Thought I’d elaborate a little more on my gear in this video. Here we go:
- The board is a Showcase Black Bullet, “On the Road” size. I love it…just put the case on top and go.
- I have a Pedal Power 2+ and a PedalGear.net JuiceBox underneath powering all the pedals. The Eventides are tricky, so I ran a power supply to one and the other feeds off of the PP2+ (and it’s lack of powering very many other pedals).
- I’m using all Lava Cable patch cables now. It’s small and allows for saving space on the board and the sound is awesome and true.
- The tap tempo’s run underneath the board to the DD-5, Modfactor and Timefactor.
- I am running into a Dr. Z Maz 18 Jr. NR head and typically a 1×12 cab with a G12H (although I’m using a Marshall 2×12 cab in the video) and a Bad Cat Cub 2R head and 2×12 cab with a Blue and Vintage 30.
Here’s another run-through of the board with more details on the pedals:
- Budda Wah – very wide variety of frequencies in this wah
- Whammy IV – put at the beginning of chain and before the volume to keep it from sounding TOO glitchy. I mainly use the dry and octave up sound or use the foot controller to go up an octave. It’s all about being tasteful while doing it and it’s not always easy. Jack is making me a true bypass for this right now.
- Ernie Ball Volume Jr (with Boss tuner out)
- Catalinbread Serrano Picoso – a clean boost I leave on all the time as a buffer and to make it sound better all around.
- Diamond Compressor – I used to use a compressor on all the time and am still trying to figure out how I like to use a compressor best. Great sounding compressor that I use for a lot of single line melodies and leads right now.
- Zvex Fuzz Factory – I got this pedal to get some Muse sounds. I haven’t used it live much yet, but just found a cool setting that I like and could actually use in a church.
- Paul Cochrane Timmy Drive – Still my main drive pedal…a medium gain drive.
- Xotic RC Booster – Used for light drive and light boost.
- Fulltone Fulldrive 2 – I only use the regular channel and use it for higher gain stuff.
- Electro Harmonix Micro POG – I replaced my Whammy with this (before getting another one). I use it for that dry and octave up sound mainly but also add in a little sub octave.
- Boss DD-5 – Used mainly for dotted 8th delays…it’s the best one I’ve heard and continues to be my favorite for that sound.
- Boss RV-5 – Used for really ambient sounds.
- Eventide Modfactor – Used for tremolos mainly, but also some rotary, chorus and uni-vibe sounds when needed.
- Eventide Timefactor – Used for more standard delay sounds with a few stranger sounding delays in between.
- Line 6 DL4 – Used for stranger delay sounds.
Hopefully this gives a little more guidance and clarity. Feel free to ask any questions away as well…
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Nathan,
If you had to keep 3 of these pedals to cover all your needs, what would you keep?
probably the timmy, dl4 and either the dd-5 or rv-5. i feel like i could just use the timefactor and timmy if i could dial in some better sounds on the timefactor using the dual delay…but just haven’t yet.
I’m interested that you have the whammy and the pog. Do they honestly sound different enough to warrant having both? Reason is I have a POG2 which I’m very happy with but would be interested in knowing the difference.
they do sound different but i could part with one if i ever needed or wanted to. the whammy doesn’t track very well and gives a really unique sound bc of that. i got the whammy to mainly use the octave up foot controller and i’ve dialed in the micro pog for dry with the octave up and a little sub octave to have a good organ sound for swells.
a pog2 would be perfect to have more presets, but it still couldn’t do the octave up with a foot controller that i’m aware of.
Could you post some examples of how you use some of this gear? You have a lot of variety, but how do you manipulate sounds without going overboard?
i’ll try to do that soon…
Hey Nathan, I have the Whammy also and just absolutely love it. You said in the video that you heard some cool parts in records played with the Whammy – can you give a few examples?
By the way, you’re rig is just awesome, so cool.
phil wickham’s new cd did it for me particularly. “hold on” and “in your city” have some killer parts.
Hey Nathan,
Are you using the FX loops for your delay/reverb pedals? Or do you run your amps clean and depend on your pedals for overdrive?
no effects loop…i run the amp with a little bite to it. if i give it a good dig it sounds dirty, it sounds clean when i pull my volume back a little or play a little softer.