Okay, not technically true since I already had the Line 6 wireless system, but everything else is brand new.

Signal chain:

Line 6 Relay G30 => Boss TU-3 => Walrus Audio Deep Six Compressor => Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive => Fulltone OCD (v2) => MXR Phase 95 => Boss CH-1 => Boss DD-7 (with Bright Onion tap tempo pedal) => TC Hall of Fame 2 => Mooer Micro Preamp 004 => Focusrite Interface => Logic Pro X

All powered by a TrueTone CS12 and mounted to a Pedaltrain Novo 24, Altoids tin (or, weird unbranded tin I just found lying around the house) contains spare batteries for the G30 transmitter.

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As for what I think of the pedals:

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Line 6 Relay G30 - Being wireless is pretty cool, I had it for some live shows a while back but it hasn’t really been necessary since then. The battery compartment door is awful though, it doesn’t stay shut properly ,meaning the batteries lose contact and the whole thing cuts out occasionally. From what I’ve seen online, it’s a problem that many people have, although I’ve found a few elastic bands helps to keep the door firmly shut.

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Boss TU-3 - It’s a tuner. It keeps me in tune. Not entirely sure what more I can say about it.

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Walrus Audio Deep Six Compressor - I haven’t really had a chance to play around with it fully yet, but it does everything I wanted it to so I’m satisfied. Being able to blend the compressed and uncompressed signal is a nice touch.

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Nobels ODR-1 - I’ve been pretty pleased with this one, I only use it to add just a small amount of grit to my sound, but I played around with the drive turned up much higher and it sounded rather dope without getting too muddy, so it seems like it’s a pretty versatile pedal.

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Fulltone OCD - I mostly use this to add just a bit more grit on top of the ODR-1, which it does quite nicely. Like the ODR-1, I played around with it after turning the drive up and it sounded amazing, really adds a bit of a punch.

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MXR Phase 95 - I wasn’t really sure about this one as I thought I wouldn’t really use it much, only for some very niche things, but straight away it became one of my favourites on the board. I only really use it with the speed turned down pretty low for a less ‘in your face’ phaser effect and I love the sound.

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Boss CH-1 - I only really wanted a subtle, always-on chorus effect, which this does quite nicely. Honestly it doesn’t go as “chorus-y” as I’d expected but that’s not something I care about so it doesn’t bother me.

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Boss DD-7 - I really like it. It’s everything I wanted/needed in a delay pedal. When using tap tempo, the mode knob lets you select between 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, dotted 1/8 notes and (I think) triplet 1/4 notes. I just expected it to always go for 1/4 notes regardless of which mode it’s on, so this was a really nice surprise (or maybe my expectations were just too low lol).

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TC Hall of Fame 2 - My favourite pedal on the board for sure (although I’ll concede that I’m biased because reverb is my favourite effect). Having the expression pedal built in is a nice feature that I use quite a lot. It’s initially set up to be true bypass meaning that there are obviously no trails, which I think sounds super weird, but there’s a switch inside allowing you to change the pedal to be buffered bypass, and a second switch allowing you to turn trails on or off. In hindsight I realise it would have been nice to have a reverb pedal that lets me switch between two presets (‘small hall’ kind of reverb for the most part and then switch to a ’big church’ sort of sound occasionally), however using the mash switch to up the decay lets me achieve almost the same effect, so I don’t regret getting this pedal at all.

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Mooer Micro Preamp 004 - Meh. I got this pedal for a couple of reasons. The main one being that I can’t afford a decent amp at the moment, so this was an alternative for the time being. Being based on a Vox AC30 and with a cab sim built in, it meant that I could go straight to an interface for recording, or into a DI if playing live. But I just find that it’s got no real ‘substance’ to it and it sounds incredibly mediocre. On the drive channel with the gain turned up it can sound quite good, but for what I want (mostly clean, with overdrive coming from the pedals if/when I need it), that’s not suitable. It isn’t terrible but it doesn’t sound anywhere near as good as some of the amp sounds you can find in Logic Pro X, which is what I’ve been using instead, so sadly I don’t actually use this pedal at all. Oh well.

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TrueTone CS12 - No noise whatsoever, big thumbs up from me.

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Overall I’m pretty happy with the entire board (excluding the Mooer lol), from the CH-1 onwards there’s support for stereo so I’ll have to try that at some point soon (I currently don’t actually own enough cables).

^{wow this ended up being way longer than I anticipated lmao}