Pedal Line Friday – 7/30 – Ben Hutcherson

Today’s pedal line is from Ben Hutcherson. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedalline@nulleffectsbay.com. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

From L to R:

Top Row: Boss DD3, Eventide Pitchfactor, Barber Dirty Bomb

Bottom Row: EHX Stereo Memory with Hazarai, Whirlwind ABY, Catalinbread Pareidolia Harmonic Mesmerizer, Korg Pitchblack, Dunlop 95q wah, Morley Little Alligator volume pedal (EffectsBay note.. I see a MXR Carbon Copy Delay on that bottom row)

All of this is housed on a Pedal Pad XL.

I run two rigs live in my psychadelic doom/sludge band Galaxicon (www.myspace.com/galaxicon, http://listn.to/galaxicon). Rig A (Sunn Beta Bass Lead into a Vader 4×12) comes from the SMMH into the amp, while rig B (Engl Straight 100) has the DD3 in the signal path. I have the settings cranked on the DD3 for a long delay with lots of repeats for transition parts where a note (or feedback) will repeat on Rig B while I am playing on Rig A. Yes, lots of tapdancing happens with this board. And yes, I love delay. The Dirty Bomb satisfied my dirt needs after experimenting with lots of different pedals. It’s an affordable semi-boutique (did I just make that up? Maybe.) pedal with a really neat feature: a switch that controls the mid voicing. Adding that mid boost makes the sound so much fuller, and I love it.