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Mick's Rig 2025 Is Finished! Pedalboard Build, Switcher Basics, Wins & Fails
Published 22 April 2025
Duration:
01:10:17
Episode 4 – showing you how the pedalboard build happens… and it’s finished!
Welcome to the show! This has been a long journey so far, through pedal choices, amp considerations and, of course, the ‘needs’ of two musical projects. I’ve chosen to approach this episode as a kind of tutorial in how to put your board together… or at least one way of conceiving and building your board. I hope you find it useful.
Anyway, if any of this doesn’t make sense, you might need to dip into Episodes 1-3 also on this channel. It’s been a long and somewhat indulgent journey, but y’know, sometimes you gotta’ do it!
Enjoy the show!
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• Reeves Electro Daughterboard Facet Fuzz FF
• Mythos Argo Boost Deluxe
• Kingsley Balladeer
• Crazy Tube Circuits Venus
• Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe
• JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk MkII
• UA Golden Reverberator
• Echo-Fix EF-P2 Spring Reverb
• Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere MkII
• TheGigRig G3 Atom
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USA: Sweetwater - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5g6ALN
Australia: Pedal Empire - http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro, welcome and context
1:05 New Pedalboard Tetris
3:00 G3 Atom has retuned - why?
5:00 New power supply. - why?
5:48 Thanks Dan!
6:50 Pedalboard Build Step 1 - Play & Listen
7:11 Step 2 - Play Tetris & Practical Questions
8:40 Step 3 - Draw Diagrams / Make A List
9:50 Step 4 - Attaching Your Pedals Tips
14:13 Step 5 - Wire Up Your Power
16:50 How tidy does it need to be?
17:50 Step 6 - Wiring Up Your Audio Tips
19:36 Patch cable choices?
21:10 A patch bay?
22:00 It’s done! Or is it?
22:30 GenX 14 is in, but untidy
23:48 The cable soldering nightmare
25:05 Patch cable making station
27:15 Can I beat this cable & plug problem?
32:10 What have we learned so far?
35:50 Checking the phase / noise
37:40 The real basics of loop switchers
42:50 Expression pedal?
45:50 G3’s in-built tuner, and hidden presets
47:33 G3 remote switching functions
50:57 Signal diagram
51:33 Marshall & Two-Rock sounds
58:17 MkIII Boogie & Two-Rock sounds
1:02:55 Two-Rock & Two-Rock sounds
1:08:45 Closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Relic Stratocaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• 1965 Gibson ES-345 TDS - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdYvdn7vDDE&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
Amps in today’s show
• Two-Rock TS1 50w combo with TR12-65B speaker
• 1988 Marshall JMP 1959S MkII Super Lead 100 with Marshall 1960B with Celestion G12-65 speakers
• 1980s Mesa/Boogie MkIII combo (purple stripe) with EVM12L speaker
• Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature 100w with 212 cabinet with TR12-65B speakers
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