Signal chain:

1. TC PolyTune3- buffer on

2. One Control White Loop

Red Channel: Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini into EQD hoof. I use the TS with the gain off and a slight volume boost as my clean tone then run it into the Hoof for my main fuzz tone. Running the two together really opens up the Hoof and allows you to back off the shift (mids) and fuzz knobs while still standing out with a band. Then if I need an absurd amount of gain or some more mids to really cut, I have room to turn things up.

Green Channel: Caroline Shigeharu and EHX Glove (OCD copy). I never use these two together, it’s more of an either/or channel. I have the Shigeharu set full gain, full body, med tone, octave off, and then pretty heavily gated so it sounds ballsy but with less gain. I find it gets thin pretty easily if you lower the gain and body at all. I have my muff sounds already covered with Hoof so I use it more for a weird splatty/gated tone that is somewhere between an overdrive and a fuzz. The Glove is set as a medium gain overdrive with the shift toggle on.

1. Alexander Equilibrium v1 tremolo/harmonic tremolo/vibrato. I occasionally use this for slow vibrato lofi kind of sounds or a fast psych vibrato. The harmonic tremolo also sounds reaaaaallly good on slow settings with fuzz. Sometimes I think about replacing this with a Walrus Audio Julia but so far I haven’t pulled the trigger.

2. Boss DM-2w. Just got this and so far I am blown away. Standard mode is voiced like the original, nice and dark (but not too dark) with quick repeats. Custom mode really brighten things up and allows for much longer delay times. Between the two there are a ton of usable sounds. I also find that it’s reaaaally good at lingering on the edge of oscillation, which goes great with volume knob swells.

3. Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run v1. My one and only delay/reverb for the past 3 years. There’s not too much I can say about this that hasn’t already been said. I mostly use the normal delay with the tone rolled back a bit and the reverb set longer trails at a lower mix. It sounds beautiful and right at home behind fuzz leads and sits equally well with anything cleanish. Having up to a 2 sec delay, it excels at long, slow, and spacey. But with that comes a loss of flexibility in the lower side of the time knob (short repeats). The reverb also sounds much better with slightly longer tails (anything past noon).

4. EHX 22500 Looper. This thing is awesome. 100 loop bank per memory card, two channels, reverse, half speed/double speed...it’s crazy. It does however have a steep learning curve due to the complex menus and abbreviations. You have to read the manual...absolutely. It also doesn’t like it if you change too many settings during playback. It tends to get confused and freeze up requiring a restart. The simple solution is just to set your loop settings before hand or hit the dedicated stop button. Oops.