Pics from the 2009 Worlds Largest Pedalboard

[wampcat1]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7297852@N05/sets/72157621596146152/

147 pedals was the final count I believe, which makes it a new world record.
Thought some folks might enjoy the pics

[petemoore]

  Honey...Frank and Stein are coming over early [4:00am] to get an early start on the morning debugging shift. 
 

[jacobyjd]

Hm...it looks like there are a bunch of buffered-bypass pedals on there. Tone-suck city--they all need to be converted to true bypass to sound like SRV.

[mr.adambeck]

Is there a list of what pedals are in there? 

[Mark Hammer]

So are these all unique pedals? i.e., no repeats

[MarcoMike]

must be a t-rex spindoctors fan... 7 pedals, 4 presets each... it's 28 different settings out of the same pedal... is it even possible?!

[Heemis]

Dare I say it... Soundclips??

[Ripthorn]

My question is how do you play on that thing?  Maybe you stand in the middle and jump from pedal to pedal during the song to make your changes.

[fuzzo]

Absolutely ridiculous.

Can you really play with that thing ?

Maybe you stand in the middle and jump from pedal to pedal during the song to make your changes.

Nope you take 3 friends dressed in black on stage, just to switch the effect . But they must be really good to switch the pedals in the same time

[notchboy]

I call shenanigans -- that's a collection of pedalboards strung together, not a single "world's largest pedalboard."

[JFX09]

shenanigans

+1

[jacobyjd]

It would sound better if it was 147 DS-1s.

[hoostavah]

Hm...it looks like there are a bunch of buffered-bypass pedals on there. Tone-suck city--they all need to be converted to true bypass to sound like SRV.

point of interest- Pete Cornish said pedals with true bypass are actually not as good in long signal chains as buffered bypass. This is due to the fact that with all cables between even the best true bypass pedals connected with the best cables have enough capacitance to have signal loss. however with the inclusion of at least one buffered bypass pedal, the integrety of the chain should be intact.

[slideman82]

It would sound better if it was 147 DS-1s.

That could be beaten by a Wah, a TB MKII and a Echoplex...

[jacobyjd]

Hm...it looks like there are a bunch of buffered-bypass pedals on there. Tone-suck city--they all need to be converted to true bypass to sound like SRV.

point of interest- Pete Cornish said pedals with true bypass are actually not as good in long signal chains as buffered bypass. This is due to the fact that with all cables between even the best true bypass pedals connected with the best cables have enough capacitance to have signal loss. however with the inclusion of at least one buffered bypass pedal, the integrety of the chain should be intact.

I don't believe that this is true. Who the heck is Pete Cornish, anyway? If I've never heard of him, why should I believe what he says?

It would sound better if it was 147 DS-1s.

That could be beaten by a Wah, a TB MKII and a Echoplex...

Again, this is simply not true. The only thing that can best 147 DS-1s would be 148 or more DS-1s. Please do some research before you post unreliable hearsay.

*edit* Source: http://www.beavisaudio.com/flash/DS1.html

[SonicVI]

[Thomas3D]

but what does it sound like with all the pedals turned on?

[liquids]

but what does it sound like with all the pedals turned on?

That is one of the first things I thought of, and pondering that is either going to make it very difficult to sleep, or be the best thing since counting sheep.   

[Boogdish]

haha, jacobjyd, you're killing me.

[jacobyjd]

haha, jacobjyd, you're killing me.