pic as much as possible without showing up how much of a mess of boxes and cables there is next to it – and excuse the random jar of small change – that is my dad’s, i don’t know what its doing there really.

For the sake of any questions – the squiffy little guitar is a hofner shorty that i bought on tuesday. Its actually lovely to play and sounds pretty good too. Simply put in the photo because it was small enough to fit.

Then the pedals: The wah is first in the chain – its a vintage JEN “mister crybaby super” that i managed to get for £15. The 2 silver pedals are a Marshall JH-1 OD/Distortion and ED-1 Compressor. The vox is just a channel/reverb switch for my amp. That odd colourful pedal is a Danelectro Talkbox, it does the job, although i wish i’d got something a little better. The orange pedal is a Boss DS-2, which is very underrated IMO. The next 3 need no introduction – EHX Big Muff and small stone, and a small clone in the FX loop. Also in the FX loop is that bashed up danelectro delay pedal which cost me £2. All these are powered by a godlyke PA-9UK or a SoundLab Pedal Power 450.

The amp is a laney VC30. I run all my distortions into a very slightly overdriven amp all the time – it just thickens up the sound and smooths off the harshness that comes from the transistors and diodes.

Long post, but i love discussing gear a bit too much

I’m trying to rearrange my pedals to see if i can get them to fit into one of those stagg “touring” cases… but keeping it as practical as possible without muddling up the order in which things are connected.

edit: Just a little short of space, taking cables into account.. damn. I really do not want to muddle things up though, i have my reasons

i thought those weren’t something i’d imagined – my Laney VC30 speaker cable has a socket like that so i guessed that they must make patch cables like it too. They’d probably help, but then they’d make the pedals be a bit too squashed together which isn’t something i want to do – i’m very shaky on stage, i have kinda physical panics where emotionally i’m completely calm but my body shakes as though i have serious stage fright so it can make me hit the wrong pedals too easily hehe.

Ming, are those hosa patch cables?