Bob Bradshaw Pedalboards On Guitar Universe

Pedalboard maker to the stars Bob Bradshaw explains the differences between the typical pedal board and the ones his Custom Audio Engineering custom designs and builds.

Los Angeles session guitar player and Toto member Steve Lukather stops by give some examples.

Produced by David Swartz, Bobby Owsinski and Mark Waldrep for Fiesta Red Productions and 2b Media, Distributed by Tubemogul.

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• Bob Brradshaw
• Guitar Universe
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• Steve Lukather

[Alessandoctor]

how many lives takes to pay all these?

[igknightus]

I have one complaint about this.....What if, like me, you like the colored tone you are getting from the pedals being hooked up in a certian order? Such as the muddy ness you get from your delay by hooking it infront of your distortion....you know kinda eric johnson like...can you still get that from this system?

[fragment7]

@igknightus then put a delay pedal infront of your amp?

[timmy47]

i only use 5 or 6 pedals and usually only one is on at a time and thats just for solos. sometimes 2 if i want to have a wah solo or univibe or sometimes delay (hardly ever use it). so i guess this isnt for me.

[MrUltraworld]

A great concept. But it costs a small fortune. And you need to know how to program & trouble shoot it.

[whynottalklikeapirat]

@igknightus put the pedals that achieve that effect into one loop and use other loops for other characteristics. Analyse ur rig - maybe its just one or two pedals that make the effect. Isolate those in a loop for that effect or put them before or after everything else. If its a certain eq characteristic u like maybe that can be obtained through eq which doesnt subtract from the direct signal. Often its the "softer" feel people like about boards - not how they end up sounding in live mix

[mwaggy1]

(con't from below) From the Output Jack On Your Guitar to Your Cabs..try to find rack units with dedicated fx loops and dynamic range < -90 db; preferably < -100 db. Also, Don't skimp on cabling..one cheap cab cable can make you sound like trash...kinda like golf...a custom set of clubs won't have you shooting par, but a set that doesn't fit will find you fishing

[mwaggy1]

signal paths have always been the key to great tone and presence, particularly at high volume..every tech, player, engineer and producer has their own 'secrets,' but I have moved to a more practical approach...use relatively inexpensive rack units (tc m-300; Hafler T-2; Carvin Quad-X) to shape your tone; control them with MIDI and steer the output thru a decent tube amp (Carvin Tube 100 for me) and then to decent cabs (Boogie 1x12's work great) and mic or go live..but Know Your Signal Path

[GuitarArtStudio]

nice takes 

[concretedreadlocks]

from the line selector a lead to the combo amp. Will a power conditioner sort this out ? im thinking it could be a ground loop, but im just a dumb ass guitar player, can some one please point me in the right direction

[concretedreadlocks]

the problem i have is, i have troulble getting my boost for soloing. I run a Soldano SLO 100 head through quads, overdrive pedal, wah and boss tuner pedal. to get the boost i use a Soldano combo. the signal path is, slave out of slo100 to boss line selector set in a b position. this works fine exept this incurs a pretty nasty hum. my only solution is to run combo(boost amp) from another power circuit and power the line selector with a battery. is there a way to do this on one single circuit.