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Latest board for the Neil Young show. Last of a run of shows next week

Playing with a combination of dirty boosts in place of fuzz (nominally GFZ) and distortion (RAT). Just for the hell of it

The Buzz Tone (DPE pedals) is lower gain than Fuzz Faces, and the Sure Shot (another Electra circuit) is much louder and up-front than a RAT. Sounds great at the low setting (as per photo) into the mainstay FX50.

The FX50 was hot rodded for me by Dr Bob in Australia - its a Neil Young in a box drive.

I'll try this combo, into my Pro Junior

Cool! Tremolo into overdrive is interesting - is that a typical Neil Young sound?

No, Neil was a notorious Boss BF-1 Flanger user

I've got one of those but its not practical to have it on the board, so I just use a Trem for a general purpose modulation

I always put it before the overdrive to get that vintage vibey swell as the trem attentuates the input to the overdrive

Especially with the T-Rex unit, which can provide quite a bit of boost into the FX50 in its own right

Zac Childs talks a bit about that here, from about 10:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t803xKDNQDU&t=78s

Interesting!

And about the BF-1: it is way about time that BOSS makes a BF-2w that contains the sound of the BF-2, BF-1*, HF-2 and BF-2B.

EDIT: *as noise-free as possible, please! The noise was the reason why I sold my BF-1 again.

that'd be nice

I've used my HF-2 on the Neil Young board to good effect previously, that's my favorite flanger for guitar

The HF-2 is one of the BOSS pedal that always got away from me. I should have bought one years ago when the prices were reasonable.

Really neat board!

Thanks for the band shot.

Thanks Laurie. I have to be careful to keep it to an absolute minimum - and i dont have anything on there I dont use at least twice during a show - thats my rule. For fly dates (like Darwin in the band shot) the board has to weigh less than 7kgs for hand luggage (which it does in this config)

Darwin is 4000kms (2500 miles) from Perth - roughly same distance as Perth to Sydney. That is the furtherest afield we have ventured. We've played Albany (400kms) and Esperance (700kms) a few times in the last few years, but Ive got a big old V8 Statesman (called a Chevy Caprice in US) for those trips

A V8 Statesman? Singlehandedly supporting the West Australian oil industry, eh?

Pepe wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:01 am

The HF-2 is one of the BOSS pedal that always got away from me. I should have bought one years ago when the prices were reasonable.

If you can fix it I'll send you my spare for cheap It worked then it didn't, mysterious!