Pro Pedalboard Builder Rates Your Rig

Today, I'm reacting to pedalboard photos submitted by YOU (our followers), giving free tips on how to make your pedalboard as functional and optimized as possible. I will definitely be doing more videos like this in the future. If you want YOUR RIG to be featured in a future video, make sure you follow us on social media (links below)!

Table of Contents
00:00 Getting Advice Specific to YOUR Rig
00:52 Our Objective
02:30 How To Get Involved
03:11 Rig 1: @prodigalb_'s pedalboard
08:19 Rig 2: @benztrani.99's pedalboard
10:20 Rig 3: @n8guitarist's pedalboard
12:58 Rig 4: @jeffsaundersmusic's pedalboard
16:21 Rig 5: @mark_thackway's pedalboard
18:56 Rig 6: @edgebiker's pedalboard
23:19 Rig 7: @nelsonncapote's pedalboard
25:24 Rig 8: @inagalaxy's pedalboard
27:54 Rig 9: @mickhodes's pedalboard
31:08 Rig 10: @drebishwop's pedalboard
34:07 Rig 11: @fabro_buitre's pedalboard
36:42 Rig 12: @ryanwhite0's pedalboard
41:54 What Did We Learn?
45:25 Thanks For Watching!

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How to Route Cables (on your pedalboard)

What is the Holy Trinity of Tone?

Make Your Own Buffer Interface

How to Make Power Cables

The Truth About Reverb Pedal Placement

Pedals with Great Built-In Buffers

Power Supply Buyer's Guide

What Causes Tone Suck?

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CREDITS:
Host/Co-Production: Mason Marangella
Video: Nico Sotomayor
Video Editing: Victor San Pedro
Co-Production/Design: Mason Mejia
Audio Engineering: Hunter Harrison

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[VertexEffectsInc]

Want me to rate your rig? Be sure to tag us on IG @vertexeffects and use the hashtag #pedalboardprescription for free advice, tips, tricks, and improvements to make to your rig in a future episode.

[joerausch]

This channel is constantly putting out high quality content.

[charleybenztrani]

Awesome seeing my mini-pedalboard getting featured in this video!!! Thank you Mason! 😁

[adaptivebusinessconsulting]

Excellent idea to critique boards this way. Real practical advice, great professional insights.
I learned a great deal from this one video. You filled a niche that has needed to be filled for a long time. Well done.

[mickhodes]

Thanks for the advice mason I will definitely go out and get better cables and move around the fuzz pedals and post the update when I’m done.

[Dorachagi]

It was very educational and insightful just to follow along and experience a perspective of critiquing a rig not based on what pedals sound like or what overall sound or style a player is going for, but rather how they can be optimized regardless of what gets played on them. Not usually the way I think about my board, I definitely picked up some ideas I will test and likely implement. Thanks for this, keep 'em coming please!

[badfaithnomination]

Objection: Not everyone wants to use a Boost for a volume boost during solos. Most metal guitarists are placing them before drives & crunch channels FOR added saturation. Stop saying it rarely sounds good. Same thing with the Tube Screamer and Big Muff. The TS is the one pedal metal guitarists put before everything in the gain stage (save the Boost). They are tightening their low end & boosting their mids before hitting their fuzz & distortion. Just because it does not work you, it does not mean others haven’t made it work for them.

I respect your expertise & thank you for all your advise. I’ve tried it your way & it did not work for me.

[drewb]

Shout out to the Amazon cables! Haha thanks for addressing that I'm guilty myself!

[ryanwhite]

Thanks for the feedback! This board wouldn't have happened if it weren't for your videos and some help you gave me back in 2019 when I first built this layout (without the HX Stomp at the time).

The power supply is the Truetone CS-12 but the HX Stomp is powered by it's original power supply connected to an outlet under the board.

I've always operated on the low to high gain staging but don't know where I got that from. I think for some of them it's because I wanted to have the drive colored by the higher gain pedal. I will have to experiment with it!

In situations where I was running two amps in stereo or one amp one modeled output, I was getting ground hum which the EBTech solved. But I never checked if it affected the signal. Lately I'm mostly running direct so I probably should pull it out and only use it or one of the solutions you suggested if I really need it.

[tomt]

Excellent and highly informative video! It's great to have you look at, constructively assess and comment on real world DIY pedal boards. Thank you for posting! 🙏🏻👍🏻🤘🏻

[Binaural]

Dude, thank you so much for your channel and your videos. They're so helpful and well-thought out and detailed. You've helped me so much, I wish I could do more than like and comment.

[plaguesofwrath]

Some pretty interesting stuff here. I’ve never heard of anyone putting an overdrive after higher gain pedals, because the way most of the people I know use an overdrive to tighten up the low end and hit the front of their amp harder, but I’d be interested in hearing what it sounds like the other way around. Maybe I’ll throw my SD-1 in my loop one of these days just to see what it does. But all in all this is a really interesting informative video.

[jonathanmcright]

Thank you for this. Very thorough, and simplified. I’ll probably binge watch everything you have .

[Suicaedere]

This is the best channel. Great video, you are the man Mason!

[joshuaraysummey]

The ehx soul food has a buffer that you can switch on internally. Great vid!!! Thanks a bunch!

[leeds]

Hay Mason - thanks for doing this. The tu-12h tuner on my board isn't in my chain though based on your comment, i will look into the Y cable. Also, i have replaced the delay with a Subdecay Echobox until i add a buffer at the end of the chain.
re Road Rage buffer - Input Impedance > Greater than 1M Ohm Output Impedance < Lesser than 100 Ohms 9volt DC Neg Pin

[JeffSaunders]

Thanks for the rating, Mason! I do use the Spark as an added “gain stage” for the Dude and BD, for some extra thickness. Cables are definitely a priority for me next. Power supply is a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. 😊

[rihraw]

Yes the tc electronic hypergravity has a great 1meg 100ohm buffer in it

[Gaddmans.Garden]

Love this format of rig review. Thanks

[skepticalbystander]

I've heard a lot of non-metal players suggesting the higher gain before lower gain thing, and i think it's because metal players use gain staging differently than basically any other genre, for metal, i go overdrive set to more level and no gain > sputtery velcro type fuzz > bigger open fuzz > distortion. I think a lot of non-metal players are looking at a lot of metal boards :/