Pics of my new pedalboard (Cornish style)

donald stringer · June 26, 2006, 11:12:16 PM

It seems like everybody keeps raising the bar on this forum and youve done it with your pedal board. I would love to see a step by step on this diy.That would be quite a post but a hint on getting started in the right direction would be helpful. That is quite a job.

343 Salty Beans · June 27, 2006, 12:12:31 AM

That's some beautiful work, man. I wish mine would turn out HALF as nice looking...but you have that artistic touch that some of us seem to lack... ex. "I'll just throw it in an aluminum box and put some sharpie on it so I know what's what."

i cant count how many people have requested gut shots so far, but I also say, GUTS!

jimmy54 · July 02, 2006, 08:30:06 AM

Bump. Anymore updates on this fantastic piece of work?

psst · July 02, 2006, 01:08:39 PM

Just arrived from my shows in Menorca.
Some pics of the guts:

Peter Snowberg · July 02, 2006, 01:43:37 PM

Beautiful!!!

fikri · July 02, 2006, 02:02:31 PM

Excellent ! Looks tidy inside !

WildMountain · July 02, 2006, 05:23:18 PM

[stands up to applaud]: bravo, bravo....we want more...we want more

Beautiful man!

Floyd Pepper · July 02, 2006, 05:52:43 PM

Any chance of any details? What are the dimensions? Weight? Time taken? Costs?

Paul Marossy · July 02, 2006, 11:13:10 PM

Wow, that's impressive work!

psst · July 07, 2006, 01:31:54 PM

Well, it's basically finnished now.
I put all pulldowns so it doens't CLACK when I press any of the switches (totally silent now).
Also, I rebuild the tube drivers, I traced the circuit of the original I have and now they sound perfect.
I put all the labels.
Now I have a case.

Still, for the future, I have to put the "donuts" around the switches and the big knobs.

It's pretty silent, amazingly silent, actually.
Sounds so sweet, looking forward to trying it the next gig.

I'll write an article with construction details when I have time, maybe next week.

beliefspace · July 24, 2006, 08:18:21 PM

That's awesome and, to a newbie like me, very inspiring. Although I'm still building simples fuzz circuits at the moment - maybe one day I'll achieve something as excellent as this. Very good work indeed. Well impressive.

Stu

Mark Hammer · July 25, 2006, 08:51:09 AM

First, it looks fabulous and extremely functional. I couldn't help noticing, however, that the effects are arranged (at least their control panels are) in a sequence contrary to what "right-handed" pedals and pedalboards are like. There, you would expect some effects, like compressors and overdrives, to be early in the pedal sequence, hence over to the right, and modulation/delay effects (like flanger and delay) to be near the end of the sequence and over to the left. Such an arrangement is a joint product of a) preferred arrangements, and b) where the jacks are.

You wouldn't by any chance happen to be left-handed, would you?

Dave_B · July 25, 2006, 09:08:38 AM

Quote from: Mark Hammer on July 25, 2006, 08:51:09 AM
You wouldn't by any chance happen to be left-handed, would you?

It's funny you should mention that. I thought it looked perfect... and I'm left-handed. I've always viewed pedals as backwards but I assumed it was because so many other things are right-to-left.

hairyandy · July 25, 2006, 11:48:10 AM

Quote from: Mark Hammer on July 25, 2006, 08:51:09 AM
You wouldn't by any chance happen to be left-handed, would you?

That Mark Hammer, nothing gets by him does it?

mudmen · July 25, 2006, 03:48:47 PM

Quote from: psst on July 07, 2006, 01:31:54 PM
Well, it's basically finnished now.
I put all pulldowns so it doens't CLACK when I press any of the switches (totally silent now).
Also, I rebuild the tube drivers, I traced the circuit of the original I have and now they sound perfect.

What version of TD you mean ? New BK Butler ? Can you post the schematic of this version which you included in your pedalboard ?

moody07747 · July 25, 2006, 08:38:04 PM

i must say that is a sweet PB

for the past week i have been thinking about converting my board into something like the layout you have done there by tossing the guts in the board and mounting the switches outside but i never would have thought of the lights although i tend to put LEDs on everything so that probably would have come soon after....

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/moody07747/Completed%20Projects/E-Drums/Drum%20LEDs/
(my drum LED system)

im interested on what you used to put over the LED lights..the part that angles up
ill get to reading the text on the post...i was too buzy looking at the pics lol

psst · July 26, 2006, 03:38:02 AM

Well, I'm right handed, but it just seemed natural to me to have it arranged like I write, from left to right.
I didn't even think about it...
The thing I would have put differently now is the control panel in the rear side, instead of in the left side, in the right side, so the cable from the guitar to the pedalboard doesn't need to be so long.

The Tube Driver is the new ones BK Butler is building himself, I've tried the three versions and this is by far the best (for me).
I emailed the schematic to GGG, so probably they'll include it in the next Tube Driver layout.

mudmen · July 26, 2006, 06:54:57 AM

It's a very good news ! I also heared that the new BKs sounds best. Thanks in advance for the schematic and I can't wait for the new TD project at GGG

fikri · July 26, 2006, 04:03:35 PM

Can you explain us more about the power supply unit ? do you run the TD fillament in DC ?

psst · July 27, 2006, 05:00:56 AM

The power supplies:
Two coils, transforming 230V AC to 30V AC.
Then one of them goes to GGG's bipolar power supply (modified to supply +9, -9, +15 and -15), and the other one to another GGG's bipolar power suuply (+9, -9, no modifications).

Yeah, I run TubeDriver filaments in DC. No problem.

I don't know if I can post the schematic of the new Tube Driver here (copyright issues). Peter? Can I?

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