My DIY pedalboard

[vroom]

This has been my main project this summer. My goals were to build a cheap, all-in-one pedalboard with a clean appearance. It had to have internal wiring, external jacks, and a velcro-compatible surface to allow for rearranging on a whim.

I believe I got all of that in what you see below. Total cost is under $20. ;D Everything used I had lying around, except for the cheap handles I added this afternoon and the external power and signal jacks.

Tools used were a handsaw, drill, soldering iron, and a staplegun. The power jacks were soldered to two 1 SPOT daisy chains.

Let me know what you think.

[night0wl]

Nice work!

One question though, why so many jacks? Maybe I live in the dinosaur ages but I only have an input my board from the guitar and an output from my board to my amp. Do you run split signals for multiple amps?

Cheers
Shane

[vroom]

From left to right:

Guitar in
Amp out
Peavey channel switch (requires stereo jack)
FX loop in
FX loop out

And the two 1 SPOT inputs.

[mike]

I really like yours. I finished mine not long ago and it weighs a ton so I put wheels and handles on it to make it easy to store and pull out and use.

[kells]

Mike! omg, what a beast! lol....

I think a good rule of thumb is, the more pedals you get, the more you should ask "is there a better way to get my tone?"

I would hate to have to take that sucker on the road. Maybe you should look into some modelling solutions? Line6 Pod? M-Audio Black Box?

Vroom: Awesome work dude, that is a roadies wet dream lol Nice super shielding as well good attention to detail.

[png123]

Nice.

But you had bought the pedals right?
You didn;t build them yourself?
(Sweet anyways

[mikesr1963]

kells said:

Mike! omg, what a beast! lol....

I think a good rule of thumb is, the more pedals you get, the more you should ask "is there a better way to get my tone?"

I would hate to have to take that sucker on the road. Maybe you should look into some modelling solutions? Line6 Pod? M-Audio Black Box?

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I didn't like the way it stuck out in the floor and I wanted to be able to leave it out all the time so I slimmed it down a little. Balance is good when you pick it up by both handles.

I already have amp modelers there. I play through a Crate 120 watt amp (super clean channel) amp models come through my RP 200 and which also has a great compressor, volume, and delays that I can apply to the separate pedals.

I posted this somewhere else and a person wrote I would hate to wire that up each time I play. The board is wired as you look at it and ready to play. Plug the guitar into the RP 200 and the amp into the Wah pedal and flip the power switch your there.

[RandomHero]

Curious, Mike, but which Crate is that? I'm using an XT120R, and I highly reccommend looking into a BBE Sonic Stomp... it added a whole new degree of useability to the Crate's gain channels, the clear rings through too. I'm not sure how it would effect the sound of your stompboxes, but it couldn't hurt to try!

[lawrencedesigns]

Random,
You couldn't be more right. if you look in the thread "show us your pedal boards" you will see I too have the Sonic Stomp right up top. It is ALWAYS on, and has done wonders for my Twin Chorus.

Keeth Lawrence

[Ripper]

Vroom...
Thats an awesome pedalboard!...I like the way you made nice and tidy by hiding the wires and such. Im making my own board soon and ill borrowing a few of your ideas.
Well done mon ami!

[jeremyo83]

vroom

what did you actually use as a 'velcro compatible surface'?

[vroom]

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

jeremyo83 - I used some leftover subwoofer enclosure carpeting. (www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=260-767.) Some suggest going to a carpet store and trying out a bunch to see what grips the best.

deepblue - In case you were going to add side jacks, DON'T use the ones I used. The one for my guitar input is giving me problems already. They were Neutrik, too. Instead, people have had good luck with the locking ones. I'm going to try those next.
(www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=092-044)

[jeremyo83]

cabinet carpet... that's a great idea.

from the website:

This high quality carpet conforms easily to sharp corners because it has no stiff backing. You can also stretch it to cover irregular shapes.

smart stuff.

[mikesr1963]

admin said:

Curious, Mike, but which Crate is that? I'm using an XT120R, and I highly reccommend looking into a BBE Sonic Stomp... it added a whole new degree of useability to the Crate's gain channels, the clear rings through too. I'm not sure how it would effect the sound of your stompboxes, but it couldn't hurt to try!

After reading about the Sonic Stomp it sounds like it does the same thing as an EQ and that's what my Eq does.

[benitosuave]

Pro!