New Pedal board build

Matt,
When I say this:

Iā€™m saying that I would have to limit myselfā€¦ as a guy who has more guitars than I ever dreamed of because thereā€™s always another one with different look/sound/appeal, Iā€™m trying to find a way to STOP MYSELF!!! :rofl: :roll_eyes: :laughing:

I do see your point - Oh Yeah do I see your point!!! Iā€™m trying to draw a line, though!!!

Tod

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The Blues Driver works well to liven up clean tones. I almost always have it on. It can be very subtle and even a small boost enhances the clean tones enough to make the sound from the amplifier sound a bit dull. Not saying the amplifier is bad sounding, but compared at the same time as the pedal, the BD comes out on top, to my ears anyway. I only have 3 pedals at present, the Blues Driver, the Boss CS-3 Compression / Sustainer and the Boss Chromatic Tuner TU-3. I plan on adding a delay pedal and maybe a looper soon. Like you, I donā€™t want to succumb to pedal GAS. I will try to find the Josh Scott video. It sounds interesting. I just hope it doesnā€™t entice me into buying the pedal.

The flat bottom plates for my pedals are supposed to be delivered Saturday, then I can finish this project.

Ben

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Fantastic and clean job. Love it. I never even thought of using the Tolex covering. I was tring to figure out if I should use a nice veneer on top butā€¦problem solved. Tolex is the way awsome project.

Personally I prefer building anything over buying it. That way it can be customized the way I want it and I learn a skill at the same time.

Thanks for the follow-up

Edit, I meant to say never thought of using that.

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Thanks Jason. I enjoyed working with Tolex. It does look good. I was lucky, or maybe being careful paid off and my corner folds came out perfect.

Ben

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The bottom plates for the pedals arrived today and now everything is hooked up, wires are secured under the board and pedals mounted.


Merry Christmas!
Ben

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That looks really great. I need to make one soon also, I have a few projects before but I am absolutely tired of the carpet thing. I will need to get a better power supply first. It will be nice to have them all togeather.

I have a mess right now.

Merry Christmas Ben.

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That looks awesome! Youā€™ve done a really great job there. Congratulations.
Josh Scott is wonderfull with his explanations about pedals. I recently discovered his channel and i must say, iā€™ve went down the rabbit hole Alice styleā€¦
I bought a pedal or 2-3 over the years, but never had the real motivation to use them properly. Except for the boss looper. That always came in very handy. Untill now that isā€¦
During this holiday season i bought 4 new pedalsā€¦ My board now has 6 pedals.
Starting from the guitar, tc elec green russian fuzz, boss blues driver, boss distortion, tc elec delay, boss tremolo and tc elec reverb.
I might have gone a bit overboard this time of the yearā€¦ :upside_down_face:

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Yep, been there too. I never found it all that comfortable and cleaning always was a struggle.
Now i have all my pedals on a board. Much easier to handle.

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Thanks Jason. My room looked much the same as yours before organizing the wires with the pedal board. Are you using a Wall Wart style power supply? That is what I was using and it never did work very well. I would get loud popping through the amplifier and the volume would fall off. Seemed like it only worked when there were good batteries in the pedals, so maybe it wasnā€™t working at all. The Voodo Lab power supply works great and it is quiet. My bad power source was one of the reasons I decided to build the pedal board.

GrytPipe, You have some nice pedals! I would feel like I dove head first down the rabbit hole if I bought 4 pedals at the same time. It would be fun though. I have watched several of Josh Scottā€™s videos. He is a great source for pedal information.

Oh yeah. He really is. He got me going in this whole pedal craze. Well, he and a teacher of mine, saying that delay and echo are basically the same. Which got me reading up on things, getting to know JHS pedals and from there onā€¦ the rabbit holeā€¦ :smiley:

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Yes its poor and like you said causes a lot of noise.

That one is nice. I have been looking at a few different ones. I start talking about gear with my wife and she is constantly saying ā€œit thought you already had one of those.ā€ Well at least she is paying attention.

:rofl:

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You have to be careful with power supplies.

If you have simple analogue pedals like drives and some reverbs/delays then their power consumption is pretty low and you can get away with a cheap power supply and daisy-chaining them.

Morden digital units tend to require a lot more power and, also, donā€™t tend to work well with daisy-chaining as they tend to put a lot of noise onto the power which causes him or buzz.

In this case, look for a power supply with isolated outputs with one pedal per output.

But some bigger pedals like the Strymons, Eventides, etc. have, not only a substantial power draw, but often use unusual voltage or plug connections. If you have, or are considering, such pedals, itā€™s best to research the power requirements and get a suitable power supply.

Cheers,

Keith

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Nice! How much does it weigh? With and without pedals?

Thanks Clint. I donā€™t know what the board weighs with or without the pedals. It is not, to me anyway, very heavy. I only have the 3 pedals and power supply mounted so far, so not much weight there and the pedal board is made of plywood. I would guess around 5-7 pounds with pedals.

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