Let's see your small/mini/nano pedalboards

LewWelchThePoet

sgosden said:

LewWelchThePoet said:

Recent small board powered by a Cioks 4 and a rechargeable battery. An amazing grab-and-go board. 

very tempted by a collider. Does the tape setting do multi head, or just single?

Just single I think. This is from the manual: “A detailed re-creation of classic moving-head tape delays. Repeats are bandwidth limited and have artefact characteristic of vintage tape delay units, such as filtering, preamp saturation, noise, wow and flutter.” Having said that, you can turn it easily into a dual delay pedal and probably get to that multi-head place that way. Or, someone may have already created such a preset you could load straight on. 

AntonHunter

I prefer not to comment on other member's knobs

stickyfiddle

If it’s not clearly an unambiguously small it doesn’t belong here and defeats the point of this thread being separate from the main one, no? 

6+ pedals is not unambiguously small by any sensible metric, even if it’s “smaller than my other board” 

(I would think a physically really tiny board that somehow had 6 things on it might be ok, but I also can’t think how you would achieve that without a double-stacked thing which then needs a switcher than then wouldn’t be small)

Winny_Pooh

Ok, got it, small and lots of knobs

TimmyO

Penn said:

AntonHunter said:

strtdv said:

My board is getting progressively smaller, I've chopped it down again today, it's now the size of a pedaltrain Jr so possibly small? I could lop another 5cm or so off it but it's an old IKEA Gorm board build so I'm using the existing holes in the top piece as a guide. 

Full disclosure, I generally run a Fender Reflecting Pool reverb/delay in the loop which doesn't make it to the board as everything on it is run in front of the amp 

Looks great, although technically MASSIVE by the standard @TimmyO ;;sizing guide.

And it’s got more knobs than mine… is there a knob rule to? 

For example, if I had seven pedals but only seven knobs, would that count as a smaller board than one with seven pedals and twenty-six knobs?

I don’t make the rules.

(OK I’ll make the rules)

Number of knobs is irrelevant. 

When I started the thread my thinking was things like the Pedaltrain Nano and Mini - but to my mind a  Pedaltrain Nano Max kind of stretches the ethos of it a bit. 

To me ‘small board’ is an approach - a deliberate minimisation of pedalage - self restraint.

’How many mini pedals can I tesselate on to here because there’s still some surface visible’ isn’t that.

2 different modulations ‘because sometimes I like this and sometimes I fancy that’ isn’t self restraint. 

(My own board fails the test as of last week when I added back the Rotary and left the SCH-1 on too) 

Removing tongue from cheek, I genuinely get a buzz seeing people’s small setups and imagining how freeing it must be to have less to think about at your feet and more headspace for the music making. 

There’s enough Instagram-approved board-porn out there. 

By which I mean more than enough. 

Small boards FTW 

soma1975

I think fewer than 5 pedals is the sweet spot, with an allowance for big box fuzz or Memory Man. 

soma1975

I veer wildly between selling everything off and being a purist with a fuzz, a delay and an amp, and then slowly asking myself various what if questions that invariably grow it out again and again

strtdv

Well in view of my pedalboard still being too big to qualify I'll now see if I can get it down to the required 5 pedals or fewer! 

Currently the true bypass loop is there because the Bad Monkey is a tone suck when bypassed. I thought I was stuck with that but I see DOD do a Badder Monkey which is true bypass and has a "behaved monkey" lower gain mode which sounds like it would work for me (I set the gain to basically 0 and use it as a boost).

Sadly I rarely have occasion to use the Musket Fuzz either. 

That should get me down to 12 inches squared and 5 pedals, I'll report back when I get it built!

TimmyO

strtdv said:

Well in view of my pedalboard still being too big to qualify I'll now see if I can get it down to the required 5 pedals or fewer! 

Currently the true bypass loop is there because the Bad Monkey is a tone suck when bypassed. I thought I was stuck with that but I see DOD do a Badder Monkey which is true bypass and has a "behaved monkey" lower gain mode which sounds like it would work for me (I set the gain to basically 0 and use it as a boost).

Sadly I rarely have occasion to use the Musket Fuzz either. 

That should get me down to 12 inches squared and 5 pedals, I'll report back when I get it built!

I actually reckon that something like a TB loop doesn't really breach the ethos of the small board school of thinking, so perhaps wouldn't 'count' (and the same might be said for tuners) 

In my capacity of self-appointed Lord of the Small Boards I shall ponder  

re the Badder Monkey, me and my lad tried one at Andertons the other week - we couldn't make head nor simian tail of the badder settings and the barrel control - very odd indeed - maybe if we'd had the manual... 

strtdv

@TimmyO I think the barrel control allows you to blend the original circuit ("bad"), a higher gain circuit ("badder") and a lower gain circuit ("behaved")

As I'm using mine as a low gain boost the "behaved" setting appeals. 

I've tried several low gain boosts over the years but the bad monkey is the one that always stays, so the same pedal with a couple of quality of life improvements (true bypass and a base that velcro will actually stick to instead of falling off all the time) would be ideal if it actually nails the sound of the original.

matt3man

Very much work in progress with mine but they are all (bar one) mini pedals so I hope this qualifies.  Used an Aclam board so not a bit of velcro in sight.  Power supply fits underneath on a bracket and planning to drill holes (with gromets) so each pedal's power lead comes up exactly where it needs to be.  Drive pedals will go into front of amp with the others in the effect loop.