Pedal Line Friday – 5/23 – Roland Anderson

Today’s pedal line is from Roland Anderson. 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.

My name is Roland Anderson.  I’ve been playing for 29 years, but I just started using a pedalboard about 5 yrs. ago.  Before that, I just plugged straight into the amp, or had a dirt pedal between the guitar and amp.

Due to time constraints, I do not play in a band right now.  But I do manage to get out to an open jam a couple of times a month.

I have 3 main guitars- Gibson Les Paul Trad Pro, Epiphone Les Paul Custom, and Fender American Deluxe Strat that plug into a Rebel board.  Then the line of pedals that follow in the this order:

1. Korg Pitchblack.  I use the normal setting and never had a problem seeing it, even outside.  I also use it to cut the signal when changing guitars.

2. Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH-1B wah.  I don’t think this really that close to Jimi’s wah, but I love the flavor of it.  It’s very vocal sounding, and looks killer with the chrome and white trim.

3. Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde.  I bought this one brand new when they first came out.  Since I play blues and metal, it’s been a perfect pedal for me.  I just reached the top of the list for Analogman KOT.  I plan on swapping these two pedals out, depending on what genre I going to play.

4. Diamond Cornerstone.  I won this pedal from Premier Guitar last year during it’s Stompboxtober event.  I didn’t put it on my board immediately, because I didn’t have room.  I have yet to play with it at stage volume, but from what I can tell, I like it so far.

5.  Boss TR-2.  I use this pedal mainly for mellow rhythms, not much else.

6.  Boss PH-2.  I only use this pedal to add a little flavor to a solo occasionally.  Actually I bought the TR-2, PH-2, and a Danelectro modulation pedal (can’t remember what it is right now, but it a leslie simulator) all for $60 from someone just trying to get rid of some equipment.

7.  Boss NS-2.  I only use this pedal to get rid of the excess noise when playing hard rock and metal.  Never use it for playing blues. I would use it to cut the signal, but it’s easier to activate the Korg, since it’s on the bottom row.

I had an MXR 10 band eq, and an MXR Dyna Comp, but they added too much noise to the signal, and I never used them anyways.

All of the pedals are powered by a 1 spot.

This is a link to a previous band I was in before.  I was using the J&H pedal on most of the songs.  https://myspace.com/kemistery