Took delivery of this today thinking it was about time I looked the part compared to my homemade board which is a piece of wood I shaped up to fit into a lightweight black cross case but it has some short comings - the power pack is on the board taking up space, the wood adds weight, it's level not angled, it's tricky to hide the cables neatly. A couple of things struck me about the pedal train:
Christ the tour case is heavy and once my board is loaded up it will be around 10kgs or so to lug around.
It's a big chunky case not like my slimline homemade job.
The board is not fixed in the case and moves around so I'm hoping when I have pedals on it the foam from the lid presses on it to keep it in place but doesn't change all my knob settings.
I'm going to have to lift the board out of the case each time, I'm wondering how easy that's going to be in practice. My homemade job was mounted to the thinner bottom of a case so I just needed to remove the lid and plug in.
I'm starting to wonder whether I should just return it and made do with my homemade board.
I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with using a Pedaltrain board and case.
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If if you aren’t doing stacks of gigs with roadies and vans personally I’d return it and get one of the boards that come with a soft case.
Those pedalboard flight cases are neccesary for people who are having their gear transported around by random people. Sure if you're going on international tours and have an army of roadies etc then you need one but otherwise they really are overkill.