Dashboards

Part 3: Layout // this is part of the fun of setting up a pedalboard. It's like Tetris or something...I'm using my old Dashboard as a guide to see how I want to line everything up before I move to the new one to mark/drill for the hard wired setup. In the process I've decided to simplify even more and not use the volume pedal. It's so interesting to me that at one time it was guitar > amp in rock n roll. In old live albums you can hear the band tuning to each other (through the PA) because there were no stomp box tuners. Now we have all of this great stuff to use in our efforts to cover more sonic space as guitar players...but using it sparingly can be such a good thing. Davinci said simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That's been our mantra at Dashboards over the past few years and that's what I'm going for with this new setup. Feel free to post questions/comments below. Have a great weekend yall!!

Part 2: Pedals. I've got all the pedals that I'm going to be installing on my DB ready to go. Before drilling all the holes and finalizing the layout I'll walk you through the signal path. Guitar > Dashboard input > Buffer (under board) > Diamond Comp. > Keeley 808 Mod > Custom Shop fulldrive > Ernie Ball VP Jr (Tuner) > Fulltone Supatrem > Line6 DL4 (JHV3 tap input) > Boss DD5 (JHS analog mod) > Boss RV5 > side output 1. The stereo split will happen out of the DD5 and into the RV5. Then it'll go through a gigrig humdinger under the board making the second output isolated and having a phase switch. This will then hit output 2 on the side of the Dashboard. Up next will be the layout and drilling on the board itself.