A Beautifully Boutique ‘Board from Instagram
A pedalboard full of highly-desirable effects kept rearing its head in our Instagram feed and we just had to know more! The prize-worthy board belongs to @sbe81, AKA Steven, and we dropped him an email asking for some more photos and information. Here’s what he had to say:I play Strats most of the time, that’s my preferred guitar by far, I have 5 of them and these are all made by Smitty Guitars from the Netherlands. I used to have Fender Custom Shops but sold them all once I got to know the quality that independent small builders can give.
The amps are a 1971 Fender Super Reverb (with some mods) and a Two-Rock Classic Reverb 50W with a Two-Rock 4×10″ (I also have a 2×12″ but prefer the 4×10″). I go for a big clean tone that works as a great platform for my pedals. Both amps do this perfect and with my band I even prefer the Fender. It’s a slightly brighter tone that works better with a whole band compared to the Two-Rock.
The music that we play with the band is blues driven, some own stuff but most of the times covers from the likes of SRV / Philip Sayce / Gary Clark jr. / Doyle Bramhall II / Kenny Wayne Shepherd / Eric Tessmer / etc…Pedalboard:
I use a Temple board Trio 28
Signal path:
–> Chase Tone Script Wah
–> Diaz Square Face Germanium Fuzz/ Echopark F1 Fuzz/ Vemuram Shanks 3K
–> Chicago Iron Octavian
–> Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe
–>
–> GigRig Quartermaster 6
–> Sonic Research Tuner
–> Oxvibe
–> Silver Klon Centaur
–> Ibanez 1980 TS808 Tubescreamer
–> Van Weelden Royal Overdrive
–> DLS RotoSpin Leslie / Chase Bliss Gravitas Tremolo
–>
–> Vertex Boost
–> Chase Tone Secret Preamp (under the board)
–> Analogman ARDX20 Dual Delay
Power comes from a Pedal Power 2+ and an ISO5 from Voodoo Labs.
