My 2023 Minimal Pedalboard Setup for Praise and Worship | Walkthrough and Demo

[@temomorales5074]

What I really like about your board is that your actual guitar tone isn’t buried by a ton of effects. Your drives sound great! I may have to copy your board as I make mine. I sold off all my pedals to start over.

[@sundaytone]

Thanks!

[@DrBadLlama]

Tone sounds great. Pedals all seem to work really well together and I love the small footprint.

[@Mifrada1]

I landed on this video in my search to find out how well Tonex takes pedals. No need to search anymore. Absolutely beautiful sounds coming out of your rig. Now to start building mine. Thanks for sharing.

[@kyleswisher9436]

Thanks for the video! I like the simplified vision. Everything sounds great!

[@sundaytone]

Thank you!

[@SergeyPupkoMusic]

Dude, that is a very nice, clean and great sounding board! The only thing I'd change is throw a big sky in there for more on the fly versatility with the reverb.

[@szabowabo91]

Thanks for the great video. Tones sound great..you’ve got the worship sound dialed!

[@benemery6486]

Love your channel! Keep making these videos!

[@sundaytone]

🙏 Thanks man!

[@markallen381]

How you upgrade will greatly depend on where you want to be. In the mid 60s a big change was made in re-released albums. Many records were reprocessed so they could say "NOW IN STEREO". Stereo was then discovered in this way by the listening public. People really really loved stereo and it has stuck since then. LPs, then casettes, followed by CDs continued to be in stereo and everything since has been stereo. When you rush out to buy that new pedal make sure it's "NOW IN Stereo". Electro-Harmonix has the "Platform" check it out.

[@wilmer33086]

You can never go wrong with a PRS SS Se!!!! I got the dragon fruit color. Love it!!!!!

[@sundaytone]

Yea - it's great!

[@20weststudio]

Very nice! Great video! I'm currently using an FM9 and miss the fun of pedals and tweaking knobs. I'm looking at exactly what you did here, I small board with just what I need. Worship shouldn't be so complicated! I'm probably going with an Iridium with boost/compressor in front. Thanks!

[@Worshipplayer777]

I use both the MC6 by Morningstar and the deep six by walrus, can’t complain.

[@sundaytone]

Those are both on my list. The Morningstar stuff seems really cool. They always seem to be sold out!

[@richardmorris363]

Suggestions? Yep. GLab loop / midi controller. JHS Whitey Tightly comp.

[@shanedennison4048]

I love that optimist overdrive! I want to possibly replace my jhs double barrel but want to keep the morning glory. Thinking about all my options. Awesome board!

[@sundaytone]

Thanks man! Yea the Morning Glory is a classic.

[@GlenLaForceMusic]

Nice set up. Try the Gig RigG3 or the Atom. I am a big Strymon user and looking to get a smaller set up.

[@sundaytone]

Yea the Gig Rig stuff looks awesome.

[@GlenLaForceMusic]

Yes I have the GigRig G2 and I may end up getting the Atom or the G3. 12 stereo loops. Plus setting up Midi is easier.

[@ailoqui2604]

Nice! pedals Sir!👌👏

[@BrianVallotton]

Great presentation. I have the Quad Cortex, but find it is not really doing it for me so I just got a PedalTrain medium board that I am putting together today. I will use my QC like you use the Tonex. I have the Cloudburst, the Keeley Halo, and the AT Super Phat (Andy Timmons new pedal from Keeley). I also have a Keeley Compressor pedal. I am essentially aiming to have my QC in kind of a set it and forget it and then have the other effects for the tangible tweaking of knobs. Kind of the best of both worlds there. I think I still need to get a tuner because I don't like the built in tuner on the QC. Probably add a few more things as I go along. I think the medium Pedaltrain is a good size but I was struck with how huge the metal case looks! I play at church most every week. I am not the worship leader, but mostly do fills and help carry the songs. You run your Timeline into the Cloudburst. In my case I would be running my Halo into the Cloudburst. I will probably reference your video a few times today! God bless you and all you love!

[@sundaytone]

Thanks so much! The QC is really cool. I'd love to try one some day. Sounds like you will have a really good setup running the QC like that.

[@jaredashy]

just subscribed brother! loving your vids!

[@bensonliang4702]

I like how simple your board is, yet sounds big. I am currently building a smaller board, only with my needs, and not my wants. My current dilemma is whether I should give up on the Timeline and just go for the DIG. 90% of the time I use digital delay, so I guess it makes sense.

[@sundaytone]

Yea I actually have recently moved off the TimeLine and started using the JET pedals Eternity because it can do all the sounds I would use in the timeline and it’s much smaller.

[@20weststudio]

I'm doing the same thing. I decided to go with the DIG. I'll be using a mini switch for a favorite. That's all I need as far as delays go.

[@Joe-vc2cc]

Have the same prs. Love it for worship

[@richardknott2021]

Great video..don't get rid of your big pedal board ,sounds like you will eventually fill it again..

[@elchacon6304]

You earned a new subscriber.

[@danielmiller2886]

I've built an "affordaboard" for sunday worship, with most expensive pedal (at the moment) is a Flamma reverb. Ive actually gotten a lot of compliments on my tone, but i definitely have more expensive pedals i want to add. Gotta save up for those.

[@tokingreens]

Solid board with great tones...Look into the DryBell Unit 67 compressor or the Mooer yellow a great cheaper option.

[@robbiegodinho9377]

go to the darkglass hyper luminal compressor pedal, that is the best...

[@saamipop]

Hi, I am courious about a topic, would be glad if you or anyone could give opinion about it. You run now Reverb and delay after the ToneX and the reason is because you want them stereo and you could not put it before. Is this sound ok for you ?Is it not a compromise ? If you would have a chance to choose would you put delay & Reverb before ToneX ? What do you think about this ?

[@sundaytone]

When I used the Strymon Iridium I ran my delay and reverb in front of it. I think I slightly prefer the sound of it in front but it isn’t a huge difference to me. Running them after sounds a little cleaner. They both sound good.

[@Jon-j1m]

Dude you need to try the suhr Woodshed comp. I've had a few different comps the Woodshed is my Fave by far! It's small perfect for a small pedalboard. How are you liking the tonex? I was thinking about either tonex or UA dream for going direct, not sure which one I'd like better. I don't like that the dream breaks up early.

[@Daved1526]

Great video and Tone - I just got a Tonex myself. I'm wondering do you just run a clean amp sound in the Tonex and let the pedals do all the drive tones? Im really interested to see your Tonex settings. Thanks so much and God Bless

[@ludyhardyantowo]

Boss ms-3 is perfect for your board

[@shouberthelus7370]

I wished you had some presets for the timeline delay…

[@sundaytone]

I just put up my dual delay preset for the TimeLine. That's what I use in a lot of these videos. I'll probably put up more in the future but here is that one for now: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6958icxamdavh9uzudpnd/h?rlkey=8kn4nnizedn5uyz1xw8rcpdsx&dl=0

[@mikec7508]

How do u send it to front of house? Just send a 1/4" to XLR from the output of ur delay to the front of house? I kno the Tonex has an output to front of house but wut if ur running pedals after it?

[@sundaytone]

I run out of my last pedal (reverb) into a DI. I am using the Walrus Stereo Canvas DI/LI. Then it goes out of the Canvas XLR to FOH. Hope that helps.

[@GraeMcCullough]

Is the laurel canyon capture the “KPA” one from firepile?

[@sundaytone]

Yep!

[@456or7strings]

I need to find out who firepile is - I downloaded ALOT of his KPA tone captures! - Art N.

[@StevenPlump]

Hey Great video- what are you running the output of the board to? DI's? etc? for Sunday... direct boxes to FOH? Thanks much!

[@sundaytone]

Thanks! I am currently running into a Walrus Audio Canvas Stereo DI/LI and then to FOH.

[@StevenPlump]

Thanks much! Best

[@underoath16v]

Sounds amazing...heard Tash Sultana - Notion there 🤍

[@moshezarviv1252]

wish your channel to succeed ! a question I have, where do you plug your board in , to achieve a good guitar sounding at home, cause the tonex is a amp simulator and plugging it into an amp don't seem to be a logic step. on the other hand, active monitors are not a good solution neither for good guitar sound. so how do you achieve your sound, for yourself in your room (not the recorded one) thank you.

[@sundaytone]

Good question - I am currently using Presonus E5 monitors to play in my room and they are connected to my interface. They sound pretty good and can get pretty loud. Before I had these monitors and I used other amp sims I would just use headphones to play at home. I know some people will run it into a powered cab but I have never tried that.

[@moshezarviv1252]

Thanks

[@AlexxPigreco]

Hi there, so you go from pedalboard (rev/dly) straight to an audio interface, and monitor with E5. But if you'd like to hear, without audio interface, and directly by headphones, how would you do?

[@analogblues9606]

Q: What pedalboard are you using please?

[@jovenztumz3]

More reviews sir about your pedals to play hillsong music

[@samhoff-ni5lb]

Nice

[@DrSpeener]

What are you running these pedals into? Do you have a dual amp set up for the stereo effects? I want to get into stereo effects from strymon but only have my pod go to run them into.

[@sundaytone]

I'm using a Tonex for my amp on this board so I run stereo effects after it to have my wet effects be in stereo. I haven't used the Pod Go but you might be able to do it if you run the Strymon stuff after the Pod Go.

[@dannybaker6627]

I just picked up the Tonex. I plan on doing the same thing running wet FX after have you tried running delay and reverb into the front of the amp in mono just to see how it sounds?

[@sundaytone]

I have and it sounds really good. If I were to only ever run mono I would probably set it up that way.

[@alexforget]

How does it compare to a Valeton GP200 where you get everything in one box?

[@PEDALBOOTS]

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[@davidthaot]

You forgot about that fender amp behind you

[@sundaytone]

😂 You’re right! It’s a Fender Blues Junior.

[@THESTIG-cc7fq]

One nice tidy board l see so many effects boards plastered with coloured tape, tape on each effect. I know why they do this to hold the knob positions. Bit it looks so tatty and ugly l saw one video where a guy used rubber O rings which he placed under the control knobs to add resistance great idea 😁

[@MusicChannel-rf5zz]

Do you change many tones on the Tonex or just use a few? GBU

[@sundaytone]

Right now I have around 6-7 tone models I've found that I really like. So far I haven't switched out different tone models between songs or anything. Just switching out from week to week. It's nice if you like to tweak things and try out different amps.

[@facundozupel4166]

With one tonex you get an L R output from the same amp capture or its a mono amp in the middle?

[@oleksandrk4853]

It's mono amp

[@unitedjose]

since the tonex only has one input how you was able to sound in stereo?

[@sundaytone]

I’m running the stereo effects after Tonex in my signal chain so my signal goes out of Tonex and into delay and reverb.

[@benjaminkoskinen5835]

Hotter than Jazzmaster pickups? You sure? Is it even possible to get hotter than 1 megawatt? xD The standard today as far as I know is around 250-500 kilowatt in most guitars. Maybe I am way off but the jazzmaster pickups are famous for being extremely bright. Like... the brightest.

[@funfreq9282]

Nice pedalboard looks like about 3k worth of stuff! Why not run a FM9? save yourself a lot of money and you get a lot more versatility, simplicity and a lot less headache with cabling.

[@sundaytone]

I've always wanted to try an FM9 or a Quad Cortex. Some of these pedals, like the Timeline and Morning Glory, I've had for like 10 years. I just really love using individual pedals and tweaking them. I'm sure I'd love the versatility and all the things you can do with one of those all in one units. One day!

[@funfreq9282]

@@sundaytone I went the pedal route years ago and just had to many problems, either cabling or ground issues. I have been using FAS fore 15 years now. In that 15 I have had 2 problems, one was my stupidity and the other was a problem with the unit. My Sunday mornings are flawless with respect to my sound!

[@vicentecarneiro4985]

As a gigging musician, I have always been a little bit amused with church guitarists pedal boards when I see one. 8 pedals is not minimal at all.

[@basicforge]

Doesn't seem like so much to me. Essentially a couple of drives, a modulation pedal, an amp modeler, a delay pedal and a reverb pedal. There's also a volume pedal and a tuner.

[@justinmayfield6579]

This is pretty basic for church, and I’d say close to basic for outside of church, unless you’re Rivers Cuomo.

[@basicforge]

@@justinmayfield6579 Yeah, usually you will want at least a couple of reverb pedals for church depending on the style of music. I also use a Pog style pedal here and there. A compressor is also really useful. The first pedal in my chain is a preamp/boost so I can turn the overall level down a little bit to lower the noise floor.

[@justinmayfield6579]

@@basicforge That's smart to lower the noise floor. The room sound is going to be clearer in a lot of church buildings than, say, most small club venues would be (as long as the sound tech remembers to put you in the mix haha). And yes, I agree, a compressor is very helpful. So that adds a few more pedals 😂🎉

[@rogermcp]

I’ve been seeing a lot of guys just use a Pod Go lately. Sometimes I think some of the complexity you’ll see in modern worship guitarist’s boards borders on vanity. Like the difference between a weightlifter who lifts to be healthy and those who get ripped and shredded. Don’t me for making the point. I also have Gear Acquisition Syndrome, so I get it

[@nomad100hd]

I used a polytune for a while. It wasn't as accurate enough for me.

[@sergeyv4908]

In which universe 10+ FX in one board called minimalistic? 2 or 3 maybe but this pile of stuff weighted around 3 kg i think no way man, no way...

[@sundaytone]

😂For the music I play it is typical to have a much larger board. This is only 6 effects unless you count the tuner or volume. So for me it is minimal. Sorry for the confusion.

[@89ji76]

Bro called a $2000+ pedalboard minimal haha. Could do 90% of this with an HX stomp and an expression pedal.

[@younghoodlum5534]

“minimal”

[@tomt55]

Worship board = an excuse for a needlessly expensive pedal board

[@sundaytone]

😂 Pretty much

[@giordanobruno2509]

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[@sundaytone]

The key change is key.

[@analogman9697]

God doesn't have much admiration for stringed instruments, according to the Bible. I guess we'll find out.

[@TorrieSeager]

🤢🤮🤮🤮

[@ricotinez]

@sundaytone, I watched this video a couple of times where you talk about the different sizes of pedalboards you've gone through to simplify. But you never mention what size this pedalboard is. Or which model. Can you identify it, please?

[@sundaytone]

This one is 18x12.5. It's a Pedaltrain Junior. I think they now make the Pedaltrain Classic Junior which I think is the same size.

[@ricotinez]

@@sundaytone Thank you very much. This confirms what I was thinking about your board. I have the same one so this inspires me to build something similar. I like how versatile this relatively small board is.

[@pacoguevara]

It might be a dumb question, what is your output? The cloudburst?

[@erikhartley2494]

I too want to know this. It’s an unbalanced output so he’s gotta be using some type of DI, whether it be the Walrus Canvas or something similar.

[@nathaniellarson8]

I read the title as "Huge Board, Small Sound" and had to do a double take, lol.

[@sundaytone]

😂

[@zachmiller4575]

Any advice for using the angry Charlie in church? Just got the boss angry driver and I’ve been trying to find a setting that will work as my main overdrive tone at church I normally stack drives but I’m finding the angry Charlie in the angry driver doesn’t really stack very well since it’s already a very saturated drive

[@estevenn_]

Think I’m closer to getting Tonex instead of acs1.

[@oleksandrk4853]

Have both, I prefer tonex

[@elephantfootrisers]

Let me know if you're interested in trying some samples of Elephant Foot Risers to help optimize the height of your pedals. Check out the Woodshed Compressor by Suhr - I also use a Wampler Ego and Keeley. Suhr is my favorite.

[@NomaDL2224]

I'd be curious to see how much smaller you could go if you replaced those two bricks in the middle lol Could definitely save some space with the Tone X one now. Swap out the timeline with the Mako D1 maybe and you could probably fit the POG or another overdrive on there.

[@josiah-rock]

I’ve always been a fan of small, well thought out boards. Your tone is great and your playing can shine through. We don’t need giant spaceships to have a versatile and fun array of tones at our disposal. But giant spaceship boards are fun too. To each their own lol.

[@adrianflores5388]

Sounds great. You should look into the Boss MS3 if you need a switcher. I have it along with a Strymon delay and cloudburst in the stereo output. It’s great because it has all these extra effects if you need it, three loops, and midi to control the cloudburst.

[@jhojancruzguitar]

love the tones man

[@larriveeman]

I noticed when I put my TC electronic flashback X4 after the tonex, when engaged the tone loses some high end and a little volume, do you notice that with the timeline?

[@geroldjacob1315]

wow this is already considered small..

[@thefirstkeet]

Wow, a worship pedalboard for only just over $2000. That's so inspiring. I also love your minimalist aesthetic of having only 4 guitars. How did you manage with so little equipment?

[@sundaytone]

Wow, thank you!

[@guypoulin8454]

Is Your pedalboard is connected to amp ? Whats your setup recording ?

[@sundaytone]

I used the Tonex pedal as my amp in this video. The pedalboard runs straight into my UA Volt 276 interface.

[@aoffer100]

Hello brother. Great sound. Please share pictures of the effect chain. I plan to buy a ToneX soon. Thank you.

[@mrsnakepit]

Nice demos.. Thank u

[@ruvchbrevth]

Matchless Laurel Canyon for the win! I use the POD GO patch (with modified settings) and the DC-30 with Tone Factor Bluesbreaker XR IR’s with modified settings in the HX stomp with analog drives, with the Halo and Julianna for stereo goodness in the fx loop. I highly recommend the SP compressor 😁 Man, your tone sounds great! That cloudburst though, that’s my next pedal that I’m getting soon. 🙌🏻 Thanks for sharing.

[@jeffreymerson8425]

I found the BOSS ES-8 to be super compatible with 99banks (for me, 1per song), and 8+vol loops as patches per bank. Also the ES-8 Editor software is SUPER helpful. You need a USB/midi cable to get your computer and the ES-8 communicating. #LongLiveSundayTone

[@AlexAbrego]

A great sounds!!!

[@hetharia]

Does the meris sound as good as the cloudburst?

[@sundaytone]

That's tough haha. I'd say the Meris has more variety in the sounds you can get out of it but I like the core sound of the Cloudburst better. They both sound really good though.

[@clubvintagejbl7422]

Please, me again, could tell us the sequence of the signal/pedal? Tks

[@timothyandrews9570]

This is an odd question, but I really like the table holding your amp in the background at 1:31. Could you share a link to what one it is?

[@sundaytone]

I can’t seem to find a link to it but I got it from IKEA years ago. I think it was a shoe or towel rack. They might have something similar.

[@timothyandrews9570]

@@sundaytone A shoe rack! That' genius!

[@NoNorhyme]

I’m also using it 👍🏻 you can revive the lower board and it still holds - so I can have another amp underneath.

[@rockkstah2550]

Midi loop Switcher, the best bang for the buck is the BOSS ES8. I regretted selling mind, I'm saving up for one and this time its not going anywhere..

[@oandrefelipe_]

Sonzera 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🔥

[@jonlachneyguitar]

Looks great. What power supply do you use to power the board?

[@Flyit37075]

Amazing sounds,

[@truthfactreality6814]

Try a GIGRIG g3 for switching. It’s awesome

[@heavymetal11]

Nice to see this type of try out of pedal 1 by 1 and some combi! i like your timeline setting!

[@onzkicg]

Love the tones! I’m surprised you don’t have any noise gate? My issues with my dirt/ heavy gain pedals is they’re so noisy/hissy the moment i engaged it on.

[@sundaytone]

Yea I mainly use single coil guitars so I am just used to managing the noise. I try to turn my volume pedal down in any sections I'm not playing. My volume is after the drives so it cuts that noise.

[@flashpadxxx]

I also run a board around the Tonex .. Nux Horseman-- Cheap Fuzz- ToneX- Vibrato and Behringer Stereo Chorus -Source Audio Collider Stereo Pretty happy with it ...and yeah i like my behringer pedals hehehe