anyone looked at these Dave Friedman pedalboards yet? wow

http://friedmanamplification.com/pedal-boards

I like the oens with the 'buffer bay' where its got the buffer and the midi jack. Very cool. All you pedal-heads with disposable income should check these out. ricey though.... then again, once you have thousands in stompboxes you might as well invest in a perfect board for them with all the trimmings. I've never seen anything ths impressive as a commercial product. Makes me wanna dump my rack drawer and add the non-midi pedals back in on one of these bad-boys.

and maybe you should. i find the presence of a pedalboard soothing and organic

when Iw as growing up they barely existed.... there was a boss molded plastic one that only fit boss pedals and then the rest of us just taped our stompboxes to the stage and professionals had fancy rack systems. I came in with the stompbox comeback, but I was always kidna weird about effects pedals

To speed up bump ins, I used to have all my pedals (5 back then was a lot!) gaffed to a piece of wood. Later I decided I could build a small platform at the back to add a few more pedals... because any wider would be silly! I gaffed a Boss PSA240 under the platform and ran a daisy chain to everything. It was spraypainted black, covered in gaff and spilled beer and blood and lacked any finesse or craftsmanship and everyone started calling it the TWO STOREY GLORY. Hated the Boss one.. only really fit Boss pedals. I was away from music for years and didn't realise stomps were making a comeback... I always used them. I remember getting partially judged just when I started playing again when I rocked up to a jam with the grotty old dust and fluids covered board. People started coming over to see what it was all about. Then I flicked off standby and they stopped wondering.

I am liking these boards though, Terry... having all pedals now, MIDI enabled though they are, it eems nutty to rsck them nd I mght get one of these to house thme so i can tweak off preet...

even though they mostly stay inactive otehr than a smidgen of ADT for big spaces and some slapback for some parts... LOL

Surely they could be made a la radio shack? pull the guts from a DIY buffer and port it up. Get yer tools on!

I'm really thining not, Ter. The buffer's the easy part, I don't need to gut a pedal for that I just need a burr brown op amp and a handful of caps and resistors. I guess I could wire up a MIDI in and thru port? but the jack panel and lite but durable emtal frame? I would wind up with plywood. Been there. As ncie as your baord looks for a homebrew I will ebt it weighs a metric shit ton. I like his nice purpose-made baord, really like it. Its just very expensive.... but could I make soemthing that light and tidy? Doubt anyone coud unless they have a machine shop in their basement.... which coem to think of it my uncle does, but I can't picture him being itnerested in this project. Although it sure would be sweet to knock off friedman's design and make a ton of them to sell for cheaper than friedman, right?

It would probably wipe you from Friedman's christmas card mailing list...

As ncie as your baord looks for a homebrew I will ebt it weighs a metric shit ton.

Closer to an Imperial fuck tonne to be honest. Two layers of melemine with sides and back, two power supplies and thru jacks with 14 pedals on it....

Next prototype I am considering window Security grille or picker styled repurposed car bonnets. Having trouble still with lode bearing capabilities of materials.

what in tarhootin' is a 'car bonnet' in regular 'merican talk? (please imagine I said that in the voice of yosemite sam from loony toons) is it a hood? I know the 'boot' is what we call the 'trunk'....

its a hood.

cheers dude! I've ahd australian and british friends literally for decades and never bothered to ask about the 'bonnet' until now

SWEET! I made a culturally irrelevant statement!

Thanks Mikey for the bail out! Yep.. hood. But I was simply considering the steel (metal/ sheetwork) used in car panels... going to a wreckers (scrap yard/ mechanic/ Panel beater) and grinding out a section (rectangular or square desired shape) from a door or roof or trunk. Figure I can scrounge (scavenge/ repurpose/ recycle/ unlock) up some pretty funky colours (colors.. fuck this is exhausting!) and bend (fold/ hammer/ truncate/ form/ batter) them into the dimensions (lengthy stuff) that I need.