How big is your pedal board?

DrJazzTap

I made the stupid mistake of dismantling my board. I need to make room for a big muff and a whammy 5. 
My board is 24 inches wide by about 13 or 14 inches. Long story short I'm gonna need a bigger board. 

I'm considering a smaller muff style pedal to free up some room. I don't really want to go any bigger, I had a gigantic touring board thing which I think was nearly four feet wide. That took up a lot of stage space and frustrated the horn section.

 I'm not gigging atm but it's a new years resolution. I don't want to end up pissing off any future band mates, so what's a comfortable sized board that I could get away with? Even thinking about multi effects 

rossyamaha

Have you considered going down a 2 tier route?

steer

You forgot to mention how many pedals that you want?

I have 8 or 9 pedals on a pedalboard that is about 60cm x 30cm. About the same size as yours?

Three of my pedals are small sized Mooer ones, and I have a mini-wah, so that saves quite a lot of space, and they are quite well spaced out. I could probably have coped with a pedal board the size down. 

jonnygreentrees

This is mine which I do play live with. I wouldn't go any bigger....

dogload

Mine is too big, but not big enough!
One of those large Pedaltrains (same as @jonnygreentrees by the look of it), which I always find myself trying to squeeze things onto.

AlexO

For those of you with these what I consider massive pedalboards . Do you not find yourself tap dancing like crazy when playing live?

This my board, it's a older picture so the only pedal I've got left is arp87 delay and my new pedals are more awkward shapes so i'll need a new board but I can't imagine ever needing more than 8 pedals. 
https://i.imgur.com/XLeXFZU.jpg

Back to the OG post this is brilliant for planning 

http://www.pedalplayground.com

joetele

AlexO said:

For those of you with these what I consider massive pedalboards . Do you not find yourself tap dancing like crazy when playing live?

This my board, it's a older picture so the only pedal I've got left is arp87 delay and my new pedals are more awkward shapes so i'll need a new board but I can't imagine ever needing more than 8 pedals. 
https://i.imgur.com/XLeXFZU.jpg

Back to the OG post this is brilliant for planning 

http://www.pedalplayground.com

Nope. I have them spread out across two boards (not possible for everyone I know) and with the right placement, button toppers and approach in terms of playing and songwriting, I don't have any issues. The only issue I've had is accidentally pressing both buttons on the Ditto X2, thereby stopping the loop instead of recording over the top, but that's been solved by button toppers and training myself not to be so clumsy (and also nice bonus of some songs worked nicely with a pause in the loop). Plus I'm the only guitarist in a two piece band (other person being a drummer) so I'm covering all the musical territory with my guitars and pedals. Also a huge part of our music is experimentation and ambience so it's great fun experimenting with pedals, and it leads to some amazing results. 

Gadget

I have one I Custom ordered from @CustomPedalBoards which is slightly larger than their 'large' board at 82 x 48 x 18cm internal, with the lift-up shelf.

I wouldn't want to go any bigger than that personally, as fully-loaded with pedals it is only just about portable.

RaymondLin

Jota

Mine has to be small enough to fit a laptop bag. I'm in two bands and I have to carry the board, guitar and amp in one travel.

Multi-fx is the key to me. A couple of my favorites and a MS-3 for all the other stuff.

pmg

DrJazzTap said:

I made the stupid mistake of dismantling my board. I need to make room for a big muff and a whammy 5. 
My board is 24 inches wide by about 13 or 14 inches. Long story short I'm gonna need a bigger board. 

I'm considering a smaller muff style pedal to free up some room. I don't really want to go any bigger, I had a gigantic touring board thing which I think was nearly four feet wide. That took up a lot of stage space and frustrated the horn section.

 I'm not gigging atm but it's a new years resolution. I don't want to end up pissing off any future band mates, so what's a comfortable sized board that I could get away with? Even thinking about multi effects 

why would you piss off any bandmates with the size of your pedalboard?

sgosden

pmg said:

why would you piss off any bandmates with the size of your pedalboard?

If you're playing a tiny stage and your board takes up half of it ?

EricTheWeary

In a 5 piece band playing mostly pubs I ended up with a Pedaltrain Jr. Sometimes it was a bit in the way, sometimes I couldn't place it in an ideal spot. TBH probably more pedals than I actually needed but regardless I wouldn't have gone bigger. In a smaller band or playing bigger venues different matter. 

pmg

sgosden said:

pmg said:

why would you piss off any bandmates with the size of your pedalboard?

If you're playing a tiny stage and your board takes up half of it ?

would have to be a pretty tiny stage 

WiresDreamDisasters

This is what I'm rockin' n rollin' right now. I put it together in the last two days, and it's the best my singles board has ever been to be frank.

It's a Pedaltrain PT-3.

DrJazzTap

sgosden said:

pmg said:

why would you piss off any bandmates with the size of your pedalboard?

If you're playing a tiny stage and your board takes up half of it ?

This 

The majority of places I played in the south west were tiny clubs or pubs. And having a massive pedal board taking up half the stage is a tad inconsiderate for other band mates. And then if you have to share a stage with other bands and gear etc

DrJazzTap

rossyamaha said:

Have you considered going down a 2 tier route?

I have, I'm a stickler for trying to use my old flightcase (an old spider flightcase warehouse one), I don't think I've got the depth to have two levels. Looks like I'm going to have to spend some money in the new year.

Paul_C

Fortunately I don't play live*



*I sort of do sometimes, in that I start with the Drone Thing and then play the pedals while recording the resultant racket

TTBZ

Mines back down to just a tuner, tubescreamer and a fuzz. Generally I stick to 5 pedals and under on my PT Metro 16. I like the simplicity and don't like having pedals that I'd only use for 10 seconds of one song.

Grocer_Jack

Some great looking boards here - hats off! 
I prefer to keep it down to a minimum, the main consideration being ability to troubleshoot quickly in the event of a problem. It's only happened to me 2 or 3 times in 100s of gigs -each time in the soundcheck not the show thankfully. With a small board I was able to find the problem quickly and get it sorted. I use a battered old Boss BCB-60 which takes up to 9 pedals with a bit of creativity at squeezing them in. I usually have 7 - tuner, fuzz, 3 drives, reverb and delay. I additionally a trem instead of reverb. Lots of storage in the Boss for spare patch leads, picks, batteries, capo etc.

It's not an elegant looking board but works perfectly for me. 

octatonic

I'm on a PT2 for my home/small gig type board.