Building A Pedalboard in 2021. Dipped In Tone Episode 21

[@mack7235]

So excited to be back with Jack and Brent

[@duv2587]

Velcro on the board, dual lock on the pedals. Perfect mid-point!

[@matthewcasey892]

It is very good to hear yourselves and a few others currently openly discussing mental health management. Take of each other.

[@Digosaurus]

Rhett, well done for going back to get help with ADD legend. I got diagnosed at 29 and medication changed my life. Hope it helps legend and things are less of an epic scattered struggle 💯💯💯💛💛💛

[@nigelvonshredman]

My Eastman T59v came with Seymour Duncan Antiquities. Honestly, it’s soooo good.

[@alexo5861]

I built my first pedal board around 89, could have been 88. The board was an old skate board that had started to delaminate, I had some generic Tube Screamer copy, a Boss OD-1 and a delay (think it was a DOD), all powered by wall warts on a power strip also attached to the board. Instead of Velcro I drilled through the board and secured the pedals with zip ties. All that was going into a Peavy Rage ( 1x8, solid state 15w), the sound was harsh. Still have the Guitar, an AO series MIJ Squier by Fender Strat with one bridge humbucker and a volume.

[@seank.2589]

Three of my favorite guitarists in one thumbnail.👍

[@rottalmusik6563]

Hey, I own a Lehle Volume Pedal For years gigging! It uses vca/Magnet technology no pots no springs no springs and build like a Tank with a great Buffer in it!

[@thomaswilliams6324]

Dude. Talking about finding the groove and then having it vanish at the slightest thing hit me hard. That shits a battle. Keep at it, Rent Skoal!

[@oscarskjoldan]

You know how you can make corona-isolation less boring? Sit at home on your sofa with a great bottle of wine, watch your home country of Denmark beat the living shit out of Argentina in the Handball World Championship and then opening KZbin to watch your favorite podcast with you two. Love you guys and your podcast is always one of my highlights of my week :)

[@charliewesley94]

I've been playing guitar since 1994. I built my first pedalboard in 2019. Now I own three! haha.

[@SeanAllocca]

Am I the only one who thinks the "Haunting Mids" in the opening track are amazing?

[@Paul_Lenard_Ewing]

Hosa and Planet waves have adequate copper strands to pass your signal and sufficient shielding. BUT they are NOT robust so are just fine if you are using a switcher.

[@joelhabrial3897]

Way late to this party, but I more recently discovered this podcast. For the volume pedal solution I'd use an expression pedal with the HX Stomp for the volume control. I like having mine after all of my drives but before delays and reverb so it does a different job than my guitar volume pedal.

[@seank.2589]

That's gotta be my favorite rig so far.

[@Mcfly0856]

I switched over to soldered patch cables this year. They are actually cheaper and takes very little soldering skills, Thank you Uncle Mason!😁

[@tylershaw3968]

With regard to the volume pedal conversation - I’ve been using the VP JR Tuner pedal for a while now, and it’s great. The taper on those VP JR’s is really the best, and Ernie Ball seems to have addressed a lot of the issues with this latest iteration. It uses a Kevlar cord instead of a crappy string, and it’s now buffered, and can be powered by 9v or 18v power supplies, which is awesome. It’s a bit more speedy at $200, but it does also contain a really great tuner. If you’re putting both a volume pedal and tuner on your board, its a great space saving option while retaining that great feeling sweep of the vp jr.

[@donnyhall2535]

Go with the MOJOtone '59 PAF clones. Aged nickle silver covers. I have a set in an Epiphone Les Paul Standard, and I've never heard any PAF clones sound as close to the originals as these. I compared them to my uncle's '58 335 and they are spot on. I did get the MOJOtone prewired CTS pots with the bumblebee caps and the vintage push back gavit wiring.

[@DippedInTone]

Mojotone makes great stuff. I've had them wind me some and they are nice, not my faves but very very good!

[@steveliberty]

I have Velcro (adhesive is crap). I love Dual Lock (just don't use too much or you will need a crow bar to get your pedals off of the board). I hate treble bleeds. I love 50's wiring with good 525K pots. I hate audio taper volume pots (like an on/off switch). I love linear taper volume pots. Great show guys :)

[@chrisj2155]

I’ve always enjoyed listening to chack and red. I’m really looking forward to buying my next spiffos fine guitar effects square

[@IshBrother]

Loving the podcast! Atm my board is a Pedaltrain Nano feat. a Mooer Tubescreamer clone, a Behringer vibrato, a Donner delay and an EHX Freeze, considering it's super small and affordable I'm enjoying the sounds I can get but definitely need to upgrade this year

[@dylandenney3980]

The Mooer Green Mile was my first pedal. Still use it some. It's decent.

[@danwoodward1445]

For me, I’ve decided to get into building pedals so I’ve ordered a fuzz kit and I’d love to fill up some empty space on my board with a couple of diy ones!

[@chrisquinn9104]

I have three Earnie Ball Volume leads with broken strings and that design is one of my biggest pet peeve designs ever! When a string breaks you are done, working one minute, then toast. It sounds like your guy knows how to restring them, but I know of nobody in Seattle who can do it (you can find people who say they can do it). I’m a very mechanical person who builds pedals, amps, works on guitars and fixes landscaping equipment in the field and I have not been able to restring one, in spite of watching the EB video on how to do it and trying many times. The housing of the pedal is so well made, but the string design (in my experience) make the rest of the quality build pointless. I switched to the Dunlop (x) which are easily repaired if they break. Thanks for the space to vent I’d be intron hearing more of your experience with the EB pedal. Maybe the South is filled with people who can fix them Now I’ll get back to eating dog food in my mom’s basement

[@aculeus1971]

Really enjoyed this.... the section where you feature a viewer’s pedalboard and then offer suggestions is really useful , saves hours of research . I have a Sonuus Voluum pedal , by the way... very versatile . Also did you two ever see the DBInstrumentAmp dual axis 4E expression pedal ? It’s two exp pedals in one.

[@MrBanjolio]

I like the idea of using a volume pedal like a guitar volume control to get more/less grit from the overdrives, but it also changes the overall volume, which requires messing with the amp volume to stay at the desired (or required) volume. Would it be possible to have a single pedal with two inputs and outputs, each with a pot--one in/out/pot BEFORE the drives to control the amount of grit, and the other AFTER the drives to adjust the volume (in the opposite direction)? One pot goes up as the other goes down. Probably wouldn't work because different drives will react differently. But it would be nice. I suppose a limiter or compressor after the drives might help with this.

[@AlmostGrewMyHair]

Wobbly pedals in transit was a good point about Dual Lock.

[@Fr0stbyte89]

Sounds like Zach could use a production manager, lol. Great show, guys!

[@toofusnook]

MOEN GEC9 switcher is easy, no fuss to “program”, waaay cheaper. Only downside is the jacks are packed very closely together. Check it out. Way underrated.

[@Paul_Lenard_Ewing]

Use velcro and a switcher. The cables last forever because they do not get knocked around by your foot.

[@tomfoolery2082]

Iv seen R.S. Guitar Works superpots and didn't think much about it ( super pots yeah rt ) If they're good enuff for Zach im gona get a few . Love the channel .

[@GuillermoEDelgado]

That’s insane. My dad has worked for Southwesterbell/AT&T for like 30 years 😅

[@dlw11235813]

Pedalboard goals 2020: Battery power supply for fuzz/OD’s (on waiting list for Kingtone). Low Gain Fuzz to counterwith Foxx TM

[@boohiss]

Yeah - my first guitar was an 83 MIJ Bullet that I got for $120 in 1987. It was Awesome....and eventually stolen. Totally lucked into it. I bought a Squire strat in like 99 and sold it 3 days later. ugh....I think the neck was made out of chipboard or something.....just ugh.

[@patpuckett240]

If you sing and play lead guitar you need a switcher . They also remove 90% of the physical wear on your pedals. I use a Joyo, it was affordable and works flawlessly.

[@isaachernandez3868]

Rhett you should try the Hilton Volume Pedal for sure

[@powdershredder1136]

The shoyles hoodie is amazing 😍😍😍

[@laurencecoch6023]

Schmidt Array are very cool 2 tier boards very expensive but great features

[@mattbritt1853]

2021 Pedalboard Goal: build a flexible two-tiered board that I can swap pedals out based on needs/what I'm feeling in a given week but keep the wiring mostly in the same place.

[@Seriouslycantplayguitar]

Super heated Dual-Lock debate is what we need more of. Please continue to debate and argue about things you both have opposite and entrenched opinions on, pettiness is preferred.

[@CrazyLazyDave]

The early MIJ Squiers to have are these serials, in order. VJ, SQ, then E. VJ have USA electronics, they are the best of the bunch. I have a SQ Stratocaster and a Bullet1. Not all E series are MIJ, so do your homework before you buy one. In the 90s Squier did a Vista series that was Japanese. Those are also amazing guitars. That is the series the original Supersonic is from. And the Courtney Love Venus. And a few other cool guitars.

[@sweetfatson]

Rhett, you have to check out the Sonuus Voluum... it's freakin killer. Bought it years ago, has never left my board. Volume, Compressor, Gate, midi compatible, etc..

[@mikegoodwin1498]

Rhett, I see the Ampliphonix in the background what are your thoughts? I can’t think of another amp that had both world class tones on the clean and dirty side. I run the gain channel where I get lite breakup at 5 on the guitar volume, and it cleans/dirty’s up nicely

[@nigelvonshredman]

Also.... Morley volume pedals. I’ve had mine for 20 years and it’s still going strong

[@zbqb84a]

55:42 Excellent, message received!

[@Dan-tp3py]

I’ve been waiting for my EB volume (the O.G. big boy) to crap the bed for like 20 years.

[@betty4774]

30:00 try the lehle volume pedal

[@MrTraewilliams]

Damn'it Ray-Dale quiet down the Shoyles brothers internet show is on and their about to dip this man's rig live on air.

[@DippedInTone]

Yeeeewww hewww! Ya dang right

[@ththejackjumper]

Would love to hear your thoughts on when a pedal needs presets. I have a Walrus Slo that...needs presets. Too many settings to keep track of, and if I play live I can't change settings, so I might as well have one reverb.

[@tamasritter247]

check out the Lehle volume pedal. I don't have it but it is supposed to be everything you dreamed of :)

[@427viper]

This year I want to build my first pedalboard. I’d like to get a board where the power supply can be not visible. The board should fit a Tuner/ Drive/ Fuzz/ Reverb or Delay. But I will take my time with this project.

[@MooCow2X2]

Just to add to the patch cable argument for a moment. (Being a user of both Evidence and Soldered) I started making cables with mogami 2524 (the big stuff) and standard right angle ends. Bought some evidence audio bits. Why? Because I needed a couple inches to fit another pedal on my board. And standard right angle ends Don’t stack as well as the solderless (cause the barrels ) and they’re just bigger in general. Plus routing the cables was such a pain with the 2524 Now I’ve gone to using squareplugs for my latest. With Mogami 2319. Now. When I started making cables. Squareplugs didn’t exist. And top jacks weren’t popular. Now top jacks are closer to standard. And we have square plugs! Also. Would only use evidence for a solderless system... have a couple George L’s I was given. Barrel is stupid large. Design is bad. Only use them for a tuner out. And an external foot switch

[@coryburns13]

You guys’ first pedalboards were like pro compared to mine. I built my first one at 16 (23years ago)…my dad and I got a stair tread from Home Depot and drilled holes on either side of each pedal, and literally zip tied each pedal to the stair tread. No case. No protection. Just a stair tread, lol.

[@frankglad2989]

I've got a 30 year old Goodrich volume pedal. Never been serviced. Never broke down. Now that I've said that, it'll probably break tomorrow.

[@timchalmers1700]

Don't tell anyone but ADD is a super power.

[@toofusnook]

Dual lock all of the way. I like my fuzz in my chain, not on the floor.

[@silvioschmidt5346]

I have dual lock on one of my pedals because I bought it used. I like to switch stuff around a lot so I hate it 😅

[@lovelyguy5345]

Lehle volume pedal is fabulous

[@danielbrown6961]

What about Monty's PAF's for the Eastman? They are around 279

[@AKJ828]

3m makes high density dualnlock that makes it impossible for me to pull my pedals without a crowbar

[@nicksburson1]

I wasn’t sure that Rhett was joking about a laptop in every room. My Dads bag phone is the same number

[@RioYugo]

I’m trying to build a pedal board for tracking in studio right now but I’m not sure if I should invest in compressor pedals or if I should just do all of that stuff in my DAW after. Any advice, preferences, etc? Cheers.

[@dlw11235813]

Q1 2021 Goals:)

[@stanislavmigra]

Brandonwound pickups? Their pair of 59s are around 200$?

[@thomasnissen1402]

Yeesss!! Been binging. More.. MOORE!! :D

[@cambowland629]

It’s really funny everyone has such a hard time with those volume pedals. I’ve got one and I’ve beat the hell out of that thing for like three years. Haven’t had much of an issue 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@andreisocherel3954]

Glad I don't drink the Apple Kool'Aid.... low key wanting to drink it though... great ep my friends

[@charleslester8229]

You should do a fantasy football esc episode where you talk about your dream celebrity band

[@stanislavmigra]

My goal for 2021for my pedal board is to ger over to bitter pill and get proper power supply ...

[@ESANANIKONE]

You should have gone with "my dog ate my laptop"

[@alexj3007]

We not gonna talk about tapestry audio Volume pedals? They check all the boxes!

[@RhettShull]

That’s the one I was trying to remember!!

[@alexj3007]

@@RhettShull they’re great! Just a little small for my large foot print. Pedalboard friendly though!

[@RS2KR]

I do the same but with dog beds. I have one in every room.

[@PondoSinatra680]

Before I quit smoking, I had an ashtray in every room. Some rooms had several.

[@kevinharnan8378]

Anybody working on the track?

[@toofusnook]

Ugh. Volume pots don’t “add” bass. Just use a treble bleed (which MAINTAINS clarity of tone at lowered volume) and roll the tone pot back if you want to emulate not having the bleed.

[@pdepurpurina]

No MIDI talk, though!

[@chrisquinn9104]

The Boss Volume pedals are what Dave Friedman recommends

[@efsglass]

Ive owned several high end semi hollow gibsons($4000 plus) and my eastman is hands down a better quality guitar! Currently looking to sell/trade my eastman T186mx(335) for eastman T184mx(339) or T185mx

[@jimleininger8963]

Wildwood Mjolnir ETA?

[@DippedInTone]

Batch is going out in the next two weeks I hope. But when yours will ship will depend on where you are in line on the wait list.

[@jimleininger8963]

@@DippedInTone Thanks Zach! I'm on the list for October. Its going to be the final peice of my puzzle and a great pre-retirement gift to myself!

[@gavinleyfield3195]

The Eastman guitars are way above Gibson production USA models in my experience. Custom shop level, truly shocking in the flesh. Play one.

[@MrJohnboy301]

Much agreed. I have just recently got an SB56. The gold top with Lollar P90's. I've had a modern day Gibson LP and this Eastman would put the Gibson to shame. QC is excellent. Set up was spot on.

[@jamessouthwellOFFICIAL]

Lehle mono. Best volume pedal going. Active. Strong. And uses magnets. YEAH BITCH. MAGNETS.

[@PNWGuitar]

I need a power supply that can handle a whammy pedal and I'm...having trouble.

[@zbqb84a]

There are lots of options. I have and would recommend both the CIOKS DC7 and the Friedman Power Grid.

[@anthonyburke223]

@@zbqb84a Whammy 1 is AC powered , isn’t it ?

[@zbqb84a]

@@anthonyburke223 LOL, I was looking at the newer ones.

[@music_works]

Boss FV500H

[@MiguelGuitars]

Sup y'all! 🤘🏻

[@jeremiahMc11]

lehle volume pedal, no pots!

[@sergiomeza1783]

Hilton volume pedals will solve your problems without having to get a modded pedal.

[@justjono9638]

I am just going to come out and say it @rhettshull if you had fewer laptops you could have even more guitars and possibly a new house :)

[@DippedInTone]

But then what would you use to decorate said new house?

[@powdershredder1136]

Dipped In Tone guitars. Only guitars.

[@justjono9638]

@@DippedInTone you will have all those extra guitars, how many Novo's is too many?

[@blaineadams7484]

I hope you guys never see my rig. Remember sympathy ralphing is a thing

[@ppacheco1284]

Can we please move past this running joke of the intro track? Lol

[@DippedInTone]

What joke

[@DippedInTone]

@@vandal_dk just wait till you hear this track

[@loveisrealdudes]

I like when you guys bicker. It’s cute. Like a old married couple. ♥️

[@alexmw14]

Rhett Shill :D

[@antoonhermans8953]

lehle makes the best volume pedal , but htere pretty pricy

[@christophernoia5197]

Is he serious about having a laptop in every room, including the bathroom?

[@traviscrown6582]

Eastman.... made in Beijing....not in china....just the capital of china....smh....1200-2500 for a Chinese guitar .... lol lol lol lol lol

[@quarter_bob]

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