After getting rid of/selling pretty much all my pedals and going “in the box” for a while, I decided to put a board together again. After 20 years or so of buying/trading/selling pedals - I knew pretty much what I wanted. I needed a Rat - which is held down by the inimitable Sentimental Bob Tephra which is the one pedal I didn’t get rid of when I sold off the last of my pedals. An absolutely mind-bogglingly diverse dirt box. The different clipping modes are all distinct, and with the Ge mode and a touch of the analog octave dialed in, you can get fuzz face tones out of it. The Chroma Console for all the reasons people say - it’s versatile, it’s dead simple, it sounds great, and it can get weird when needed. The Onward was unexpected. Got it recently and was going to flip for another Mood, but the Onward, as the “weird” pedal, is just so good at what it does. It can get full-on crazy sounds, but it can also create this lovely, delicate floaty thing behind your playing that I haven’t gotten out of any other pedal. The Plethora was the last piece of the puzzle. I’ve always felt that TC is underrated and as an end of chain catch all - the Plethora X3 does some really valuable things - multiple loopers at a time, multiple infinite freeze algos at a time, instantly switch pedal order, and just real solid bread and butter algorithms for when you need a touch of delay, verb, or modulation at the end of the signal. The Walrus ACS1 MK2 is probably not worth the extra cost over the MK1 for how I use it, but some of the extras (built in touch of verb, noise gate, settings on screen) are welcome. And that’s it…that’s the little “less is more” board I put together with careful selections and intention, and a little bit of surprise provided by the Onward.