Pedal boards - educate me :)

[Bennyboy-UK]

Ello you lot!

As I've started to accumulate a few pedals (accelerated over the years!) and started to use them a bit more often in various combinations. I've started to get a bit annoyed with packing them all up, taking them all out, plugging it all in and finding the PSUs, batteries, all that kind of nonsense.

Some kind of board might be useful to me, as when I want to have a quick play with all of the bits, it's taking more time to set it all up than is much fun any more!

I've done a bit of looking and can see various things, some with a big power supply and lots of adaptor options including a 9v battery adaptor which is a pretty good idea.

Some stuff goes up the front of the amp, and some stuff goes into the loop.

What do you chaps do and use, and what should I look for? Any recommendations/ pitfalls?

As historically a guitar into amp person, if there is some way to exclude all of the electrictrickery from the signal, that might make me feel like I can get back to basics quickly.

If I'm ever invited out to play this would also make it easier and quicker to set up )

Although this lot would not be used at the same time, what I've got is:

In the front of the amp - phase 90 (batt only), Morley Wah, sansamp Gt2, Tech 21 XXL, MetalZone

The amp is an Express 5:25 so to be honest the drive sounds are all good to my ears, so some of the above could probably go whistle !

T go in the loop TC electronics Flashback (battery eater so have a PSU for it)

If you could give me the benefit of your experience, it would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Benner

[Victor (Fret Friend)]

You could always go the Ikea GORM Shelf method! It's £11 from Ikea & you get 2 sets which is enough to build a custom pedalboard (I might go this route myself). You add a 4-way power supply underneath & route your connector jacks thru the shelving gaps! More here http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Effects-Pedals-Multi-Effects-and/My-Do-It-Yourself-IKEA-Pedalboard-Build-Thread/td-p/21521612

[RobB]

PedalTrain+Pedal Power2=Awesomeness - 1 plug to wall hole, 1 plug to guitar hole, 1 plug to amp hole, done.

The PedalTrain/Pedal Power unit really made sense. It makes it pretty simple to try a variety of pedals, and takes about 2 minutes to set up and play.

This. Currently have 2 PT-jrs and a PT-2. They're well thought-out and very gig-worthy. Of course, when you add the PedalPower supply the cost does go up, but it is great to have all cabling options at your feet, including positive-polarity pedals. I'll be interested to check out the power supply that Pedaltrain is working up.

Here's a quick cell-snap of my "Mini Me." Plug in the IEC power cable, guitar into tuner and guitar out from the HBE Detox. Easy...

[The Shark]

Honestly, I've been down the pedalboard road about seven different times that I can recall. This is my current "last" pedalboard. I have a really compact board coming. Everything is on the board including the amplifier. All I need is a speaker cable from the board to the cabinet. Some of the most fun you can is building the "next" board.

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[Disturber]

I recently set up a pedal board for myself. I bought the Warwick Rockcase RC 23120B. Found one used cheap.

http://www.thomann.de/se/rockcase_rc23120b_bodeneffekt_roadcase.htm

It has built in power supply, seven outlets I think. One for 18 Volts. You can always use a daisy chain if you need more.

It also has a built in loop. The case is built like a tank. It's big and heavy, but still not so hard to cary.

I also bought Lava cables. They were a pain to fix, but once they are done they seem to work fine.

I use a Ibanez LS10 dual loop selector. It has a buffer. And I have something like seven pedals on the board, including a wah wah.

Most of my pedals are from the 80s or older.

I found that the set up sucked a bit of tone so I recently bought a separate buffer. This little sucker (edit: not a tone sucker though, lol) made all the difference, now I got great sound from my rig.

I really recomend the ToneBone P1 Big Shot. You can set the response of the buffer to match how your guitar sounds plugged straight in to the amp. And it's got a boost function as well. This pedal is awesome. http://www.tonebone.com/re-bigshot-pb1.htm