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.

I've torn up and rearranged my board a million times but there are exactly 3 pedals that have never left it and probably never will: Boss DD-500, Source Audio EQ, and Peterson Strobostomp.

loving seeing someone put together a perfect board

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.

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

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

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.

Love your videos Bro ! :)

Great video!

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

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

I’ve been focusing on my time based effects more than anything. I’m running two reverbs and a delay, Blue Sky, Sloer and Fable. I had the Timeline, but it has more options than I could ever possibly use and I would imagine the Big Sky is the same way. The blue sky is everything I could possibly want in a reverb pedal.

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.

I got so sick of chasing "klon" type pedals that i just sold a bunch of "klon" type pedals and bought an actual Klon. Love it. Will have it a lifetime.

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.

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

Go Mike❤