Show your pedalboard!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Joeytpg
  • Start date Start date
Quickdraw":27dqtg5h said:
reverymike":27dqtg5h said:
Here's mine, done up by Dave Friedman at Racksystems. Simple, but killer rock board!

IM000438.jpg
Click to expand...

Hey Reverymike, killer board man! Would you mind giving us a rundown on your board... what is the order of your pedals?
Click to expand...

Sure, it's pretty basic. The silver box at the top right lets me take my piezo signal and send it to the PA, via and XLR out on the front/top of the box. I can then turn that signal on/off with that pedal. Then my regular pickup signal goes to an Axess BS2 which is under that silver box (I can send the effects to a second amp if I choose). Then into the boss tuner. . .after that it hits the effects pedals (I'm not actually sure of the exact order). I told Dave to wire it up so it sounds the best. He knew the tones I was going after, so I trust he did it whichever way he felt was best. The Echomachine is wired to the box at the bottom of the board so I don't have to jump over the other pedals to turn it on and off. He also heard some bleed, so the remote on/off solved that as well. The other button on the silver box at the bottom is a board bypass. This pedalboard was pictured in Guitar Player magazine a couple years ago in a pedalboard feature that had articles with Dave Friedman, Bradshaw, and Cornish. It's a simple set up, but sounds great.
 
Heres my Pedaltrain JR. This is all I need. I hardly use most of the stuff on here. No midi sorry. Waiting for payment on some pedals and then the TU2 is out and a turbo tuner will take its place.

pedalboard12-09a.jpg
 
Yes, had a bad connection, all sorted now. :thumbsup:

RockStarNick":2dhc9z5s said:
rareguitar":2dhc9z5s said:
DSC01860.jpg

DSC01859.jpg

DSC01861.jpg

DSC01862.jpg

DSC01858.jpg
Click to expand...

You always know it's Brad's stuff when the item is on those kickass granite countertops! :lol: :LOL: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Nice board Brad! Did you ever get that loop section sorted out after NAMM?
Click to expand...
 
Here's mine did it myself.
 

Attachments

  • 237.JPG
    237.JPG
    126.5 KB · Views: 7,129
Hard&Heavy":19krjpq9 said:
Here's mine did it myself.
Click to expand...

Very nice. I especially like the original Marshall Guv'nor, its one pedal I wish I still had....
 
Heres mine though its really more accurately called a controller board instead of a pedalboard because there is no guitar signal going down to it. the Hex Volume expression next to the All Access is used for for MIDI expression and the other 2 pedals control the volume and wah of the Rack wah.

Pboard2.JPG


The 2 best pedals that I can recommend to Midify your pedalboard would be the Rocktron Patchmate Loop 8 Floor and the Musicomlab EFX. They both have loops to hook your pedals into and from there, you can program combinations, channel switching etc. Bang for the buck, the rocktron unit is very hard to beat and their stuff is rock solid IMO

Kage
 
Gainzilla":3idg2fpy said:
The 2 best pedals that I can recommend to Midify your pedalboard would be the Rocktron Patchmate Loop 8 Floor...
Click to expand...

I'd really like to get one of those, but I have no idea how I'd get the thing wired up without making my board look like a plate of spaghetti... :D
 
NewWorldMan":dtitbn47 said:
Gainzilla":dtitbn47 said:
The 2 best pedals that I can recommend to Midify your pedalboard would be the Rocktron Patchmate Loop 8 Floor...
Click to expand...

I'd really like to get one of those, but I have no idea how I'd get the thing wired up without making my board look like a plate of spaghetti... :D
Click to expand...

it isnt hard dude, with a little bit of forethought and laying out your pedals, itll come together pretty easily. of course you have to take into account the powering ofthe pedals but laying everything out gives you the opportunity of figuring out all of the cable routing. I like to hide my cables so typically when I build a board, I make sure to have space underneath so that I can run them out of sight. that also allows me to hide the power supply

Im in the process of building a rig around a marshall head and was going to use one of the boxes that I suggested but for my uses, the TC G System seems to be the better fit so Im going to build my board around that...

Kage
 
Yeah the guv-ner is a great pedal I had 2 one was stolen and was never found. :cry:
 
So I'm considering getting one of the Rocktron Patchmate Floor 8's. What type of wires/connectors would you guys recommend to wire up the board, and any pedal board you would recommend that would accommodate the Rocktron as well as 9-10 pedals?
 
Joeytpg":g8n9zcup said:
I'm getting more and more interested in building my own pedalboard with a nice selection of pedals..... show me yours so I can have a good example of how to build a nice looking/optimal functioning pedalboard.

two questions:
1) in what would I need to invest to make the pedals "midi switchable" ?
2) for the pedals that need to go through the loop, how can I set those up from the pedalboard?
Click to expand...

Let me be "anti-pedalboard" (sort of) for a moment and offer a different perspective.

Over the years I've experimented with individual pedals for a while and built a couple of pedalboards. While it was fun for a little while, I found the pedalboard forays to be very expensive, occasionally noisey, bulky, and in the end they really didn't sound much better (or any better) than my Boss GT multi- FX processor (currently I use a GT-10).

I started running my GT-10 in 4 cable method through a nice tube amp. I can create / program my own FX chain and run FX simultaneously in the front of the amp and through the FX loop. And I can change it around and save it (the chain, and all the individual FX settings) as preset patches hundreds of different ways. I never use the amp simulators or FX in the GT (that's what my real amp is for), but I do use it for everything else (tuner, noise gates, reverbs, delays, chorus, amp control switch – the GT will switch channels on my tube amp, EQ, compression, octaver, flange, phaser, wah, volume pedal, etc....). And, the GT-10 is 1 unit, it's compact, and it's inexpensive compared to building a pedalboard. Although I like the Boss unit, there are others very similar made by other manufacturers.

So... I guess I don't get it. Based on my experience with a multi-FX unit like this, I don't think I would ever build a pedalboard from individual pedals again. Did you ever consider going this route?
 
ronmail65":1597i3o1 said:
Joeytpg":1597i3o1 said:
I'm getting more and more interested in building my own pedalboard with a nice selection of pedals..... show me yours so I can have a good example of how to build a nice looking/optimal functioning pedalboard.

two questions:
1) in what would I need to invest to make the pedals "midi switchable" ?
2) for the pedals that need to go through the loop, how can I set those up from the pedalboard?
Click to expand...

Let me be "anti-pedalboard" (sort of) for a moment and offer a different perspective.

Over the years I've experimented with individual pedals for a while and built a couple of pedalboards. While it was fun for a little while, I found the pedalboard forays to be very expensive, occasionally noisey, bulky, and in the end they really didn't sound much better (or any better) than my Boss GT multi- FX processor (currently I use a GT-10).

I started running my GT-10 in 4 cable method through a nice tube amp. I can create / program my own FX chain and run FX simultaneously in the front of the amp and through the FX loop. And I can change it around and save it (the chain, and all the individual FX settings) as preset patches hundreds of different ways. I never use the amp simulators or FX in the GT (that's what my real amp is for), but I do use it for everything else (tuner, noise gates, reverbs, delays, chorus, amp control switch – the GT will switch channels on my tube amp, EQ, compression, octaver, flange, phaser, wah, volume pedal, etc....). And, the GT-10 is 1 unit, it's compact, and it's inexpensive compared to building a pedalboard. Although I like the Boss unit, there are others very similar made by other manufacturers.

So... I guess I don't get it. Based on my experience with a multi-FX unit like this, I don't think I would ever build a pedalboard from individual pedals again. Did you ever consider going this route?
Click to expand...
I agree, a nice multi unit can work well and save a lot of room on the pedal board and stop the tap dancing. For gigging musicians it makes sense. I'm liking the Nova System in front of an amp or in the loop.

But still...nothing really sounds as good as individual pedals, so I'm not selling them because I know I'll go back to using them one day.
 
Nice pedalboard LoudOne. What's the pedal with Eddie and Jimi painted on it? I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks.

John
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top