Thanks! That was great.
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So while I was milling over the best way to attach pedals my GAS flavored up and now my board is too small. I had a few that I was going to swap in/out but I realized that would cause me to never use the pedals so here goes.
This is a shot of what I have now
I also snagged a Mono Synth pedal on AZ used for $90 which comes in a couple days.
So here’s what I have:
Donner loop/drum 3.5" x 5"
Octaver 2.5" x 5"
Flama modulator 1.5" x 3.5"
Compressor 2.5" x 5"
Tuner 2.5" x 5"
Orthos selector 3.5" x 5"
Joyo Monomyth 4" x 5"
Monosynth 3.5" x 5"
Probably will leave off:
Distortion 1.5" x 3.5"
Hand made fuzz 2.5" x 5"
Is like to leave some room for the future just in case I add an expression pedal, or other stuff.
I think I’m going to cut a board and put some angled feet on it. I’m not really sure on size.
I’m also thinking of experimenting with screwing through pipe clamp strapping or maybe wide zip ties to attach instead of messing with Velcro on wood.
If I do go with Velcro again I’m going the 3m route. I also like what that guy did with gaffers tape and super glue. So that may be an option.
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This is my #1 priority for my board. It’s why I’m thinking I’m just going to shell out the $$$ for a Temple come next payday. I’m thinking I’m going to do the Trio 28 now. That way I’m not having to try and cram it all together tightly, and still have room to add on if I choose to. I’m doing a mix of analogs and my new Boss multi effect.
I don’t think my pipe strap idea is going to work. I might just try a wood board stapling the velcro and then the gaff tape glue trick since I have most of that and the 3m tape is the price of a mortgage.
As I’m doing all of this I hear my guitarist’s voice, “Why the heck do you need all of that stuff man?” 
And the echos of the Reddit bass bros, “All you need is a P bass and a tuner bruh”
I want to have fun and explore with my sound. Yea for things I play for other people right now I could get by with just a bass and tuner but the musical things that bring me joy and make me want to play more are a bit weird and just sticking to what I “need” to learn doesn’t motivate me the same way.
Grabbing a Mono Synth pedal for $90 has me so excited. I’m a little scared that it’s 40% off of the new price but I guess getting it on AZ gives me the ability to return it easier.
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Here’s a mockup I did of my existing board (22" x 8") and a new one that I want to build 24" x 12". I think I’ll be able to fit everything and have room for 2+ more pedals with this size. Sorry for the chessboard and carpet graphics I was using a house design app to mock it up (but it is to scale!)
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The 3m is expensive but it works really well. Soft side on the board and dual-lock on the pedal. There’s plenty of BYO pedalboard threads around for when you want bigger on a budget. I’ve gotten a couple of the pedaltrain ones used but the Amazon boards I’ve gotten have been just as good. Though power supplies are a little more of a challenge to mount. Forum opinions will generally disagree with ANY choice you make, so make loud music to shush ‘em.
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I got my pedalboard in today. I’ve been playing around with some of my new pedals that have been sitting in my drawer for awhile. The Parallax can make some insane sounds. If you know Karma Police by Radiohead, I was able to rproduce that part right at the end with where the feedback kicks in.
The only issue I’ve run into is that my PSU doesn’t fit on top or underneath. I’m going to have to figure that one out. At the moment I’m leaning towards picking up a D’Addario battery unit thing (anyone have any opinions on those?). I’m also debating picking up either a Meris Mercury 7, or Strymon cloudburst as my second reverb. Leaning hard towards the Meris and putting the Parallax first with the Meris at the end of the chain
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I have a temple board. do I like it, yes. would I recommend it, maybe. is it innovative and game changing, absolutely not. you are still attaching with adhesive a plate onto your pedals, same as you attach a piece of velcro. and then you attach it to the board with a little screw. so functionally it’s really the same thing. and the little screws tend to back out over time. I do like some of temples modular inputs and plentiful cable routing options. and they look cool of course.
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The adhesive thing made it a no for me for the Temples when I found out that was how the mounting plates went on. I ended up going with a Guitto board, which is a subsidiary of Joyo. As far as construction, it feels great. Really solid. I dig the mounting system. No zip ties going into landfills, no velcro or adhesive.
I think I’m going to pick up their smaller one for my GX-10 as a go board. I just need a small DI for so I have room for a comp also. Right now, I’m looking at this, but I’ve never heard of these (below).
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I’ve also bought a ton of radials stuff. very engineering driven company. I think their di’s are probably the best as far as reasonably priced di’s go. I also have a love/hate relationship with them as they tend to be very expensive pedals overall and they refuse to make (in a lot of their pedals, not all) them reasonable to power. a lot of their pedals are weird reverse polarity with no protection circuits. it’s really fun to fry an expensive pedal. don’t ask me how I know this.
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lol been there.
Going cheap on the board is smart. There is no reason to buy an expensive or “nice” board as the moment you put the pedals on it’s invisible anyway. The board itself is a complete non-factor, it’s an invisible metal rack. Save the money and buy a better power supply, which actually is important
Velcro adhesive tape works fine, not sure I understand any aversion to it. It comes off if you want to sell the things and any residue is easily cleanable.
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If you can buy used pedals with Velcro already on them you don’t take the depreciation hit, which is the only bummer about putting Velcro on.
Oh I would never buy a new pedal. Almost all of mine were used, too many good used pedals out there to bother with new.
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My SGT preamp, honeypot fuzz, and bass clone were new but everything else on that board I bought 2nd hand. As you say, too many good ones out there to pay full price, plus I’m all about reduce, reuse, recycle where I can. That’s part of the reason for wanting to get away from velcro and zip ties. That and I just don’t care for them.
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The one I’m looking is active and gets it’s power from the 48V off my mixer. If that works for me, I’d only need the 1 power adapter for the GX pedal for that mini board.
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I think I bought my OC-2 clone and BDI-21 new but they were Behringer so who cares
I might have got my EHX Battalion new, but I sold it immediately (too transparent and clean, the absolute last things I want in a preamp).
In the end though for me selling them all and going pure software was the way to go. YMMV. It’s certainly fun collecting pedals. My board at its height, just before I started selling them off:
That ValveDrive was amazing.
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Finally organizing pedals onto a board, making this my first pedalboard.
Logically his goes from the bass into the tuner, then into the HX Stomp. It goes out from the Stomp and into the compressor and EQ (and Darkglass clone that isn’t in the Stomp) then back into the Stomp for anything else you want to put in the signal chain.
On the computer side, I have USB channels for right as it comes in the Stomp, again after the two pedals, and again after all the FX. So some flexibility with recording based on what I"m going after.
The out from the HX Stomp goes to the wireless system or to the amp based on what I’m after.
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So I posted the design but I’m not sure if I ever posted my completed board build. So all of this is on a routed out OSB board with some 1" feet. It’s inside an electro harmonix pedal board bag which makes carrying it a dream.
Pretty standard board. I have a power switch on the top left for the Donor loop/drum pedal since there is no on/off
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How do you find the green Flamma pedal?
I got one for the auto-wah but was not really happy with that.
I think the phaser, chorus and such are ok, but not so much the auto-wah
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I’m finding that I really prefer the chorus, flange, and fuzz through my boss multi effect. I may just squash the idea of a second smaller go board and just put the GX-10 on the one I’ve got. Removing the 3 should give me enough room to do that. I still want a second DI to run a dry signal to my board as a second input in my DAW. I’ve really liked that sound with the playing around that I’ve done with it.
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