Right to left? Why?

[LowActionHero]

Got no clue on the pedals, wondered that myself.
But some amps are 'backwards', just seems wrong...

 

[JCW308]

Yeah, so the cable doesn't cross in front of the right-handed player. You don't want to go from bottom right (bass) to top left (pedalboard) do you?

 

[DDXdesign]

Is Coriolis the guy that hosted Soul Train?

That's right. Don Coriolis.

 

[Crater]

Pedals' circuit boards are usually assembled upside down. When they're on the work bench, the signal flow *IS* in the proper left-to-right direction.

 

[Wesley R]

In the old Telecom days the Phone system backboards feed left to right. Trunking (Network) on the left switch in the middle, riser cables or station cables on the right (output). Maybe?

 

[Fat Freddy]

All of this is Northern Hemisphere bias, though. I'm sure in Australia you want your signal chain flowing the other way to match the Coriolis Effect.

 

[gln1955]

I always orient my pedal board so electrons flow in the direction of the spinning earth. I want them moving through as fast as possible.

 

[40Hz]

Right-handed basses and guitars have their outputs on the right (from the perspective of the instrumentalist). Standard pedal configuration for the vast majority of players who are right-handed means you're not running your cable across your body/board. I think that's pretty much the end of the story.

If I have to guess, usability reasons. For right-handed guitarists, having the cable coming down straight into the right side of a series of pedals is more comfortable. Otherwise, the instrument cable would cross the space between you and your board and you'd step onto it, eventually.

O course you could simply just run your cable around behind you and then plug in like I do with my amp most times.

Or would that be too complicated?

More seriously, computer guru Gerald Weinberg may have summed it up best when he said that when speaking of technology and its conventions: "Things are the way they are because they got to be that way."

I'd guess one or two or the early big players in the effects world (probably Japanese) who offered a large line of effects started putting the input on the left and output on the right, and the rest of the smaller players in the market followed suit rather than buck "city hall" so to speak.

 

[mikeyjm2]

I always orient my pedal board so electrons flow in the direction of the spinning earth. I want them moving through as fast as possible.

Just be sure to have both ends of the instrument cable plugged in at all times. Electrons make a horrible mess when they spill out all over the floor.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

We read books left to right

Depends on the language. Some are right to left, others top to bottom.

 

[Grumry]

My guitar's cable comes out to the right.

I step on them with my right foot.

My signal chain has the tuner/eq/comp "always on" pedals first, and then a volume pedal that leads to the time based effects that I press more often.

It actually feels pretty natural, being the opposite of everything else we do.

 

[Al Kraft]

Got no clue on the pedals, wondered that myself.
But some amps are 'backwards', just seems wrong...
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See my posts numbers 9 and then 11...all makes perfect sense once you have some "not so well known history" and then look at it through that context.

 

[micguy]

Got no clue on the pedals, wondered that myself.
But some amps are 'backwards', just seems wrong...
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Some companies use the same circuit boards for tube combos and heads - when they do that, one of them ends up upside down, as the tubes are on top in a head, and on the bottom in a combo. Makes sense if you think about manufacturing.

 

[GnarwhalNick]

I stomp pedals with my right foot. I guess that's why I do it R>>L lol

My tuner pedal is the one I use the most, so it makes to put it on the right, and it's the first pedal in my chain

 

[HelpImaRock]

I always orient my pedal board so electrons flow in the direction of the spinning earth. I want them moving through as fast as possible.

Just be sure to have both ends of the instrument cable plugged in at all times. Electrons make a horrible mess when they spill out all over the floor.

Lastly, and most importantly, remember to tune to A=432. Only then can you be one with the universe.

 

[ThePresident777]

You can get used to anything.

You can't get used to being dead.

 

[Adamixoye]

You can't get used to being dead.

Counterpoint: I've never heard any of them complain about it.

 

[petrus61]

Also note that bob gallien prefers the eq mirrored from the norm.

Iow gk amps have treble on the left and bass on the right.

You know, that's something I never even thought of till you mentioned it. I've been using mine so long it probably explains why I'm like "***? The EQ is backwards!" when I play other amps

 

[JonnyAngle]

Counterpoint: I've never heard any of them complain about it.

Have you ever actually asked a dead person?

 

[petrus61]

You can't get used to being dead.

Because you have no choice!