What kind of sadist company makes pedalboards 1.5-pedals tall?

William Williamson

Harley Benton, Palmer and PedalTrain all make boards which are 8" tall instead of the 9.5" required for two normal sized BOSS pedals to sit one above the other. If they're not 8" they're about the size of an aircraft carrier - there doesn't appear to be anything in the middle.

Am I an idiot for not wanting to have to smush in pedals horizontally for the sake of a missing 2"? 

Yours sincerely, confounded in Croydon.

William Williamson

Yep, and the aircraft carriers are 2.5 pedals tall. Bloody hell.

thecolourbox

Sorry if this is a silly question, but why would you want to put two pedals on top of each other?

William Williamson

Well, not physically ontop of each other, just permitting two rows of pedals on a board.

simonk

thecolourbox said:

Sorry if this is a silly question, but why would you want to put two pedals on top of each other?

Stacking innit!

bbill335

It's so you can tesselate the pedals so that the stomp switches are spaced out more for when you're stompin in your flat, wide desert boots.

I think the pedalboard you want is a PT Jr.

William Williamson

oooo Tesselate, I haven't heard that word in ages. Good point though, and I think it might be a good shout.

stickyfiddle

The PT Jr is a great size for exactly this. 

Teetonetal

William Williamson said:

oooo Tesselate, I haven't heard that word in ages. Good point though, and I think it might be a good shout.

The only reason I know that word is thanks to Alt-J - which reminds me, its an awesome song, that I must now go listen to.

JayGee

Because the extra half-a-pedalsworth of depth is pretty much perfect to put a Joyo PXL (or similar) looper across the front. Well that's what I do with it anyway...

William Williamson

You'll notice that all of the Andertons product pictures show these odd 9" long x 2" high pedals in that row at the bottom. I guess some kind of loop switcher fits there for the other.. five pedals on the board.

TimmyO

bbill335 said:

It's so you can tesselate the pedals so that the stomp switches are spaced out more for when you're stompin in your flat, wide desert boots.

I think the pedalboard you want is a PT Jr.

Nah - get two Nanos or Minis - all in one row, no stepping over 

William Williamson

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

bbill335

William Williamson said:

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

You can get 2 Power Plant Jrs (true iso, dead quiet) from Thomann for the price of one TRex or Voodoo power block.

Modellista

bbill335 said:

William Williamson said:

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

You can get 2 Power Plant Jrs (true iso, dead quiet) from Thomann for the price of one TRex or Voodoo power block.

I don't think the Power Plant Juniors are properly isolated on each output. Mine makes a variety of novel robot noises depending on what it's plugged into. 

bbill335

modellista said:

bbill335 said:

William Williamson said:

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

You can get 2 Power Plant Jrs (true iso, dead quiet) from Thomann for the price of one TRex or Voodoo power block.

I don't think the Power Plant Juniors are properly isolated on each output. Mine makes a variety of novel robot noises depending on what it's plugged into. 

I dunno, mine's pretty quiet. I know they market it as proper iso, I thought it had been confirmed as such. A lot better than the Chinese-made daisy chain boxes.

Modellista

bbill335 said:

modellista said:

bbill335 said:

William Williamson said:

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

You can get 2 Power Plant Jrs (true iso, dead quiet) from Thomann for the price of one TRex or Voodoo power block.

I don't think the Power Plant Juniors are properly isolated on each output. Mine makes a variety of novel robot noises depending on what it's plugged into. 

I dunno, mine's pretty quiet. I know they market it as proper iso, I thought it had been confirmed as such. A lot better than the Chinese-made daisy chain boxes.

Actually I think I've jumped the gun in questioning the PowerPlant Jr's integrity, and the above comment is probably correct.  It seems to be exactly the same thing as a T-Rex Fuel Tank Jr which is agreed to have true isolation on all five outputs.

I think where I've gone wrong is using pedals with a current draw too high for the 120mA outputs (Akai Headrush, Zoom MS-50G).  It comes with a current-doubling cable so I might look into rearranging my cabling and have another go.

Modellista

bbill335 said:

modellista said:

bbill335 said:

William Williamson said:

Oh that's a good call - one for up front, and one for an FX loop? But then - power?

You can get 2 Power Plant Jrs (true iso, dead quiet) from Thomann for the price of one TRex or Voodoo power block.

I don't think the Power Plant Juniors are properly isolated on each output. Mine makes a variety of novel robot noises depending on what it's plugged into. 

I dunno, mine's pretty quiet. I know they market it as proper iso, I thought it had been confirmed as such. A lot better than the Chinese-made daisy chain boxes.

Actually I think I've jumped the gun in questioning the PowerPlant Jr's integrity, and the above comment is probably correct.  It seems to be exactly the same thing as a T-Rex Fuel Tank Jr which is agreed to have true isolation on all five outputs.

I think where I've gone wrong is using pedals with a current draw too high for the 120mA outputs (Akai Headrush, Zoom MS-50G).  It comes with a current-doubling cable so I might look into rearranging my cabling and have another go.