Pedal board shopping...
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Wes Mantooth
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Re: Pedal board shopping...
I keep my expression pedal off-board, there's still enough room to squeeze in the hardcase and I like better on a flat surface.
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Yeah, that's actually the option I was leaning to the most. I agree, a swell/vol/type pedal just feels best on a solid flat surface.Wes Mantooth wrote:I keep my expression pedal off-board, there's still enough room to squeeze in the hardcase and I like better on a flat surface.
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I just got my pedalboard, and I'm considering placing the volume pedal outside the board also. I like the feel of it on the board though. It's just that it makes more room for MOAR PEDOLS!
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Hell yeah. Pedal boards are about convenience, you want to just open a lit, plug in, and be ready to go...UglyCasanova wrote:I just got my pedalboard, and I'm considering placing the volume pedal outside the board also. I like the feel of it on the board though. It's just that it makes more room for MOAR PEDOLS!
But if taking out a volume pedal and plugging it in is the only extra task before a show or rehearsel, I'd be more than happy to make that sacrifise if it means I can add ...two MOAR PEDOLS!
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I am REALLY, REALLY, unintentionally rough on my things that I own and play and use, both live and at home. I think that's why I gravitate so much to aluminum guitars and reinforced cabs and aluminum Pedal Trains over a wooden board- for the sheer fact that I know that it would take a LOT for me to break it.
I'm at the point right now where I have a PT Junior, and instead of the soft case that it came with, I'm using a suitcase that I bought for my wife for when she used to play shows with me, for $5. The suitcase is a nice hard plastic that has held up with gigs for the past 8 months. I didn't bother with modding it so the lid could come off, but I keep enough extra stuff at the bottom (extra strings, extra cables) that I didn't really want to play the board while in the case. Spent like $10 and got a cheap mattress topper and cut it up for some nice thick foam on the top lid that meets the knobs of the pedals. That $5 has been tough as nails and the only thing I've replaced is the handle with a heavy duty one.
With the right search, I'm sure that you could track down a nice heavier duty suitcase. Unless you're flying around everywhere, a regular suitcase would do. I mean, they were made for luggage in the first place!
I'm at the point right now where I have a PT Junior, and instead of the soft case that it came with, I'm using a suitcase that I bought for my wife for when she used to play shows with me, for $5. The suitcase is a nice hard plastic that has held up with gigs for the past 8 months. I didn't bother with modding it so the lid could come off, but I keep enough extra stuff at the bottom (extra strings, extra cables) that I didn't really want to play the board while in the case. Spent like $10 and got a cheap mattress topper and cut it up for some nice thick foam on the top lid that meets the knobs of the pedals. That $5 has been tough as nails and the only thing I've replaced is the handle with a heavy duty one.
With the right search, I'm sure that you could track down a nice heavier duty suitcase. Unless you're flying around everywhere, a regular suitcase would do. I mean, they were made for luggage in the first place!