Mick’s last point about “does tone even matter” is really the lesson as a whole. I’m glad you brought that up because at the end of the day, companies are trying to sell products and while things get better and better, we still try to emulate the tones of guitar heroes from history who didn’t have access to the plethora of options we have today. There is something to be said about the tone being in the fingers…
I was thinking about this at a show last night and how much time and money I have spent on gear. All the nuances are lost in the club with the high ceilings and meh live mix. That being said, it is still fun :)
@@robomalo man I hear ya, we're likely the only audience as far as our gear is concerned. That said if it gets one in a good zone playing then it's worth something :)
many "guitar heroes from history" used new effects, new guitars and new amps; much of the gear they used was unique due to the manufacturing processes and supply chain. using "vintage" gear was usually due to their budget not sonic choices. I think we have so many options it's easy to get lost searching for perfection instead of playing. Cheers!
While I operate on my own amateur "guitarist at home" scale, I find it comforting to see you honestly and candidly admitting to a multiple stabs at pedal selection (and not editing out the change and change again thing) involved in the selection process. Freedom sometimes looks like too many choices, as U2 famously quipped in their song New York.
Great show! Modular expandable board is superb for we minimalists. Sometimes less is more, especially at the beginning and end of your playing experience. I appreciated your openness about layout considerations as well as pedal selections. You were on point about the importance of being comfortable with your rig so you can focus on creating the music for the moment. That IS what it is all about.
Yes!!! This is one of my favorite aspects of their videos. No rush… no annoying cuts and unnecessary edits. I find all their knowledge so valuable that I want to hear every word. Brainstorming, talking it out… seriously. All of it is gold!
When learning to change my strings, in 1995 or so, I lost control of an acoustic string when opening the package. The string uncoiled from its paper sleeve with more force than I expected... like a tiny sprung wildling... It whipped through the air, sticking the bare bit of core on the string's end a good mm or two into the fleshy part of my thumb. It drew blood. I believe it was a set of Ernie Ball Earthwound Mediums.
Nice one Mick! I always liken playing a show after a long time to stretching your legs after a long road trip. Feels like you've forgotten how to walk at first, but then you feel like running. Great as always!
This is the most effort ever expended to get three guitar pedals on a board; also the most dire injury incurred during the process. I applaud your conviction, Mick!
Great video Mick really enjoyed showing how to make a small board you explain everything very well like how you keep things simple and easy to understand thanks alot Michael
For some reason I find this particular video, and the one before this where you chose the pedals, absolutely fascinating. I think it's because you have a particular occasion to plan for and a particular problem to solve, and you have to design an elegant solution, rather than throwing the kitchen sink at it! I'd love to see a similar one done for Dan. Ps. Thanks for my cool new t-shirt which arrived yesterday.
Mick - thanks so much for your kind response to my other comment about drinking & music, and for this one, *fascinating* to hear how your playing changes as you prepare for a gig & then get onstage. I think I can hear the American country you love so dearly, and that wonderful place where early electric country and early rock'n'roll were kind of indistinguishable, coming out more in the shape of your runs and the way you navigate the fretboard; maybe it was just this gig, but it sounded & looked to me like you're moving around the guitar more freely, and letting different kinds of melodic lines dictate their own shape in a new way. Very, very cool.
Thanks Michael. I don’t wish to be immodest but I’m a totally different player in performance than sat in the studio. Just something about making music at volume turns notes into actual playing. Cheers!
@@ThatPedalShow I don't think that's immodest at all - I know just what you mean. It's like the situational version of what you've said about being able to play fewer notes when you're not stuck with a spiky, rapidly-decaying clean tone: when you're with a band, you can hit one note and go, "Oh, right, THAT'S what this is for!"
Attention to detail - wonderful. I was reminded of the Saturday feeling pre-kids, getting ready to go to the other end of the country for a function thinking 'What have I forgotten?' when you did the loading bit by the car. Real blast from the past - thank you! Glad the effort you invested for you and your friend garnered great results. Top work, Mr Taylor. 👏
Hi, Malcolm here. A proper real world blog. As someone who has a touch of option paralysis this video worked for me with a sum up I agree with 100%. You can nerd all you like - yup we all do - but there is nothing like the performance. Well done mate, keep up the good work 😎🎶🎵👍
Great video and playing Mick! It's wonderful and exciting to see how the tone choices you labored over sounded live with the band. I'd love to see more live gig examples once you guys start playing out again.
Mick, thanks so much. As far as what TPS, Tone and all of us here in this tribe mean to me, well C.S. Lewis said it better than I ever could. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Thanks and here's to more live music... Cheers!
My favorite guitar related injury: when I was in a band a buddy of mine was practicing flipping his guitar around his body (we were in a pop-punk band, so that's the sort of thing you practice). All of it went fine, never hurt himself or the guitar! But... when he went to go take the guitar off, he accidentally sent the body of the guitar straight into his mouth, chipping his two front teeth! This was hours before a gig. He went to an emergency dentist, they temporary fixed his teeth, he came to the gig on Novocain, then the next day, had to go get his teeth replaced. Still hilarious to me!
Great episode as always. I appreciate how you reframe the shot in Schwangri-la when you do your vlogs. The slight off-centre sitting position, your half of the room in view. It doesn’t go unnoticed. Nice work Mick.
Ha, I’m down to three pedals on my main board; it’s made by myself and fit a Polytuner, Small Stone Nano and KoT (+ a FuelTank Jr. underneath). Played a gig with it last Friday, very happy. All I need.
Awesome video Mick! Yeah, you're right about tone-chasing., I've simplified my pedal board recently as I do a lot of recording, and it's so easy to go down a rabbit hole trying to find the "perfect tone". Yeah, pedals and tone can be inspiring to the creative process, but they can also be detrimental to the overall goal. "Just play!" is what I keep telling myself.
Great show and super playing! I’ve found that same thing you mention; when you’re on stage playing, the bits we obsess over matter less, and what you contribute as a human being matters most.
Recently bought the CIOKS 7 and the expansion kit (totalling 11 outputs). As power supplies go, I would say it's on the podium. Never tried Dan's, but I would assume they are AWESOME. Really like these down to basics kind of episodes. Learned pretty much all I know about pedals and pedal boards from you guys,
I really like the CIOKS power supplies, and I'm sure Dan's are wonderful. The idea that for each output you can select the voltage and all outputs are isolated...terrific. I also got the CIOKS 7 and the other expansion, which has 8 outputs. So I can power 15 pedals of all types and voltages. It's heaven.
You can put GigRig Isolators at the end of the splitter cables. If you did that with the 1-3 cable, that’s 12 9v outputs from a single 9v output on the CIOKS. While that seems a bit silly, what I do is put a high current pedal on one end of the splitter, and put Isolator(s) on the rest.
Interesting comment about Dual Lock. I use it on both sides and boy, is it ever strong. A spoon handle is good for removing pedals if you don't have a butter - or other blunt - knife to hand. Addendum: Lovely bonus to show the gig, too. Keep on keeping on, people.
Because of you Mick, I just had a dream where I arrived at a gig with the wrong amp which had a blown speaker, 4 unknown pedals that I had never seen before and couldn't figure out what they were, no extensions, power supply or patch cords. Needless to say, the crowd was waiting impatiently😂
Just because you’re much better than most of us at playing guitar it doesn’t mean that you have to create some self-imposed handicapping system of chopping off parts of your own fingers! 🤦🏼♂️😜🤣🤣🤣 Great video as always. I think these blog style videos are my favourites of the ones TPS puts out, irrespective of whether they are led by you or Dan they’re always super well done.
Thanks, this videos are never too long :) Nice to see the pedalboard build up and of course bits of the show 👍 PS. A cool way of not getting the patch cables in the way is to „ground” them with some velcro tape to the board as weel. Cheers!
Absolutely loved this video thank you. Would the audience have heard any difference between those pedals? No chance. Do they matter to the player? Hell yeah! I’ve always said the best sounding pedal is the one you know how to use.
Cheers 🍻 Mick! Great video! I’m sure it wouldn’t bother your followers a bit to see you and Dan give us more content like this. Bridging TPS with your gigs. Sweet 🤟😎🤘
The situation that you and Dan are in when entertaining us on TPS is completely different to what most of us fans are in when gigging in a band on a small scene. Any effect should be very obvious to be noted by the audience. So a small and compact pedalboard is enough (or none). Most important is for the musicians is the playing itself and to stay back when needed and step forward when needed. :)
Moral of the story: if you want to be successful in life, spend an inordinate amount of time on the small details. Putting hours of thought into a two pedal board is absolutely not overkill. Idk how many times I’ve said to hell with it, thrown something together hastily at the last minute and lived to regret it. If your going to take the time to do something, do it with a professional attitude like mick here. Congratulations on the gig.
Great episode and so good to see a gig situation again. Your comment about playing and connecting with other humans is spot on. Missing playing and being with my band mates while I recover from neck surgery.
My favourite guitar injury was when I was explaining a lick to my bandmate, whipped round to show him and caught the edge of his eye/temple on my tele headstock as he was walking towards me, I can still recall the sound it made
Yea Duellist! Great choice. It sounded great. It lets the tone of the guitar shine through and is so touch dynamic. It gets that SRV rap but imo only if you play that style. Yet so do so many other pedals, amps, Strats, etc..
Lol 😂 Here we are…gig day. Changed everything again 😂 Sometimes having too many options can have one thinking about the wrong thing? Congrats on getting out there! Playing with friends, making music…the best!
Great video, covers lot of interesting topics, not only the pedal build, but also how we human guitarists funcion. Run difficult long testing of different pedals, then change mind thanks to another A/B shootout and finally finnish with something completly different, because of gut feelings. Briliat. Never change
Great to see you out playing. As they say ,,, that’s where the rubber meets the road ,,, if the car is set up right ,,, you won’t crash. Looks like you were prepared for the gig !!!!
My board when I’m singing: Sonic Research mini tuner -> Jackson audio bloom -> Nordland ODR-C -> diamond memory lane jr -> Strymon flint. Essentially I have: tuner, boost, eq, comp, drive, delay, reverb, trem. It’s my main board I use when singing and playing. My big board stays at home most of the time now!
On my small board 8 total I use a 1:2 2.1mm splitter going to two GigRig Isolators for all 8 and it sounds great with any 400ma power supply or better (draws 302mA): right to left is... Glass Packs (my Tonebender 1.5+), Nitrous Treble Booster, Boss tuner buffered out, POT, Carbon Copy mini, Jam HM, Octane real tube clean boost, Soul Food modified. I have the MXR power brick and it's not isolated?? I use one of the JHS mutting pedals on my big board. That way I can mute everything before the amp because it's quiet. Mick do you really need a distributor in the case of only one isolator? I am wearing my TPS Fuzz shirt as well :)
Not that my board is all that beautiful, but I’ve gotten pretty good at dealing with it and doing all this stuff. That being said, there something very soothing about watching a video like this. Very zen feeling right now… in my happy place. All except the injury of course. ;)
So stoked to watch this. I've been on a simplicity mission with my board. I even have a no-board set-up: a Radial Big Shot ABY to my two Boss Katana 50s and that's it for that one! There's also simply a Fuzz, overdrive, delay to my Fender Tone Master. Play for days and days!
Great seeing you play out. That’s ,,, as they say ,, where the rubber meets the road. If the suspension an tires are right ,,, you won’t wreak. Sounds like you were prepared for the gig !!!!
Mick, as you said, it's all about being comfortable enough with your sound to free you to play and create. IME, most concert-goers can't tell the difference between whatever drive you chose to use and the one you left at home. Just go with the one that makes you feel like playing your butt off. Breathe in, breathe out, ROCK ON! - Oh, damn, should I have taken the ODR-1 or the KOT instead? LOL!
I fully expected you to have changed the pedalboard once again between packing the car and setting up at the gig, it would have been perfect had you had. Sounded legendary, congrats, man!
@@ThatPedalShow this is a project I'm building of my own. I recently got my Marshall sounding the best it has EVER sound and it's time I get my pedal board up to snuff. I'm just a bedroom player and occasionally jam with a drummer buddy and another guitar player. Nothing professional.
Very nice video, as usual! My favourite guitar related injury would be a concussion from being hit over the head with an acoustic guitar. I stood behind the singer of my old band, when he pretended to smash his acoustic on the floor swinging it back behind himself with quite a bit of force. XD
Mick I know you can sing, but I always forget as the focus is always on pedals and guitar, but your vocal are outstanding. As much as us guitarist would like to think everyone doesn’t show up to hear the guitar. It’s about the song.
Thank you kindly Ed. I blimmin love singing. Wasn’t born with a Joey Landreth or Marvin Gaye set of pipes, but if you get with some humans and sing some harmonies, it can still move. Happy days!
Love it. A)want the big xpnd board B) want the duelist c) had dans gigrig modular power system on a stupid huge board with the generator mounted underneath with no noise issues most silent board ever just an fyi d) Love richard barrett! Ive learned untold amounts about phrasing from his Blues Headlines column… highly recco’d and i bet he was great to play with! e)you sounded great! As did neville and the band. Cheers brother!
That is a really cool board concept (expandability), and pre-velco'd as well. Very nice. I used to have a neighbor behind me who had a large Lab which would give three barks and a two bark pause, then three more barks. She'd do this all afternoon almost every day, and eventually I tuned it out to where it wasn't even noticeable any more unless I actively thought about it. :)
I was going to say that you don't need the Distributor on there if 4 outs is enough (as per the first build); you can just use the Generator straight to the Isolator. However I reckon that subconsciously Mick knew he was going to need to power something else in the end! Thanks for vid, enjoyed.
Really Enjoyed the continuation of the simple pedalboard journey. It is so amazing to see people performing live music again after the COVID-19 experience. Every show I've seen and/or been to has been communal elation! Glad you got the opportunity. Does Tone even Matter? I think it does, but its most important to player and how their tone feeds into their playing. The tone the audience hears is less critical since it will be part of the whole bands ensemble.
Yah, completely that. The audience wants a performance and the tone may help the musician deliver that. Or indeed hinder them from doing so. Cheers Chris!
Great vid! I love the focus of how these devices will work in a band mix and work for getting to the gig without being an entire weightlifting venture, especially for those downstair/upstair type gigs, lol Can’t wait to hear the pickup/does tone matter discussion, so relevant! Vai-“…just pretend it’s the greatest tone ever.” ;)
I'm running 8 pedals off a one spot and daisy chain. And they're all laid out on the floor. It's a right mess! I can see Dan shaking his head furiously from here lol.
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Mick’s last point about “does tone even matter” is really the lesson as a whole. I’m glad you brought that up because at the end of the day, companies are trying to sell products and while things get better and better, we still try to emulate the tones of guitar heroes from history who didn’t have access to the plethora of options we have today. There is something to be said about the tone being in the fingers…
You know... tone is in your head: If you don't have a vision for how you want to sound, no expensive gear is going to help you.
@@MadsBoldingMusic and most of the time the tones in our heads are the mastered ones…
I was thinking about this at a show last night and how much time and money I have spent on gear. All the nuances are lost in the club with the high ceilings and meh live mix. That being said, it is still fun :)
@@robomalo man I hear ya, we're likely the only audience as far as our gear is concerned. That said if it gets one in a good zone playing then it's worth something :)
many "guitar heroes from history" used new effects, new guitars and new amps; much of the gear they used was unique due to the manufacturing processes and supply chain.
using "vintage" gear was usually due to their budget not sonic choices.
I think we have so many options it's easy to get lost searching for perfection instead of playing.
Cheers!
"There are the pedals...everything's changed again" - That got me! Well done Mick
While I operate on my own amateur "guitarist at home" scale, I find it comforting to see you honestly and candidly admitting to a multiple stabs at pedal selection (and not editing out the change and change again thing) involved in the selection process.
Freedom sometimes looks like too many choices, as U2 famously quipped in their song New York.
So cool to see gig footage of Mick singing and playing! Sounded great too!
Wow, a real in-person gig with an actual audience. Guitar and vocal sounded excellent Mick. Very impressed!
Thanks David. Yeah, gigs feel very 20th century at this point!
Great show! Modular expandable board is superb for we minimalists. Sometimes less is more, especially at the beginning and end of your playing experience. I appreciated your openness about layout considerations as well as pedal selections. You were on point about the importance of being comfortable with your rig so you can focus on creating the music for the moment. That IS what it is all about.
The video: putting three pedals on a board
The length: over 45 mins.
Please never change D&M 😂
It is indeed unlikely!
A classic example of something that takes longer to explain than actually do.
Like most things. That’s why school takes 7 years innit?
Yes!!! This is one of my favorite aspects of their videos. No rush… no annoying cuts and unnecessary edits. I find all their knowledge so valuable that I want to hear every word. Brainstorming, talking it out… seriously. All of it is gold!
A very enjoyable and satisfying 45 minutes indeed!
One of my favorite albums of all time is the mid-80's Box of Frogs/Box of Frogs. I often am reminded of that album when you play and sing.
Great episode. Really loved the footage of the gig at the end. Great to see Mick getting to jam! 😀
Mick moves and balance standing on the stage remembers Clapton! Great playing also!
Ah El Clap! I have everything he had except the talent and tenacity. Otherwise we are the same. /0)
When learning to change my strings, in 1995 or so, I lost control of an acoustic string when opening the package. The string uncoiled from its paper sleeve with more force than I expected... like a tiny sprung wildling... It whipped through the air, sticking the bare bit of core on the string's end a good mm or two into the fleshy part of my thumb. It drew blood. I believe it was a set of Ernie Ball Earthwound Mediums.
Nice one Mick! I always liken playing a show after a long time to stretching your legs after a long road trip. Feels like you've forgotten how to walk at first, but then you feel like running. Great as always!
Yeah, I’m usually okay by about the fourth song. Only played three tonight. Hahahaha!
Loved to see some of the live gig. This is what it’s all about! And as long as you, the band and the audience had fun, mission accomplished!
This is the most effort ever expended to get three guitar pedals on a board; also the most dire injury incurred during the process. I applaud your conviction, Mick!
Well, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth totally overdoing. Ha!
@@ThatPedalShow I'd have taken that piece of skin to the doctor to see if it could be reattached XD
Great video Mick really enjoyed showing how to make a small board you explain everything very well like how you keep things simple and easy to understand thanks alot Michael
Yes, making music is the point! Happy for you Mick!
For some reason I find this particular video, and the one before this where you chose the pedals, absolutely fascinating. I think it's because you have a particular occasion to plan for and a particular problem to solve, and you have to design an elegant solution, rather than throwing the kitchen sink at it! I'd love to see a similar one done for Dan. Ps. Thanks for my cool new t-shirt which arrived yesterday.
agreed
Mick - thanks so much for your kind response to my other comment about drinking & music, and for this one, *fascinating* to hear how your playing changes as you prepare for a gig & then get onstage. I think I can hear the American country you love so dearly, and that wonderful place where early electric country and early rock'n'roll were kind of indistinguishable, coming out more in the shape of your runs and the way you navigate the fretboard; maybe it was just this gig, but it sounded & looked to me like you're moving around the guitar more freely, and letting different kinds of melodic lines dictate their own shape in a new way. Very, very cool.
Thanks Michael. I don’t wish to be immodest but I’m a totally different player in performance than sat in the studio. Just something about making music at volume turns notes into actual playing. Cheers!
@@ThatPedalShow I don't think that's immodest at all - I know just what you mean. It's like the situational version of what you've said about being able to play fewer notes when you're not stuck with a spiky, rapidly-decaying clean tone: when you're with a band, you can hit one note and go, "Oh, right, THAT'S what this is for!"
Wonderful to see my old Tech Music School teacher Richard Barrett on TPS!
Thoroughly enjoyed that. I saw you play what was then Colston Hall and stood near to Dan totally blown away by your guitar and vocals, same this time
Amazeballs! Thanks so much!
I always enjoy following you on your tonal journeys. Thanks for sharing and congrats for the gig it was great to see you in action.
Attention to detail - wonderful. I was reminded of the Saturday feeling pre-kids, getting ready to go to the other end of the country for a function thinking 'What have I forgotten?' when you did the loading bit by the car. Real blast from the past - thank you! Glad the effort you invested for you and your friend garnered great results. Top work, Mr Taylor. 👏
I didn’t bat an eye when I saw the last minute pedal change, : ) Thanks for the upload Mick
Hi, Malcolm here. A proper real world blog. As someone who has a touch of option paralysis this video worked for me with a sum up I agree with 100%. You can nerd all you like - yup we all do - but there is nothing like the performance. Well done mate, keep up the good work 😎🎶🎵👍
41:26 amen brother! No excuses, humans coming together making a noise 👍
Great video and playing Mick! It's wonderful and exciting to see how the tone choices you labored over sounded live with the band. I'd love to see more live gig examples once you guys start playing out again.
This was excellent! Glad we were able to get a glimpse of the gig! Well done 🤘
Mick, thanks so much. As far as what TPS, Tone and all of us here in this tribe mean to me, well C.S. Lewis said it better than I ever could. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Thanks and here's to more live music... Cheers!
I like that a lot Rob, thank you!
My favorite guitar related injury: when I was in a band a buddy of mine was practicing flipping his guitar around his body (we were in a pop-punk band, so that's the sort of thing you practice). All of it went fine, never hurt himself or the guitar! But... when he went to go take the guitar off, he accidentally sent the body of the guitar straight into his mouth, chipping his two front teeth! This was hours before a gig. He went to an emergency dentist, they temporary fixed his teeth, he came to the gig on Novocain, then the next day, had to go get his teeth replaced. Still hilarious to me!
Great episode as always. I appreciate how you reframe the shot in Schwangri-la when you do your vlogs. The slight off-centre sitting position, your half of the room in view. It doesn’t go unnoticed. Nice work Mick.
Thanks Nick. You know I appreciate this. :0)
So glad it all came together nicely: nice vocals, guitar tone and playing! The board build was fantastic even if you changed the pedals later.
Neatness and order - gotta keep those pedal-lock triangles straight! A man after my own heart. Love it.
Great video. Glad for a return to normalcy and the emphasis on being together with people to play and enjoy music. Cheers!
Ha, I’m down to three pedals on my main board; it’s made by myself and fit a Polytuner, Small Stone Nano and KoT (+ a FuelTank Jr. underneath). Played a gig with it last Friday, very happy. All I need.
After the first video, I wondered where is FTT SoV. Perfect choice for that situation with that amp. And here we are
Awesome video Mick! Yeah, you're right about tone-chasing., I've simplified my pedal board recently as I do a lot of recording, and it's so easy to go down a rabbit hole trying to find the "perfect tone". Yeah, pedals and tone can be inspiring to the creative process, but they can also be detrimental to the overall goal. "Just play!" is what I keep telling myself.
Great show and super playing! I’ve found that same thing you mention; when you’re on stage playing, the bits we obsess over matter less, and what you contribute as a human being matters most.
Recently bought the CIOKS 7 and the expansion kit (totalling 11 outputs). As power supplies go, I would say it's on the podium. Never tried Dan's, but I would assume they are AWESOME.
Really like these down to basics kind of episodes. Learned pretty much all I know about pedals and pedal boards from you guys,
I really like the CIOKS power supplies, and I'm sure Dan's are wonderful. The idea that for each output you can select the voltage and all outputs are isolated...terrific. I also got the CIOKS 7 and the other expansion, which has 8 outputs. So I can power 15 pedals of all types and voltages. It's heaven.
You can put GigRig Isolators at the end of the splitter cables. If you did that with the 1-3 cable, that’s 12 9v outputs from a single 9v output on the CIOKS. While that seems a bit silly, what I do is put a high current pedal on one end of the splitter, and put Isolator(s) on the rest.
Mick working on a pedalboard is everything I needed this morning. Thanks guys and love from Delaware in the US!
Also @thatpedalshow did you end up getting the generator under the board or no?
Hey Amish. No, I put the generator just off to the side. Hello to Delaware! :0)
@@ThatPedalShow Ah okay- I'll think on that when getting new power!
Interesting comment about Dual Lock. I use it on both sides and boy, is it ever strong. A spoon handle is good for removing pedals if you don't have a butter - or other blunt - knife to hand. Addendum: Lovely bonus to show the gig, too. Keep on keeping on, people.
So much talent on stage, so few people in the room. Congrats on a great gig and great video guys!
There were people in the room. Weird dipped thing with the auditorium. Cheers!
Never stop making pedalboard building vlogs like this, Mick!
Really cool Mick. Congrats on the show too, nicely played.
Loved watching you play and sing mate.
The end result is awesome! Great sound. I really like the comment about the tuner placement. I'll try it
Because of you Mick, I just had a dream where I arrived at a gig with the wrong amp which had a blown speaker, 4 unknown pedals that I had never seen before and couldn't figure out what they were, no extensions, power supply or patch cords. Needless to say, the crowd was waiting impatiently😂
Ha! I know that dream, and many versions of it!
Its the gig-from-hell dream.
Just because you’re much better than most of us at playing guitar it doesn’t mean that you have to create some self-imposed handicapping system of chopping off parts of your own fingers! 🤦🏼♂️😜🤣🤣🤣
Great video as always. I think these blog style videos are my favourites of the ones TPS puts out, irrespective of whether they are led by you or Dan they’re always super well done.
Ha! Thanks so much David!
Thanks, this videos are never too long :) Nice to see the pedalboard build up and of course bits of the show 👍 PS. A cool way of not getting the patch cables in the way is to „ground” them with some velcro tape to the board as weel. Cheers!
Great video! I loved how every iteration of the board sounded just like Mick playing a Strat. I know I am an unsophisticated soul!
And that’s why I love you Simon. Truth be spake here!
Absolutely loved this video thank you. Would the audience have heard any difference between those pedals? No chance. Do they matter to the player? Hell yeah! I’ve always said the best sounding pedal is the one you know how to use.
I legit laughed when the pedals changed again by show time! Good stuff!
Cheers 🍻 Mick!
Great video! I’m sure it wouldn’t bother your followers a bit to see you and Dan give us more content like this. Bridging TPS with your gigs. Sweet 🤟😎🤘
Fun too see (and hear) Mick in his natural habitat; on stage for once. Also; fun PB-build as always. Keep on rocking, guys. Cheers from Sweden🇸🇪
Thank you Andreas!
The situation that you and Dan are in when entertaining us on TPS is completely different to what most of us fans are in when gigging in a band on a small scene. Any effect should be very obvious to be noted by the audience. So a small and compact pedalboard is enough (or none). Most important is for the musicians is the playing itself and to stay back when needed and step forward when needed. :)
Great video Mick! Gig sounded awesome from the clip there, and lovely to hear a bit of you singing.
Cool video. Nice seeing a live gig. You played for the song and the band. That is the way to rock. Nice tones Mick.
Thank you Rolo!
Excellent episode, and the gear just glued well together in the live situation. Thanks for sharing everything!
It's great to be back to playing again and all the fussing that goes into preparing for gigs! Nicely done Mick!!
Moral of the story: if you want to be successful in life, spend an inordinate amount of time on the small details. Putting hours of thought into a two pedal board is absolutely not overkill. Idk how many times I’ve said to hell with it, thrown something together hastily at the last minute and lived to regret it. If your going to take the time to do something, do it with a professional attitude like mick here. Congratulations on the gig.
That drive pedal sounds killer!
Great episode and so good to see a gig situation again. Your comment about playing and connecting with other humans is spot on. Missing playing and being with my band mates while I recover from neck surgery.
Hope that improves for you Chris and the recovery is smooth!
Board build ASMR! Great video Mick 🙂👍
👏👏👏 The much anticipated flying skin nugget did not disappoint! Great video btw.
My favourite guitar injury was when I was explaining a lick to my bandmate, whipped round to show him and caught the edge of his eye/temple on my tele headstock as he was walking towards me, I can still recall the sound it made
That’s a stone cold classic right there!
Yea Duellist! Great choice. It sounded great. It lets the tone of the guitar shine through and is so touch dynamic. It gets that SRV rap but imo only if you play that style. Yet so do so many other pedals, amps, Strats, etc..
Had a blood blister burst mid-gig, as hadn't played in a while. Bass covered, & the audience's faces 😆 Great to hear an actual gig Mic!👍👌
Lol 😂 Here we are…gig day. Changed everything again 😂 Sometimes having too many options can have one thinking about the wrong thing?
Congrats on getting out there! Playing with friends, making music…the best!
Great video, covers lot of interesting topics, not only the pedal build, but also how we human guitarists funcion. Run difficult long testing of different pedals, then change mind thanks to another A/B shootout and finally finnish with something completly different, because of gut feelings. Briliat.
Never change
Great to see you out playing. As they say ,,, that’s where the rubber meets the road ,,, if the car is set up right ,,, you won’t crash. Looks like you were prepared for the gig !!!!
Great piece of work ! Inspiring,detailed ! Keep up the good work ! 😎👍✌
power gubbins! I didn't realize that was the correct term! Thank you!
Great video, it’s always crazy how much time the brain takes from playing.
My board when I’m singing: Sonic Research mini tuner -> Jackson audio bloom -> Nordland ODR-C -> diamond memory lane jr -> Strymon flint. Essentially I have: tuner, boost, eq, comp, drive, delay, reverb, trem. It’s my main board I use when singing and playing. My big board stays at home most of the time now!
On my small board 8 total I use a 1:2 2.1mm splitter going to two GigRig Isolators for all 8 and it sounds great with any 400ma power supply or better (draws 302mA): right to left is... Glass Packs (my Tonebender 1.5+), Nitrous Treble Booster, Boss tuner buffered out, POT, Carbon Copy mini, Jam HM, Octane real tube clean boost, Soul Food modified.
I have the MXR power brick and it's not isolated??
I use one of the JHS mutting pedals on my big board. That way I can mute everything before the amp because it's quiet.
Mick do you really need a distributor in the case of only one isolator?
I am wearing my TPS Fuzz shirt as well :)
That was a fun journey. Thanks Mick, sounded great!
Always put my tuner before any modulation except the ones that go before drives. LOL Nice tip, Mick!
Not that my board is all that beautiful, but I’ve gotten pretty good at dealing with it and doing all this stuff. That being said, there something very soothing about watching a video like this. Very zen feeling right now… in my happy place. All except the injury of course. ;)
Awesome, Mick! Good job, mate!
So stoked to watch this. I've been on a simplicity mission with my board. I even have a no-board set-up: a Radial Big Shot ABY to my two Boss Katana 50s and that's it for that one! There's also simply a Fuzz, overdrive, delay to my Fender Tone Master. Play for days and days!
I have at least one rig with a board in each room of the house. I guess I like things complicated.
@@TheRealcdawg22 That sounds epic! I wouldn't call it complicated, just efficient. No matter where you go, you can play!
Great seeing you play out. That’s ,,, as they say ,, where the rubber meets the road. If the suspension an tires are right ,,, you won’t wreak. Sounds like you were prepared for the gig !!!!
Yes, indeed, the maliability of human thought. Nice one, Mick.
Mick, as you said, it's all about being comfortable enough with your sound to free you to play and create. IME, most concert-goers can't tell the difference between whatever drive you chose to use and the one you left at home. Just go with the one that makes you feel like playing your butt off. Breathe in, breathe out, ROCK ON! - Oh, damn, should I have taken the ODR-1 or the KOT instead? LOL!
Mmm. I like that Duelist with your style. It has that sweetness with lower gain
Loved the live clips !
I fully expected you to have changed the pedalboard once again between packing the car and setting up at the gig, it would have been perfect had you had. Sounded legendary, congrats, man!
Excellent job Mick!
Such a great pedal board design!!!!
Perfect timing! I was just watching a few videos on how to cover a pedal board in Tolex! Thanks Mick!
Wooo, nice! Check out Alder & Ash boards - they do some lovely tolex ones.
@@ThatPedalShow this is a project I'm building of my own. I recently got my Marshall sounding the best it has EVER sound and it's time I get my pedal board up to snuff. I'm just a bedroom player and occasionally jam with a drummer buddy and another guitar player. Nothing professional.
Fantastic 😂 After all that you came back to the tube screamer and a digital delay!
Thats a happy place strat dual overdrive reverb and analog delay nice
Very nice video, as usual! My favourite guitar related injury would be a concussion from being hit over the head with an acoustic guitar. I stood behind the singer of my old band, when he pretended to smash his acoustic on the floor swinging it back behind himself with quite a bit of force. XD
Mick I know you can sing, but I always forget as the focus is always on pedals and guitar, but your vocal are outstanding. As much as us guitarist would like to think everyone doesn’t show up to hear the guitar. It’s about the song.
Thank you kindly Ed. I blimmin love singing. Wasn’t born with a Joey Landreth or Marvin Gaye set of pipes, but if you get with some humans and sing some harmonies, it can still move. Happy days!
Love it. A)want the big xpnd board B) want the duelist c) had dans gigrig modular power system on a stupid huge board with the generator mounted underneath with no noise issues most silent board ever just an fyi d) Love richard barrett! Ive learned untold amounts about phrasing from his Blues Headlines column… highly recco’d and i bet he was great to play with! e)you sounded great! As did neville and the band. Cheers brother!
Thank you! Yah, I’ve had Generators in many boards too. Then one day it was causing a hum with… erm, maybe the Chase Bliss reverb. Can’t remember.
@@ThatPedalShow i liked your idea of moving the Gen away…always thinking about the tone, that ol mick!
That is a really cool board concept (expandability), and pre-velco'd as well. Very nice.
I used to have a neighbor behind me who had a large Lab which would give three barks and a two bark pause, then three more barks. She'd do this all afternoon almost every day, and eventually I tuned it out to where it wasn't even noticeable any more unless I actively thought about it. :)
Sounds like a song or groove in there.
Sounded amazing Mick as per usual! Loved this
I was going to say that you don't need the Distributor on there if 4 outs is enough (as per the first build); you can just use the Generator straight to the Isolator. However I reckon that subconsciously Mick knew he was going to need to power something else in the end! Thanks for vid, enjoyed.
Next week Mick will show us how to make your own Two-Rock from washing up bottles and sticky back plastic. Awesome video as always!
Yes! Hahahahaa!
Excited about this one.
Thanks for the constant Friday entertainment
Really Enjoyed the continuation of the simple pedalboard journey. It is so amazing to see people performing live music again after the COVID-19 experience. Every show I've seen and/or been to has been communal elation! Glad you got the opportunity.
Does Tone even Matter? I think it does, but its most important to player and how their tone feeds into their playing. The tone the audience hears is less critical since it will be part of the whole bands ensemble.
Yah, completely that. The audience wants a performance and the tone may help the musician deliver that. Or indeed hinder them from doing so. Cheers Chris!
Great vid! I love the focus of how these devices will work in a band mix and work for getting to the gig without being an entire weightlifting venture, especially for those downstair/upstair type gigs, lol Can’t wait to hear the pickup/does tone matter discussion, so relevant! Vai-“…just pretend it’s the greatest tone ever.” ;)
I'm running 8 pedals off a one spot and daisy chain. And they're all laid out on the floor. It's a right mess! I can see Dan shaking his head furiously from here lol.