Pedal board recommendations, please

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

Hey, so I make a lot of noise. Meaning: I've a lot of pedals. And it looks like I'll be moving them around quite a bit soon. So I'd like to get a pedalboard. Preferably one (two?) that's not impossible to move about. But IDK what a good solution would be for the amount of pedals I have.

I have like 10 "ordinary shaped" pedals (mostly BOSS and Digitech), one wonky-shaped DanElectro pedal, a volume pedal, a small simple FS, and might get another couple of pedals (but definitely not more than that...), and I have a Carl Martin Pro Power 2 power supply. It's a bit of a mess. I'm fairly flexible with placement of the volume pedal and so on, but obviously all 12-15 pedals need to actually fit. Well, maybe not the FS, since that's not powered & goes directly to the amp anyway. And it would be nice to have the power supply beneath, instead of having the cable clutter disaster I currently have.

Any suggestions? Get a huge one? Get two smaller ones? Velcro everything & pray it's transportable? Argh, decisions!

[Errant Tiger]

As a 20-pedal man myself, I am eagerly following this thread.

[whoismarykelly]

Unless you have a truly massive amount of pedals or an equal amount of effects loop vs. front end pedals, one big board is way easier to manage and get around on. My home board is 2 PT2s and at 48+ inches wide there is quite a span to that rig. I get around on my live board at 32" wide a LOT easier.

A Pedaltrain Pro is hard to beat for fitting a lot of stuff and keeping it organized.

[UglyCasanova]

Palmer pedalbays might be a European thing, but I'm very pleased with mine. Cheaper and just as lightweight as a PT-board. Plus, I prefer the PSU straps to the brackets.

[cosmicevan]

Im a fan of pedaltrain boards. I have a jammed PT pro and filled w pedals that thing is rather heavy and a pain to move around (but I do it). Beyond that I have a few pedaltrain metro boards. Pove them for portability but they are short so you need to find the right power supply. To me, cioks + pedaltrain metro = best solution. W 20 pedals youd probably need 2 boards, i still think thats easier to deal w that 1 biggie

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

Palmer pedalbays might be a European thing, but I'm very pleased with mine. Cheaper and just as lightweight as a PT-board. Plus, I prefer the PSU straps to the brackets.

I'm a European thing too, so that's all right. They look nice and affordable.

Would you say that they're... transportable? Viz. could I carry it with 15 pedals? Or at the very least: can I lift it on and off a trolley with 15 pedals? :P

I'm not sure what you mean by "straps to the brackets". Do you just mean like https://cdn-shop.adamhall.com/ORIGINAL/ ... AY60_7.jpg ?

[UglyCasanova]

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.

A board with 15 pedals will have some weight to it no matter what board you use, but I don't think you'll find anything lighter than a Palmer. I'm a lanky duder and had 14 pedals plus an expression pedal on my board at some point (down to 9 now) and I used to carry it to band practice via public transportation. All in all a 15-20 min walk. It was definitely heavy and annoying, but not unbearable.

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

That's kinda the exact same thing I'm looking at—walking to the tram, from the tram to the rehearsal space. What size did you have for your 14 pedal board? The Pedalbay 80?

[UglyCasanova]

No, I had and still have the 60. The 80 is just one more bar, so 5 bars total. If you've got some smaller, horizontally designed pedals, like Zvex, you may find it useful, but I just played tetris a lot as a kid and squeezed it onto a 60. The Palmer 60 is 60cm x 30cm, if I remember correctly. Just put all of your pedals on the floor and hook them up and see if you can fit them all on a 60x30cm surface. That's what I did. Idk if you're all big pedals. When I had 14 I had everything from big boxes like an rm-1n and a Cooper arp on there, all they way down to a Fairfield accountant.

Actually, here it is:

[dubkitty]

before i broke it down due to wall-wart-related noise issues i used a PT2 onto which i crammed 16 pedals. i do not recommend this for the spatially challenged, though. i also used a PT1 for my 2-channel looping stuff. i think that for the foreseeable future i will cut the pedal count down to 8 or 9 so it's not as challenging to stomp on the correct switch.

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

I played a bit of pedal tetris & concluded that the 60L would be plenty. 65x30 would be... tight. 60x39 should be good though! Thanks a lot, Silver Fang.

[hbombgraphics]

I am a big fan of the 1 board solution when possible, I have done 2 boards and it always causes problems, you forget to plug something in and have more stuff to lug around.
If your back can handle it one big board is the way to go.

I have made a board so big I can't carry it though, so consider that as well.

I like my Pt pro but it does have some shortcomings, some smaller pedals that don't perfectly hit a slat feel pretty wobbly, and the angle isn't always ideal.

[UglyCasanova]

Thanks a lot, Silver Fang.

And I thank you for knowing Silver Fang. My childhood in an avatar.

[frodog]

I never mentioned it but I also used to watch Silver Fang as a kid, rented it on VHS from the local video store.

As for pedalboards, I recommend one of those shallow (usually top) drawers from an old tool cabinet. If you see one of those of a suitable size being discarded, grab one and try.

[UglyCasanova]

I never mentioned it but I also used to watch Silver Fang as a kid, rented it on VHS from the local video store.

Same! I eventually got to buy the whole set when the video store closed. Much excite! As a kid, it was so awesome, because for some reason it was age restricted for kids 8 years and up or something, yet there was plenty of blood and gore, deep tragedies, cursing and so much drama. What a time to be alive.