Here it is. There are a few things disconnected at this point. I had a few Voodoo Labs splitters that were defective, hence the danglies underneath in the middle of the harness mayhem. My brother is bringing by a couple of fitted side caps that will have the instrument inputs and outputs, a volume pedal loop, expression pedal inputs for the SA stuff (one for each hub), and also the XLR input for my condenser mic that I use on the baritone sax. I fabbed up the power and instrument cables. Everything is attached with enough dual-lock to hold solidly without making a prybar necessary to remove components. The three switchers in the middle bottom are external switches for the BB, Soleman and Infinity to access more options. This is an experimental platform. The Aftershock will likely be swapped out for some other SA pedal when something new and wonderful hits the market. I opted for twin MXR compressors in series, using one for general playing and one to switch to for higher compression slap work. I'll tidy up the dangly business when the last of the components arrive, hopefully in the next week or so. Of note, the underside of the top shelf is a similar situation of cables to the exposed middle shelf. SA TRRS cables are of one length, long enough (thankfully) to reach everything, but long enough to make a bit of a bird's nest even with routing brackets and zip ties. One day, if feeling a bit froggy, I might give a go to making some custom TRRS cables, but at this point, I want to get to the playing part.
This project began a couple of years ago with the acquisition of some pieces to replace an 11 pedal MXR board that was smoked by a power surge when I lived a bit south of Death Valley. The two MXR compressors are the same from that dead board, but with factory PCB replacements. MXR was pretty good about making a repair option available outside of the warranty period. I sold the rest of the pedals and power supply for parts/projects to tinkers. This board is plugged into a power conditioner/surge suppressor rack unit that powers my amp...not the wall of a sub-standard dwelling's, sub-standard electrical system on a sub-standard electric grid...also on the east coast.
This board was designed to support 2 electric stringed instruments and one mic'ed input. I play both fretted and fretless 5 and six string bass (respectively), also baritone guitar, flute and baritone sax (I have recently picked up a metal bodied clarinet, but wouldn't say that I can play it effectively yet). I wanted something I could use for all or any of the options in a one man or duo situation. I still enjoy gigging with bands, but want the freedom to do so without the hassle of the logistics wrangling cats all of the time. This setup is mainly for the home studio, but I'm not against building it a road case and going out when I have it all figured out.
I am not a photographer by trade or even a marginally effective hobbyist. I have included perfunctory feets in one shot to keep with TB tradition. No banana for scale.
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