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In an effort to cause less stress in terms of moving equipment around (especially for gigging) I have been downsizing my board slowly over the last few weeks.

I have gone from about 14/15 down to 10. I am now struggling to lose anything else on the board. I keep experimenting with different pedals, I may get an M5 at some point...

Tonights board:

Boss CS-2
Wilson effects funk factory (Wah)
Boss NS-2
Planet waves tuner
Wilson effects Uber Fubar Bliss (Buzzaround circuit)
Xotic effects EP Booster
MXR 6-band EQ
Wilson effects Deluxe Haze (OTT chorus/Vibe)
Boss CE-2
Boss DD-6

I still may take the Mooer pitch box and my Wampler crush the button... =/

I still feel that 12 isn't really needed. I have dirt on the amp so I could rule the cruch the button out (but it's a cool pedal!!). The pitch box is a 'less is more' pedal and would rarely get used. So I probably won't take that tonight. I need to get a true bypass looper at some point...

All the other pedals will be gathering dust at home...

I currently own a M5 and they are great, and it could safely replace 3 of your pedals, the chorus, delay and tuner... however if you use those together I would say go for the M9... I had the M9 before I got the M5 and I do miss it at times, mostly because all the effects can be there one stomp away instead of going up and down a list to find the one you're looking for... nothing sucks more than being in the middle of a song and THEN remembering you need a dotted 8th delay for the bridge and you're in the chorus bank... took me a few gigs to realize I needed to pretty much PLAN my effects settings for the set, some nights I would have to make notes on the set list so I wouldn't forget which effect to have loaded in the M5... with the M9 it was just there... waiting...in the end it was the size that made me sell it though I really wanted to shrink my pedal board and the fact that I seldom used more than one Mod or Delay at time made the decision easier...

Elessar [Sly] wrote:In an effort to cause less stress in terms of moving equipment around (especially for gigging) I have been downsizing my board slowly over the last few weeks.

I have gone from about 14/15 down to 10. I am now struggling to lose anything else on the board. I keep experimenting with different pedals, I may get an M5 at some point...

Tonights board:

Boss CS-2
Wilson effects funk factory (Wah)
Boss NS-2
Planet waves tuner
Wilson effects Uber Fubar Bliss (Buzzaround circuit)
Xotic effects EP Booster
MXR 6-band EQ
Wilson effects Deluxe Haze (OTT chorus/Vibe)
Boss CE-2
Boss DD-6

I still may take the Mooer pitch box and my Wampler crush the button... =/

I still feel that 12 isn't really needed. I have dirt on the amp so I could rule the cruch the button out (but it's a cool pedal!!). The pitch box is a 'less is more' pedal and would rarely get used. So I probably won't take that tonight. I need to get a true bypass looper at some point...

All the other pedals will be gathering dust at home...

I have an MXR true bypass loop pedal I bought off amazon a few weeks ago. It is very robust in construction and works great. I have 4 pedals in its loop I use for synthy lead tones and leave them on all the time. The MXR lets me turn them all on at once which for me is great.

MXR M197 is the pedal I got. Had to dig up my amazon records lol They have a dual loop pedal that looked great but honestly didn't need the second loop. Either way, built like a tank.

Lose the tuner pedal and clip a $12 headstock tuner to your guitar.

I ended up taking the Crush the button and didn't really use it. That's off the board then! I need to put my OD back on there though.