How Do I Build A Pro Pedalboard?
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2023
- Penelope is the real star of this one.
Pedalboard supplies used in this video:
Pedalboard: Creation Music Company Aero Board
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Cable: Best-Tronics CA-0678 & 1192A
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Audio Plugs: Square Plug SP400
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Midi Plugs: Switchcraft 05DL5M
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Pedal Risers: Fix Pedalboards
fixpedalboards.com/pedal-risers
Volume pedal plate: Best-Tronics RE-0013VX-KIT
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Dual-Lock velcro, soldering iron, mounting bolts, zipties & zipties anchors, Deoxit D5, & wood blocks under pedalboard: any generic hardware store
CORRECTION:
The text highlighting the Stereo Summing box is wrong.
It's a dual junction box with stereo sum made by Simple Switch Effects
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00:00 - Intro
00:38 - A Package Arrives
02:41 - Pedalboard Assembly
08:03 - Rig Rundown (Again)
11:55 - Volume Pedal Innovations
15:24 - Different Ways To Run Amps
20:04 - Finishing Touches - Hudba
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Hey guys! Jason here. Thanks so much for watching my video! Love the feedback & engagement. I’ll always do my best answer any question you have in the comments.
I took a small break over the holidays, but I’m back to work on more videos aimed at being educational & inspirational for the everyday musician. In the meantime, check out my other videos, subscribe & turn on notifications, & let me know in the replies what you’d love to see more of on the channel. I’m always on the lookout for video ideas!
You daughter is ADORABLE!! She's so enthusiastic!
I admire your ability to know what you want on your board. The additional footswitch on the dod makes the rubberneck feature instantaneously engage, the second switch activates the modulation. But it's always about real estate!
I decided to split my board because it was getting too big and heavy. Everything before the amp is on a pedal train xd24 and everything in the effects loop is on a pedal train xd18. I’m liking it so far, makes things easy to transport and the pedals aren’t as crammed as they were on my 30x16 gator board.
One of the best Pedalboard Rundowns I've watched in a long time! Very informative and well done!
Greetings from Germany
Amazing description of the process, thanks a million Jason!
Thanks Dmitry! Glad you like it!
I just put together a new build over the weekend with a Pedaltrain Novo 24, so relatively the same general size as this board, and it gives me a lot of appreciation for the cable management and the integration of the risers in your build. But the real star of the show is your little girl. My youngest is just getting to 18 months, and she follows me into my music room and plugs my instrument cable in for me when I play at home. This is some excellent dad rig content. Great video.
Hahaha “dad rig content” is something I could definitely get into
OMG your daughter is adorable! Dare I suggest that 24" x16" is still too big? When I built my pedalboard a few years ago, it started out at 19" wide by 12.25" deep, and it fit into a standard 22 x 14 x 9 rollaboard suitcase, but it turns out, that was still too cumbersome. I've pared my board down to fit within about 15.5" x 11.5", and that means it will fit in an airline underseat size "personal item", and still leave enough room for a change of clothes for the gig, toiletries for a long weekend, personal electronics, and an in-flight snack. It has everything I need to go direct to PA or recording desk, or to practice or write songs in a hotel room, thanks to a Boss GT-1000Core and a DSM & Humboldt Electronics Simplifier. All my drive pedals are 100% analogue, too.
Seeing your pedal complement, I think you should consider that maybe you have Too Many Pedals. Your DD-500 and BigSky could be replaced with a GT-1000Core, or even an RV-500, and that's a huge amount of space. With a GT-1000Core, you could ditch the ACS1, too.
We all know that there are ways we could combine pedals, but that doesn't always make sense. Like, he could have an all-in-one modulation pedal, but it would be a compromise. I have an MD-500, but I don't really like it. Do I like the sounds? Yes. Would I still rather have 3 individual pedals to cover the bases? YES!
The RV-500 rules, but would not completely replace both of those pedals since the only delay types are a digital delay and the space echo. If you want other sounds they are not on there. I just replaced my RV-500 with a Source Audio Collider, that would be a much better do-it-all type delay/reverb and it is smaller as well. Of course it cannot do everything an RV-500 can, but it can do everything and more as far as my needs are concerned, and way easier to use. RV-500 gives the user too much EQ control, it's really easy to make bad sounds, especially with shimmer. It's still a great pedal, just a time-consuming unit to tweak.
Great Video!! Awesome board!! Beautiful Family! ~cheers
Hey Jason, great video! Nice to see what you’re up to these days.
Hey Matt, great to hear from you, man!
Nice share! And Penny sure did steal the show!
when u added her photo i smiled a lot
Cool flight case!
@CreationMusicCompany killed with this case! Might be my favorite part.
Awesome board...I'm just about to get the Mood...👍
Need to get that Maleeko pedal, thanks for sharing.
Great video my dude, subbed!
Thanks my dude! I’m honored!
i split mine in two, even though i only use a few pedals (for shoegaze music).
one side gets all my overdrive/fuzz (3 overdrives, 1 fuzz) and the other gets my delay and modulation (3 delays and a vibrato). Right leg gets all the gain, left leg gets the delays. Microphone in between.
Aweseome!!
Hello Jason, you execute a very good job. Did you was professional pedalboard maker or just learn it by yourself because the necesity.
I subscribe and cheers from Germany!
Did it all myself, was just curious back in the day, so I watched a lot of CZcams!
Great board and very well explained!
When you run the board with a real amp, do you check for phase issues? And if so, is it so little that it can be solved with a phase switch? I see the Canvas doesn't have a phase switch.
Hey Paul! The Canvas actually does have a phase flip switch, but there are several steps the signal goes through first. I did my due diligence to make sure the IRs (impulse responses) in the ACS are phase correct, & the summing box, DD500, & Big Sky don’t do any phase inversion.
But if I’m going to a single guitar amp, it shouldn’t matter. Phase alignment is only important if you are sending two or more parallel signals. So with two real amps, yes, the phase switch is useful to check. & in the end, if all else fails, the FOH engineer has a phase flip on every channel of the board haha.
Great Board, great Video! So, how heavy is it with the pedals on?
45lb, so I only lost a couple pounds, but the smaller size & wheels have made it infinitely easier to travel with.
Great job with this!
Just curious are you in the Chicago area by any chance and if so would you be able to put together a peddleboard for me… it would be worth it for me to pay you because I feel your technique is top-notch
Hey dude, that’s sounds fun! I’m in North Carolina, but we can definitely work something out. Shoot me an email jasonbrucemusic@gmail.com
Do you have any problems with the volume pedal, since its high impedance?
So, what was the final weight? Or does it not matter with the wheels?
45lb! That’s not even water weight! haha but you’re right, the wheels made basically the same weight infinitely more bearable.
why do you use the ACS1 in stereo and then sum to mono for Boss DD & Big Sky? they can run stereo
Great question! Sorry, I explained this in my previous pedalboard video but didn’t here.
I typically run mono, though I prefer stereo, because for many of the gigs I’m playing regularly these days, it’s just less of a headache to run mono.
But over the years, I’ve come to really love running two amps together, it’s sort of “my sound”. Usually something Vox-like & something Fender-like. The two in parallel gives me a sound I can’t get with one amp.
So on the ACS1 you can run 2 amps in stereo, but it doesn’t sum, & I’d rather not run the DD500 stereo-to-mono as it might create phasing issues, so I have this little box under the riser that sums it back to mono before the DD500. With this configuration, it’s very easy with a few patch cables & flipping a switch on the summing box to run stereo when I want to.
IMHO soldering the SP400 plugs is so easy you will very unlikely have a non working cable.
V true. They’re by far the easiest cables I’ve ever soldered, feel incredibly sturdy, & I’ve never had a single issue with them.
The only problem with all this is that when you want to change out a pedal or two you’re fucked and have to start all over again.
Not necessarily! In my recent video, you can see I've already swapped out a couple of pedals. Making changes to board is pretty easy, presuming the new pedal is roughly the same dimensions as the old pedal, & a lot of pedals are the standard 4.5x2.5. The key is when I make my patch cables, I make sure they have a little extra length to cover for when jacks on a different spot on the pedal. Perhaps occasionally I'll need to resolder a new patch cable, but that's 5 maybe 10 minutes of work.
Because I'm pretty much settled in what I want as far as the big picture signal path & architecture of the board, any pedal I swap out for will be filling a similar role on the board, so I'm not having to reinvent the wheel every time. If I ever truly have to start over with this board, it will be because I'm making a fundamental change to the layout or signal path, like incorporating a switcher or a different amp sim, not just switching a couple things.
That looks like a recipe for stepping all over your knobs....what a mess.
Surprisingly not! The risers on the middle & back rows making hitting the footswitches very clean. I've yet to kick a knob out of place.
@@jasonbrucemusic ah, you can't see the risers from the overhead angle but I figured there must be something I'm missing. I got the big d'addario xpnd board, and put the 2nd row with the pedal edges flush with the top, and the bottom row with the bottom edge of the pedals flush with the very bottom, and that gives me a good 2 or 3 inches of empty space in between the top and bottom rows of pedals....enough that someone like me who's new to pedalboards won't sasquatch all over the bottom row guys, trying to hit the top ones.
I dont consider it a "pro" pedalboard. WIthout any loopers and controllers the tap dancing makes it a bedroom player board.
Mateus Asato would like a word with you
@@Xeldryn Indeed. He IS a bedroom player since his content is instagram based.
I can understand that logic, & I have certainly thought about incorporating a switcher. I even have one sitting on my shelf not getting used! But in designing it, I decided that for what I need & how I'm using the board, a switcher would actually complicate my workflow more than it would simplify it.
Although, the Selah Quartz in the top left corner does a lot of midi control for me, so most of my drive sounds & almost all of my time-based effects have presets programmed that I'm triggering with it.
But the reason I refer to this a "pro" board because it's thoroughly thought out & meticulously built to be very reliable & to travel extremely well, much like how a professional rig builder would put it together. So it has more to do with the assembly quality of the board than it's actual contents.
& to be honest, this board literally has never left the house unless I was getting paid to bring it with me, so I guess that makes it pretty "pro".