I used the updated rig live for the 1st time today. I decided to use the Fender voicing on the “Hot Rod “ side of the Simplifier and make use of effects pedals. Although it is supposed to be the high gain side, the Fender voicing seems to have loads of head room.
My delay pedal was on all the time. I made use of the Bad Monkey, JHS Distortion and Chorus (as well as the tuner and page turner).
The rig worked really well. Playing softly gave me nice clean tones; playing a bit harder gave me some clipping if I had one of the gain pedals on.
The sound guy liked what he was getting from me. I think he probably also liked that I gave him a DI straight out of the Simplifier rather than him having to mic up an amp.
I was wondering whether the Cioks is a good multi power supply. I am just starting to build a very simple pedal board. I bought a Harley Benton board with a built in power supply for several pedals. I returned it because the power supply added significant noise to the chain, even though the reviews on Thomman were good. So now I’m looking at a regular board and a separate power unit and hopefully not getting extra noise in their signal chain.
@ToshS It would be good to see the boards of others. You could start a thread or reinvigorate an older one if there is a pedal boards one already existing.
@Prof_Thunder Ian, the Cioks hits my 3 requirements of: powers the pedals, doesn’t introduce extra noise, fits under the board.
It was the only isolated power supply in Guitar Guitar Epsom that fitted under my board and which had the power inlet and outlets in locations that enabled access. If I’d had more depth under the board, and / or the board framework was in different places, I would have had more choice.
It has worked well for me though.
I have a power supply on my bass board that doesn’t have isolated power outlets, which hasn’t caused me problems. I did have a compressor setting that made a lot of noise - however as it was just a selector switch that I’d knocked to the wrong selection, I didn’t need to do any investigation into the source of the noise. It may or may not have been the power supply. So whether the need for isolated power is real, good marketing, good engineering science, pedal board community myth etc… I can’t really help. I guess I took the view that if it saved me potential problems it was worth paying for.
So in this iteration the Nobels ODR1 is the new addition. It was bought by my 4 kids as a Christmas present (at my request). I shot the pedal out against other overdrives: the Boss Blues Driver, and one of the other Boss pedals (either the SD1 or OD3, or maybe both of them).
I needed space for it, so the TC Electronics Hall of Fame (HOF, a reverb pedal) lost its place. I prefer the reverbs on the Simplifier X and wasn’t using the HOF.
I tidied up the pedal arrangement a bit (that sits better with my OCD tendencies). I may need to make space for a page turner, but I probably don’t have a need to read until well into next year. The one I use (see previous iteration) is red though which will add a bit of colour balance😀.
I moved the Bad Monkey after the ODR1 and JHS distortion with the intent of using it as a boost. Thus far for instrumental breaks I’ve been kicking on the compressor though. This sounds quite good with the ODR1, but is a bit much with the distortion. I think (for instrumentals) I may experiment with the compressor and ODR1 together, with the Bad Monkey acting as a boost for the distortion.
