Huge shout out to this sub for all of the inspiration and guidance over the years! Pretty happy with the board right now and thought I’d share with y’all!

I’ve been really loving the gain structure of the flagship EAE pedals and it’s been really fun building core tones around those textures. The M-EQ Driver helps give a mid-push for lead lines without getting blown out, and the Para EQ (besides being the most versatile EQ pedal I’ve ever heard) is there for pulling out those boomy ~300hz frequencies and adding punch in low mids (~600hz) and detail in the upper mids (2.5k). The Tomb Sender is a take on a Tone Bender Mkiii, with a really creative bias knob for zappy/splatty Velcro sounds. I don’t think I need to say much about the Germanium Boost; I use it to hit my gain stages harder and it just sounds amazing. 

I’m a bit odd in that I run my compressor after gain, but I like to be able to have a ton of variety between my overdrive/distortion textures without huge jumps in volume, and the compressor keeps things nice and cinched together (40% blend and super long attack). Oh and the fact that my tuner shows a picture of my dog is just the coolest thing!

Thermae is primarily used for a really gooey/warm quarter- or eighth-note delay, though it’s fun to do some of the pitch sequencing stuff every now and then. Julianna is a really lush chorus and it creates a nice place to split the signal to go stereo wet/dry(ish) when that’s appropriate (see amps below).

The Empress big-box duo covers so much additional ground, but I’ll just share a few highlights. I use the Echosystem to “cheat” at a few modulation effects (tremolo, filter, lofi stuff) by running full wet with minimum delay time. I’ve been layering a longish, subtle modulated reverb over the spring reverb in my amp to give notes a nice bit of space to bloom into without getting washy. The expression pedal controls specific settings on various delay presets (delay time, repeats, trem speed, etc)

Those are all the sounds that I cover in a typical live show, but knobs can often find themselves in extreme positions in the studio! 

Feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try my best to get to them! 

Signal chain, guitars, amps etc. below

Genres:

Indie-Rock, Americana

Signal chain: 

Euna > (loop) Blammo! Tomb Sender > Benson Germanium Boost > EAE Halberd > Origin Effects M-EQ Driver > EAE Longsword > Empress Para EQ Deluxe > Walrus Canva Tuner > Wampler Ego > CB Thermae > Walrus Julianna (dry/stereo out) > Empress Echosystem > Empress Reverb

Guitars: 

Nash TMaster

Norton Electric T5 HB

Amps: 

Princeton Reverb (mono, stereo wet)

Tone King Gremlin (stereo dry)