Iām saying that I would have to limit myselfā¦ as a guy who has more guitars than I ever dreamed of because thereās always another one with different look/sound/appeal, Iām trying to find a way to STOP MYSELF!!!
I do see your point - Oh Yeah do I see your point!!! Iām trying to draw a line, though!!!
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 donāt want to succumb to pedal GAS. I will try to find the Josh Scott video. It sounds interesting. I just hope it doesnāt 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.
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.
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.
That looks awesome! Youāve 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, iāve 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¦
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.
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 wasnāt 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 Scottās 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¦
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 āit thought you already had one of those.ā Well at least she is paying attention.
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, donāt 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, itās best to research the power requirements and get a suitable power supply.
Thanks Clint. I donāt 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.