So, Just How Much Has Your Pedalboard Cost ?

Danny1969 · February 2019

Mine's pretty cheap ... piece of wood for a board and old power supply from a wireless router All the pedals were brought cheap on here or cheap but faulty on Ebay.

Polytune was £20 with broke footswitch, Soulfood was £25 with blown chip, reverb pedal was £15 on here, Delay was £50 ish on here ... The Watson is homemade for £40 so whole board only £150 ish. I know it looks a bag of shit but I can get what I need out of it

Kebabkid · February 2019

I have about £1200 wrapped up in mine with a mix of some cheap and boutique pedals, like the Zoom MS70 CDR, Catalinbread, Fulltone, Keeley, Xotic and the most expensive one being the JHS AT plus.

Pedaltrain Jr and Cioks DC-10

Guitars are pretty personal but I'd say this is probably my next, most important piece of gear

Winny_Pooh · February 2019

Danny1969 said:

Mine's pretty cheap ... piece of wood for a board and old power supply from a wireless router All the pedals were brought cheap on here or cheap but faulty on Ebay.

Polytune was £20 with broke footswitch, Soulfood was £25 with blown chip, reverb pedal was £15 on here, Delay was £50 ish on here ... The Watson is homemade for £40 so whole board only £150 ish. I know it looks a bag of shit but I can get what I need out of it

@Danny1969 looks like a capable board, I"d have happily played that a few years back. Only thing I'd change is to buy some Hicon right angle jacks and solder up patch cables so it looks tidier and have less strain where the solid connectors are used.
What's the Dr Watson like?

downbytheriver · February 2019

In addition to my board post earlier, I am currently (and slowly) building a new mini board. The plan is to be super cheap - so far I have a Klone by Mosky and a Tremolo by Rowin, both from Ali express, neither cost more than £15. We’ll see where this goes. Tried the Klone on a gig and it was ok!

WiresDreamDisasters · February 2019

Christ, I dread to think.

Strangefan · February 2019

Roland said:

My stuff is either home made or second hand:
MFC101 and Mission pedal from @octatonic. I can’t remember how much.
Bespeco, now replaced by a second Mission. £90
Lighting control boxes about £5 each to make.
Fuse and plectrum tins. Nowt
Johnsons Baby Power. Not much.
Cables, £15 when made.
Board and lid cost £35 to make a few years back.

All this, plus a second hand Axe FX II, was around £2,000.

If I’d used pedals, and bought second hand, the pedal board would have cost about the same. It’s not an apples vs apples comparison because I would have needed a multi channel amp rather than a powered monitor. There would also be the cost of buying, trying and selling pedals. Pedals equivalents would be:
Stage tuner:
Wahs: Cry Baby and Vox
Chorus: Dimension D and Quad Chorus
Phaser:
Tremolo:
Drives: Keeley modified TS-9 and a few others.
Mid boost:
Delays:
Reverbs: Room and Studio
Detune:
Midi switcher for pedals and amp.

How does the baby powder sounds? Does it play well with other pedals?

Danny1969 · February 2019

Winny_Pooh said:

Danny1969 said:

Mine's pretty cheap ... piece of wood for a board and old power supply from a wireless router All the pedals were brought cheap on here or cheap but faulty on Ebay.

Polytune was £20 with broke footswitch, Soulfood was £25 with blown chip, reverb pedal was £15 on here, Delay was £50 ish on here ... The Watson is homemade for £40 so whole board only £150 ish. I know it looks a bag of shit but I can get what I need out of it

@Danny1969 looks like a capable board, I"d have happily played that a few years back. Only thing I'd change is to buy some Hicon right angle jacks and solder up patch cables so it looks tidier and have less strain where the solid connectors are used.
What's the Dr Watson like?

Cheers, the Watson is an IEM box, the guitar signal just runs straight through it.

RaymondLin · February 2019

I am going to guess 5 figures.

Roland · February 2019

Strangefan said:

Roland said:

How does the baby powder sounds? Does it play well with other pedals?

It sounds like click bait. Several times a night I use talc to deal with sweaty hands, that’s more frequently than I use the capo, Wah, Flange or Tremolo.

darthed1981 · February 2019

Roland said:

What tone do you get from the Baby Powder?

mrkb · February 2019

darthed1981 said:

Roland said:

What tone do you get from the Baby Powder?

A delayed echo... from the same repeated questions

guitarblaster · February 2019

I tried to do this cheaper than my last one after I sold everything off! £571 in total which includes the board, patch leads and Coiks DC5. Everything was secondhand apart from the patch cables.

MagicPigDetective · February 2019

Mine’s a mix of cheaper/used and new. The Rubberneck and Ventura Vibe were seriously good deals from Thomann. Pretty shocked on the total of £805, that’s after just selling a few. But spread over 3 years, not too bad. But the GAS is strong and I want a Flint, a new chorus and a fuzz.

Dunlop Crybaby – bought in the 90’s, no recollection of cost or condition.

TC forcefield compressor - £30

DOD Looking Glass - £125

Little Big Muff - £40

Digitech Ventura Vibe - £70

Source Audio Gemini - £140

DOD Rubberneck - £125

EQD Despatch Master - £100

Polara - £100

TC Ditto - £40

Donner – Power Supply £25

A few cheap patch cables.

Board – home made from a small palette

Arjailer · February 2019

I thought mine was pretty cheap until I totalled it up - I got a cheap pedalboard, I have no "boutique" pedals, some really cheap Joyo pedals, and I have a digital amp and I just use the effects built into that. Guess it added up quicker than I realised :-)

Palmer Pedalbay 60 pedalboard - £63

Palmer PWT 05 PSU - £71

Blackstar FS-10 footswitch - £59

Boss FV500H volume pedal - £79

Jim Dunlop 95Q Crybaby wah - £130

Joyo JF-10 compressor - £33

Joyo JT-305 tuner - £24

Smoothhound wireless - £149

Button toppers - £8

Power cables, patch cables, tie wraps, dual-lock etc - £50

£666 total

Wazmeister · February 2019

guitarblaster said:

I tried to do this cheaper than my last one after I sold everything off! £571 in total which includes the board, patch leads and Coiks DC5. Everything was secondhand apart from the patch cables.

Love that board !

Gassage · February 2019

Give or take £7k. Notifications now switched off for this thread.

BintyTwanger77 · February 2019

Arjailer said:

I thought mine was pretty cheap until I totalled it up - I got a cheap pedalboard, I have no "boutique" pedals, some really cheap Joyo pedals, and I have a digital amp and I just use the effects built into that. Guess it added up quicker than I realised :-)

Palmer Pedalbay 60 pedalboard - £63
Palmer PWT 05 PSU - £71
Blackstar FS-10 footswitch - £59
Boss FV500H volume pedal - £79
Jim Dunlop 95Q Crybaby wah - £130
Joyo JF-10 compressor - £33
Joyo JT-305 tuner - £24
Smoothhound wireless - £149
Button toppers - £8
Power cables, patch cables, tie wraps, dual-lock etc - £50

£666 total

...the Pedalboard of the Beast.

lincolnblue · February 2019

I tend to buy most of my pedals used but a rough calculation is:

Palmer Pedalbay 60L - £45
Buffer - £25
Polytune - £70
Magnetic Effects Black Moon - £125
Boss OC-3 - £60
EHX Soul Food - £35
Boo Instruments Chorus - £45
Source Audio Vertigo - £80
Emma Onomatopeia - £45
TC Nova Delay - £125
Neunaber Stereo Wet - £120
Neunaber EXP Controller £99
EHX 360 - £50
TC Spark Mini - £33
Patch Cables - approx £135
Vitoos DC8 - £38
TOTAL - £1,130

There's a couple of other pedals which aren't on my board too

Flanging_Fred · February 2019

This is my main board. If I add in the cost of the cables, pedaltrain 2 and Voodoo Labs pp2+ then after a quick bit of mental arithmetic the total comes to... £73.38

... at least that’s the total I arrived at the last time Mrs Fred asked.

slacker · February 2019

My small cheap board was £200 for the Klon and £140 for the large box DMM. Dont think I could replaced it for that though.

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