If you are willing to share some of your techniques and methods, I have some questions:
1. What is the box labelled: RRS TTG?
2. How many feet of power cord and interconnects did you roughly use?
3. What did you use to hold down the cables?
4. What type of cable is used to send 9v power to all of the devices?
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1. That's a pedalboard interface that I've had for a few years. It was build by Dave Phillips of L.A. Sound Design. It's essentially a very simple patch bay that allows all of the pedalboard's terminal points to come together in one place. On the right you have "T A G" - Tuner / Amp / Guitar. Bass Guitar signal to "G" Input through to "S", which sends to Volume Pedal. "R" denotes a return. The middle return is the signal coming from the Empress Compressor, going though to "A", which is a send back to the amp. The top return is the signal coming from the Polytune (fed from the tuner out on the volume pedal), going through to "T", which is a send back to a rack tuner (I also made a stage snake for the audio cables going between the pedalboard and my rack. Cables are housed in expandable braided sleeving. I'll post pictures of this tomorrow from my gig). The rack tuner may seem redundant, but I've had one for years in whatever my main rig is at the time. My secondary rig doesn't have a rack tuner, so I put one on the floor. So why the labeling? It just makes things easier, makes things look organized, and in the unfortunate and unlikely event that I need to quickly troubleshoot something at a gig, I don't have to really think about what's going where. The very top of the interface is a power though with Neutrik powerCon connectors. The powerCon connectors are not original to the interface. I recently added them when I built this board. There was another set of 1/4" jacks in that position, which I removed. I then modified the interface to accommodate the powerCon connectors.
2. I initially bought 80 feet of the Mogami 2319 cable. 40 feet of that was used for the two audio cables going from the pedalboard to my rack( 2 x 20 ft cables). I don't know exactly how many feet of cable were used for the board, but I have plenty left over. Including the stage snake, there are a total of 30 1/4" plugs. Lots of soldering.
3. The hardware used to hold down the cabling are "
1" adhesive backed mounting bases". These can be purchased at Home Depot, Lowes, Amazon, etc. You can get a bag of 100 for right around $10. They are made to be used with zip ties, which can also be purchased at the previously listed retail locations. These are also great to use in the back side of racks for cable management.
4. To make the power cables, I purchased
Invalid Link Removed from Mouser.com. I used a total of of 18. Again, lots of soldering, and at first this may seem super tedious for somebody just learning to solder due to the confines of these power plugs. For the power cables, I used RCA cables that I had laying around the house. What's nice about this is, if you have a 5 foot RCA cable that looks like
Invalid Link Removed, you essentially have 15 feet of power cable. All you have to do is cut off the cable ends, then split and pull the three cables away from each other. I had some pretty hefty RCA cables so I was never concerned about overloading. You may be wondering how are 10 pedals being powered by only 8 power points off of the Pedal Power 2. What I've done is run parallel power off of the Pedal Power's jacks #2 and #5. To do this, you'll first need to know the power draw of each pedal to make sure your not overloading the specified output of the respective power jack. This will be measured in milliamps(mA). The Boss OC-2 and the WMD Super Fat Man are sharing power from the same power jack (jack #2). Jack #2 has a max current output of 100mA with the DIP switch in the "normal" position. The OC-2 has a current draw of 4 mA while the WMA Super Fat Man has a current draw of, if I remember correctly, 30-40 mA. This puts me well below the 100 mA output rating of jack #2 on the Pedal Power. Same practice applies to the Empress Compressor and the Polytune Mini, which are powered in parallel from the Pedal Power's #5 output jack, which has an output rating of 250 mA with the DIP switch in the "normal" position. The Empress Compressor has a published consumption of 100mA and the Polytune Mini has a published consumption of 40 mA, which again puts me well below the Pedal Power's jack #5 power output rating of 250 mA. If your unsure of a pedal's power consumption, a quick Google search for a specific pedal's manual will usually provide you with the information you need.
Invalid Link Removed If these methods result in no luck, and in the case of the WMD Super Fat Man, a simple email or phone call to the manufacturer can easily get you the information you need.
