Pedal Board Breakdown – Jimmy Shaw – Metric

The other day I received an email from Mike Vegas of Nice Rack Canada letting me know about a recent board they just put together for the guitarist of Metric – Jimmy Shaw. I’m a fan of the Canadian band Metric.

We recently built this system for Guitarist Jimmy Shaw of Metric. I’ve been a fan of the album Live it Out for years. I have to admit that I don’t know too much about Jimmy Shaw, so this is great to see his board, and man… it’s pretty awesome.

Below is the what Mike wrote about Jimmy’s rig:

The controller board is at Jimmy’s home position onstage and the effects offstage. Due to the size of aircraft often involved in the bands logistics, a pedalboard format was preferred over a rack system without compromising the functionality of a MIDI switching rig which could interface with Ableton.

The signal flow is 2x Parallel Series Wired MIDI Controlled True Bypass.

Path 1 is Boss OD3 – DOD FX55 – Throne Room Revelator – Electro Harmonix POG2 – Nice Rack Canada Gain Adjust Insert – Red Witch Titan Delay – Eventide Space – Boss PN2 Tremolo – Amp.

Path 2 is Boss OD3 – Fulltone FullDrive 2 – Electro Harmonix Big Muff Tone Wicker – Nice Rack Canada Clean Boost – Nice Rack Canada Gain Adjust Insert – Strymon Timeline – Dr Scientist Red Reverberator

Pedal Power 2+ & Pedal Power Digital System Power Supplies by Voodoo Lab.

RJM Music Y Not to control feeds into both audio paths & 4x Mini Effects Gizmo to switch audio devices in & out of the signal path.

Fractal Audio MFC101 MIDI Controller.

MFC101 Labels by PedalboardLabels.com

MIDI Solutions Quadra Thru & Thru.

System Design, Custom Interface Boxes, Wiring & Clean Boost Pedal by Nice Rack Canada.