Pedalboard reccomendations?

[Instant Dan]

Need something that can hold my Deluxe Memory Man and seven other pedals.

[spookstrickland]

Build your own out of plywood or Aluminum and use Zip ties to hold your pedals down.  Then when you get everything like you want get Danny G to build you a road case.

[Baltar]

Samsonsite is your friend.  $11 at Goodwill.

[Lumpy]

Pine board at Home Depot, it's cheap sturdy and lightweight. You can even find a 'short end' sometimes, in their scrap bin. Or, people are throwing out wood all the time. Set your pedals up and figure out how much wood you need. Then zip ties (as mentioned... drill holes in the board to loop them through), velcro, or whatever.

[clockwork green]

I'm too lazy for manual labor...I like NYC Pedalboards. The have a second level which I like better than having them all on the same level plus you hide the power supplies underneath.

[bbottom]

Check out some of the pedal boards over at rondo music. You can also find some decent unused ones on ebay for like $40-$50

[liquidsmoke]

I took the plunge and got this and it's awesome- http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?id=SPB-8C

[Derelict78]

http://www.bedroom-boards.com/

[spookstrickland]

http://www.bedroom-boards.com/

That one with the pink carpet is kinda sexy

[fallen]

From what I've tried the Pedaltrain ones are best. (homemade plywood in a briefcase, Pedaltrain board and a Road Rage flight case board)

Pretty cheap, light, low in the front and you can hide all your cables and power supply under the board.

Homemade with bike chain plates is fun to build though.

[spookstrickland]

From what I've tried the Pedaltrain ones are best. (homemade plywood in a briefcase, Pedaltrain board and a Road Rage flight case board)

Pretty cheap, light, low in the front and you can hide all your cables and power supply under the board.

Homemade with bike chain plates is fun to build though.

What is a "Bike chain plate"?

[Baltar]

They're the little washers on every single link on a bike chain.  You can use one on each corner of most "Hammond" cases (not Boss) and literally lock down the pedal to the board with screws.  Alternative to velcro.

[fallen]

What is a "Bike chain plate"?

This is a bit of a pain in the ass but it holds more solidly than anything else.

[Baltar]

Those are it!  And I stand corrected, looks like they work on BOSS and most other pedals.  Forgot BOSS have a screw on all four corners.  Good idea if you can commit to a specific set-up.







I used to have carpet on my board Version 2 & 2.5, really kind of a pain in the ass to do.  But the payoff was pretty cool.  Not practical for use in a dirty garage in North Detroit.  Idea scrapped.

[Lumpy]

The bike chain washers don't work on Digitech pedals (their screws are recessed) and some boutique pedals use larger screws which won't fit through a bike chain plate's holes. Still, they are super useful, just don't ding your pedals with your screw gun, when the bit jumps out

I got mine on Ebay, you could maybe get some from a bike shop   maybe if your bro works there.

Ooh look, tutorial on how to roll your own:

http://www.effectsbay.com/2009/11/the-"bike-chain"-method-for-pedalboard-mounting/

[VOLVO)))]

Ace hardware sells 'em, they're like .08$ a piece.

I'd do it to mine, but I change shit out... a lot.

[Jor el]

C to the N to the B

[VOLVO)))]

I rock me a CNB pedal case. Rondo has 'em cheap.

[Chovie D]

this question is asked from time to time and honestly i just cannot understand it.

scrap plywood-thrift store suitcase-velcro

[Jor el]

Choves,
Didn't you used to have your pedals on a strip of carpet roll-up?

[Lumpy]

Ace hardware sells 'em, they're like .08$ a piece.

I'd do it to mine, but I change shit out... a lot.

God dammit.

Well, mine are imported 

[Chovie D]

Choves,
Didn't you used to have your pedals on a strip of carpet roll-up?

no someone else. its alwasy just been a peice fo found scrap wood.

oh I know what your thinking of. yeah...I used to have a peice of foam padding that was stapled to one end of the board . the foam had velcro tabs on it at the end, so when the show was over I could literally roll my pedalboard over and it would close itself up into this padded foam ball and I could run off the stage with it in about 2 seconds.

these were the only three pedals i owned at the time and the tuner was the only one I paid money for. ma how times have changed.
the bad thing about the foam was, as you can see in the photo, it soaked up liquids beer specifically. The nice thing was you could be on and off stage literally as fast as you could flip over your pedalboard. long since retired that jammy....I didnt use a case with it unless we were touring. It fit in my backpack like this and i could hop on the subwayor walk down to cbgb's  to get to the gig




REALLY shitty design in restrospect..but most of our band gear was held together by duct tape and resin anyway...we didnt care.

[Chovie D]

Heres what I ran when I was playing steel and guitar on the same gigs for the past couple years, homemade, two tiered with a homemade custom switch box and patch bay built under the tier. The "Benbro" is a boss grpahic eq with the faders set to in a comb pattern to imitate a dobro.




I could have never bought a pedal board that allowed me this degree of customization. THIS is what i needed to do what i wanted to do, so i made it myself.

[jibberish]

paging danny g.....paging danny g.......

[Lumpy]

Mine is pine board but I screwed a couple of drawer pulls on either side, so I can pick it up without having to pry it up off the floor.

I guess I could grab a pedal and pull up, but that would be rude.