America's saddest pedalboards

[Unemploid]

You can learn more about the contests at jimdunlop.com
Bass board:

Classic rock board (guitar):

modern metal board (guitar)

Indie board (guitar):

 

[Salicete]

Saddest?

Since “S” isn’t adjacent to “B” on a QWERTY keyboad, I don’t suppose it is a typo that should have read Baddest.

Cool boards in any case.

 

[Mr. voodoobass]

Where’s the psycho jazz board?

 

[theunknowndude]

These all look cool / extremely neat!

 

[Adamixoye]

Saddest?

Since “S” isn’t adjacent to “B” on a QWERTY keyboad, I don’t suppose it is a typo that should have read Baddest.

Cool boards in any case.

It’s not clear from the OP, but I think, think, it’s a contest and these are the prizes.

 

[ahc]

Gave a quick look and I think the contest ended in December.

 

[Snaxster]

Saddest?

Since “S” isn’t adjacent to “B” on a QWERTY keyboad, I don’t suppose it is a typo that should have read Baddest.

Cool boards in any case.

"daddest", maybe? To me they look sort of fatherly.

 

[Unemploid]

I guess the metal bass board would be geezer butler wah and bass distortion pedal. Maybe bass overdrive or pork loin and theirs the fuzz octave.

 

[Feral Feline]

THREAD TOO LATE TO ENTER A CONTEST ALREADY ENDED

 

[ICM]

My 'pedalboard' consists of one compressor that's been sitting in a drawer for years. So yeah, pretty sad.
A germanium fuzz and octave dropper would be neat to play around with but I'm just not a pedal guy.

 

[Blaargh]

All of those boards look kinda boring... The indie rock board would actually make a pretty good bass board though. Still, not lairy enough by any standards.

 

[jamzcl]

I could live with that first board and be pretty happy.

 

[theunknowndude]

I could live with that first board and be pretty happy.

Mmm none of those pedals work in my band context, and I’d miss my cog mini 66 and mbd1 too much!

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Pics in the OP aren't the sadboards. They're the prizes you win, intended to replace your sadboard with awesomeness. Sort of an "Extreme Makeover: Pedalboard Edition" type contest.

Here is a "winning" board. Sad indeed. But it makes me wonder what's the best banana for metal.

 

[CoreyI35]

Pics in the OP aren't the sadboards. They're the prizes you win, intended to replace your sadboard with awesomeness. Sort of an "Extreme Makeover: Pedalboard Edition" type contest.

Here is a "winning" board. Sad indeed. But it makes me wonder what's the best banana for metal.

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Not sad enough. Banana still looks edible.

 

[bassbrad]

Pics in the OP aren't the sadboards. They're the prizes you win, intended to replace your sadboard with awesomeness. Sort of an "Extreme Makeover: Pedalboard Edition" type contest.

Here is a "winning" board. Sad indeed. But it makes me wonder what's the best banana for metal.

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I would have to be black, like a black mirror of death.

 

[superheavyfunk]

I'd rock that bass board... it's got all the basics one would need to play most genres of music

 

[Kevin1960]

You can learn more about the contests at jimdunlop.com
Bass board:View attachment 2868379
Classic rock board (guitar):View attachment 2868381modern metal board (guitar)View attachment 2868385
Indie board (guitar):View attachment 2868387

Are these an alien's attempt to make us believe that real pedal boards actually look like these? I smell a governmental conspiracy and cover up here.

 

[xnewyorka]

Pics in the OP aren't the sadboards. They're the prizes you win, intended to replace your sadboard with awesomeness. Sort of an "Extreme Makeover: Pedalboard Edition" type contest.

Here is a "winning" board. Sad indeed. But it makes me wonder what's the best banana for metal.

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I don't see how that banana could possibly work. It does not appear to have any power connected to it.

Oh, unless he is using it as a passive attenuator power soak?

 

[Bob_Ross]

Here is a "winning" board. Sad indeed. But it makes me wonder what's the best banana for metal.
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Thread drift: In 1986 I was a passenger on a cruise ship (Holland America Lines, looping Alaska's Inland Passage, in case you're curious) and during one of the late-night cocktail lounge fun-fest activities the DJ pulled out a floor tom-tom and announced they were holding a Drum Solo Contest. He would cue up The Surfaris' "Wipe Out" and, when it got to the drum solo would mute playback and contestants would give it their best shot at executing the drum solo from that well-known tune.

Full disclosure: I won the contest. Which sort of felt like cheating, because I played drums throughout my youth (though I never really considered myself a drummer).

But... one of the other contestants was a young, jovial, lovely lady who declined the use of the DJ's drumsticks, and instead attempted to play the drum solo from "Wipe Out" using a pair of bananas that she'd stolen from the midnight buffet.

At the end of the night I gave her the prize I'd won. She totally rocked those bananas!