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I made myself a pedal board both for the fun of it and because I am left handed. I built it with jacks on the left so the cables don’t drag round my ankles. Pedals always have the input on the right, it’s a very right handed world.
Anyhow, it works really well with a mix of 240v and 9v pedals fed by connections under the upper deck with just one kettle lead in. No hum problems and I kept the power connections on the bottom floor as far away from the signal cables as possible.
This was supposed to be a prototype but it worked out better than expected so never got remade. Having chopped it about a few times for changes in pedals, I’m now settled on these other than a Fulltone Supatrem to replace the little Malekko trem that got its knob ripped off in an accident. Yeah I know, it must have hurt. So if I rebuild it I’d like to make it lighter and wondered if anybody knows whether you can take the pedals out of the casings and bolt them directly to a deck. I’m thinking of the upper deck here rather than the lower deck and what I would like would be to replicate the layout in aluminium with the pedal internals effectively suspended from the deck by either the switches, or mounting the corners of the boards, replicating whatever method the manufacturer has used to mount them in the casing each time.
I was thinking of an aluminium deck within a ply surround and another question would be whether the individual “pedals” would need to be isolated from the deck, and whether there would need to be continuity across the switches within each pedal. If I could also mount the wah hinge and pot etc on to the aluminium that would save a lot of weight for the wah casing which is by far the heaviest pedal on the board.
Any clues anybody ?
Anyhow, it works really well with a mix of 240v and 9v pedals fed by connections under the upper deck with just one kettle lead in. No hum problems and I kept the power connections on the bottom floor as far away from the signal cables as possible.
This was supposed to be a prototype but it worked out better than expected so never got remade. Having chopped it about a few times for changes in pedals, I’m now settled on these other than a Fulltone Supatrem to replace the little Malekko trem that got its knob ripped off in an accident. Yeah I know, it must have hurt. So if I rebuild it I’d like to make it lighter and wondered if anybody knows whether you can take the pedals out of the casings and bolt them directly to a deck. I’m thinking of the upper deck here rather than the lower deck and what I would like would be to replicate the layout in aluminium with the pedal internals effectively suspended from the deck by either the switches, or mounting the corners of the boards, replicating whatever method the manufacturer has used to mount them in the casing each time.
I was thinking of an aluminium deck within a ply surround and another question would be whether the individual “pedals” would need to be isolated from the deck, and whether there would need to be continuity across the switches within each pedal. If I could also mount the wah hinge and pot etc on to the aluminium that would save a lot of weight for the wah casing which is by far the heaviest pedal on the board.
Any clues anybody ?
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