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I wanna make my own ultimate pedal board out of a suitcase. Aside from foam, what does the ultimate pedal board need to contain? Special outlets? A coaster? A pic of Hurb, etc?

- shelf to raise back row of pedals up, under which you hide the power supply.

- lots of velcro and carpet.

- Wheels and handle on the suitcase - so you can wheel it along instead of carrying it!

p.s. i was looking through the shortscalegear demos - you and sub have soo many good pedals and amps! AND YOU HAVE THE J MASCIS JAZZMASTER - IM SOOO DAMN JEALOUS!!

If you need wheels on your pedalboard you have failed.

It is a lot. We have a small cabinet full of pedals where we store our pedals that aren't in rotation. There's a synth pedal, Hendrix Pedal, big muff, english muff, etc. in there. I wish we had better amps, Fredo's twin reverb is the best. The Peavey was our guitarist's which he sold... , and mine are the stack of broken bass amps in the corner. We also have 3 unused keyboards (crappy brands) and a mini Korg, 32 electric guitars, a few acoustics, I have a Mapex drum set and a piano, and Fredo has a sitar and electric sitar.

come on Mike, anything to make life easier.

anyway i forgot the most important part of any pedal case:

- stickers all over the outside. extra points for the old classic "bass players do it lower" (ho ho!).

aphasiac wrote:"bass players do it lower" (ho ho!).

That doesn't even make sense as innuendo.

Mike wrote:

aphasiac wrote:"bass players do it lower" (ho ho!).

That doesn't even make sense as innuendo.

you're right - too early. its actually:

"bass player do it deeper"

boom and tish!

Guitar players have thinner G strings

"Bass players have long ones. Necks." said in an Alan Patridge voice.

aphasiac wrote:

Mike wrote:

aphasiac wrote:"bass players do it lower" (ho ho!).

That doesn't even make sense as innuendo.

you're right - too early. its actually:

"bass player do it deeper"

boom and tish!

That's just filth.

Doog wrote:"Bass players have long ones. Necks." said in an Alan Patridge voice.

haha, thats made me giggle like an idiot..

guitarists lick better

i am both



lolz



pedalboards ... i made one myself that i use when i gotta carry it somewhere, it's just a piece of plywood with tape and velcro all over it, then i have a pedaltrain which is really cool because you can route cables underneath and send the adapter connection through a hole on the back, clean ! it's also raised a bit towards the back

but it's made of metal and starts to weigh quite a bit when you gotta carry it i guess, and i've the jr. so i bet a large version is quite heavy loaded with metal pedals



but whatever, what does a pedalboard REALLY need ? different colors of neon lights duh !

i had fairy lights at one point.

.......then trod on a bulb and shorted the whole lot.......

fail lol

LEDS wired in parallel.

in an ideal world, yes. However these were uber cheap and nasty but did the job for a bit...

Baritone players could go either way.

I say a really sturdy board with dozens of rubber feet would be the bare minimum to keep in mind, I'd probably glue two huge masonite artboards together and bind it with a rubber lip if I had the space and patience to take care of it.

Of course I'm quite lazy and ended up saving me pennies for a real deal, made locally and and hecka strong.