Anyone build a nice pedalboard?

[eatyourguitar]

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.

[retinal orbita]

Plus you need to know how to coil them facy cables properly otherwise they'll wear out really fast...... I love seeing some nut job with a $2000 guitar and a $2000 amp and a billion jillion pedals coil a fucking cheap patch cable AROUND HIS ARM......... seriously don't do that....... youtube "how to coil a cable" there's videos where people show you how to do it.......... over, under, over, under, over, under.........

[Derelict78]

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.

yeah dude do that.
my point of reference was straight to my amp. It may matter to me recording but in a live situation my sound did not change enough for me to care.

[Jero]

I always buy the warwick patch cables. It's $8-10 for a 6pack. Get a few of those packs and never need cables (for pedals) again.

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.

I'd at least be interested in reading/seeing that. Have lots of ideas for boards, but none of them include a case...

[Officer Bukowski]

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.

I'd at least be interested in reading/seeing that. Have lots of ideas for boards, but none of them include a case...

I'd like to see it too.