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That guitar/board is brighter than my future🥲

Girlfriend: ‘You don’t know where he lives just from his pedalboard’ Me: ‘a Nobels, boss eq, boss tr2, KOT and line 6 M9 says otherwise’

mason!!! not trying to be rude...we appreciate you...but i for one miss these kinda videos...love the interviews too...but could you mix more of these in here??? we want more rig doc content!!! thanks for you all you do...no disrespect!!!

Has your Proco Rat been in war?! Hot DAYUMN that thing is used 😂 Killer tones dude!!

Great video, as always. Learning the value of a boost into a good overdrive was a big moment for me. I tried (and subsequently bought) a Fulldrive 2. It took me 30 seconds to get it! On my small board I have a two stage boost into a Klon clone and love that I can set a core drive tone and vary the amount. I still do a lot with my guitar's volume too but it all goes back to my rack days. I realised setting a few core tones on my JMP 1 meant I had MY tone and could add effects as needed.

I always run 5 drives minimum. Fuzz, Rat, Klon, Tube Screamer, Blues Breaker. That way I always have every option.

Regarding the VB-2 and Michael Thompson, did he run the pedal after the line out of his amps or did he use it in front of the amps, for those huge recordings in his classic days during the '90s?

With regard to running 2 power supplies - is it ok/safe to a single power chord that splits to send power to each supply (in this case 2xTrueTone CS6's). The cord is manufactured as a y-cable, I didn't DIY it. I haven't wired the board up yet and I am just worried that there will be issues since both PSU's would be powered by essentially the same single power source. I run a multitude of pedals with a "clock" in them as Mason puts it - multiple delays and reverbs.

with the 10 band EQ and compressor loop, is the compressor going into the EQ or vice versa?

What label maker are you using? I have a Brother P-Touch and it always prints so much extra that I have to trim down manually

Awesome demo and THANK YOU for playing the same riff while changing overdrives. It’s frustrating when someone demos pedals then changes what they’re playing when they switch to a different pedal. Great guitar playing too!

This is great. I already learned so much from your prior 80s W/D/W rig advice. I've tried that with only pedals and again with only plugins. I still use that advice all the time. Also: fantastic interview with Simon Jarrett recently with the chairmen! thx for that too!

Good playing. So humble! Does the pedalboard have an analog dry thru for the m9?

Love this. Could you show your settings on the Line6 M9 Analog with Mod delay?

I would love if for videos like this, you could add a special set of subtitles that translate the sound talk for people not familiar. "Dial out a bit of the mid range, and bring a bit of the sparkle on the top" for example

Ten years later, I’m still stuck on the king of tone. I just haven’t found anything that does exactly what that pedal does for me. I need to have one on each board to feel 100% comfortable. People always suggest this and that and I’ve tried several “KOT Killers” but none of them really stuck. It sounds great in every environment, every time, no questions asked…clubs, theaters, small stadiums, tents, doesn’t matter. The only other compression/drive pedals that have stuck around that long for me are the cali76, the ts mini and the EQD Palisades.

Great video. What do you use as your tuner?

Love your videos, Mason. Thank you! And you're a pretty darn good player too!

So glad to see two of my favorite rig builders merged in this project.

That great comparison of the different overdrives alone was worth watching this video for.