madryan
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I'm running a DC-5 that I bought a while back off a member. It was born in Dec. of '98 and it's my second one. My setup is pretty simple as I play it weekly at my church. If you're wondering what sort of church music I'm playing I'll give you a hint... My clean channel is pristine and my gain channel is setup with the gain on 7 or 8 and both channel and master volumes on 3 which is pretty loud but not crazy loud.
I've built most of the pedals on my board which I also built. I use the exact same setup with my Orange head so it's fairly modular. Here's a few pix...
Notice the snake I made myself to run back to the amp...
Here's a pic of the connectors back at the amp. I use XLR connectors alot as they're cheap, extremely durable and allow me to customize stuff easily. I've got a different channel switching pigtail for my Orange but as you can see, the Mesa one is really straight foreward. Should my snake ever fail it's just a Mic cable.
Here's a shot of my board... I plug in to the little box up on the top left. It's an op amp based buffer that allows me to run through the various things on the board with no audible tone degradation. I built it from a board I bought from General Guitar Gadgets. From there it goes to my tuner, then to a box I like to call my reverse boost. It's simply a pot in a box with a stomp switch and a knob. I can dial in that sweet spot you're always trying to dial in on your guitar volume but I can pre-set it and then switch it on and off. It's hugely useful while playing live. From there I go back to the junction box and a standard Mogami cable runs my signal back to the amps input. From there the signal comes back out via a standard XLR/TRS stereo cable back to the box for the Boss DD-3 which I've done a high cut mod on so it's warmer and sounds more like an analog delay. Also, I have the two footswitches I built for my Orange. The left one switches channels on either amp. The right one switches functions... for the orange it's the reverb switch and on the Mesa it's the EQ switch. I generally dial in a monster crunch sound on my DC-5 with channel 2 and then have the EQ setup as shown above for a mid/volume boost for leads and whatnot.
The whole thing is really portable and can be setup in a few minutes. If you guys saw the Rig I built my buddy Lenny you'll see that this is much simpler. If anyone has any questions about building stuff like this or anything just drop me a line or better yet ask in the thread so everyone who's curious can learn something.
I've built most of the pedals on my board which I also built. I use the exact same setup with my Orange head so it's fairly modular. Here's a few pix...
Notice the snake I made myself to run back to the amp...
Here's a pic of the connectors back at the amp. I use XLR connectors alot as they're cheap, extremely durable and allow me to customize stuff easily. I've got a different channel switching pigtail for my Orange but as you can see, the Mesa one is really straight foreward. Should my snake ever fail it's just a Mic cable.
Here's a shot of my board... I plug in to the little box up on the top left. It's an op amp based buffer that allows me to run through the various things on the board with no audible tone degradation. I built it from a board I bought from General Guitar Gadgets. From there it goes to my tuner, then to a box I like to call my reverse boost. It's simply a pot in a box with a stomp switch and a knob. I can dial in that sweet spot you're always trying to dial in on your guitar volume but I can pre-set it and then switch it on and off. It's hugely useful while playing live. From there I go back to the junction box and a standard Mogami cable runs my signal back to the amps input. From there the signal comes back out via a standard XLR/TRS stereo cable back to the box for the Boss DD-3 which I've done a high cut mod on so it's warmer and sounds more like an analog delay. Also, I have the two footswitches I built for my Orange. The left one switches channels on either amp. The right one switches functions... for the orange it's the reverb switch and on the Mesa it's the EQ switch. I generally dial in a monster crunch sound on my DC-5 with channel 2 and then have the EQ setup as shown above for a mid/volume boost for leads and whatnot.
The whole thing is really portable and can be setup in a few minutes. If you guys saw the Rig I built my buddy Lenny you'll see that this is much simpler. If anyone has any questions about building stuff like this or anything just drop me a line or better yet ask in the thread so everyone who's curious can learn something.
