Six by sixteen or thereabouts? 96 boxes? I really would like to hear what it sounds like with all of them turned on. Looks like they’re all Boss pedals.
Guys … guys … c’mon … the point IS NOT to turn all of them on a once! If you were cooking a dish, you wouldn’t dump ALL of the spices from the spice rack into the pot at once, would you? Of course not! The object is to use the spice (or combination of spices) needed for a particular recipe. Thus, the better equipped your spice rack, the broader palette of dishes you can prepare. Same goes for pedalboards. A typical nights worth of bar-band gigging of popular songs may have 96 effects scattered throughout. If you are serious about putting forth the best and most authentic performance, it is essential to have ALL those pedals on your board. Naturally, it should go without saying that one needs to carry a back-up pedalboard of equal proportion to every gig in case something fails on the main board.
Of course I would … but then, I don’t have 96 different spices in my spice rack
As essential is to have couple of different Les Paul models, Strat, Tele, Rick, ES-335 and few others; a Marshall stack (or two), Twin, AC30, Hiwatt, JC-60 … I’m happy I’m not a roadie of a bar-band
Anyone care to work out how many different ways of plugging them together there is, assuming the output from one is only allowed to be plugged into the input of another.
The answer is 96!
But that’s a mathematical “!” meaning factorial, ie. 96x95x94x93x…x3x2x1.
(96 options for the first one, 95 for the second (because one has gone), 94 for the third, etc.)
Which comes to about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
That’s 95 ! (96 times less.) Just pointing it out before you start start testing the first 1.0329978488239059262599702099395e+148 permutations only to find you’ve still got 96 times as many again to get through.