I went with a mini pedal instead of the Keeley I had my eye on. I’ve got a small board, I Iike having all the pedals in the same orientation and less knobs is probably better for a tone rookie
And here’s my first board. I’m having a ton of fun experimenting… it can be distracting from actual practice so I’ve given myself a five minute FAFO routine
TBH, I’m not sure I fully understand why one would use a reverb pedal going into the preamp instead of the reverb built inside the amp, which is after the preamp. Wouldn’t the preamp change the character of the reverb?
And yer board is looking nice and tidy as is right now.
Well done.
I got a reverb pedal a long time ago. Has all the reverb effects. It’s in a drawer out of service (has been for a good long while now).
I got reverb on my amps that works perfectly well. On board is more desirable to me that having access to 15 or so various forms of reverb. Just lightly added in spring reverb from the amps works wonders for me. imho, if ya didn’t have onboard reverb, that’s when the pedal could come into play easy.
Ya do got room for one more perhaps, and I’ll agree with the ‘mod’. Ya need a tuner.
fwiw, I got three pedals in use (no board to make it look tidy), and the tuner pedal is the one that won’t ever be removed. Of all the drawer full of pedals (not in use) I got. The tuner pedal is the most important one I got. Any sound I make sounds pretty poorly should I be out of tune.
If you are going into a clean amp then using a reverb at the end of your pedal chain is going to be cool. If you are going into a high gain amp, then you might not like how that sounds.
The reverb in most amps is pretty limited, often using a simple spring tank and typically has little control other than the amount of reverb added to the dry signal. A reverb tank is also rather susceptible to vibrations or knocks. With a pedal you have a lot more control and options for how the reverb sounds.
That looks like an interesting compressor design. I guess they have a number of the typical compressor parameters assigned to the hi / low / mid switch, giving an initial start point for the amount of compression available to you; then I guess you can use the blend knob as fine tune.
I don’t understand why you should put a tuner on a board when a clip on tuner is so practical takes up no space on the board. Or am I missing something? It seems that many people are quite limited for space on their board so why use that space when you could have a small clip on? Or is it because pedal tuners have a bypass for silent tuning ?