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Brilliant Justin. You've pulled together a ton of useful stuff about the fretboard and chord structure and summarised it just about as concisely as possible. I'll have to watch again though. You have a great presentation manner and style!

Hey Justin! What are your thoughts on volume pedal/Boost placement? I like my delays to respond to volume changes....especially when using a tape or an emulated tape delay. thoughts?

Reminds me of Home Depot 😂

This should be on the punisher intro

Who gives a flip about the cable tie downs?!? I’m interested in the pedals themselves. Frankly, I’m a minimal pedal guy anyway. Lots of extra space on my board. I’m glad you made this video, thanks.

You're absolutely right. Pedals are tools. Anyone that is even a little serious about guitar is gonna try different pedals out. You're board needs to be able to facilitate that. Yeah clean cable are cool..but badass tone is cooler

Absolutely Justin. As George Leonard said in his book Mastery, " You have to learn to love the plateaus...".

Obviously he plays Fishing Planet

Simple rule of thumb for something many of us have had a hard time comprehending.

any tips for how to set your delay pedal? (I have a behringer if that matters)

Hands down best YT channel for musicians/guitarists. Thank you Justin.

Well said Just... well said...

2 techniques amongst many. More delay just means more thought into what you play

Excited for the courses!!

It’s funny. As an IT professional, I cringe when I see people set up these uber “clean” pedalboards and I just see a ton of zip ties and cables that are “perfect” length. All I see in that is an absolute nightmare. As you said, pedalboards are a fluid and often changing platform. We all know the answer to the question, “how many pedals do I need?”… Just one more. 😂 That said, I love how XTS accounts for this as you highlighted. 👍

Hey Justin... I have a Weber Mini Mass unit. Do you have any experience with these? I bought it 10 yrs ago, but never used it. I may dig it out and see what it does.

I have never doubted the durability of an XTS built board but I have to agree that their work is not the cleanest. Even if you leave slack on cables there are ways to make it look clean. I almost went with them for a second pedalboard build but they also charge 2-3 times more than a smaller rig builder.

I wish I could look at my guitar and be able to play like this without having to look at tabs and practice practice practice

Very nice video as always, funny how you seem to get sweet spots everywhere out of that pedal and guitars. And I'll spend a couple of afternoons learning those riffs 😅

The ONLY thing wrong with that pedalboard is, it isn’t Mine😊. It’s freakin Beautiful !!!! 🎸🎛🎚🎶

You know, there are a lot of these videos around with slightly click-baity titles. All of them claiming X things you NEED to do with X piece of gear. Most are a huge disappointment... this one wasn't! Awesome vid! 😊

Good explanation

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day Justin ❤😊

Dan's board looks fantastic to me. Practical and the pedal switching out capability is certainly a huge asset. Who cares how the cables look anyway...the audience won't see it at a live show and they definitely won't see it when he uses it in the studio. As much as I love XTS' work, I personally wouldn't pay to have my board set up and wired...I change the pedals on my board WAY too often. Great video!

All i want to say is that i had 3 pedalboards built for me by XTS and they've all worked incredibly well. They're all tanks, and i've never had any issues with them. One of them is my touring board, and i've used it on multiple tours without problems. Super reliable. I highly recommend them to anyone who wants something solid, reliable, and tour-ready.

OMG…, pedalboards! 😅 These things keep me busy. I might be a pedalboard addict. But I think I took it too far, because yes, it needs to be functional, but to give you a small example of my stupid little brain and how it works, here we go: I have my big board and it’s cool, I love it, it needs some work again, but I’m fine with it. EXCEPT…. that board is way too big and too heavy and for a guy like me (I have a prosthetic leg and a hernia) I don’t always feel the need to take it with me. So I decided to build a smaller, lightweight version of my big board. By itself not a crazy idea. I leave out the stuff I hardly ever use and I’ve been buying some mini pedals that are good enough to do the job. But the first choice I needed to make was “what gain pedals am I going to use?” So I ended up with a board that consisted of an Xotic BB Preamp (the old red one), into the old yellow Xotic AC Booster (I love its ‘throaty’ voice) and into the old white Xotic RC Booster (that’s on every board as an always on pedal). That’s the right side of the mini board. The left side consists of four TC Electronic mini pedals. Of course, a tuner. Then the mini spark (simple clean boost, does its job), then the Flashback mini delay (that’s my almost always on pedal that needs to emulate my Strymon Brigadier - just a very soft semi long delay with a bit of modulation, hardly audible unless you switch it off) and the last pedal is the mini HOF reverb. That one’s also always on. Thing is, it does what I wanted it to do. The sounds are pretty good and above all, it’s light as a feather! BUT I chose these pedals based on a vague ‘theme’. I’ve got plenty of other options and probably better options. In this case it was extra stupid, because I needed to buy two of the mini pedals (2nd hand). But I have so much lying around. Then again…., it’s just fun! Even with the simplest of boards, I feel proud when I build one and everything does what it needs to do. Anyway, thanks Justin. I enjoy your video very much (all of them!). And I’m sorry for the long comments again. I really try to keep them short and to the point. Hardly ever works. Thank you! 🧡🧡🧡

Fuck yeeeeah mannnn. Rock metal and country are all related by badd ass guitar riffs and solos. I Wana hear this mf ripp some shit on and electric guitar

My favorite guitar players are generally pedalless and never talk about pedalboard.

I've been using a Flint for ages. I've always liked it for the versatility it offers but never really been in love with it sound wise. I reckon' I might investigate the Hydra if you like it so much Justin. The smaller footprint is a bonus too.

Check out a JHS emperors v2. As a long time vb-2w fan, it stands up against it well and has a great 70’s chorus to it. The walrus meraki is also a really fun dual analog delay with a wide stereo field phase and modulation set of controls.

A producer once told me “treat silence and space in the mix like its own instrument” - I think the same can be said when building a pedalboard. Leave space for the future and for other pedals to come in.

I have no issues with the pedalboard whatsoever.

Good ole Appalachian Polyphia.

Isnt the shaboozey song just a cover or a rip off of another song?

yep. though nowhere near a professional or at your level, sir, I do use my pedal board every day and I got tired of turning it over to dick around with the power supply so I just finally put the strymon Zuma power block on the top. anyways it looks cool all anodized blue n shit and now I can just plug things in and out of it and I don’t have so many pedals where the zuma is taking up space is that big a deal… agree with everything you said in this video!

Thank you, This is what I’ve been preaching for years. I can’t stand these vanity boards, and players trying to look like they’re on a world tour or something. I mean with it so tidy, how do you troubleshoot a problem three minutes before the down beat?

I have watched many XTS videos, including recently the Dan Huff pedalboard build. I am interested in the sonic choices the pedalboard owner is going for. And to learn from these videos. Interesting to see Dan Huff going for a fairly simple board compared to his earlier equipment setups. If anyone can make it sound great, Dan can! I have played in a few bands and built a few pedalboards myself. I really respect the quality of what XTS builds and have been thinking about having them do a build for me. Thanks Justin for this video. And Eric is a pretty darn good guitar player!

Justified?

The machine gun licks was nasty❤❤❤

Agreed...I do my own boards and don't want to be cutting cable ties and tracing wires every time I want to swap a pedal...I'd guess that anyone complaining favors aesthetics over functionality

My pedal board never stays the same very long. lol. I can totally understand it. And I never understood the anal retentive nature of some folks and their boards.

Man, if someone really thinks that’s not neat and tidy, don’t look inside your handwired tube amp… not all of them are military grade wiring like an old HIWATT 😂😂😂. PS, come spend a day in the N-ICU with me and I’ll show you orderly-disorder… and that with life support equipment for God’s sake 😅😂. As long as you know what you’re doing, and you can quickly identify things that you need, you’re all good. Nice looking board btw. It’s personally a little too much for me, but it will literally do everything you will ever need.

I started following XTS's channel a cpuple months ago and I do remember watching the Dan Huff board episode. I have no clue why anyone on Earth would call it sloppy?!

I'm curious about your course. What I've heard you say seems to make me think it's for intermediate or higher level players that just need some help with their songwriting creativity, or such. I'm more of a beginner, that should be an intermediate by now, but I am just not learning. I definitely need to come at it from a different direction but am not sure where to begin. I won't give up. I love guitars and dinking around but I'm just not sure I'll ever become a musician or that it will all ever make sense to me.

Dude found your channel because you were one of the only early reviewers on the Jackson Hourglass. Ended up getting it. Never used compression much but love that pedal and use it a lot! Also, good afternoon 😄☕

Agree 100% - that was really useful … and I’m like you - I’ve got a couple slots that are constantly auditioning new pedals (of all shapes and with all matter of jack placements)

I wish mine looked that “sloppy.” 😂

I just finally put a board together after using my floor. Got a Temple Duo 34. Was just learning to solder while doing my patch cables, I ended up doing a lot of troubleshooting and cussing, but now I love it. Just need a good midi controller now. I am really at a point to where I dont change much at all. I got a few drives that go into my HX Stomp, my Atlas comp is very first and also last in my drive pedal chain. Got a few choice pedals in the HX effects loop, then the HX outs to my interface where I can use my daw. I have everything, 10 times over lol Might switch drives out once in a while, but that would be it.

I'm a bass player. If I show up with more than 2 pedals they kick me out.

Looking forward to the course.