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very closely
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not especially near to one another....
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12-12-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Oregon | | | How closely do you layout your pedals
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Some boards have plenty of room between the pedals, others have the pedals spaced as closely as geometry allows. When you are laying out your pedals for attaching to your board, cutting cable and running power, do you tend to: a) leave enough space between pedals to allow the signal cable to be inserted and removed without moving adjacent pedals, or b) space them very closely in a way that you couldn't unplug one pedal without disturbing adjacent pedals? |
12-12-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | I leave enough space that still lets me put all my pedals on the board. |
12-12-2008, 06:50 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Singapore | | | As closely as possible for me. I like to squeeze as many pedals as I can onto my board... |
12-12-2008, 06:53 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | This close: 
I actually downsized from a Pedaltrain Pro when I started zeroing in on what I wanted. At this point it's a process to try and swap out any pedal on my board outside of my phaser (currently a HBE Psilocybe rather than the DOD) but that's the way I like it. |
12-12-2008, 07:11 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Tight as possible. In fact I don't even leave room for plugs and cables, I just set the pedal output jacks so close to each other that the signal just jumps across the tiny gap from pedal to pedal. |
12-12-2008, 07:15 PM
| | | | haha get any shortcircuiting there?
or... short.. air...ing?
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12-12-2008, 07:17 PM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | No, but there is a slight (well total) volume drop. But on the upside, ZERO tone suck from those superfluous cables. |
12-12-2008, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ennui | | Not close enough, for sure. This is a problem, because I have a VT Bass on the way, and I plan on buying a Copilot Android and a Wilson Freaker Wah. More importantly, the Amazing Technicolor Nightmare Pedalboard can't even handle my current load (my 105Q is on the floor).
Well, judge for yourselves: 
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12-12-2008, 08:48 PM
|  | Thunder and Lightning | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oak Park, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bongomania  Tight as possible. In fact I don't even leave room for plugs and cables, I just set the pedal output jacks so close to each other that the signal just jumps across the tiny gap from pedal to pedal. | 
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12-12-2008, 09:10 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I stack my pedals vertically.
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12-12-2008, 09:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM I stack my pedals vertically. | There was a board posted on here once that had pedals stacked vertically! It had some Boss PS-3s stacked on each other...
No idea how thats meant to work 
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12-12-2008, 09:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | | Also, to answer the original post...
Closely for me. If they aren't close, then there is wasted space on the board. If there is a heap of space left over, id prefer to have a smaller, easier to handle board.
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12-12-2008, 09:34 PM
| | βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ ŦΘИΞ® #1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Florida | | | Very closely. Even though I have no real need to. I have plenty of room left. |
12-12-2008, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A Sandgropers' City | | A decent gap between pedals, 'bout 3 or 4 fingers worth.
I like to bounce around a bit on stage - in between vocal demands - so having the pedals spaced apart a bit gives me a better chance of hitting the effect I want 
Honestly - some of the pedalboards I've seen in the "post your pedalboard" threads don't look very functional for a fella like me with big feet.
Lots of 3pdt switches only 3 or 4cm apart! Wow! |
12-12-2008, 11:06 PM
|  | Holding the Line, Low, Loud & Proud | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Leander, TX (outside Austin) | | | I leave a fair amount of space between pedals because I have big feet and do lots of switching mid song, even then sometimes I will switch 2 or more on at a time by mistake and have to go for the loop selector to eject. |
12-12-2008, 11:26 PM
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Accessories Sales Associate, Guitar Center Rancho Cucamonga, CA | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Upland, California | | | As close together as possible for me. I've got a good number of pedals on my board, and I don't want to carry two boards. (right now, anyways..) |
12-13-2008, 09:36 AM
|  | Chronic Pain Endorsed By Fentanyl/Oxycodone/Valium | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Evansville, IN | | As close as physically possible, and I still can't squeeze out enough room to fit my PitchBlack on my board.  Not that my DT-10 is a horrible unit, but I would have liked to fit everything on my pedalboard as opposed to running it off of the "Tuner Out" on my "Mo' Control 2" controller and sitting off to the side. |
12-13-2008, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | | It's hard to get 'em close and still be able to stomp the second row without whacking all the knobs on the front row.
I usually try to get some sort of diagonal pattern happening so the stomp switches on the second row are between pedals on the front row, but it never really works very well. I think I should just have less pedals.
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12-13-2008, 09:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbia, SC | | | mine are set up right next to each other. all the cables run out of the top of my pedals, and through the slots in my board. I designed it specifically for that purpose.
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12-13-2008, 10:17 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | I've tried to always use bypass loopers or pedal switchers the past few years so that I can pack as many pedals as closely together as possible without having to worry about needing room to stomp on them. With my current board setup, I couldn't even step on the switches for my Bass Big Muff and VT Bass if I wanted to, and my Micro POG pedal is completely hidden from view (as is my Boss VF-1, but that one has no footswitch).  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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