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£500 Pedalboard Challenge - Dan Vs Mick [How Can Those £250 Boards Be Improved?]
Published 12 December 2025
Duration:
01:28:18
A keyboard amp, a tube overdrive and the silliest delay pedal yet – what?!
Welcome to the show. It seems that our dear old Irish aunt, Anne O’Logue and her sister Kat, have left us some cash… so it’s time to double the budget on the £250 second-hand pedals boards from a few weeks back - original show here : £250 Pedalboard Challenge - Wins & Epic Fails: Dan Vs Mick [Used Pedals Only] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_XeBBqBow
We have some problems to fix and some new choices to make, so what will we do with the cash? We don’t have to buy used, and we are allowed to use stuff we already own. Let’s go.
Enjoy the show!
In the video it says go to 33:35 to skip all the preamble. It’s more like 43:45… Sorry. And welcome to That Pedal Show.
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Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Welcome & show outline
0:59 Anne O’Logue from beyond
2:48 Dan’s pedalboard taking shape
3:45 TRS & noise in the Lexicon?
6:15 Goodbye Boss DS-2, hello Overlord
8:12 Remote footswitches for Lexicon
10:00 TRS didn’t work
11:25 Mick’s board - priorities?
12:08 Diagnose the noisy Rubberneck
13:50 A look inside the Rubberneck
15:12 What does Thorpy think?
16:30 Sold the Rubberneck
17:28 Gave the Joyo Chorus away
18:57 Hello TCF!
19:20 Another idiotic delay choice
20:28 But is it analogue dry through?
21:55 Mick’s new pedalboard!
23:14 Hinges and magnets?
24:12 TC Zeus & budget update
24:37 Power supply ethics problem
27:28 Flip the humbucker magnet?
31:14 Patch cables?
33:12 Mick’s final board touches
33:25 Final budget check
34:00 Dan’s added an amp!
36:13 Boards reveal
36:38 Dan leeway with budget?
39:05 The power supply hurts, clearly
40:25 Goodbye Tele, hello Jaguar!
42:45 Mick’s overdrive pedals explanation
43:45 Mick, clean and MXR Boost
44:45 MXR overdrive as a fuzz?
45:55 TC Zeus?
48:47 Dan’s new keyboard amp!
51:20 How is he splitting the signal?
52:00 Bad Monkey as signal lifter
55:45 Bad Monkey and Overlord relationship?
56:10 H&K Replex delay
59:25 Shorter delay times in the Replex
1:01:15 H&K Reverb?
1:02:28 Replex dual-head delay
1:06:24 Why the Overlord for Dan?
1:07:20 Roland Cube speaker death
1:07:50 Back to the Overlord
1:10:42 TC Electronic SCF Gold sounds
1:14:55 Two channels in the ML Deville
1:19:00 Lexicon MX 200 wet sounds for Dan
1:23:00 Practicality of the MX 200?
1:24:40 Reflections & closing thoughts
Pedals & stuff in today’s show
• MXR CAE MC402 Overdrive Boost
• TC Electronic SCF Gold
• TC Electronic Zeus Overdrive
• H&K Tube Tools Replex Delay
• Dean Markley Overlord
• Digitech Bad Monkey
• Lexicon MX-200
Amps in today’s show
• Fender Hot Rod Deville ML212 with Celestion A-Type speakers
• Vox AC15 C1 with Celestion G12M Greenback speaker
• Roland Cube 60 Keyboard from the 1990s, original (now dead) speaker
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