What's UNDER ya board?

Dantheman said:
OP board is inspirational. I have spaghetti under most of my pedal boards. Takes plenty of work. Love the design of the Rockboard. Most of my pedalboards are pedaltrain, they aren’t bad but nothing like this smart design.
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Thanks. I made some changes this week, I think it is all settled now. I am building a second board (partly visible in one of the photos below) so I bought a second Boss BCK-24 cable kit when I ordered a fret polishing kit and some string cutters recently.

Those kits make 12 cables but I needed 13. So I made do with a TRS cable that I had, but yesterday I replaced that with anotther Boss cable that I made and I will keep the TRS cable as a spare for the one connecting the footswitch cable from my MS-3 to the patchbay.

I also replaced the gasket with the dustcover from my USB port with a plain one because it kept grabbing on the side of my hard case. That gasket will go on the USB port on my new Rockboard Duo 2.1.

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And, speaking of TRS cables, I change the 3ft angle to straight TRS cable to my expression pedal to one the same size and brand (HOSA) with angles on both ends last week

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Thanks Dave for making us all feel bad about our pedalboards. I’m gonna come back and reread all about your work. Will check out the Boss pedalboard pack. Can I just send you my FIVE pedalboards to whatever country you’re in and you can do magic ? If you make any more improvements, just don’t let any of us slackers know about it.
 
Clem said:
This thread has made me realise my board is a mess and I'm a technical dinosaur....:(
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That stuff in the photo is from Belfield Music ... the BCK-24 kit at $129 couldn't be price-matched by my mate at Derringers, he says it's below their cost. One kit makes 12 cables, as long as you need (well for a pedalboard anyway). There is a bit of a knack to them though. You need to stretch the outside casing before cutting, then use a razor blade rather than scissors (which it suggests on the pack) and then insert the cable into the jack with a swirling motion so that it goes in smoothly. Then you tighten the screw to the same level as the jack housing. Those kits helped me get the board as neat as possible. The patchbay module, buffer, USB port, gasket, and daisy chain were from Swamp in the ACT. The Hosa TRS cables and Hum Destroyer were from Mannys. Pedals came from various places. I got a couple of TRS jacks from RS Components and cut down a long right angle TRS I had laying around to make the short TRS cables. So all this stuff was sourced in Australia. Several places stock Rockboard. I sometimes have my local Rockboard dealer order their small stuff (cables etc) in by giving him numbers from the distributor Ambertech website
 
Listening to Drowning on Spotify ...really enjoyable. Distinctive Tony Iommi vibrato ...compositional as well

When you jam with Dave and go to use his pedalboard he yells
“Don’t step on them”!
 
Love that first song. Drowning ...believe it or not has some classical music elements in it. Is beginning just a detuned guitar ? Is everything tuned down on album ?
Supposed to be doom etc...makes me super happy ! No kidding
 
Dave Sloven said:
We've had what's on your board, but what have you got under it?

Under my board I have:

T-Rex Fuel Tank Chameleon isolated power supply
Behringer HD400 Hum Destroyer
Rockboard Natural Sound Buffer
Rockboard MOD 5 Patchbay / D.I. / Cab Sim module
Neutrik USB socket
Yunpen EMI filter
BCK-24 solderless cable kit
Various TRS cables
Moen daisy chain with ferrite beads

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Oh my how I love a plethora of technology crammed together snug as a bug in a rug. What's under my board you ask? Well the boards I work with all day are printed circuit boards used in access control and security. Here is some of the technology that I work with everyday.

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Dave Sloven said:
That stuff in the photo is from Belfield Music ... the BCK-24 kit at $129 couldn't be price-matched by my mate at Derringers, he says it's below their cost. One kit makes 12 cables, as long as you need (well for a pedalboard anyway). There is a bit of a knack to them though. You need to stretch the outside casing before cutting, then use a razor blade rather than scissors (which it suggests on the pack) and then insert the cable into the jack with a swirling motion so that it goes in smoothly. Then you tighten the screw to the same level as the jack housing. Those kits helped me get the board as neat as possible. The patchbay module, buffer, USB port, gasket, and daisy chain were from Swamp in the ACT. The Hosa TRS cables and Hum Destroyer were from Mannys. Pedals came from various places. I got a couple of TRS jacks from RS Components and cut down a long right angle TRS I had laying around to make the short TRS cables. So all this stuff was sourced in Australia. Several places stock Rockboard. I sometimes have my local Rockboard dealer order their small stuff (cables etc) in by giving him numbers from the distributor Ambertech website
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Thanks Dave
I am seriously going to look into improving my board.
 
WavMixer said:
Oh my how I love a plethora of technology crammed together snug as a bug in a rug. What's under my board you ask? Well the boards I work with all day are printed circuit boards used in access control and security. Here is some of the technology that I work with everyday.

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You win. Can you wire my boards? I want to add the security / entry code on all my boards, to keep undesirables away.
 
Here are Moms boards, they are not ready to show the dark underneath side. It’s not pretty. Thought she should be brave and post them. Be kind, she is in her 80s ...plays mean guitar and has some good taste in pedals. Wiring underneath is not her specialty.
 

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Dantheman said:
Love that first song. Drowning ...believe it or not has some classical music elements in it. Is beginning just a detuned guitar ? Is everything tuned down on album ?
Supposed to be doom etc...makes me super happy ! No kidding
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Thank you for your words about our album. The lead guitar is all by Josh. The guitars, guitar amps, and bass all are from my collection.

The beginning is me on my Schecter Stiletto 6-FR with the Boss Multi-Overtone pedal and an MXR Carbon Copy delay on the left channel, Josh with my Schecter C-1 Blackjack ATX with a Mooer Bluesky reverb on the right channel, both of them with the Bare Knuckle alnico Black Hawk bridge pickup through my Peavey JSX and Sam playing a Jazz bass with roundwounds (supplied by the producer Tim) on his Hartke LH-1000, which only had one functioning 500W bank at the time. The rest of the bass on the album was recorded with my Jazz bass with Quarter Pounds and Steve Harris flats on it. The tuning is C standard.

Josh and I wrote the music for that song together. I wrote the rhythm parts for the first two thirds of the song. Josh wrote the lead parts (including the long tremolo picked section at the beginning) and the last third of the rhythm parts.

Live I play the little lead part over the triplet riff.

We are currently writing new material for another recording sometime in the future when we have saved up more money.
 
No board. I usually use a Boss gt5 like a midi footswitch to change presets on a yamaha fx900 multi effect rack. I use the gt5 like a guitar tuner as well.
 
Dave Sloven said:
Thank you for your words about our album. The lead guitar is all by Josh. The guitars, guitar amps, and bass all are from my collection.

The beginning is me on my Schecter Stiletto 6-FR with the Boss Multi-Overtone pedal and an MXR Carbon Copy delay on the left channel, Josh with my Schecter C-1 Blackjack ATX with a Mooer Bluesky reverb on the right channel, both of them with the Bare Knuckle alnico Black Hawk bridge pickup through my Peavey JSX and Sam playing a Jazz bass with roundwounds (supplied by the producer Tim) on his Hartke LH-1000, which only had one functioning 500W bank at the time. The rest of the bass on the album was recorded with my Jazz bass with Quarter Pounds and Steve Harris flats on it. The tuning is C standard.

Josh and I wrote the music for that song together. I wrote the rhythm parts for the first two thirds of the song. Josh wrote the lead parts (including the long tremolo picked section at the beginning) and the last third of the rhythm parts.

Live I play the little lead part over the triplet riff.

We are currently writing new material for another recording sometime in the future when we have saved up more money.
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Thanks for your reply. I now understand it was the Boss Multi Overtone that changed the pitch. Awesome. I love that music. Doom metal makes me happy, is that wrong ? ;)
 
If it makes you feel better that's good. It makes me feel better

I don't use the MO-2 anymore. I have the same effect in my MS-3, so I hope to sell it.
 
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