Jack placement on pedals

[UglyCasanova]

fuck top mounted jacks.

Why?

[Jwar]

I like side mounted personally. Top mounted makes it harder for the bottom two rows of my pedal board. That being said, I can work with anything. As long as the power jack isn't super close to the jacks.

[PeteeBee]

I voted for side everything, but I really like a combo, different pedals different ways. This allows me to fit them together more easily.

Also, Top Mount Jacks are rad.

[D.o.S.]

fuck top mounted jacks.

Why?

Guitar pedals are like heteronormative sex. There's a right way and a wrong way. And top mounted jacks are the wrong way.

[UglyCasanova]

Oh, I see. Someone put D.o.S. in troll mode.

/troll

There we go. TOP-MOUNT FOR ALL!!!

[rustywire]

Oh, I see. Someone put D.o.S. in troll mode.

Whoever it was broke off the key in that ignition

[D.o.S.]

[Ghost Hip]

They are all a pain in the ass to me. Although I have not tried face mounted jacks and have always been curious.

[hbombgraphics]

https://www.google.com/search?q=not+this+shit+again+meme&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY7IqA69XOAhXLqB4KHWWBAXwQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=1019

yep.............first post too....someone likes stirring the pot

I assumed this was a reference to dos' wrongness.

Again...

oh I see.........well then I was wrong about DOS wrongness,
I thought it was a reference to another poll turning into a fight
like the offset guitars poll

[Mudfuzz]

I hate top mounted power with top mounted jacks on small pedals.

[MannequinRaces]

It'd be nice if there were standards across the industry. For example if your pedal is in a certain size enclosure the jacks have to be on the side, power on the rear, etc.. Little late in the game for that I suppose. Anyway I like rear mounted jacks that go into other rear mounted pedals but not rear mounted jacks that have to snake around to a pedal with the jack on the side. If pedal space on the board is a concern definitely rear mounted jacks.

[Jwar]

I just don't get how there is an issue with space on a board ever. I mean, you can buy another board or use less pedals right? So anti ILF, I know. I have pedals of all shapes and sizes with top, side...what the fuck ever jacks and I've always managed to get a shit ton on one board if I want. I think people just suck at assembling their boards sometimes, but I also feel like you don't need 30 pedals on one board. My max is 24-25 maybe and that's for fun. You dudes that gig are crazy if you use that many on a single board. I don't even see how you could hit the switches without being confused. LOL .I'd be using three boards if I gigged. Or at least two.

[Jwar]

I hate top mounted power with top mounted jacks on small pedals.

This so much.

[Invisible Man]

Toptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptoptop mounted everything all the time. I've since even rehoused the FFF so it has top-mounted/rear-mounted everything.

[companyofquail]

thank you all for the feedback. obviously there are many things to take into consideration but i was just trying to get a generalized idea.

for instance if you have narrow pedals you pretty much have to go with side mounted jacks for 2 reasons: 1) space on rear 2)it helps get the stompswitches further apart.

i hope no one thought i was trying to stir a pot but i couldnt find a more recent poll on this question and trends change so i wanted to see what the opinions of this are these days.

i really like invisible man's pedal board... and i notice he put the count to five at the far right so that the left stomp is far enough away from the particle stomp to make things work. if you dont mind commenting further how do you feel about the spacing of the stomp switches on the count to five