I use a couple of different riggs in the ToneX One for distorted rytm sounds with different level of chug and sound. I also have a clean rig. I don't switch distorted riggs during a rehearsal or gig. I use the dual mode in ToneX One to switch between the clean and one of the dirty riggs.
The dirty riggs have a slight touch of reverb and the clean one has compressor, chorus and reverb. This gives me a good base.
For solos I always increase the volume and add delay. This is now done with the Tech 21 Boost DLA pedal. It has a adjustable boost, a volume increase - not a gain increase, a tape delay simulation with flutter control, trails and tap tempo. I have not seen a delay pedal that has all that before. I sounds really good and the fact that it has trails is abolutely wonderful as it makes the end of the solos more smooth.
Sometimes I need delay during rythm or melody lines and for that I use the TC Electronic Flashback mini. Very small but sounds as good as the bigger ones. Sadly it does not have trails but that does not matter that much since there will be no change in volume when I turn this one off.
I am also testing a mini wha-wha, Joyo Multifunctional Wah. It doubles as a volume pedal and has a lot of settings that I have not tested fully yet. I think it has a little too step volume curve in the heal area. But maybe it can be fixed or I can get used to it, we'll see.
As guitar wireless I use the NUX B-8 system. I have had this for quite a while. It was on my previous lager pedal board. After I used it during a couple of gigs I realized that it dropped the connection between the sender and receiver every now and then. It occured randomly but it could easily drop it 2-3 times a gig and it took about 10 seconds or so before it connected again. That is a really long time when you try to deliver rock n roll. I returned it to Thomann and I got it back after some weeks. It seemed like they replaced the sender with a newer version because it does not look the same. After that it has worked flawlessly. I really like it because it has a charger for the sender built in, runs on 9 V and has a tuner. It has a boost function also but I don't use that since it is placed first in the signal chain.
In the first version of this mini pedalboard I did not have the HX One. The board was only intended to be used for rehearsals but it sounded so good so I tried it in a gig and it was super. I use special effects every now and then, like octaver, phaser, octavia and digital capos. If I would purchase mini pedals for each of these, if they exist, I would not have a mini pedal board anymore. Then I stumbled on the TC Electronics Plethora X1. It contains all the TC pedals but you can only use one at a time and it has the normal one-effect-pedal-size. What a perfect idea! I never use these special effects together, it is always one at a time and only one per song. This would really save space on the board. One thing I must have working welll is the digital capo function, both up and down, and I could not seem to figure out if the X1 could do it in a good way. So I started looking for alternatives and found the Line 6 HX One. It has all the effects that Helix has, but only one at a time. It seems like it does a really good job as a digital capo. Another thing that got me to choose it was the fact that it has an effect loop that makes it possible to place the HX One effect before or after the amplifier and it is configurable per patch. Wonderful!
I have made the board so depending on the HX One patch the order of the effects will be:
Wireless - HX One - Wah - ToneX One - Flashback - Boost DLA.
or
Wireless - Wah - ToneX One - HX One - Flashback - Boost DLA.
I have not tried out everything in the HX One yet but the digital capo works fine.
After rehearsing a couple of times and gigging with the mini board one time I realize that the damn thing is just too small. When I try to use my not so big feet to turn things on and off other things happens at the same time if I'm not careful, and who can be that on stage? When I use the wha or volume pedal then really everything else happens :-( I never thought that that would be a problem. It always becomes lager than expected. But okay, back to the drawing table. I will move all pedals to the old bigger board.
To be continued...
Rock on!!
