I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

[Aceman]

I HATE the input jack being on the RIGHT side of the pedal!!!!!! WTF? Who decided this? An Englishma? A Dyslexic?


I read from left to right. I want my signal to go:

Guitar > Distortion/OD > EQ > Modulation > Delay Reverb > Amp.


Left to MOTHER LOVING RIGHT!!!!! Just like I read.

:soapbox:

 

[Rockstar216]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

I've wondered the same thing for some time now as well.

 

[LReese]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

:soapbox:

1 order of business to get out of the way....

Sage advice...
1. Don't drop the soap
2. If you do drop it, DO NOT bend over to pick it up...


That out of the way...That would create a trip hazard for the vast majority of us with the cable crossing our path to get to the left side. They had lawyers in the 60s and 70s too.

For the lefties, that leaves you out in the cold. Sorry.

 

[vinta9e]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

I HATE the input jack being on the RIGHT side of the pedal!

Did you want to say by this that you're southpaw and ocd?

 

[ErikH]

I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Because the output jack on the guitar is on the right, for right handed players. Think about it. You're a smart feller.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

I'm going with the right-hand theory, too.

 

[Big Flannel]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Then you would love the Fender Blender! It's an octave/fuzz box of doom that follows the logic of reading left to right and transfers that practice into signal path jack placement. It's a pain to put on a pedal board.

 

[Agileguy_101]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Because the output jack on the guitar is on the right, for right handed players. Think about it. You're a fart smeller.

Fixed.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

OCD is not a virtue.

Unless you're a Leftist, the cable comes out of the guitar under your right hand, then to the floor at your right side. It then goes to your pedals which are right in front of you (I C wut I did there). To keep the cable from being underfoot, it plugs into the right side of your pedal. From the pedal's output, the cable travels to the amp behind you, whose input is now on your left (right if you're facing your amp for some stupid reason).

The cable trail is logical.

 

[Surgeon]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

I agree with the right-hand side as well. I once reversed input and output on a build and, unless hou use a very long or very very flexible cable, telhe pedal will twist following the guitar (that is of course i it's not fixed on a pedal board, as I assume things were when the first stompboxes were conceived).

 

[uOpt]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Nothing that a bit of soldering can't fix.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

He's breaking something, and it ain't silence.

 

[LReese]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

He's breaking something, and it ain't silence.

" The answer my friend is blowing in the wind... the answer is blowing in the wind...."

 

[real59er]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

"Who decided this? An Englishman?"

Can't blame the Brits for your troubles.

One of the most famous English pedals, the Fuzz Face, has the input jack on the left, as you would have it.

The English also drive on the left side of the road.

British genes coming through?

(I agree with the right to left arguments)

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

You haven't been silent since long before you joined the forum.

 

[everdrone]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

what an inventor needz to do is to make a mooer/small set of pedals that plug together like legos for portability and eazy switcharoos

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Sorry Ace, rant fail.

I like to back you up, but you leave me with nothing to work with.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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[Jocelyn]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Ok I am with Ace. I thought I was the only one who had a problem with this.

 

[UberMetalDood]

Re: I'm breaking the silence! I will suffer quietly no more!!!!

Screw that. I hate pedals that don't have inputs and ouputs on the top of the pedals. Things would be so much easier if all pedals had top jacks. Only the power connector should be on the side. I also hate it when the power connector is in between the jacks.