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So, what do you use?
I've been carrying my heavy wooden board around in a duffel bad while I try to refinish this old suitcase I have, but I've just kind of realized that's not very practical.
I'd love to see what you guys use, and if there's a decent DIY solution, but if not, do you guys know if you can get the pedaltrain soft cases (or something like them) without buying a pedaltrain board?
I would like to be able to sling my board on my shoulder.

I use one of those camera/photography gear cases, it's pretty sturdy and wasn't too expensive, good for a small board.

I use an leather laptop case I found outside my old job. I stuck a piece of fiberboard on the bottom and velcrowed it. It fits around 5 or 6 mxr-sized pedals w/ all cords hooked up. Fits everything perfect. Plus storage for my random accessories. Works for this street performer tho it makes it easy to steal, which is why I have my digitech grunge to the side, ready to throw at a motherf*ckers head.

i use keyboard gigbag (dx7 size).....throw the cables on top and everything stays in one place, nice and secure.

My board is huge. (Link) I don't carry it around much, consequently. After building it I was going to figure out how to build a latching top out of the same 1/2" MDF and 3/4" angle iron, but given the weight of the board alone, I'm not going to bother. It'd be a good 50 pounds.

My board is a briefcase filled with velcro.

I had a small Gator bag that I used to carry my micro amp head in that was just sitting around. I took some measurements and built my small board to fit the bag. It worked out well.

I wanna get one of these as my portable pedal board, from Rondo (after I get more moneys)


So much cheaper than the Pedaltrain Jr. but it is maybe an inch shorter in one dimension.

Wish I had something.

mathias wrote:I wanna get one of these as my portable pedal board, from Rondo (after I get more moneys)
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So much cheaper than the Pedaltrain Jr. but it is maybe an inch shorter in one dimension.

those Rondo boards dont hold velcro for shit. you have to tear off the factory installed carpet and cardboard underneath it and stick good velcro to the hard plastic that makes up the board.

other than that its a pretty good case. just a heads up.

delaydecay wrote:those Rondo boards dont hold velcro for shit. you have to tear off the factory installed carpet and cardboard underneath it and stick good velcro to the hard plastic that makes up the board.

other than that its a pretty good case. just a heads up.

That might not make it worth getting then. The cheapest one is like $30 and I'd probably spend at least $10-15 finding a big enough piece of soft velcro to replace on it. Might as well just build another smaller one of my own or wait until someone sells me a Pedaltrain really cheap or something.

mathias wrote:

delaydecay wrote:those Rondo boards dont hold velcro for shit. you have to tear off the factory installed carpet and cardboard underneath it and stick good velcro to the hard plastic that makes up the board.

other than that its a pretty good case. just a heads up.

That might not make it worth getting then. The cheapest one is like $30 and I'd probably spend at least $10-15 finding a big enough piece of soft velcro to replace on it. Might as well just build another smaller one of my own or wait until someone sells me a Pedaltrain really cheap or something.

yeah, you're gonna spend a chunk of change on a roll of velcro. i used almost a whole roll to cover the entire face of my rondo board. i finally ripped out all the shitty carpet and cardboard because i was fed up with the pedals sliding around. its still a pretty sturdy case to put stuff in.

For my really big board (link up there somewhere) I went with some place that was cheap online where I could order the exact size I needed (the soft velcro comes in rolls of certain widths and you pick the size) Or for $20+S&H you can grab velcro kit for a pedalboard off eBay, assuming your board is the same size.

Getting back to the original topic, I like Masked Elwood's idea of a keyboard gig bag. That'd probably be perfect for my big bag, which I may want to take out once or twice after all (for recording?)

I built my board the same size as a Pedaltrain Pro. Then I bought someone's pedaltrain bag off ebay for cheaps.

some old vintage briefcase/suitcase
i bought a ptrain and was too cheap for the hardcase