That makes sense.

Can I suggest in that case that you approach pedalboard/rig designers as opposed to artists who'll either have really big rigs or very specific needs?

LA Sound Design (David Phillips) puts most of his boards online. You can see what the common post-gain sound combination and parameters are. 

 

Most of the medium boards seem to have:

 

1 mod – Arion Chorus, Boss CE-2, Hartman Flanger, Mobius, Modfactor 

1 analog/tape/dark type delay – El Capistan, Carbon Copy, Echorec, Ibanez Echo Machine

1 digi delay – Timeline, Timefactor, DD6

1 Verb – EBS Dynaverb, Flint

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/RACKDOCTOR/videos

 

Lead sounds might be:

 

Tape Echo – Hall Verb

Flange – Tape Echo – Hall Verb

Tape Echo – Digital Delay – Hall Verb

 

Clean might be:

 

Tape Echo – Hall Verb

Chorus – Tape Echo – Verb

Chorus – Tape Echo – Digi Delay – Verb

 

What do you think?