Gigs/Practice
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Outlaw Effects Palomino: 4x500mA isolated power supply. Not enough to power
  the Tonex, but everything else. There are only 4 outs, but I have never had
  noise issues with daisy-chaining. It could happen on stage but since I won't
  be bringing the long pedal chains to shows anymore I'm not worried about this.
  One output is switchable between 9/12/18 volts, which of course reduces the
  current. The total current flowing through all outs of the unit is 2000mA.
  Enough for Gamechanger & Pigtronix.

TC-Electronic Tuner: it tunes.

Digitech Drop: Downtune in half-steps. Extremely good tracking. Way 
  better than the Morpheus. E-Standard can go down to A-Standard;
  drop-D can go down to drop-G. Loses some tone the lower you go
  *Neural DSP has this feature, though it sounds slightly different
   but is just as good

IK Multimedia Tonex: modern amp & cab sim developed using machine learning.
  Much more realistic than pretty much anything that came before. Competes
  well with Neural DSP who spearheaded using ML for impulse responses. With
  this, I can plug directly into a mixer. Thus it entirely precludes lugging
  around an amp for shows. Set up is faster & easier, space is saved, and it
  still sounds great to the audience.
  In the image, you'll see dog & cat fur. The guy who's basement we practice
  in has cats & dogs. I've never owned any pets.

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Play around at home - mostly analog
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Electroharmonix SwitchBlade: I use it as an input switch; that's
  why it's upside-down. Switch between two guitars or guitar & bass

Electroharmonix MicroPOG: Octave down + Octave up + dry signal. I
  mainly use octave down with a little dry signal blended in

Dusky Mandorla: "Classic Treble Boost". Gives that extra bite for
  leads or even meaner rhythms. Great in combo with the Drop to
  make up the lost tone. Cleans up the 'mud' in low tunings.

Electroharmonix Sentinel: Noise Gate. I forego the send/receive
  loop because it adds noticeable latency. Works well straight-
  through

Boss OD-2 Turbo Overdrive: Fantastic, strong overdrive in Turbo
  mode. Retains articulation of notes. Turbo off is good for nice
  saturation and boosting fuzz/distortion down the line

Boss BF-2 Flanger: I love flangers. Rarely hear them in other 
  people's recordings. Most guitarists love the phaser but the
  flanger is more diverse, more dynamic. very underrated

Boss CH-2 Chorus: just a chorus

Dunlop Crybaby: good wah-pedal. Every wah is noticeably different.
  This is just the one I went with. I like that the switch is under
  the pedal rather than beside it, as with the Morley

Keeley Compressor Pro: Fantastic compressor. All the necessary knobs

Gamechanger Audio PLASMA: cool concept of a pedal. Induces a signal
  via plasma discharge. It's a wild distortion. Gotta be careful with the
  voltage (gain) -- it reaches white noise/static territory

Gamechanger Audio LIGHT: moar cool, but reverb. I haven't played around
  with this yet. Lots of controls, almost too much variety of 'verb

Gamechanger Audio BIGSBY: an actual Bigsby (now Fender) whammy bar attached
  to a digital pitch-shifting pedal. It has the same spring as one in a guitar.
  I prefer this to the static 'rocker pedal' of the Digitech Whammy. It feels
  more natural with the recoil.

TC-Electronic Mimiq: doubles the signal with slight variations on pitch,
  timing, and tone (I think). It can create 1, 2, or 3 "doubles" but I 
  only use 1 to avoid that chorus effect. Creates a great stereo effect
  both live and recording.
  *Neural DSP has a 'doubler' feature that does this. If I ever get a Cortex
  or decide to use my laptop live, I'll still have this effect

TC-Electronic Quintessence: add harmonies. Again, great in stereo; splits
  the dry signal from the harmony between two amps or L/R on a stereo 
  channel strip

TC-Electronic Flashback: I specifically bought this for the Ping-Pong
  mode. For some reason this mode was removed in v2. So I paid less to
  get more by buying v1

Saturnworks Stereo Looper: simultaneously switch on/off two effects loops.
  I use it to trigger two different fuzz pedals (one for left, one for right)

Dusky Hypatia: good-range fuzz. retains articulation. not overly fuzzy, i.e.
  not static

FuzzHugger Doom Bloom: fuzz. a lot of knobs. Supposedly good for low tunings

ADA GC-6 Speaker Simulator: decent-sounding speaker sim when going direct 
  to a mixer. Sounds much crappier than Guitar Rig 4 so I don't record with it

Digitech JamMan Stereo: stereo looper


last updated 07 February 2026