I built my ULTIMATE DREAM pedalboard

Mike is a gem, and deserves all the icecream he’s ever eaten

I'm a sound engineer and I seriously question why for stereo effects. When it comes to PA design, there aren't many times where it actually makes sense to run a PA in stereo for a live event. To use stereo effectively, you need the listener(s) to be roughly centered between two speaker stacks. In very few venues can you have more than about 20% of the crowd in the center coverage area such that either the left or the right is too dominant to really perceive that the other speaker even exists. Stereo is awesome for headphones, broadcast, and recording... but for a live crowd it definitely doesn't help and often hurts due to comb filtering of the two sound fields. I'd love to hear any reasoned arguments to the contrary. I'm a lifelong learner and am willing to be proven wrong.

My mini pedalboard? A Friedman irx, a Wampler Pantheon, and an Eventide H90 with 2 mini expression pedals. Yes, it costs more than a helix, but it sounds absolutely perfect.

loving seeing someone put together a perfect board

I always learned so much from your videos. This is dope

Fantastic Tone Mob chat, Mike. Would love to see you develop your own podcast too.

Appreciate the explanations of your pedal choices. I recently added the Plethora X5 into the effects loop my my HX Stomp XL. I've been moving all of my patches to stereo and added MIDI to control the X5. Lots and lots of options.

Love your videos Bro ! :)

Cool board!! I like the idea of using the tonex as a catch-all drive pedal. I haven’t seen that done before!

Could you do a video with the most minimalist pedal board? Like the essentials for beginner-intermediate guitar players looking to get into pedal boards? btw love the content <3 (thank you guys for the advice down below!)

Great video!

Great video Mike! You're so likable. I still have faith in the HX STOMP myself. Even though thd. Quad Cortex and so forth is all the rage. Your Pedalboard sound just as good as either

One thing I’ve recently tried on the helix is amazing. After my amp/cab block, I have an “always on” stereo reverb (dynamic ambience). I have the room size at 10m, predelay at 0, and mix at 50%. Everything else I just kept factory settings. If listening through an amp/amps, headphones, or even studio monitors, it really gives that studio sound. Almost like doubling guitar without sounding too filtered. It just brings it to life. That’s as good as I can explain. I was listening to stadium arcadium album’s master guitar tracks, trying to match John frusciante’s “in the room” sound. It’s so close to what that album sounds like, it has given me so much inspiration.

Nice to see you playing an Ibanez. They are so underrated.

Just subscribed, but I've been binge watching your videos. Good stuff!

The more things that are on a board=the more points of potential failure. Reverb is great at home but reverb is also the most dispensable effect for live guitar in a rock band context, imho.

Great content as usual!! I’m the Pod Go dude 😊 won’t let you down

My Boss GT-1 was the most impressive piece of guitar-gear I’ve purchased in the past few-years. I never thought I’d use one for anything but practice, but it’s been a workhorse.

I like that board! Good pedal choices…one thing I noticed is string noise when changing fretting positions…if you use coated strings it will help mitigate that issue.

I built my board based around versatility as well. The HX One is incredible. I don't understand why people hated on it.