Dave Sloven
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Well I thought about putting this in the pedals section but it is really a preamp and power amp mounted on a pedalboard with a looper so it probably belongs here. This is another one of my fancy pedalboard builds though.
Under the board I have a Behringer HD400 Hum Destroyer to kill some noise issues with the Baby Bomb and Digitech JamMan Solo XT when used together with my MS-3
I had the board cut to fit three locking 1/4" panel mount through jacks and a panel mount USB port (for the JamMan), with colour coded gaskets on the three jacks (red input, green effects send, yellow effects return). The cables are made from the Boss BCK-24 kit, except for the Rockboard 30cm flat TRS cable that connects the JamMan with its FS3X footswitch.
The guy who cut the holes for the jacks didn't line them up straight so I had to file the holes until I could line them up as straight as possible. The cab is an Orange PPC112 with a Celestion Vintage 30 speaker, 16 ohms.
To save suspense before the blow-by-blow, here's the finished product:
And here's a diagram of how it all connects:
The Rockboard Duo 2.1 is surprisingly roomy underneath compared to a small Pedaltrain. Here it is before modification with a power supply (and the HD400) underneath. I am using individual power supplies for this board though as they all need a lot of juice and even have different voltages.
These are the jacks I bought from Swamp Industries:
This is the other end, The orientation of the lock release ended up being important.
Test-fitting the three jacks and the USB port. The guy who drilled the holes must have done it by eye as the jacks don't line up with each other properly.
I filed the holes in various directions to make them straighter relative to each other. I drilled guide holes with my Tamiya Handy Drill:
Then I put it in a vice and used a bigger power drill that could take a 3 mm bit:
Mosquitoes were biting the hell out of me in the garage and I dropped stuff and it bounced off where I couldn't find it so I took the work inside and spent hours grappling with allen keys, spanners, and these horrible little lock nuts but eventually I got the stuff all installed with these colour-coded gaskets behind the jacks and a covered gasket for the USB port (this gasket used to be fitted to my other board but always fouled on the hard case):
I had to remove the centre brace to get the nuts on:
With the jacks and USB port in it was pretty hard to reinstall the centre brace but I managed it. At this stage I installed the HD400.
Then I made wires using the BCK-24 kit and connected the footswitch to the looper using a Rockboard flat TRS cable with angled jacks on each end:
Here you can see the layout (the speaker cable goes into the left side of the Baby Bomb):
Here you can see the jacks and the inputs for the power supplies:
Under the board I have a Behringer HD400 Hum Destroyer to kill some noise issues with the Baby Bomb and Digitech JamMan Solo XT when used together with my MS-3
I had the board cut to fit three locking 1/4" panel mount through jacks and a panel mount USB port (for the JamMan), with colour coded gaskets on the three jacks (red input, green effects send, yellow effects return). The cables are made from the Boss BCK-24 kit, except for the Rockboard 30cm flat TRS cable that connects the JamMan with its FS3X footswitch.
The guy who cut the holes for the jacks didn't line them up straight so I had to file the holes until I could line them up as straight as possible. The cab is an Orange PPC112 with a Celestion Vintage 30 speaker, 16 ohms.
To save suspense before the blow-by-blow, here's the finished product:
And here's a diagram of how it all connects:
The Rockboard Duo 2.1 is surprisingly roomy underneath compared to a small Pedaltrain. Here it is before modification with a power supply (and the HD400) underneath. I am using individual power supplies for this board though as they all need a lot of juice and even have different voltages.
These are the jacks I bought from Swamp Industries:
This is the other end, The orientation of the lock release ended up being important.
Test-fitting the three jacks and the USB port. The guy who drilled the holes must have done it by eye as the jacks don't line up with each other properly.
I filed the holes in various directions to make them straighter relative to each other. I drilled guide holes with my Tamiya Handy Drill:
Then I put it in a vice and used a bigger power drill that could take a 3 mm bit:
Mosquitoes were biting the hell out of me in the garage and I dropped stuff and it bounced off where I couldn't find it so I took the work inside and spent hours grappling with allen keys, spanners, and these horrible little lock nuts but eventually I got the stuff all installed with these colour-coded gaskets behind the jacks and a covered gasket for the USB port (this gasket used to be fitted to my other board but always fouled on the hard case):
I had to remove the centre brace to get the nuts on:
With the jacks and USB port in it was pretty hard to reinstall the centre brace but I managed it. At this stage I installed the HD400.
Then I made wires using the BCK-24 kit and connected the footswitch to the looper using a Rockboard flat TRS cable with angled jacks on each end:
Here you can see the layout (the speaker cable goes into the left side of the Baby Bomb):
Here you can see the jacks and the inputs for the power supplies:
