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Pedalboard nearly complete

NoSlapForYou

NoSlapForYou

Jan 9, 2019
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I got my pedalboard today. Handcrafted off of Etsy. Definitely recommend this route rather than buying a mass-produced Pedaltrain board or whatever. Was actually cheaper.

Anyway, I'm still short a patch cable and a power supply, but I couldn't resist arranging my pedals on it. I have room for one more pedal. Thinking some kind of synth (probably the Source Audio C4).


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NoSlapForYou said:
I got my pedalboard today. Handcrafted off of Etsy. Definitely recommend this route rather than buying a mass-produced Pedaltrain board or whatever. Was actually cheaper.

Anyway, I'm still short a patch cable and a power supply, but I couldn't resist arranging my pedals on it. I have room for one more pedal. Thinking some kind of synth (probably the Source Audio C4).


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Hmm, six pieces of wood and some screws… you actually paid someone money for that?
 
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Killing Floor said:
Pedalboard nearly complete

This may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in print in 6 months.
Like saying the sun’s nearly cool or Lumineers nearly rock.

off to a nice start but pedal boards are never complete.
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The sad thing is, after all that painstaking work, the craftsperson didn’t put a bird on it…
 
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Michedelic said:
Hmm, six pieces of wood and some screws… you actually paid someone money for that?
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How is it any worse than buying the flimsy ugly pieces of metal that make up commercially made pedalboards? Do you post something like that whenever someone shows off their new Pedaltrain? This is at least as sturdy and practical.

If you're saying I should have done it myself, not all of us have the time, inclination or tools to do that. Beyond that, there's far more craftsmanship in in than you can see in the photos. There's place to fix a power supply. There's are a couple circular holes on each side to feed cables through. There's a handle that flips out. The wood is high quality and looks and feels nice.

324 people agreed with me and gave the shop 5 stars, for what it's worth. But I guess they're just suckers too?
 
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NoSlapForYou said:
27666967[/URL], member: 337045"]the flimsy ugly pieces of metal that make up commercially made pedalboards
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I’m not sure which commercially made pedalboards you’re referring to. But every commercial board I’ve ever looked at was far from being even remotely flimsy as far as the materials and construction were concerned.

That said, congratulations on your new pedalboard. Nice selection of boxes on it too. Somebody already beat me to recommending getting a tuner. But I’d suggest checking out Sonic Research. I haven’t found another tuner that locks on to a note as quickly or more accurately than their ST-300. Highly recommended.
 
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Killing Floor said:
Pedalboard nearly complete

This may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in print in 6 months.
Like saying the sun’s nearly cool or Lumineers nearly rock.

off to a nice start but pedal boards are never complete.
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This is SO important! When I first read the statement I told myself he should Always say it's Nearly Complete
keep it there, because it will always be so. After your 23rd "completed" pedal board you will know. Your board is now Ideal, Beautiful and uncluttered, I don't consider looks of importance at all. btw your board has room for more because you are using those nice flat cables. (There are mini pedals you know.) There are more interesting fuzzes. Using a sansamp as a drive takes up realestate. (They cut too much mids for me)

I would also prefer to use a pedal tran over wood because of impermiability it can be cleaned. (wood is permiable unless finished, even then it's soft) These things live for Years in practice spaces, back of cars, draged on stage, packed up and repacked, wacked, maye not moved for months, spilled on with whatever is going by...
 
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NoSlapForYou said:
Do I have too many distortions?
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Only you can answer that question. I myself would not find it necessary to have a BDDI, a Monomyth, and a Muff on the same board, but 8 pedals is by no means a large pedalboard. I'd call that medium-sized.

For me, one preamp (that can get dirty), one eq, and one boost or drive is more than enough, but the current design I'm moving toward has 7 pedals on the board, plus a tuner off the board.

I currently have 6 on the board, but I've decided I'm adding a Ditto+ looper for practice, songwriting, and soundchecks.
 
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Barticus said:
Ah it’s good to see palette scrap wood go to crafty uses. Much prefer my mass-produced NUX with 2 levels for functionality.
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Aside from whether one has more functionality than another (after all this is a surface you velcro crap to), or whether some one would rather buy this than all the tools necessary to build it, some of us prefer not having to needlessly generate more demand for molded plastic garbage, if it’s avoidable.

Yea, what a novel idea: repurposing something instead of just accumulating more crap.
 
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I like that pedalboard, looks cool. How heavy is it though? That would be my only concern. And I have learned my lesson about saying boards are done. They are never done. They may be done for a while, but they will change at some point. I've said mine was done a couple of times only to end up revamping everything. I just got a new smaller board to scale down a tad and tighten everything up. I'm waiting on one thing to come in and then I will deem it "done for the moment".
 
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Nothing wrong with a wooden board in my view. I considered it, have the tools, have slats from an old futon in my scrap pile, the reason i didnt is it would weigh considerably more than a Pedaltrain. There are a number of wooden boards out there that go for 2-3 times the cost of a Pedaltrain of comparable size. The reason is, they are a PITA to construct in any kind of volume. The Pedaltrains are stamped out, CNC laser cut, and bent on an assembly line. A wooden board would require individual jigs and predrilled fasteners…I considered a Lucite board- i had a bunch of it- but it would have weighed too much. Another caveat to using a wooden board would be heat dissipation if the power source is underneath. Wood is a poor conductor, and metal wont burn… Rock on.
 
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NoSlapForYou said:
I got my pedalboard today. Handcrafted off of Etsy. Definitely recommend this route rather than buying a mass-produced Pedaltrain board or whatever. Was actually cheaper.

Anyway, I'm still short a patch cable and a power supply, but I couldn't resist arranging my pedals on it. I have room for one more pedal. Thinking some kind of synth (probably the Source Audio C4).


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You don't know what you've done to yourself. It's still not too late to sell it all, move homes, change your name, and quit your job. Otherwise the rabbit hole's tentacles will swallow you whole forever...forever....
 

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