Jack Griffiths Pedalboard Build [Monster Analog & Digital Board PLUS UA Lion!]

Dan undertakes an epic board build from scratch for our good friend Jack Welcome to the show! There are times in life when you just need to start from scratch. This is one such time for our good friend Jack Griffiths, who has recently quit the day job - you may know him from Peach Guitars - to go all-in as a professional musician. Jack approached Dan for a TBB - Total Board Build - to give him everything he might need in terms of compression, gain stages, modulation, delay and reverb… into either regular guitar amps or direct to DAW/desk. It’s a big job, but somebody’s gotta do it! Sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing and enjoy watching Jack’s dream board come into being. Enjoy the episode! And please visit That Pedal Shop Pedals and stuff used in this video… • Dunlop Mini Volume X (Expression mode) UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Dunlop Volume X (Expression mode) UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Universal Audio MAX UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • TheGigRig Remote Loopy 2 • Mythos Argonaut UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Great Eastern FX Co Focus Fuzz UK & Europe: Australia: • Line 6 HX Stomp UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Pro Co RAT UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Browne Protein Dual Overdrive UK & Europe: Australia: • Cornerstone Imperium • Universal Audio Lion UK & Europe: • Universal Audio Astra UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Strymon Lex UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Strymon Timeline UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • Universal Audio Golden Reverberator UK & Europe: Australia: USA: • TheGigRrig G3 Interesting bits and go-to sections 0:00 Intro to today’s show 0:37 The board choice 1:38 The big idea for the board 3:02 Never used a proper switcher 3:45 Arriving at a layout 5:17 Starting the build 6:35 It takes a long time 8:05 Standoffs for cable tidiness 8:30 Power thoughts 9:40 Putting the pedals on in loop order 10:40 Using Dual Lock, pedalboard tape 11:40 Loops and pedals so far 14:25 Solderless patch cables 15:58 Many hours later, power up! 19:18 Signal path diagram 19:33 Time to plug it in! 20:08 Checking the loops = fuzzes 20:55 UA Max, always on? 22:20 HX Stomp 24:20 RAT! 25:08 Browne Protein 26:35 Cornerstone Imperium 28:00 Mythos Mjolnir 29:30 The mystery of loop 6. With diagrams 31:40 The stereo loops explanation 32:35 Strymon Lex sounds 33:27 UA Astra sounds 34:55 Strymon Timeline 39:06 UA Golden 40:05 Turning a bunch of stuff on 42:30 Thoughts so far? 43:12 End of day 1, Jack has a play 46:10 Jack returns a few weeks later 50:25 Another expression pedal? 53:12 Anything surprised you so far? 54:20 Amps? 55:31 What is that SG?! 56:30 How Jack approaches presets 59:04 Loop 6 again 59:39 A revisit to the gain pedals 1:04:08 Imperium or Protein? 1:06:13 Focus Fuzz! 1:10:15 Back to the Astra & Lex sounds 1:12:00 The point of two loops for the HX Stomp 1:13:40 Explaining the UA Lion 1:16:35 Direct sounds via the UA Lion 1:23:00 3 of the cab sounds in the Lion 1:24:40 Closing thoughts Guitars in this episode • Suhr Alt T Pro • Gibson Custom Murphy Lab 1964 SG With Maestro Vibrola Amps in this episode • Victory V140 The Super Duchess with Tone King 112 cab with standard speaker • Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary • Suhr Badger 35 with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker • 1970s Carlsbro 100 [behind Dan] with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel. You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives Please visit our preferred retailers! UK & Europe: Andertons Music Australia: Pedal Empire