Building my own pedal board

[DrNomis_44]

Looks cool.

[tommycarlos]

I loved my Hejne board... I moved on to a Gator board with a soft case, but I'm not feeling it...

I have been tempted to make a new one using the larger 77cmx47cm shelves (my first was the 77cmx28cm one).

I wonder how the weight is vs the Pedaltrain type aluminium boards of similar size?

[churchie]

mocked up with pedals



next step will be isolated power supply and new patch cables

[Dedman]

that's were the money comes in, power supply and cables.

[churchie]

Yep. So may be a while before I get to that.

For anyone interested, the BD-2, DS-1 and TS-9 are all Robert Keeley modded pedals

[JohnH]

Looks good man

[Marcel]

I got a couple of Vitoos PS1 units via Ebay from a seller in China. For my home setup they seem to work okay. They may not be as noise free as the more expensive units but for the price I'm not complaining. If you are serious about recording or gigging with a cranked amp then these may not suit everyone’s needs (due to "hiss" noise), but for a quite good home practice rig they are great...

In my practice/home rig into my JVM (or any effects loop gifted amp) I typicaly use two units, one unit on the input jack pedals (Wah, tuner, Big Muff, TS9, etc..), and a second unit on the effects loop (phaser, chorus, flanger, delay, etc..).... As I'm not much for metal OD tones so I tend to stay away from uber high gain, if I select the JVM OD high gain channel I get what I consider to be considerable "hiss" which is to be expected and most probably is just my JVM being a JVM, but on the clean channel with all the effects hooked up it's hiss-less and which is quite fine for me. I've tried using one PS1 on both the input and the loop effects at the same time and had nil issues... for the price they are definitely worth a try...

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VITOOS-P...put-8-Way-U3P8

[Dedman]

I'm using a couple of the "caline power" cheapies and do the same, the gain/EQ and compressor on one and the chorus,reverbs and delays that go to the effects loop on another. I don't get much noise, but then I don't play at high volumes to really notice it.

[DrNomis_44]

I've got a Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, mine's all stock except the indicator led, swapped it out for a blue one.


I used to use an MXR Power Brick to power my pedals but found that I would get hum noise coming through the amp, I tried switching back to 9V batteries and the hum went away.

[Simon Barden]

It's the digital pedals that really need to be supplied from a power supply with isolated outputs as they do tend to suffer from adding digital noise from even small ground loops, which isolated outputs avoid.

I've got a couple of Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 units on my board and even with them, and their all-isolated outputs, I still got very audible digital nose when using a couple of the Andertons Tone City pedals (chorus and phaser) together on the same PSU. Feeding them from different PSUs cured that (they are both gone from by board now).

Your board is only as good as its weakest link. So use decent patch leads and spend a bit on your PSU(s). I say you should spend as much on each one as you are prepared to spend on a pedal. No point spending $200 on a pedal (times the number of pedals on the board) and then $40 on a PSU for them that adds extra noise to the sound.

The problem is knowing what are good and bad pedal PSUs. I've never seen a true shoot-out in a magazine and have yet to look on-line (but doubt I'll find any tests conducted with any decent analytical equipment).