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.
When your guitar tone needs a warp drive jump to hyper space, Nice Rack Canad can make your rack system fantasy become reality.
This matrix routing system is chock full of some of our favourite colours on the tone palette.
Every preset can recall different signal flows through analog and modelling technology as the user wishes.
Shot in 2015 at our present location in Toronto. This video features Mike Vegas’ thoughts on the Boss ES-8, Building Rack & Pedalboard Systems and the future of Guitar Technology.
Nice Rack Canada has been working with Toronto based independent recording artists, Chameleon Project for 3 years now.
We're honoured to build pedalboard systems for a very talented group of players who push musical boundaries every time they play together.
Nice Rack Canad recently built this pedalboard system for our friends at T-Rex Effect Canadian Distributor, SF Marketing.
This pedalboard is a showcase for the current palette of tone tools that T Rex has lovingly crafted for your playing enjoyment.
Nice Rack Canada recently built this pedalboard system for Boss / Roland Canada.
This pedalboard will be traveling across Canada visiting Guitar Shows & Music Instrument stores for player demos. The system is a showcase for the Boss ES-8, their new Dynamic Order Effects Switcher & MIDI Controller. The ES-8 has some incredible features for a pedalboard switcher, especially at it's very competitive retail price.
About 2 years & 200 gigs ago, Nice Rack Canada built up this series wired pedalboard for Blue Rodeo guitarist, Colin Cripps.
Nice Rack Canada was recently contacted by a chiropractor specializing in musicians, Dr. Larry Feldman about a gear problem asking for a complete rig build.
Larry is one of the guitarists in Canada's premier Grateful Dead tribute band, Mars Hotel. Larry recently went through a moment that all musicians dread… theft of a pedalboard, amp & cabling.
Having worked with other Grateful Dead inspired players, we had a good idea of the tones that were required and the hardware needed to achieve the goals.
Nice Rack Canada recently built this compact & powerful rack system for Toronto based modern rock combo, Mental Friction.
This system was constructed for the band's lead singer / 2nd guitarist. The primary design criteria was simple operation during performance, as well the system had to answer the current sonic needs & forward demands of the band's catalogue with studio grade amp tones & processing.
Nice Rack Canada recently built this rack system for Toronto based modern rock band, Mental Friction.
Infinite forward flexibility was the primary criteria we put on the build. The band is currently working on it's first album, with the future being so wide open for the guitar tones, we wanted to cover every angle possible.
Nice Rack Canada recently built this pedalboard for a local player who is playing in 4 different bands and working a day job. The different gigs require a dependable rig with a broad spectrum of tones in a compact footprint.
Nice Rack Canada is shipping this RJM Music MasterMind PBC system to a client in Milwaukee.
The system is controlled and switched by the MasterMind PBC and a RJM Music Mini Effects Gizmo inserted between loops 6 & 7.
The 3rd & Final Half Moon Ru pedalboard by Nice Rack Canada is for Guitarist / Bassist / Vocalist Connor Molander.
As with all of the Half Moon Run system builds, this pedalboard must travel in it's case at 32 kilograms to meet airline luggage cutoff.
This week's Half Moon Ru pedalboard system by Nice Rack Canad is for multi instrumentalist Isaac Symonds.
This system has a signal flow that is a little bit different than most systems we build. Due to Half Moon Run's travel logistics, we had to design the entire system around a 32 kilogram / 70 pound limit for case & contents.
This month Nice Rack Canada is building a batch of pedalboard systems for Half Moon Ru. First up is guitarist & vocalist, Devon Portielje.
As is often the case with our pro clientele, a rigid 32 kilogram weight limit for the system & case is the primary criteria to meet checked luggage limits and satisfy rapacious airlines.
Nice Rack Canada has been building pedalboard systems for Dallas Green since 2012, for various City and Colou, Alexisonfir & You+Me tours.
This year it's going to be a new City and Colour album cycle and pedalboard to match.
Toronto based sideman bass player to many projects, Rail Koonin recently visited Nice Rack Canad to take his pedalboard to a more professional level.
When you've spent thousands of hours practicing to be the best player you can, do you want your gear to hold you back from achieving your fullest potential? Of course not, so do what the pro's do, call upon Nice Rack Canada to take your gear to the next level.
Nice Rack Canad recently built this series wired pedal board system for a local player who really loves a nice overdrive.
We designed 2x "Single" carts for Keyboards with a Dave Smith Instrument synth per. Each with a lower deck for pedalboards and loom cabling to reside during transport.
We also designed a "Double" keyboard cart for singer Emily Haines, "90 Degree" array of Nord Keyboard & Sequential Circuits Pro One. The cart has to roll up and down a 31" wide ramp for changeovers & load ins, so the cart has to remain in it's "Straight" position for the logistics and then articulate into it's "Right Angle" stage configuration.