Heavenly tones galore on Joseph Wu’s pedalboard featuring an Origin Effects Cali76 Compact
“A little about me… My name is Joseph Wu, and I’m a musician based in Hong Kong. I am now serving as a worship leader/guitar player at my church in a Hong Kong. I mainly play worship music nowadays, but I’ve session-ed for several recording artists here in Asia, prior to moving to Hong Kong.
“The way I have my board set up is quite simple. Guitar goes into a custom junction box which acts as a master mute, an input buffer as well as an output buffer. From there, it goes to my RC Booster which is always on. I use this to dial in tone depending on the guitar I’m using. That goes into the Musicomlab switcher – a true bypass looper with 10 programmable loops, also with midi functionalities for my Strymon pedals – does the whole one touch preset thing so I’m not tap dancing.
Loop 1 – Origin Effects Cali76 Compact compressor (always on)
Loop 2 – EHX POG2
Loop 3 – Emerson Custom Paramount Overdrive (stage 1 overdrive)
Loop 4 – JHS Superbolt (I use this for my 2nd stage overdrive… Does the bright thing real well and cuts through the mix nicely)
Loop 5 – JHS The Kilt (3rd stage overdrive, with the boost set to post drive)
Loop 6 – Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz
Volume pedal in/out
Loop 7 – Cusack Tap- a-Whirl
Loop 8 – Walrus Audio Julia
Then it goes stereo out to the Timeline and then the BigSky, then stereo return back to the junction box, and back out to the amps.
The Musicomlab has a tuner out so I keep my tuner there. The switcher also has setlist mode so I can program specific songs into the setlist and bank up and down smoothly.
Guitars used: Fender Telecaster, Fender Jazzmaster
Amps: Morgan AC20 DeluxeWe stumbled across this great pedalboard on the internet recently and spotted our Cali76 Compact compressor on it! We got in contact with it’s owner, Joseph Wu, who shed some light on how he uses his compressor and other pedals…
