well hey everybody my name is karl wachner uh welcome to my channel and i'm going to go through today my entire new rig rundown pill pill all right cool so some of you have already noticed uh some of my posts or some of my shows that i've changed my entire setup now apart from the camera and the audio recorder this is essentially my entire rig that i set up live i never wanted a big elaborate rig but here it is i need every little bit of it and i'm actually kind of getting really creatively uh comfortable with the whole thing so i'm going to go through piece by piece starting with the microphones uh you'll see right here in front of me the main vocal microphone i use still uh is the ksm8 the shure ksm8 it's a dual capsule dynamic microphone sounds incredible i love it for my main vocals complimented over here this is the standard uh shore sn58 i use this microphone specifically to plug into my loop station when i'm doing my beatboxing and uh and backing backing vocals and all that sort of stuff um the reason i choose this is for the different tonal qualities between the ksm8 and sm58 this is a lot tighter cardioid pattern and it actually has a nicer proximity effect i can control the the low end of my vocal when i get closer or further away okay so something that shouldn't come to a shock to anybody is the fact that i use mate and guitars now this one is an emd6 it's a mini matin i've got full size maintenance i've got a bunch of different guitars and a bunch of different maintenance guitars but the thing about mate and guitars uh is their pickup system now these are an australian brand they sell them all over the world but hands down my favorite guitar with my favorite pickup so even though you see a lot of pedals in front of me none of them are there specifically to make my guitar sound good or to make my guitar sound better they're all there to do a specific job relating to my loop or relating to a tone that i specifically need for that loop they don't adjust the tone of my guitar i hope that makes sense because there's a lot of people out there that seem to be chasing a tone with a pedal when in actual fact they should really be looking at the guitar that they choose now i'm not saying a mate and guitar is perfect for everybody it's perfect for me that might not be perfect for you but what you should really focus on is instead of changing your tone by adding a pedal to do something specific if you're just looking for a good quality acoustic guitar tone you need to change your guitar if that's the issue for you then that's the problem okay enough about the guitar we're gonna dive into the pedals right now so okay so first pedal in the chain down here is the boss tu3 now it's a chromatic tuner absolutely love it very important to have a tuner that mutes on stage super cool love it to bits all right followed very closely by the tc spark now even though these aren't in linear order this is the patching order so cable goes from there to over here now this is just a volume boost pedal i highly recommend them for anybody especially if you do some acoustic solo stuff or finger style guitar work very very handy pedal followed closely by the boss oc3 it's super octave i love this pedal so much now boss have just released in 2020 and oc5 which is an updated version of this the updated version has um plus and minus two octave as well it's got a couple of a couple of extra modifications this is specifically what i use though if i was to go to the oc 5 i'd be using the same features as what's on the oc3 okay now the last two pedals on this top part of the board is the wompletumnus which i'll talk about soon that's part of my overdrive chain so this pedal at the top is just a mic mute switch i turn it on and off depending on when i want to add vocal into my loop the handy thing about having it off and disconnecting your microphone from the loop is it eliminates stage noise and volume signal wash coming into the loop and and making it sound horrible moving right along over here to the line six hx effects now this pedal is kind of a multi for me it's it's where i get a lot of my stereo effects from so as you can see i've got reverb down here i use that on all the time or most of the time i've got various other pedals chorus tremolo drive i've got synth a synth setting up here as well essentially my drive chain is what i want to talk about now and that's going to be in another entire video but really quickly to touch on it this one foot switch engages two different parametric eqs a reverb and also effects loop that comes out goes into the wompletumnus and back now the wompletumnus is set up uh this is this is a clone copy or a clone style pedal meaning the gain structure of this pedal isn't just less gain more gain it's actually a blend dial between zero percent gain and 100 gain so it gives a little bit of an interesting characteristic um sounds very cool on an acoustic guitar especially in the way that i've set it up absolutely love that pedal fantastic moving on this is a vocal effect something that i'm trying out this goes on to my main vocal microphone so under the ks m8 this is a boss ve500 now all i use this for is to toggle on and off reverb when i'm on stage if i want to talk between songs or just have a dry sound i turn the reverb off over here it says harmony but i've actually set up for a vocoder style sound which i absolutely love and then this is just a delay so if i'm hitting a really big part of the song and i want to throw a little bit more delay and crazy vocal effects that's what i do oh yeah so i've also got this irig blue board down here i should make note of it because it does almost nothing it does zero to my tone all it does is flip the pages of my ipad if i have a set list so up until this point all of my sounds all of my tones have come from this microphone and this guitar and that includes drums kick snare kind of thing something that i'm trying at the moment and just to see if i like it just to get a little more creative is to have this machine controller and machine software so all this does is i'm able to load up some hits that i want mario brothers and so this just gives me a little bit more of a creative option when i'm looping on stage especially if i'm jamming out if i'm doing something specific i might usually use the guitar but if i want to change the tones change the kicks and the snares i can [Music] i can get some really cool urban beats and low fire beats and stuff and so that's something i'm just experimenting with but that's the last thing that gets plugged into my loop station now we're going to dive straight into this loop station because i feel like this is what most people have been here for to find out exactly what's going on with this so let's dive in so this ladies and gentlemen is the head rush looper board now up until this point i've used the boss rc 300 which has been an absolute staple for me for the last eight to ten years or so the reason i've changed to uh the headrush looper board is just for a couple of features honestly it's got it's got four tracks instead of three the main features that i changed to the headrush looper board is also the output quality audio quality is 24-bit wav file whereas the uh rc 300 was an mp3 file quality which you can barely notice unless you're recording in the studio or on a large stage but to me it was very important and additional to that i can have extra output routing so currently i'm just setting it up quite simply and i've got a stereo guitar output and then a stereo loop out but i have an extra two outputs so i can run my guitar stereo out and then i can run each track one two and three and four out their own separate outputs which is extremely helpful for me now the head rush looper board is pretty massive i got to say it's heavier than the rc 300 it's got a bigger footprint and for that reason you can actually see from this camera angle that i've had to mount some pedals up on top of the looper board so if any of you are actually interested in how i built this pedalboard or how you're going to build a custom pedalboard i'm going to link this video here this is something that i've recently done i've walked through the steps on exactly how i built this board and what i've done to it last but not least in the pedal realm i have a volume pedal down here attached to my head rush looper board this is attached to the output volume of my loops so in the middle of a loop i can fade out and i can fade in really quick to get a little more creative control absolutely love that feature i loved that feature on the rc 300 i set my rc300 up with that because it had a fixed built-in expression pedal i went with the mission engineering expression pedal these are very robust and very strong and solid and heavy that's what i've got plugged in right now so a couple of last things that you don't see on the floor down here are my shore glx d16 which is my wireless guitar rig and also my shaw wireless transmitter and receiver for my e-new monitors now these right here are my all clear audio spire custom mold in-ear monitors if you haven't got any monitors and you're a live looping artist or any live performer you should check them out they're an absolute game changer i'd be lost without them the ability to be able to reference your own tone make sure you're sending the right stuff uh also to be able to wash out all the room ambience and unwanted noise you can bring that back in with other microphones i'd be totally lost without them all right that looks like about it so i'm just going to jam out for the rest of the time i'm going to play around with these pedals get something going but before i do can you please like and subscribe to this channel i'm an independent artist i'd love you to check out my original work but i'm just trying to get content like this out to you guys so i can show what i'm doing and hopefully build some 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