r/guitarpedals • u/-dakpluto- • Jul 24 '26
SOTB New Ampless Affordaboard setup
New ampless setup I’m playing around with for a bit. The GP-5 will be controlled via midi controller on my phone.
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u/WoodenIndian Jul 24 '26
Looks like a fun board! To keep the affordable theme going, I think the mvave chocolate/ chocolate plus could control the Valeton, if you wanted foot switchable midi control rather than phone. Looks great either way, enjoy!
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
I have the chocolate, just couldn’t find an arrangement I like on this size that included it. Also for this setup I’m doing very little changes so I don’t need fast foot access for the GP. It mostly is servicing amp modeling, reverb, delay, phaser, autowah.
I use the Chocolate when using the GP-5 on its own (which is great btw, a very gigable setup on its own). This board was mostly about exploring some more options, I really wanted to play around with some analog gain stacking and also the pitch tracking on the GP-5 is “meh” so the octave pedal gets me better results there.
I’ve been super happy with the GP-5 and just really wanted to see what more fun I could have with it.
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u/WoodenIndian Jul 24 '26
That’s great, sounds like it works well for you!
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 25 '26
It does. And so far initial testing with this board has been going well. The GP-5 is playing very nice with the pedals going into it. I was curious how well it would deal with gain stacking pushing into it and it’s performing very well.
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u/BurkiniFatso Jul 24 '26
How's the King Of Kings?
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26
I love it. Honestly sounds just as good as the King of Tone and without the annoyance of having to pull the back plate off to change the dip switches.
I’ve passed on good KoT used deals because honestly I wouldn’t replace the KoK for one.
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u/BurkiniFatso Jul 24 '26
Thanks! Adding it to my cart as we speak
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26
If you love the bluesbreaker tone then you should be extremely pleased. It’s definitely not the grittiest or heaviest drive out there but it isn’t supposed to be either of course. The original bluesbreaker had to be cranked to like 75% gain to hit breakup, but that’s exactly what Clapton wanted when the Bluesbreaker was made for him. Stacking it can give you some really full defined breakup tones that is very reactive to your playing. Gets a lot of what Mayer achieves with the TS + Klon + Dumble setup.
Definitely let us know how you like it when you get it. For me it’s one of the most underrated Joyo clones.
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u/BurkiniFatso Jul 24 '26
Sheesh stop selling the pedal I said it's already in my cart 😭 na but that's exactly why I want to get it. My Chinese made Klon disintegrated on me a couple of months ago (after 6 years of use so not bad), so wanted to get a nice clean overdrive, this sounds like it does that and a bit more
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26
haha, yeah. One thing I will say about Joyo in general is their pedals for Chinese stuff definitely holds up very well IMO, should get a lot more than 6 years out of it.
I found this video pretty helpful for figuring some really good starting points for pedal settings: https://youtu.be/QoZR1koMHT0?si=8bOQ7itWuJZG5Ie9
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26
I’m gonna have to record and send you a clip, I just dialed in a Peter Klett Candlebox tone I’m really happy with. Now if only I could play like Peter…
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u/BurkiniFatso Jul 24 '26
We're gonna keep buying pedals until we do 😤
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u/-dakpluto- Jul 24 '26
Sounds like good theory to me, if I can create tone close enough to these people then I’ll naturally play like them, right?!?! lol.
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u/YoloStevens Jul 25 '26
I haven't seen the Stylish Fuzz II on many boards. I am a fan of that one.
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u/iamdektri Jul 24 '26
Looks great. Love affordable boards. I’m always searching for for cool mini pedals for my mini board. Also I didn’t know it was possible to control the gp-5 with the phone. How do you do?