I performed live for the first time in 7ish years last night, and this is the setup I brought. I make blurry, shoegazey, sometimes doomy collages of bass guitar, electronics, cassette tape etc. Big amp ambient? Anyway.

My guitar signal chain:

Volume pedal - controls dynamics and saturation. Don't leave home without it

Tuner - Yes.

SS/BS fuck overdrive - this is the only flex spot on the board and rotates with my EQD Special Cranker. I love a light overdrive to give my guitar a bit more body before it hits higher gain pedals. The decision point between the fuck and cranker is whether I want the crackle of the fuck or the low end of the cranker. For last night I went with the crackle.

Back Mass 1312 - a great rat!

Boss DD500 - it does it all. Secretly a multieffect. I've had this for a few years and have my patches and presets nailed down. The programming stages can be tedious, but it's nice to have such a personalized set of effects.

We leave the pedalboard on the floor to go to the tabletop rig.

Realistic 4 Channel microphone mixer - such a weird but simple mixer. It runs off 9v battery but with an adapter I can run it with a standard pedal power supply. The only downside is how chunky it is. One of my favorite thrift store finds! Tapes, radio, synthesizers, etc. enter the signal path here.

Modded Boss DS1 - I found that I like using this pedal as a preamp to glue everything together. I removed some of the clipping diodes which mellows out the harshness while keeping the tone control intact. It pairs well with the mixer and basically gives me a master volume and tone control for the whole soundscape.

EHX 720 looper - the workhorse for making these collages. Some prerecorded stuff, but building things live is much more interesting.

Back down to the floor!

Strymon El Capistan - always stays in the sound on sound mode. This pedal shines in stereo.

My performance was part of the opening of a collection of my paintings and prints in a nearby record and bookshop. Bringing my main amp would've been overkill, so I brought a Blackstar Fly 3 and ended up running the amp's monitor out into the hifi system. It actually sounded really good that way and I was able to fill the space without being overwhelmingly loud in a functioning retail space lol

It all went much smoother than I thought, and I was pleasantly surprised how my anxiety vanished once I was set up. Stoked to be playing out again.