As the title suggests, a friend of mine has asked me to setup a pedalboard for him inside a 24x12 flight case. He gave me a list of current commerpedals and equipment he has or will buy for it and also asked me to make him a bunch of pedals. We got to talking about making a large unit that has multiple pedals that would act as the brains of the board so to speak.
My initial idea is to build a multi effect box using one of those beige colored sloped enclosures with the walnut sides from Hammond. This lets me have eight footswitches to control five pedals
(Compressor, distortion, two ODs and a clean boost). Additional I am going to wire up two effects loops (pre drive and post drive) that will house the external pedals. These will also be footswitchable. The only other additions to this multi box will be a Unicab and a headphone amp that will also have an auxiliary input and a mixer.
Drive pedals he has chosen:
Mad bean Kompromat
Mad bean Slow Loris
Darkglass B3K (PedalPCB Obsidius or Aion Maelstrom)
Darkglass VMT (Aion Maelstrom configured to VMT specs)
PedalPCB Transcendence Boost
I’ve already built a cabsim headphone amp and mixer pedal so I have some lessons learned to bring with me there.
I’ve included a mock-up of the full board as well as some initial designs for the multi effect box (ignore the specific knob labels and configurations). Pedals behind the big box will be on risers with the cabling going underneath.
What do you guys think? Am I crazy for thinking this could work? Sharing power in the box is one of my hang ups but they’re are all drive pedals (hence my addition of FX loops) so I think it should be doable. I also want to run relay bypass switching to all or most of these eight switches in the unit.
My initial idea is to build a multi effect box using one of those beige colored sloped enclosures with the walnut sides from Hammond. This lets me have eight footswitches to control five pedals
(Compressor, distortion, two ODs and a clean boost). Additional I am going to wire up two effects loops (pre drive and post drive) that will house the external pedals. These will also be footswitchable. The only other additions to this multi box will be a Unicab and a headphone amp that will also have an auxiliary input and a mixer.
Drive pedals he has chosen:
Mad bean Kompromat
Mad bean Slow Loris
Darkglass B3K (PedalPCB Obsidius or Aion Maelstrom)
Darkglass VMT (Aion Maelstrom configured to VMT specs)
PedalPCB Transcendence Boost
I’ve already built a cabsim headphone amp and mixer pedal so I have some lessons learned to bring with me there.
I’ve included a mock-up of the full board as well as some initial designs for the multi effect box (ignore the specific knob labels and configurations). Pedals behind the big box will be on risers with the cabling going underneath.
What do you guys think? Am I crazy for thinking this could work? Sharing power in the box is one of my hang ups but they’re are all drive pedals (hence my addition of FX loops) so I think it should be doable. I also want to run relay bypass switching to all or most of these eight switches in the unit.