Help me settle a bet [poll]

[Johnny Fingers]

Hooked side up on the board, so I can scratch my itchy toe whilst playing barefooted.

 

[NOVAX]

I like the hard scratchy side on the pedal -because then if it's not on the board, it does grab on to carpet or other type surfaces. Dual porpoise

 

[sonic 7]

View attachment 4657084 Once that's settled, work on this.........

. I vote the one on the right.

 

[TheLowDown33]

Neither, use dual lock like a sane person

 

[31HZ]

Step up to DualLock, and enjoy using the same thing on both the board and on the bottoms of the pedals.

Plus there's the satisfying *click*.

 

[Durham52]

Who cares which what round you stick it! Just think yourself lucky you can buy a ready made, modern age miracle like Velcro to start with. Back when I was a lad we had to make our own Velcro like material with matted sheep's wool as the fuzzy side and shark skin as the hooky side. Plus we had to sheer the sheep and then catch and skin the shark first!

 

[SixtyCycleHum]

Look, man. I did this pretty early on, and figured it out the first time around. There's no rules/true wrong answer, but the hook tape on the bottom of the pedals makes a whole bunch of long term sense.

Go ahead and experiment, though. I want you to discover the art of friction and adhesives all on your lonesome.

 

[SixtyCycleHum]

Who cares which what round you stick it! Just think yourself lucky you can buy a ready made, modern age miracle like Velcro to start with. Back when I was a lad we had to make our own Velcro like material with matted sheep's wool as the fuzzy side and shark skin as the hooky side. Plus we had to sheer the sheep and then catch and skin the shark first!

I swear that 80% of you are against me drinking coffee, making me spit it out and drool it down my chin like an idjit with posts like this. Gotdang it, Durham.

 

[Turnaround]

It doesn't matter for most pedals, but you must put the loop side on your looper. Otherwise it will be out of the loop.

 

[Brad Easley]

I can't remember why I originally decided to put the loop (fuzzy) side on my boards and hook side on my pedals, but I like it that way so why change.

FWIW I tried dual lock and hated it. I suppose it's great if you don't ever want to change your pedals out. I swap pedals around pretty frequently on tightly spaced boards, and with the dual lock that ain't easy.

Come to think of it, that might be the reason for the former also. If you swap pedals in and out frequently, the loop side is eventually going to wear out faster. It's easier to pull of a single long piece and slap a new one down than to change out a bunch of smaller pieces on every pedal. I'm going with that as my reasoning.

 

[tb-player]

I think for me, it seems the fuzzy side wears out much more quickly than the scratchy side. If I have to replace the fuzz, I'd rather do it on one small pedal than an entire board. Also, I find the hook side easier to clean so the board looks neater to me. And finally, if I just take a couple of pedals with no board, all the places I play seem to have hard floors, so the pedals with fuzz feel a bit more secure than the hook side..

That being said, I'm clearly in the minority. So if you buy pedals from me, I'll be sure to remove the velcro first.

 

[funkinbottom]

Who’s right?

Yes

 

[HolmeBass]

I started with a pre-made SKB board I bought at a pawn shop. It was covered with loop side.

So I put hook side on my pedals. That sort of locked me in. But also in my experience that is the common way it is done.

 

[Dave Leighton]

There's a difference?

 

[6-3-2]

... or this
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Might be worth making a thread about. I haven't seen any on here for a good while

 

[elgranluis]

Back when you bought those portfolio -looking boards, the inside was covered with carpet and you’d stick the hook-side under the pedals.

 

[Pilgrim]

Here's my thought process with anything velcro, FWIW. The non-moving part (ie, the board in this case) gets the loop part, because the hook part is way more prone to gathering hair/dustballs/etc and so on, so I want the stationary part to collect less hair/dustballs/etc. The hook can go on the part that gets removed/replaced/swapped. But that's just me.

This is my logic, too. It's supported by the fact that pedal boards that are pedal-ready have the fuzzy material installed.

I'm not worried about removing a pedal and having the hook materials let it skate around when used individually. When I use a pedal board, I don't remove the pedals from it.

 

[REV]

Either way is OK just as long as you always do it the same way.

 

[comatosedragon]

Whether you believe it or not, there is a right way and wrong way to do things.

Loops on the board, hooks on the pedal.

Also, milk belongs on the top shelf of the refrigerator. If you store it somewhere else, you're doing it wrong.

 

[mouthmw]

It's always loop on the board, hook on the pedals for me. I don't want to touch the scratchy velcro when I pick up my pedalboard!