Let's see those pedalboards!!

[Thomeeque]

GALLERY: Pro Pedalboards Volume I - in case somebody is interested by those (mostly) non-DIY losers.. T.

[tuckster]

[Kearns892]

Nice Chucks 

[Gila_Crisis]

so so, this is my new "final" board

[phector2004]

so so, this is my new "final" board

Cool setup

Isn't that a HOG expression pedal? 

Where are you hiding it?!?! Or is it for the eventide?

[teej212]

its just an M-Audio EXP pedal. theyre pretty common

[Gila_Crisis]

its just an M-Audio EXP pedal. theyre pretty common

Yep, that's it! I'm using it to control the Timefactor.
The whole chain is running like this:
Digitech Whammy > EH Micro POG > Demeter Compulator+Boss SG1 (DIY clones, the blue pedal on top right) > Korg DT10 > Ernie Ball VP Jr. > WMD Super Fatman > EH Small Stone > Eventide Timefactor > Brunetti Overtone2

There's only 1 DIY pedal inside there (and the little footswitch in the middle, which is also an external controller for the TF).
Around I have many other DIYs pedals (tremulus lune, clone theory, some BigMuffs and fuzzs, a pair of overdrives, etc...), but actually in this setup I have all the stuff I really need!

[Willybomb]

Gudday all, first time post - thought I'd share so please be gentle with me.  I've always been into a bit of poorly executed DIY and modding guitars, but I've just started on pedals.  Anyway, here's my board:

It started off with a bit of inspiration from Pedaltrain, Emma, Trailertrash, and the enternal Gorm thread.  So I checked out Bunnings, found the equivalent of the Gorm and felt it was a touch fragile/soft.  So I found some "quick-connect" aluminum and the joiners that go with it.  I got it cut to size at a local fab shop as I don't have a vice or the ability to do a square cut.

Notice the wider gap up top.  This is so I can mount a Behringer Ultra-GI underneath.


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Basic layout




Drilling out the power and patch holes in the perspex top.



Painted top



Glued and screwed



Side shot



Full Frontal



The chain is:

Boss A/B pedal for swapping guitars -> Behringer TU-300 tuner -> Morely Bad Horsie wah -> DS-1 w/ASE+Ultra mods -> Blackstar HT-Dual -> Behringer FX-600 ->Biyang Tri-reverb -> Behringer Ultra-GI.  Powered via Visual Sound One-Spot and a bog standard Blackstar PSU for the HT-Dual underneath the board.

If anyone cares, the Biyang reverb is actually pretty good.

[amptramp]

Gentle?  Willybomb, you deserve a hearty pat on the back for what you have accomplished!  Hope it doesn't dislocate a vertebra.  This has to be one of the neatest, most professional looking and functional pedalboards in this thread.

[Willybomb]

Thanks mate.  The board itself is very light due to the aluminium.  The bloody HT-Dual on the other hand....

Anyone know where I can get sheets of the loop velcro?  Currently each pedal is individually velcro'd down but I'd like to cover the top for a bit more freedom.

[blooze_man]

Hardware stores should have velcro.

[davent]

These guys have been around for awhile.

http://stores.ebay.ca/LYT-PEDALBOARDS/VELCRO-CARPETING-/_i.html?_fsub=253769011&_sid=14349961&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

How wide do you need? Three, 6  & 12" available here.

http://www.stockroomsupply.ca/shop/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=hook+and+loop+conversion+system&p=1

dave

[Willybomb]

Hardware stores should have velcro.

Yeah, they do, but getting it in anything wider than an inch is proving to be a bit difficult.  Finding it in sheets is fairly impossible, although I've seen it in places other than AU.

I have some spare time tomorrow so I'm going to check out a few places and see what turns up.

[boog]

@jordan: spoiled by FB; no 'like' button    dunno what to do! & they're actually about ready to be retired; the tread is about to fall off

[differo]

@Willybomb - what's inside Biyang reverb?? what are they using for reverberation? I'm really curious:)

[Willybomb]

No idea actually, I haven't opened it up to find out - wouldn't mean much to me anyway.     It does sound nice on moderate settings though as it has a stupid amount of reverb tail when everything's maxxed out.  I generally use the "hall" setting with both knobs set around 11 o'clock.  The "room" setting seems to just be a shorter reverb time at the same settings (who would have thought that), and "Spring" sounds pretty much like the other 2.  I'm not sure what the A/B mode switch is intended to do, but "A" has some faint underlying noise/dirt/distortion while "B" is as clean as a whistle, and is much clearer to listen to - surprisingly so given how minimal the dirt in "A" is.

Someone else on the tripri forums thinks much the same as I do (after googling "inside biyang reverb"):  The Biyang seems to take ONE model of reverb, and by changing the length of the decay divides it into 3 modes, room, spring, and hall. But I don't really hear any "spring" in the spring model, or any "hall" in the hall model, they are just smaller & bigger verbs.

I gotta laugh though, I made a couple of those right angled patchleads with the flat circular heads (not a lot of space between the pedals in a couple of cases) just to find that they don't fit through the holes I'd drilled in the top.  So, I removed one jack, threaded it through where it had to go and resoldered it on.   

[the3secondrule]

just set up my new board the other day:



the signal goes:
SHO > fuzzfactory > stripped down bigmuff Pi > hotcake > modded super overdrive > custom wah w/ input/output buffers > tuner > analog delay (DM2 clone w/ modulation)> modded mxr phase 90 > modded boss TR2 > amp

[Thomeeque]

 Latest status of My 1st Pedalboard^TM:



T.

[blooze_man]

That's a crazy bass drum sitting back there.

[shiner_man]

Gorm board FTW!



I need a wah!!!!