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A photo of the box of a Boss FZ-1W fuzz guitar pedal, and a D'Addario "XPAND2" pedal board, which is a two-row pedal board made of aluminium that can become wider as you get more pedals.

Woooooo!

I'm waiting on just one more thing (at least until Christmas 😅), an Orange FS-1 mini footswitch so I can switch between the clean and dirty channels on the amp without having to lean over and down to actually fiddle with the amp itself.

Posted on 10 October 2022, 13:30

A photo of a little rectangular black box that says on the side of it "JHS Pedals" and underneath "Little Black Buffer". There's a single yellow LED on the top of it (the input and output plugs are on the very back and not visible in the photo).

Why yes, it IS more guitar pedal-related stuff! Though technically not an actual pedal this time. Keen to see the difference it makes in sound.

(Update: it makes ABSOLUTELY no difference whatsoever because it turns out all Boss pedals already have built-in buffers to counteract the signal degradation from long chains. 😑)

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Posted on 5 October 2022, 15:56

Today's deliveries are a flanger pedal for my guitar setup (can I call it a "rig" yet?), and a replacement airbrush needle!

I was all excited to get my Kill Team terrain started last week, and I realised that my troubles with the airbrush clogging and spitting and just generally misbehaving were caused by the very tip of the needle being bent. 😞 I'm not sure exactly how I managed to do that, but I'm going to make a point to be a lot more gentle with it from now on.

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Posted on 4 October 2022, 13:25

The setup is complete! ...at least until my new guitar arrives, and also until I inevitably decide I want more guitar pedals and thus need to build a longer pedalboard. 😅

Man, that delay pedal is such fun. If you set one single repeat and set the delay before the repeat occurs to the right timing, you can get it to essentially play notes in between what you're playing, so it sounds like you're playing more. Or you can set a really long delay with lots of repeats and lower the intensity, and it sounds like you're in a vast hall. Or you can go in between those and just get a much fatter-sounding tone.

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Posted on 21 September 2022, 21:52

A photo of a Boss DM-2W analogue delay guitar pedal. It's a shiny sort-of-magenta colour, with three dials on the top for repeat rate, intensity, and echo.

Yesssss, very excited to play around with this tonight!

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Posted on 21 September 2022, 15:29

A photo of my Morningstar relay switching interface. It's a small blue metallic box with two TRS jacks and a DC in jack on the front, and three LEDs on the top marked "RING", "TIP", and "POWER".

Huzzah, the relay interface finally arrived!

Next step, figuring out how best to configure the MIDI controller to activate the interface in terms of ease of usage...

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Posted on 19 September 2022, 15:51

A photo of a black metal box with four silver push switches and an LCD display in the middle. The display says "LOGIC PRO" in the middle with "Record", "Play", "Previous Scene" and "Next Scene" in the corners corresponding to each switch.

Yessss, got the Bridge4 configured to control Logic Pro now! So I can start and stop recording, play and pause the existing audio, and switch between and trigger live loops scenes all right from the pedalboard without needing to take my hands off the guitar. 😎

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Posted on 15 September 2022, 22:11

A photo of a DIY guitar pedalboard. It consists of two horizontal planks of wood screwed into two shallowly-angled pieces on either end. The two horizontal pieces have strips of velcro on them, and there's four pedals attached to it. The new pedal is black with four silver switches on it and a little LCD display in the middle.

So it turns out you can control the Boss RC-5 looper pedal via MIDI instead of needing to lean down awkwardly to adjust the built-in drum machine, so I bought an (Australian-designed) MIDI controller, the Pirate MIDI Bridge4! It's pretty slick, but unfortunately Boss' documentation on how specifically to configure external MIDI devices to control it is a little lacking, so there's a LOT of trial and error going on right now.

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Posted on 9 September 2022, 22:13

A photo of the pedalboard sitting in front of an Orange (and coloured orange) guitar amplifier.

That was a HELLA productive day off, look at my pedalboard! Everything is so neat and tidy, I'm fucking STOKED at how well it came together.

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Posted on 5 September 2022, 17:09