Rating Your Rigs: Advice, Tricks, & Tips To Improve Your Pedalboard # 7

Episode 226: Rating Your Rigs: Advice, Tricks, & Tips To Improve Your Pedalboard # 7

Welcome to the Chairmen of the Boards Podcast! The ultimate pedalboard podcast with the foremost rig builders in the world: Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio), Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio), and Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects/The Rig Doctor). We've teamed up to democratize great tone and provide you with our best tricks, tips, resources and hacks so you can build the pedalboard of your dreams!

SPONSORS

• Gator Cases - https://gatorco.com/shop-by-category/pedal-boards-power/vertex-pedalboards
• Neural DSP - https://neuraldsp.com (use code "chairmen" for 30% off)
• Best-Tronics - https://btpa.com (use code "dachairs" for 10% off)

MASTERCLASS

• Understanding Mono Signal Paths - https://vertex-effects.teachable.com/p/effects-pedal-order-explained-mono-amp

HOSTS

Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio)

• YouTube - https://youtube.com/goodwoodaudio 
• Instagram - https://instagram.com/goodwoodaudio 

Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio)

• YouTube - https://youtube.com/omilionaudio
• Instagram - https://instagram.com/omilionaudio

Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects)

• YouTube - https://youtube.com/vertexeffectsinc 
• Instagram - https://instagram.com/vertexeffects 

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 - Introduction & Chairman of the Boards community
• 02:44 - Rig 1: Worship board breakdown
• 10:28 - Rig 1 advice: Loop switchers, noise gates & pedalboard flex
• 19:06 - Rig 2: Gigging guitarists & jazz fusion rig
• 23:05 - Moyo volume pedal & the risks of tuner-out tone suck
• 30:29 - Rig 2 advice: Foot pedal layout & board ergonomics
• 33:46 - Rig 3: Guyatone bass board & atmosphere generator
• 38:05 - Power supply rules: Sharing outputs & digital noise
• 43:53 - Sponsors: Neural DSP, Gator Cases & BTPA
• 47:17 - Rig 4: Quad Cortex & MIDI hybrid rig
• 55:53 - Rig 4 advice: Board optimization & streamlining space
• 01:00:05 - Wrap-up & possible upcoming rack rig episode