Is that a kind of “analog guitar triggered oscillator”?
Doubtful. I just snagged the photo from google.
No Digitone, or you fooling with me? 
No sure why everyone is winking but there is a DN and I also only see two DTs!
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Awww, shoot. I was really hoping this was actually your board. I was gonna ask for audio examples of it in action.
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Nah. This is my current pedal board. It needs to be redone, but I haven’t been playing guitar lately.
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this is the real pandemic 
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Looks great! I so want to put a small board together but can’t seem to bring myself to slap velcro on my pedals!
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Wide (2.5 - 3 inch) low adhesive masking tape is not the ideal solution, but as long as you don’t leave it permanently, then using the masking tape as a barrier between the velcro and the pedal base allows you to remove the velcro without the hassle of a semi-permanent adhesive (as it’s now affixed to the masking tape instead of the paint).
If you play aggressively on tour this is not a good solution, if you move your pedals from the basement to the living room on sunday it’s a fine workaround for the dilemma.
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That’s a fantastic idea!
Exactly what I’m after!
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I make new pedalboards frequently for different projects/ situations and I don’t use Velcro (great stuff but I don’t like it on pedals). I use zipties. I’m working on a new method involving flat link chain segments but I need to build a new pin press before I can try out different sizes.
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sound, or it didn’t happen.
I haven’t recorded me playing guitar in over 20 years. It used to be my main instrument, but I delved into synths and what not and have been trying to learn how to write not in guitar brain ever since.
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Nice speakers, dude!
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Gives a bit of PA
Managed to escape to a tiny house in the countryside with my Elektrons 
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Bonus: there’s an Analog Heat in here!
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After far too long, I’ve finally alit on a setup that hits all the marks for me. About a year and a half ago, I found a cabinet at HomeSense that was exactly wide enough to mount an audio rack; I also found a cutting board that expanded the top so that I had a bit more space for my gear. Since then, I’ve been iterating slowly – when I got the Move last month, I replaced the cutting board with two butcher blocks to give myself enough space that I could put the Move and the Sound Studio up top. I used to have an Electribe ESX-1 on the lower level but since I got the Move, I’ve had more fun using my iPad as a stereo effects send.
I have a huge collection of pedals so the main challenge was working out a way to integrate them without turning my basement into spaghetti salad. I have two Radial reamping boxes on the bottom shelf with a nice tidy cable situation – in this photo I’m running the Deluxe Memory Man on a send track and the Lo-Fi Loop Junky / Blooper on an insert, but I could just as easily run stereo effects or route an Ableton track through the NTS-2.
I work from home full-time, my wife works from home two or three days a week, and we share a workspace. So the primary limitation on this is that it needs to completely disappear with minimal effort. I can tuck the whole setup into my gear closet and all I need to do is unplug the pedals and remove the white shelves — barely a minute’s worth of disassembly!
All in all, I feel good about this setup. I’ve been collecting gear since like 2005 and have always struggled to keep my hobby space tidy and compact for my “daily drivers,” but also flexible enough that I can drop in anything I’ve amassed over the years. I’ll also admit that I don’t enjoy making videos, but between the camera mount and the unnecessarily-prominent dice set, I can at least fantasize about one day becoming a youTube synthfluencer.
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I spotted the dice almost as soon as I saw your photo and it reminded me of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies - do you use the dice in any way to help you move forward creatively?
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I don’t have a strict numerological method or anything, but when I’m stuck I’ll use them to form chords (e.g. if the D4 is even I’ll work diatonically and if it’s odd I’ll work chromatically; D6 defines the root scale degree, D12 sets the interval above if even or below if odd; etc.) or define chord progressions. It often sounds terrible but I’m surprised how often it’s at least given me a starting point.
They’re also great as a fidget toy, and they sound really nice when they hit the table. I haven’t tried sampling them from the Move’s mic but that’s next on my list! Moog included a dice-based patching game with the Sound Studio but I still have to dig into it – their recommended patches tend towards standalone sequenced perc/synth jams whereas I typically combine the M32 and DFAM into a filthy mono synth.
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Wow brilliant! I was expecting you to say “nah they’re just on the table…” - I love using external randomness as stimulus and I’ve got some dice knocking about somewhere - I’ll try that next time I’m stuck!
Here’s a web version of the oblique strategies cards if anyone needs a poke to move in a different direction:
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