Built my own pedal board for guitar effects

[TechBoyJK]

I pretty much had all my pedals just laying on the floor, and it was a pain to move them around anytime I wanted to pull them out and play. It had been a while since I built anything, so I decided to take a swing at making my own pedal board since I was on holiday. I just wanted something simple that looked decent and was somewhat functional. I don't plan on taking it out or anything.

It's 32" wide, 14" deep, and is tilted. The back sits 2" higher than the front. I put a basic 6 outlet surge protector on back, and power everything with a 1-spot, except for the Boss vWah which needs it's own power supply. Everything is velcro'd down. I used a half sheet of high density particle board ($10) and cut everything from that. I bought 2 dresser/cabinet handles for $5 each. The surge protector was $8. Velcro was $4. Black spray paint was $4. Total cost about $41 and change, along with 3-4 hours of work.

I still plan on tucking the power wires under the board better. I wasn't exactly sure how the 1spot would end up so I just wadded it up for now.

I still want

Blues Driver (undecided on which one)
Boss Metal Zone
Boss Compressor
Boss Noise Suppressor
Boss Chorus

Amp footswitch probably won't stay on there, and the delay pedal is old so I might get rid of it and use a smaller boss delay pedal.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Pretty good. Looks like your MultiPlay is gonna be a bit of a challenge to toe-tap without accidentally stomping your amp's footswitch, though. If you're not playing live you'll probably get by just fine, but on-stage in the dark rocking out with your rooster out that's something that'd be easy to do.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Pretty good. Looks like your MultiPlay is gonna be a bit of a challenge to toe-tap without accidentally stomping your amp's footswitch, though. If you're not playing live you'll probably get by just fine, but on-stage in the dark rocking out with your rooster out that's something that'd be easy to do.

Thanks! It was pretty spontaneous. Yea.. I might take it out to play everyonce in a while. I have a few musician friends who ping me sometimes asking if I want to sub in, but it's usually on bass. The only house I ever jam at, the guitarist has a pretty decent setup and if I'm playing guitar, he's playing bass or vice versa, so I just use his rig.

The way everything is lined up now, that was just thought up tonight. I figured I'd put the harmonizer first in the chain so that it only had to process a raw, clean signal. If I put it last, it would have to do more work and that might cause the sq to degrade.

The amp switch that you mentioned, it's not tied down yet. I'm still wondering if I even want to have it on the pedalboard since it takes up room, and is actually a part of the amp. If I ever took that board out, I might not even use that amp so I'd have to remove it anyway or just let it sit there unused. It's got a pretty lengthy cable so it might just sit by itself off to the side of the board.

 

[TechBoyJK]

whoo hoo bmp for morning crowd

 

[Platypus]

I built mine too, I'll try to snap a pic later.

 

[artvscommerce]

very nice work!

 

[Fausto]

Nice. I need to do this. I don't have tons of pedals, but it's getting to be a pain to drag them out every time I feel the need for effects.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Nice. I need to do this. I don't have tons of pedals, but it's getting to be a pain to drag them out every time I feel the need for effects.

That was exactly my problem.. I had them sitting on a piece of wood, pushed to the side of my amp by the wall.. but nothing was tied down, cabling wasn't ideal, etc. It made it so that everytime I looked at them, I didn't bother because it was a hassle to drag it out and get it wired up. Now I can just plug in and go!