leadguy wrote:The pedalboard and effects chain:
Ed used this crappy plywood pedalboard for his effects pedals.
The 2 Maestro Echoplexes were sitting next to the amps on ED's side of the stage, but their footswitches were located next to the plywood board.
The Univox was shelved in a real WWII bomb standing to the right of Ed's cabs.
It was just unbelievable you know, those were really the good 'ol days.
On the board, Ed's guitar would hit the MXR Flanger, then the MXR Phase 90.
From the ouput of the phase 90, a long cable would then reach the 2 echoplexes (wired in series).
After the echoplexes, another long cable would go back to the stage pedalboard to the input of BOX 1, then out to the input of BOX 2.
Yet another long cable would connect the ouput of BOX 2 to a "Y"-type splitter , and then hit the top left inputs of the main plexi and its smallbox backup.
BOX 1 and 2 were loopers for the MXR 6bandEQ 's Ed was using to boost his signal prior to hitting the plexi.
Most of the time, Box2 was not used, but from time to time he would have a second MXR EQ on his board.
The MXR EQ's were replaced by The Boss EQ's in the summer after the japanese leg of the tour.
Btw, Ed was not using a wireless yet in 1978.
The MXR pedals were stock script logo pedals.
In the early 80's, Ed had them overlooked by Jose to reduce unwanted noise (shielding and replacing cheap components with better ones).
The main plexi and his backup were loaded and the line level signal was fed to the univox before it was slaved to the superleads and out to the cabs.
It looks like he's bypassing the Flanger and Phase and going straight into the 1 box where the blue MXR EQ usually goes when it's connected.

WHAT A NEAT GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION !
It is correct, and as you can see, the input of MXR EQ is not connected, hence the unconnected short blue cord (saving batteries).
Ed would connect it for his live guitar solo and certain songs, for example 'I'm the one'.
It was just a matter of how it felt to him on a given day.
The pic was taken in the summer of 1978 and the MXR EQ was gone in favour of The BOSS EQ.
The 2 purple cords are the in's and out's of looper BOX number 1.
Looper box 2 is not in use on that day, that's why we don't see a second Boss EQ in the pic.