Not exactly a Gig vs Stay-At-Home, but I have two pedalboards (which I refer to as the Large Pedalboard and the Small Pedalboard) which serve decidedly different functions based mostly on how familiar I am with their respective contents:
- The Large Pedalboard has been pretty much locked down in its current configuration for the past ~5 years, and contains a number of pedals that I've owned for almost 40 years. I am extremely familiar with what it is capable of, and as it is (mercifully) very reliable I don't need to remind myself how to use it; it works consistently and predictably and so I never bother bringing it home. It stays in a road case at my rehearsal studio, and even if I haven't practiced with it in a while I'll bring it to gigs and know that I can get what I need out of it. So if anything is my "Gig Board" it's that one.
- The Small Pedalboard, sometimes I dunno
*** is going on there
It's all pedals I've acquired within the past ~2 years, and the intention was to create something that would inspire me by being conspicuously different from my Large Pedalboard, and while I've certainly achieved that aim, everything on this board has a steeper learning curve than typical pedals. I keep changing it up in minor ways, and added a new pedal as recently as two weeks ago, and oh yeah, I can't decide whether one of the pedals is defective, so it's often a great big pile of mystery. I take that one home regularly so that I can A) try to learn how it works, in hopes that I can overcome the learning curves and it can become a bit more reliably predictable, and B) troubleshoot it. So if anything is my "Stay-At-Home Board" it's that one...except that it doesn't stay at home.
The real fun starts when I
combine the Large Pedalboard and the Small Pedalboard.
