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A call for STANDARDIZATION

#22
It began as sarcasm.....but when you think about it, and with a few dance classes, it's clearly the way to go. I had a loooper.com parallel looper built that is the beginning and end of my 12 pedal chain with it's input and output on the bottom. Saves room on my board and gets more length from my instrument cables. Totally worth it.
 
#25
The reason why they usually have to put the power jack on the side of those small MXR-sized boxes is that there's not really enough room to put it up top with the knobs up near the top as well. There's only so much room inside those small enclosures, and the power jack, input jacks, knobs and stomp switch all take up interior volume, and we haven't even started talking about the actual circuit board yet.

I know that there is a contingent here that think that having both the 1/4" and the power jacks all up top is always best, but honestly, I hate pedals like that. I use those GLS pancake jacks for my board, and they are shallow but wide. Between then and the fact that all of my power cables have right angle ends, and there simply isn't room to plug everything in on those pedals.

Bottom line, we all have different things we like for what works on our board, and I'm glad there isn't a 100% standard that everyone follows. Whether it works best layout-wise for my board is yet another point on the decision tree for whether I like a pedal or not.
 
#27
Spencer! said:
The few standards we have are bad standards anyway. Center-negative plugs are such a stupid idea but we're stuck with them because that's what people have always done.
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I thought it was originally done that way by Boss because there wasn't any better way at the time to switch out a battery. It could just be an assumption on my part, since I can't imagine why you would put the non grounded part closer to the metal case.
 
#30
*SIGH*
Sorry to be a wet blanket on your soul crushing windging but here it is:

Learn to Solder, not hard trust me, buy the parts needed out of any electronics supply store for pennies on the dollar, get a box, copy the circuit, and build your own damned pedals and then you can put the jacks/plugs/connectors and the odd assorted house plant anywhere YOU want them.

Problem solved

:D
 
#31
ZombieSpacebat said:
All I would ask for is for power inputs to all be top mounted.
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cybersnyder said:
The only thing I don't like is the power jack on the side. That makes it more difficult to get pedals tightly up against each other on a pedaltrain pedal board.
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I'm totally with you guys. I understand that the knobs and switches take up room at the top which may prevent a manufacturer from putting the power input up there, but a guy can dream...

Heck, I'd actually be happy(er) if the power input on the side was just a bit further away from the input jack...
 
#36
Drunk Heffalump said:
*SIGH*
Sorry to be a wet blanket on your soul crushing windging but here it is:

Learn to Solder, not hard trust me, buy the parts needed out of any electronics supply store for pennies on the dollar, get a box, copy the circuit, and build your own damned pedals and then you can put the jacks/plugs/connectors and the odd assorted house plant anywhere YOU want them.

Problem solved

:D
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Yes problem solved, as long as it's not a digital pedal. Or do you fancy building me a Deep Impact clone?
 

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