Ok, I really only play at jam nights and maybe a handful of gigs each year.
Pedals include a wah, overdrive, phaser, and a tuner - all powered by a T Rex fuel tank Jnr. It's been suggested that I 'need' a pedalboard. TBH it doesn't bother me either way, but I can see the attraction of not having to connect and disconnect everything every time I play although, let's face it, it only takes a few seconds. I guess, also, that there's less chance of things going wrong if everything is permanently connected.
There's no plans to buy any more pedals.
What say you?
I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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PS use a bigger board than you need - you may have no plans NOW to buy more pedals ... I didn't, and then digitech issued the freqout and now I have to find board-room for it
edit don't put the wah on the board, IME they're always noisy and mine didn't like the wall-wart psu I was powering it with, so I left it off the board and powered it with a battery. tbh I don't miss it most of the time as I have little use for it and I don't mind an extra pedal at the side of the board when there is a use for it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Initially made one on the cheap from Ikea (Gorn), then got a Pedaltrain -- just a Metro which is very tidy.
The proper board is so much better.
I only use the basics, a tuner, noise suppressor and an overdrive pedal, plus wireless receiver and footswitch. Set up is real quick with a cable out the last pedal (the noise suppressor) and then two power adaptors to be plugged in (Fuel-Tank Jnr and my Wireless). After that I'm good to go!
If you DIY skills allow it, make a simple board.
Oddly i did a dep gig a couple of weeks ago on bass and the guitarist had a Pedaltrain 2 sized board with a bunch of pedals but he had them in a bag and placed them on the board without Velcro during the setup and took them off at the end of the night. I’ve never seen that before.
You'll wonder why you never did it before!
Reason 2. Pedals stay where you put them, not tumbling across the playing area because you caught the cable with your foot.
In my book convenience is the key factor. I made a board for our singer from a piece of plywood, with a B&Q cupboard handle on either side. It drops into one of those cheap aluminium cases. My own is built into a plywood box with lift-off lid. We each drop our boards onto the floor and connect in and out cables, and in his case a main supply. It takes 30 seconds.
My pedal board holds more than pedals. There’s a tin of plectrums, a tin of spare fuses, a spare top E string, and space for my capo, beer glass and Johnson’s baby powder.
If you’ve got the tools and the skills them I’d say make your own. It’s not necessarily cheaper, but it will be fitted to your needs.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Add some Velcro and it's a pedal board
I built a hardwood board in a spare afternoon for £8. The Pedaltrain equivalent was about £120.
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Seriously, dude...whats stopping you?!!
You're welcome.