My board is an old tv try with lots of Velcro propped up with two hunks of wood and a surge protector gorilla glued underneath. I'm gearing up to build another with some stuff from Ikea...
theavondon wrote:My board is an old tv try with lots of Velcro propped up with two hunks of wood and a surge protector gorilla glued underneath. I'm gearing up to build another with some stuff from Ikea...
you should make it like a ATA flightcase where the sides are mostly attached to the top so when you take the top off its just a board. I think its been done before. as for power, are you using a shit load of onespots or a real brick.
Right now I'm just using a onespot on my Panneur and SMMH. My SHO, Fuzz Factory, and Big Muff are on batteries. I'm thinking about putting my wah back in my chain so I may put that on the onespot too. I'll get a brick eventually.
I need to find a big briefcase to hold as many pedals as possible.
And yeah hopefully the walls on the case aren't too high so they cockblock me.
I made this from a chest I found in the trash, plywood and some carpet from Home Depot. Old pic most of the pedals are gone but yeah I love this pedal board
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aen wrote:Or I'll just use fuzz. Then Ill sound cool regardless.
Achtane wrote:Well, volcanoes are pretty fuckin' cool. Like I guess lava flows are doomy. Slow and still able to to melt your eardrums.
I have another question.. I need some longer patch cables for my Panneur (right now it's upside down and fucking up my pedal action). I need right angles. The cheaper the better but I don't want "tone suckers". I really want some lava cables but they're so expensive...
I'm wondering if I should just buy a nice lava kit and be done with it or what..
Any recommendations/ advice? I'm kinda new here so forgive me if this has been covered a million times.
I use the cheap LiveWire ones and I usually pick through the discount bin at GC for my cables. I've never noticed any tone suck either. I think it's mostly hype.
I dunno...
Anyways.. Where do you guys get your cables on the cheap? I'm pretty sure GC is the worst place to buy them. Should I check radioshack or fry's or something?
Officer Bukowski wrote:I use the cheap LiveWire ones and I usually pick through the discount bin at GC for my cables. I've never noticed any tone suck either. I think it's mostly hype.
I dunno...
Anyways.. Where do you guys get your cables on the cheap? I'm pretty sure GC is the worst place to buy them. Should I check radioshack or fry's or something?
Derelict78 wrote:All my patch cables are cheap and none of them suck my tone noticeably
This.
What's your point of reference, though? Cables sucking tone isn't hype, it's a fact but one might not notice it if one has always used cheap cables. Read about capacitance and how it effects the flow of electricity to get a better idea of how cables can affect your tone. Then read about buffers and true bypass, examine your pedalboard and decide for yourself.
Myself, I use middle of the road cables... I'm not about to shell out $75 or whatever for a monster cable or anything but neither will I use cheapo $5 one that you might find in a crappy electronics store bin.
Back to pedalboards: I've built a few... SkagRock has one that I built for him. Hopefully he'll show up and post some pics. It's a self-contained case with latches and a handle so that all he has to do is pop the top off and plug it into the wall. Literally takes 5 seconds to set up on stage. Easy enough to make too. If anyone decides that they'd like to try making one for themselves, I can draw up the plans and post them.
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elbandito is %100 right that all cables have capacitance. when you whip out the multimeter and test a cheap cable for capacitance and resistance back to back with a good one, you be shocked. also a cheap cable will make spikes on an oscilliscope when you move it. that is the cable becoming microphonic. the shielding of the cable is breaking down into dust and causing crackle pops and intermittent dropouts or volume drops. I'd say about %50 of people have a guitar that is more than $500. why would you want it to sound like a $50 guitar as a starting point. good guitars go together with good cables IMO. your 18ft coming off the guitar is the most important one of all. I use mogami for that. then right into a creation audio labs clean boost to buffer the guitar from any other effects. the clean boost is always on unless I want a reall transistor based fuzz. then I true bypass the clean boost.
