Don't want to reach down to the knobs

[escaraBAJO]

Hi. I want to know if there is a way to take out the control board of a pedal, like the knobs on a delay, and take it up to waist level so I can turn the knobs with my hands without having to go down to the floor. The pedal would still be down on the floor to turn it on/off.
I really play a lot with sounds in real time during songs and impros and hate to go up and down.

Maybe there are products already (like some midi stuff) that do this so I would like to hear some ideas.

Thanks in advance

[AsianVoodoo]

Yeah, Matthew Bellamy from Muse does it with his chaos guitar. You just gotta know how to take a pedal apart and what wires to extend up to your bass.

[RickenBoogie]

Put your pedals on top of your amp, or come up with a stand for them.

[escaraBAJO]

Thank you!

Are there more tips??

[ga_edwards]

A guitarist friend of mine actually glued a delay pedal to the body of one of his guitars (a cheap squire strat) specifically for this reason.

He also used an alesis 'air effects' unit on a stand for a while, which was interesting.

Otherwise, quite a few multifx units let you control various parameters with the expression pedal. The zoom B9.1ut is particularly interesting as it has a 'z-pedal' that not only rocks back and forth, but also side to side to you can control 2 parameters in real time. So say overdrive gain and chorus rate. Or volume and delay rate.

[escaraBAJO]

Ha! That's more than I would do. Besides, I need to twitch all kind of effects (cannot glue my ME-50B to my already heavy warwick!)

I'm sure it looks weird

[Wud]

superglue and hefty bamboo ?

[faceinbass]

Wasn't there a pedal called The Third Arm (or something like that) that was built like a volume pedal but instead of turning a pot, it spun a flexible shaft that you attached to a knob? Like a flexible dremel shaft attachment, if you know what I mean.

might want to look into that if you find your self constantly turning one knob.

[john keates]

Originally Posted by faceinbass

Wasn't there a pedal called The Third Arm (or something like that).

Yep:

http://www.musictoyz.com/guitar/pedals/tip.php

An alternative would be to have the pedals up high then use a looper to switch them on and off. Some people do that anyway as you can get loopers that put pedals in parallel or blend them or whatever.

[iamdenialNJ]

Originally Posted by Wud

superglue and hefty bamboo ?

oh man that'd be way too much.

How would you carry that thing? haha

[escaraBAJO]

Originally Posted by john keates

Yep:

http://www.musictoyz.com/guitar/pedals/tip.php

An alternative would be to have the pedals up high then use a looper to switch them on and off. Some people do that anyway as you can get loopers that put pedals in parallel or blend them or whatever.

Well, that surely sounds like a simpler alternative.
As for the "3rd hand", it looks a little awkward to me. And I would need to have three or more pedals for all the parameters I'd like to change!.

I thought maybe there was a product that has the functionality built-in. Like the line6 pod (the bean shaped one) with a control pedalboard.

Anyway, thank you all for the contributions!