I Ripped Off Nashville's Greatest Session Guitarists (and You Should Too)!

Nashville Studio Pros like Tom Bukovac, Derek Wells, Rob McNelley, Brent Mason, Kenny Greenberg, Justin Ostrander, and Jerry McPherson (to name a few), have not only been responsible for the guitar parts countless number-one Country hits, but have also curated the standard for effects pedals, which seemingly all session players in Nashville adhere to. Whether it’s the Line 6 M9 Multi-Effects for all their textural needs, the trusty Nobels ODR-1 as their go-to Overdrive, an RC Booster, or a King of Tone, there are many commonalities (gear-wise) amongst the first-call players in Nashville.

With that in mind, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Did these studio players hold the key to glorious tone by way of this magical combination of effects pedals? Probably not…but I decided to give it a try.

So I assembled a “Nashville Studio” inspired rig with all the staples you’d see among the pros listed above to see what would happen, using TheGigRig Quartermaster QMX10 as the “brain” and our trusty Vertex Buffer Interface to handle all of the routing capabilities for mono, stereo, and beyond.

SIGNAL PATH
Guitar
Vertex Buffer Interface (input buffer)
QMX10 Input
L1 - 1978 MXR Dyna Comp + MXR 10-band EQ
L2 - Xotic RC Booster
L3 - Analogman King of Tone
L4 - Nobels ODR-1
L5 - Greer Lightspeed
L6 - Ibanez MT10 Mostortion
L7 - ProCo RAT
L8 - XTS modded Boss GE-7 Equalizer
L9 - Boss VB-2 Vibrato
L10 - XTS modded Boss TR-2 Tremolo
QMX10 Input
Vertex Boost MKII (connected to Volume EXP)
EHX Deluxe Memory Man (with impedance, headroom, and true bypass mods)
Line 6 M9 (stereo)
Vertex Buffer Interface (output buffers for L/R stereo outputs)
Amp(s)

Power Supplies
Truetone CS12
Truetone CS7
Vertex Power Module (to merge the power supplies to one IEC power cable)

Pedalboard
Vertex Tour Elite with TE4 Riser

Cable
Mogami 2314 soldered to SquarePlugs SP400 (pancake) and SPS4 (straight)

Fasteners
3M Dual Lock SJ3550
Tyton Hellermann 1”x1” mounting bases
Tyton Hellermann 4” zip ties

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⬇ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⬇
00:00 My New Nashville-Inspired Pedalboard
00:56 The Inspiration Behind This Pedalboard
02:34 Signal Path
05:45 Leveling Up Your Compressor Sound
07:10 Why I Have 5 Overdrives on This Board
12:13 How I Use a GE-7 to Change My Guitar Sound
14:42 Nashville-Inspired Modulation Pedal Picks
18:50 The Boost Pedal of Choice for Nashville Players
20:19 What Makes the Deluxe Memory Man Great?
22:36 Why Nashville Players STILL Use the Line 6 M9
25:33 Signal Routing and Power
27:29 How to Build the Rig of Your Dreams!
29:17 Thanks for Watching!

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CREDITS
Host/Producer: Mason Marangella
Videographer: Nico Sotomayor
Video Editing: Victor San Pedro, Mason Mejia
Audio Editing: Hunter Harrison

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