How To Build a Guitar Pedal Board
Building my pedalboard! In this episode I will show you how to build the ultimate pedal board. Learn how to route your pedal board correctly using the concepts of Pitch, Tone, Modulation and Time.
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i only been playing couple of years teaching myself i trying to get closer to 1960 sounds i have tremlo reverb and delay still can not get close any suggestio would be help thanks oh i am in my late 70 to so it does not come easy lol
Everything you said as for order has been the way I've seen most boards done. Seems logical. I now have a Hum Debugger for my single coils. I placed it guitar>Debugger>wah>overdrive1>overdrive2>flanger>chorus>amp. As you stated for tone first, the Debugger, at least to my ears, adds mids to my tone. So, loading that total tone to the wah, I'm getting a true tonal sweep with the wah. The clean up of the 60 hum before the rest of the board has worked beautifully. The chorus is an MXR M234 with a 2-band eq. I mainly use it to clean up my overall sound because I have a passive attenuator in my effects loop. I've run out of room to add a 7-band eq!
Great video Rick, I know you said tuner always goes first but I tend to put a tuner after my wah as the tuner has a buffer
Steve Martin episode!!!LOL
I'm a bit older than Rick, so the phrase, "First, you have to shop for your pedals" made me chuckle, because I was buying them in sequence be fore the concept existed.
My first fuzz box was something called a "Fuzzder", and they tricked me by using the Fender font on the "F". I was 11, so 1966 or so. Then I heard "White Room" and said "What's that?" A few years later someone said "Son, I said son, what you need is a "chorus"!
You get the idea . . .
When you play Purple Haze it's a perfect example of the "tone is in the fingers" cliche. You dial in the exact pedals Jimi uses and get a great sound but still there's something missing. No disrespect at all, you are a great guitar player, but no one else has Jimi's fingers
Ok so, wah, distortion, and chorus? My distortion pedal is super fuzzy. Where does noise reduction and compression come in the chain?
The power issue with cables parallel is untrue for DC power. Only for AC power is that a problem. So from the wall to the power supply it is a no-no but from the power supply to the pedals are DC and there is no issue running them side by side with your patch cables. (This is a commonly touted myth btw)
The power supply has 8 outlets and the board has 11 pedals….? What's the work around?
Lol why is Rhett so bothered by Rick's little girl?
I don't know why, but I found it really funny when Rick was holding all those pedals in his arms and one fell and he kept grabbing more. Very relatable
cant see anything. weres the eq? weres the noise suppression? ahhh of to another video.
Just wondering about 17:12 buffers would you need one for this mzny pedals?
If you need me to help you clear out that old junk just let me know and I'll bring the truck????♂️????
I know this is an old topic. I am building my pedal board right now. Can you use something like copper tape covering the power cables? I don't know if there's s way on the board i'm using to avoid the two (power and patch cables) from touching.
Hoe do you get rid of all the noise coming from various Comp, Dist or even Modulation effects?
When rick was picking all of the pedals he wanted on the board it reminded me of Steve Martin in the movie "The Jerk" when he was taking all his stuff out the office after they kicked him out… LOL
Will build mine? I’m kinda lazy.????
Okay.. 12 pedals, 8 outs from the Voodoo Labs. Except for the tuner having an in/out, how did you manage to power them all?
Thank you Rick and Brett, I had been waffling on buying a pedal board. You have shown me why I need one and how to put it together. Great information
Where should the octave pedal go? Pitch?
I was hoping he’d tie the organ into the pedal board.
if u had only 8 outlwts from the power supply who did u manage to plug 12 pedals ?
You did a great Steve Martin impression from "The Jerk" when you were grabbing all the pedals to take with you.
The pedal selection part reminded me of Steve Martin- “ I don’t need ANYTHING! Except this delay and this fuzz and that’s it and this tube screamer. I don’t need anything else! Except this looper. But that’s it I don’t need anything else.????????????????????
I use a hand wired custom built ‘tone bender / fuzz face’ first, on a 16 foot cable… I push the fuzz a lot of drive to make up for the length… the space to come down on guitar volume for the fuzzy clean sound has a tight window is all and I don’t do that much anyway… that goes into an opamp muff that is almost always on then pitch stuff for both amps then the tone bone aby and it trees off to the dedicated chains for the two amps one for lows one for highs and mids….
The DOD/Digitech whammy and drop and ricochet as well as the ehx pitchfork current gen all can handle polyphony pretty much anywhere… if you want the old school break up of the older circuits the whammy has a classic mode you can switch to….
I know I’m going to sound psycho… ok… that being said… Beato, try using zinc carbon batteries instead of power supply on your fuzz, overdrive and distortion pedals… zinc carbon is an industrial grade primarily marketed for smoke detectors… you can get them cheap from Amazon… you want to get them in bulk like 20 or 30 is a good number to have on hand… you will be tempted to get 10… just get 30 because you will be glad you did… fuzz on a zinc carbon bat with a 10 foot cable into the guitar… simple fuzz circuitry like the tone bender / fuzz face… germanium… sounds amazing this way… also… you want to maybe consider having 1 or 2 backup fuzzes of the one you like if it is driven by germanium, and refrigerating your fuzz pedals before performing… germanium heats up and the tone changes as it gets hotter… the sweet spot is just as it changes temp it sounds great so you want that temp to start cool as possible… if you want a stable fuzz you don’t think about… opamp muff with the tone turned off and pushing through an mxr distortion to dirty it up is great…
Fuzz needs to come before pitch… fuzz is always right on the guitar for me… fuzz magic happens right on the guitar and works best with a 10 foot or less cable…
Where would a bassist put a compressor pedal in the placement order
Hey Rick, Great Videos…. Brad Davis taught me that Vintage Germanium Fuzz Faces need to be the first thing in the chain with no buffers or tuners before. I was getting a skipping sound otherwise. needs to be part of the pickup and guitar circuit…… This is super Important with the germanium Fuzz Faces,,,, Wah first is fine because it is just a modified guitar tone circuit….
Gotta have a Wawa…
I got excited when I first laid eyes on this video. The meat & potatoes of it deflated my excitement. I thought you were building a pedal board from scratch. No Such Luck. You’re not building a pedal board, you’re assembling a piece of IKEA furniture.
Where’s the second part to this video?
Great demonstration guys. I am about to build my own pedalboard too and wondered if I should put an auto-wah before or after my Noise Gate, Overdrive and Distortion pedals? I also will put a Chorus, Delay & Flanger on; do they go later in the chain too?
I'm not sure whether anyone else already mentioned it, but you don't have to worry about noise from running your signal/patch cables parallel to the power cables. The power cables from the supply are running DC, not AC, which is what you WOULD have to keep away from your signal/patch cables.
Just don't run the signal cables parallel to the AC line from the mains to the pedalboard power supply.
I'm new on using pedals, is there a way you can have let's say both effects at the same time? For example, distorsion + wah?
wow.. a 45 years old pedal still sound great
I have a basic pedal board with:
guitar > overdrive > distortion > noise gate > chorus/flanger > delay > amp
I have a 5150 Stealth. When I run this pedal board into the front of the amp on the clean channel, it sounds super thin no matter how I dial the pedals and the amp.
HELP! ANYONE!
Now I feel grateful that I stuck to acoustic guitar/music playing , nothing personal I feel that I
don't need the extra stress on whether or not my equipment works when the power is turned on.
BTW great vid and great info.
More pedals than you can shake a stick at no need.
LOL, clearly Rhett isn't an avid DIYer. Four holes drilled at the same time, then self tapping screws installed. Layla is a cutie!
At 3:20 I thought he was gonna play the Geometry Dash song lol
So basically I just need to call a friend who builds these for a living.