Fresh off the Nice Rack Canada work benches comes this week’s guitar rig.

This Fractal Audio Axe FX II XL+ modeling platform is complemented by the Fishman Triple Play Synth System for Guitar.

Nice Rack Canada built up this guitar rack system a little while ago for a client.

The signal flow for this beauty is;

UHF Systems & Cable –> Input Switcher –> Input Buffer with Tuner Split to TC Electronic PolyTune Mini Noir –> Xotic Wah –> Boss FV30H –> Nice Rack Canada 10kΩ Buffer –>

This week’s Nice Rack Canada pedalboard creation is going to a local recreational guitarist, who is enjoying his first ever pedalboard system.

Our client came to us with a wealth of acoustic guitar playing history but has only recently dived into the colourful world of electric guitar.

At Nice Rack Canada we take the craft of building rack & pedalboard systems very seriously. We were contacted recently by a very serious gentleman who is a guitarist by passion & a luthier by trade requesting the pedalboard of a lifetime (and anonymity)…

Nice Rack Canada recently built up this “Grab and Go” Pedalboard System for a repeat client of ours. The player wanted a small, very portable pedalboard system for jam nights and other moments when one of his larger rigs would not be appropriate.

Jonny Rock Gear is super cool boutique effects pedal brand from Montreal, Quebec. Building Canadian handmade classic designs with new twists and a touch of fun.

Here’s a Nice Rack Canada built compact rack system comprised of the all the good stuff.

Our client wanted a guitar rig for use in a home recording situation that would be infinitely forward flexible for signal path and be useable at conversation levels using full range monitoring and no traditional guitar amplification hardware.

Nice Rack Canada recently shipped this AX8 pedalboard system to a client in Maryland, minus the AX8 & EV-1 Expression pedal…

The client contacted us after seeing the last Fractal Audio AX8 system build we posted, requesting a similar system with more connectivity to inputs & outputs.

Nice Rack Canada recently built this dual signal path pedalboard system for a local player with a taste for Precious Canadian Metal… Music & Materials.

Toronto Jazz Bassist, Mike Pelletier recently picked up his Nice Rack Canada built pedalboard system for Electric & Acoustic Bass.

Mike’s diverse job list of jazz gigs, sessions, orchestra pit and sideman work required a pedalboard that could cover a wide variety of sonic colours while allowing the true voice of the bass to speak clearly.

Our friends at Xotic recently sent us a box of pedals and asked that we build them an Xotic demo pedalboard for our shop.

When our customers visit Nice Rack Canada they can experience the sweetness of an Xotic tone taste test.

Nice Rack Canada recently built up this showcase pedalboard for our friends at Tribute Audio Designs.

This pedalboard system will be making some visits to music stores, guitar shows and gigs in the near future. Starting this Friday, May 6 at Nice Rack Canada’s Open House for #CMW https://goo.gl/8hNl4b.  Followed by the Stompbox Exhibit May 7 & 8 at Moog Audio Toronto https://goo.gl/3Be8Ij

Nice Rack Canada is hosting an Open House on Friday, May 6th from 11AM to 6PM.

We’d like to invite all visiting & local players, producers, managers & techs who are in Toronto during Canadian Music Week to visit our shop.

Nice Rack Canada recently built & programmed this Fractal Audio AX8 pedalboard system for our repeat customer, Bruce Cisterna of Sensation.

Sensation is a working band that has been gigging in the GTA for over 20 years, playing a variety of musical styles to suit client demand for all manner of social events.

Nice Rack Canada recently designed & built up this series wired bass pedalboard for South Park creator, Matt Stone.

This baby sized bottom end beast is destined for the jam space in Matt’s NYC home.

Nice Rack Canada recently designed & built up a pair of series wired guitar pedalboards for South Park creator, Matt Stone. These slabs of tasty tone are installed in the jam space in Matt’s NYC home.

Features in these pedalboards include; an input buffer to optimize the impedance output from the UHF receiver into the Wah. A Clean Boost Pedal with Buffered Tuner split after the OD’s with optimal input loading to emulate the connectivity value of Guitar -> OD -> Amp yet still being able add modulation & delay to the signal path.

And we’re back from holidays and other adventures with a bass-ic pedalboard for Toronto based bassist, Paul Gold.

A compact clean tone machine that will fit in the overhead storage on an airplane.

Nice Rack Canada recently delivered this pedalboard to Mars Hotel bassist, Jake Sadikman.

This bass tone palette packs a diverse lot of sonic punches into a compact footprint.
The criteria for this system includes respecting the Phil Lesh tones that Jake has to cover in Canada’s #1 Grateful Dead tribute band, Mars Hotel as well as allowing for further sonic exploration during performances.

Here’s a tasty set of tone tools designed, fabricated & programmed by Nice Rack Canada for Toronto based jazz guitarist, Galen Weston.

The system is MIDI Controlled & Audio Switched by the standard setting RJM Music MasterMind PBC.

It’s always a pleasure to build up a stocking stuffer full of great pedals to brighten the season for a lucky player.

This week’s tone toolbox from Nice Rack Canad is going to tone seeker in Burlington, Ontario.