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who DOESN'T use velcro?

#42
jwr said:
Industrial strength velcro is great IMO. It's just as good as Dual Lock, which I use both. I'd never want to use something permanent and a pain in the ass to change out unless I knew for sure I was in love with what I have, which is never. LOL.
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With the chain links it would probably less than a minute to change a pedal.

But it takes an hour to get the crappy sticky stuff of the bottom of a pedal when the Velcro peels off (which it always does...even the expensive stuff) in the middle of the summer....not to mention the labels with it on boss pedals....never again
 
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#44
By the way, if you try the bike chain link method, you may be surprised at how short many pedal enclosure screws are. Two of my pedals did not have enough extra screw length to accommodate the thickness of the link. If you need to buy longer screws, start with 6-32. That's probably what you need.
 
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cheechi said:
Why don't pedal manufacturers either install or at least provide velcro with their pedals? Especially the more boutique ones? Rubber feet, and entire rubber bottoms (Boss, etc) maybe made sense at one point but is there an application where the rubber is really keeping things in place properly, AND is a better choice than velcro?

I'm just thinking the marginal extra cost of Velcro to someone big like Boss or EHX is negligible. If someone said Fuzzrocious couldn't do it because of cost, or price increase, fine I get that. I assume from photos that the Fuzzrocious pedals ship without rubber feet anyway so at least there's nothing wasted.

This is not a troll thread. I have no issue with applying my own velcro. It just seems like either I'm missing something, or it's an improvement everyone knows could be made and nobody does on the manufacturing side.
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They assume you will buy a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power which will provide you with enough velcro for the life of you and your children? Or maybe it was the PedalTrain 2? One of them came with mucho velco. And there's your next bad band name.
 
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#47
Me!!! I don't use velcro for my pedals.

And since you seemed to complain about big name like Boss who uses entire rubber bottom and not giving any velcro... it's because their pedal boards, since the old days, namely the BCB-6, or their current BCB-60 and BCB-30, don't require any velcro.

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#48
No Velcro for me. I don't use a board either. I don't like the idea of having six or however many pedals somewhat semi-permanently connected and attached to a board. When my used pedals come in the mail I'll usually leave the Velcro on if it's the hook side.

I haven't played any gigs or anything in quite awhile so my opinion probably isn't valid...
 
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#52
I do not use velcro or any other materials to attach pedals on my guitar and bass pedal boards. The rubber feet usually provide enough friction to keep the pedals in place.

Below is a picture of my guitar pedal board a several months ago, but I am constantly swapping in and out various pedals from my collection:

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#53
Aidil said:
Me!!! I don't use velcro for my pedals.

And since you seemed to complain about big name like Boss who uses entire rubber bottom and not giving any velcro... it's because their pedal boards, since the old days, namely the BCB-6, or their current BCB-60 and BCB-30, don't require any velcro.

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How's that supposed to work when you are adding or subtracting pedals from your board every other week?
 
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#54
We are up to a new method of attaching pedals to pedalboards. You do not need to modify your pedals in any way using our method. But it is still under development. Right now we are running a beta-test program here in Sweden and we have sent a kit to five bass players for extensively testing.

The long story can be found here: New principle for mounting pedals on pedal boards, your opinion please?

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Here is the most resent design of the FX Smart #59-80. There is also a #79-120 version. The pedal brackets shown in the photo above does not include the rubberstrips that are supposed to be placed inside the bracket sides.

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Here the pedal mount brackets are used for my own The Weeping Birch Buff Piezo Transducer Buffer as well as the Boss GEB-7. The brackets are mounted to the pedalboard using velcro (i.e. not on the pedal itself). Then I can with ease pull off a pedal if I whant to e.g. switch pedal, replace battery, use one pedal as stand alone, etc.

The next generation of the design process will include countersunk bolt holes for the option of use screws to mount the pedal brackets to a pedalboard.

/MrBaloo
 
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Nev375 said:
How's that supposed to work when you are adding or subtracting pedals from your board every other week?
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I've put 2 multi effect pedals which cover all my needs on the board... even the wireless transceiver is there also. Thus I need no change my pedals.

But even if I want to change pedals, I still have lots of Boss BCB-60 spare foam cushion, with the standard pedal size cut-outs or blank ones which I could easily mold using any pedal which I want to put on.

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