Pedal Line Friday – 8/31 – Matt Chapman

Today’s pedal line is from Matt Chapman. 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.

Hi there here’s my submission – love the site.

EHX Little Big Muff (POW)
It’s only recently I got this and then decided it needed a custom paint job. I saw (and missed out on) a LBM that had the Big Red logo on it, and fell in love. I like the idea of customising pedals, making it your own. Same with an instrument I guess.

EHX Freeze
Use this to make drones and low level layers in ambient pieces.

EHX Micro Pog
Never gonna be able to afford the full POG or have the space, but I love the big sounds I can get out of this, just expands everything.

Boss Digital Pitch Shift/Delay PS-2
I picked this pedal up for not much at all,from an awesome shop as a teenager and had no idea the bargain I lucked onto. This pedal served as my pitch shift before the Micro Pog, but it’s the delay I really use it for. Despite being digital it is lovely and lo-fi, and glitchy when you switch between modes. The oscillations at high feedback are amazing too.

EHX Stereo Pulsar
The best tremolo I’ve ever come across, other that all the rates I seem to want are between 9 o’clock and 9 thirty.

Behringer PH9
Supposedly a clone of the Phase 90, don’t know how accurate that is, but I love the really subtle wash this adds, and it works well after the PS-2 as well.

Behringer Vintage Delay VD400
This one is in theory a clone of the early Boss analog delay. It oscillates in mad ways, and I use it for a long trail underneath longer delays from the PS-2 and to expand the drones from the Freeze.

Bright Onion Kill Switch
Bright Onion make great loopers and bypass sort of switches, definitely worth checking out. I use this to put a hard end on drones and feedbacks.

Behringer Reverb Machine RV600
This is placed after the kill switch so I get the decays after the cut off from the kill switch. This is an amazing reverb pedal. It’s a clone of the Line 6 Verbzilla but for almost a third of the price. It sounds amazing and has enough models to keep anybody happy. I use the plate setting the most, but Cave is really quite fun.

Off Board I have a Digitech JamMan to loop the ambient-y stuff and and triggering some pre recorded things. There’s also as TU-2 lying around. Input wise I use a MicroKorg, a MacBook running Ableton Live, with a Novation Launchpad. I play ambient loop-y electronica live but at home I plug in in my Tanglewood SG copy as well.