Guitar related christmas gifts

I’m leaning towards using two boards, one for the wet effects and one for the dry. This is one 12.5" x 22" and I thought for sure when I bought it that it would be big enough, and it is, for my wet pedals, or my dry pedals. Not both.

So I guess my rule of thumb is, buy twice what you think you’ll need? :thinking:

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Am I the only one who has no idea what wet and dry means when referring to guitars? It’s certainly not intuitive.

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Dry = clean signal minimal fx
Wet = Heavy fx especially distortion and overdrive.

Aka Clean & Dirty

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Mrs Santa bought me a Spark Go. Didn’t need it as I have a Katana but fun for moving round the house.

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Okay, I can understand that, but then why would there be an entire pedal board dedicated to “dry?”

I own zero pedals of any kind, so . . .

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Santa brought me a Boss TU-3 tuner pedal that I’ve been wanting forever after trying one at a friend’s house a while back. I then proceeded to spend like an hour on Christmas re-doing my board :laughing:

I swear I’m not trying to turn this thread into a “show is your pedal board” one :wink:, but this is the current state of mine with the tuner added in. I have a large Fender board that was given to me as a gift a couple years ago and I still have quite a bit of left space on it. It has a mount on the underside for a power supply. It also came with a travel case. Very happy with it.

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There is no intent behind my use of two boards vs one other than convenience. It’s easier to buy another board of the same size than it is to sell this one in favor of a single, larger board. Probably easier to use too rather than trying to step over two rows of pedals instead of just one.

One reason to differentiate between wet and dry effects is if you intend to use more than one amp, say in a true stereo rig or in a what is called a wet/dry/wet setup. A w/d/w is where the wet stereo effects like delay and chorus are sent to left and right channels and the dry overdrive, distortion, and fuzz portion of your single chain is routed to a center channel amp without any of the wet effect applied to it.

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If you are into any DIY or stuff you could try something like what @BHopson did in the thread i listed below. I think he did a fantastic job and its super customizable. I need a pedal board myself. I did like the exapndable ones that Justin was talking about a couple of months ago.

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Okay, now I’m confused again. I thought dry was without that stuff from what Toby told me.

Never mind; I’ll never use it anyway. End of thread hijack.

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Wow. Those little guitar amps are kind of amazing. They are so tiny. Obviously you are not going to gig with them but for just chilling in the living room or another room they seem really cool.

Pedals are probobly a common gift as they are not insanely expensive. Love your pedal board too. Does that thing have a cover, like for transport? I saw in one of your videos you have a couple of items set up to go into a case, oraybe the case goes on top and latched down for on the road. Great ways to go.

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Please, dont feel like its a hijack. I enjoy letting any thread I start goes what ever way it goes. Free flow of ideasđź’ˇ

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It does! It came in handy when I brought it with me to the recording studio. Super easy to zip it up in its case and take it with me wherever I want to go.

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Alas i’m lacking things as skill, time, machinery and materials for me to go the DIY route.
That fenderboard is looking like something i could use though. That, or something comparable…

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My wife gave me a personalised capo. It’s much better than the one I already had so I’m happy :smiley:

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Nice @Ontime ! That is quite a Xmas haul. I got some chili socks…

Where do you snowboard?

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Wet pedals introduce a time or modulation element and dry pedals add either gain, compression, pitch shifting or EQ.

Wet:
Reverb
Delay
Chorus
Vibrato
Tremolo
Flanger
Phaser
Uni-Vibe

Dry:
Overdrive
Fuzz
Distortion
Wah
Octave
Boost
EQ
Compression

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Thats super cool. Nobody can do the old, “oh i thought this was mine” trick.

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Chili socks are spicy :sweat_smile:

I snowboard mostly close to Reno, so Rose and many of the northern California /Lake Tahoe resorts but pricing has gotten redicoulus for most of them. Also a lot in Alaska. I live in Arizona now and Snowbowl in Flagstaff AZ is the closest now if driving. My love is backcountry which is the way, so anywhere I can climb and drop in.

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I got a strap for my new guitar (guitar itself was a recent and planned upgrade, not a gift) and (not pictured) a hygrometer/Humidipak set to keep her happy.

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I love these oldschool looking embroidered straps. My straps seem very boaring compared. Nice guitar too, I bet that Taylor sounds fantastic.

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