My Best Sounding Acoustic Guitar Pedalboard [TRAVEL-Board Setup 🎸]

Hi, I'm Tobias Rauscher and this is my small but effective pedalboard (travel board) ;) rundown, for guitarists that want a great sound.

TABS & MUSIC: http://tobias-rauscher.com
TUTORIALS & LESSONS: https://fingerstylezone.com/

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ABOUT

We shot this video during my guitar clinic tour in Beijing, China in May 2018. In this video I show you my live setup, so my acoustic guitar setup, effects and pedalboard rig I use when playing shows.

What I love about my pedal board is, that it is small enough to put it in a suitcase, so I don’t have to carry it all the time. When traveling, I only have my suitcase including my pedal board, my guitar and a carry on backpack.

So let’s talk about the effect pedals I use and my guitar setup. I play the Ibanez AE900 with thermo aged wood. In there I have three pickups, 1. a K&K transducer pickup, 2. a K&K microphone and 3. a DiMarzio Black Angel pickup, this is a magnet pickup.

I mainly need the magnet pickup to use effects like the BOSS Octave pedal or distortion pedals if you want to use these. The advantage here is, that these effects only sound good with magnetic pickup. When running these guitar effect pedals through the microphones it sounds terrible.

My guitar has to output sockets for the pickups. Firstly, a stereo cable that carries the K&K pick-up and microphone and a mono cable for the magnetic pick-up. The stereo cable goes into a small mini pre-amp where I can make a first mix betweens the transducer pickup and the microphone. I then go into the brain of my pedal board, the Bose T1 mixer. The Bose T1 is superb, you have in-build effects, like reverb, delay, a compressor, parametric EQ, a normal equalizer, chorus, phaser and so on. Even a tuner is integrated and you can mute individual channels. This is handy to get rid of feedback by quickly localizing the source of that annoying noise.

With the magnetic pickup I go first into the BOSS octaver, the „Super Octave OC3“ and then into the BOSE T1. Inside the BOSE T1 I then mix these two channels and add some EQ, that’s it. Besides the basic EQ I use the parametric EQ to get find frequencies that cause feedback and noise and get rid of them.

Then after we go out of the BOSE T1, I go into a mini-tuner, sometimes I use the chromatic BOSS floor tuner, but when traveling I try to reduce the weight as much as possible and thus prefer smaller and lighter pedals. From the tuner I go into the Big Skye reverb pedal by Strymon - this pedal really rocks! I also use the timeline delay by Strymon but haven’t used it on that tour, so it’s not in the video.

Anyway, from the Big Sky reverb go out into the BOSS loop pedal, I have the old BOSS Loop Station RC-2. I only use this pedal in one of my songs „Passion Loop“.

From there I go straight to the front of house, so the mixer, or sometimes depending on the venue an acoustic amp, like the Mesa Boogie Rosette 300 amp.

The cables I use are high quality instrument cables by KLOTZ. I love them!

I think that’s it for my pedal board setup or pedal board demo so far. I hope I could help some other modern percussive fingerstyle guitar players with this video.

Oh and the sound is really nice, best to check it out live ;)

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FINGERSTYLE GUITAR LESSONS & TUTORIALS

In case that you want to learn how to play modern percussive fingerstyle, I would like to invite you to check out my online guitar academy: https://fingerstylezone.com/

In there I teach you all the skills you need to take your playing a step further. We cover techniques such as two-hand tapping, using harmonics, adding percussion, finger picking, legato stuff and much more. Hope to see you there. :)

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CREDITS: Thanks MUCUS for shooting the video! :)