Ok, last post for a while :)
Finally finished up my 125B pedalboard that I have been working towards for a while. Its a two tiered board, bottom is wrapped in leftover tweed, top has aluminum channel around it (like the bass board I posted last week). Lots of knobs and switches on this one...
Signal chain is: IO/Buffer & Power -> GuitarPCB Mo-Wah -> Engineer's Thumb (vero) -> Wampler '57 Tweed (vero) -> ROG Britannia (vero) -> DLS MkIII (vero) -> GuitarPCB Lunar Module -> Iron Bell (vero) -> Madbean Fatpants -> GuitarPCB Dr. Phybes Phaser (I already replaced this with a Spaceharp Phaser) -> Madbean Current Lover -> 1776/Jon Patton Cardinal Trem -> 1776 Multiplex Jr. -> Madbean Moodring -> Back to IO/Buffer
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_1_zps2d94d784.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_2_zps83d6c325.jpg)
This is nice. Great work!
Thats a cool approach.
We know that 125 B are only slighly larger than 1590b but due to the jacks at the top this makes a great space saving.
Love it! The 125B is such a sensible box. You can fit a lot in a small space with top mounted jacks. Yet I still find myself cramming stuff into 1590a boxes from time to time...
What you have done is exactly why I got into building pedals.
Although, I haven't actually gotten around to doing that yet.
Quote from: Luke51411 on December 01, 2014, 02:47:28 PM
Love it! The 125B is such a sensible box. You can fit a lot in a small space with top mounted jacks. Yet I still find myself cramming stuff into 1590a boxes from time to time...
I have to take a picture of my 1590A board too. I have 4 boards going right now (I'll put up pictures of my 1590A and large board work-in-progress). I think my wife is right in saying I have a problem...
Just Brilliant. 12 effects about as compact as you can get.
This is exactly the reason I'm a big 125b fan. In the grand scheme, they take up the same space as a 1590a, but can house so much more.
Quote from: jubal81 on December 01, 2014, 04:03:07 PM
Just Brilliant. 12 effects about as compact as you can get.
This is exactly the reason I'm a big 125b fan. In the grand scheme, they take up the same space as a 1590a, but can house so much more.
The board is 24" x 12". I figure that's pretty compact. It has just about all flavors of modulation, along with Fender, Vox, Marshall, Fuzz Face and Muff distortions on there
Oh damn...
I may just flatter you in the most extensive way and just duplicate your board! ;D
So... about that A board... spill it!
Thats a great design there! And a strong argument for top mounted jacks!
Top mounted jacks on 125B FTW.
Looks great, Dan. And super space efficient.
Great board Dan, I dig and use the 125B with topmount jacks too, really makes a great compact board and the riser is what I have too.
Well done, great to see. :)
Hmmm. so much great stuff on there... I might just make a new pedal board over the christmas break ;)
would give me the chance to finally hide my big PSU as well as having central in/out jacks on the side of the board.
If i merge all the awesome board stuff I saw here, it will be the king of pedalboards 8)
The 125B really is the perfect guitar pedal enclosure, isn't it?!?!!
I love this. I've assembled many 125B only pedalboards myself. In fact, I have one in the works currently that's very themed. So stoked for that one, but this board is very encompassing.
Jacob
Quote from: jkokura on December 01, 2014, 08:15:55 PM
The 125B really is the perfect guitar pedal enclosure, isn't it?!?!!
Absolutely it is.
Looks great, man!
Looks great and I bet it all sounds great too. It's a real shame that 125Bs are a virtually extinct species in the UK. Unless anyone knows where to get them?
That looks fantastic! Clean, clean builds and very tidy hookups. Everything you need with a small carbon footprint.
If I could just stay focused long enough and stick with one sort of layout and box I might be able to do something like that this century...
Great looking board, i dig the tweed.
Great looking board! How do you supply it?
Quote from: Hogharry on December 01, 2014, 11:01:23 PM
Looks great and I bet it all sounds great too. It's a real shame that 125Bs are a virtually extinct species in the UK. Unless anyone knows where to get them?
1590bs...? maybe? They're basically a tall 1590b. 1590n1 also, they're a little bigger than the 125b.
You can do top mounted jacks in a standard 1590b though, you just have to be very careful.
This. I love this.
Wish I was confident enough to do top mounted jacks...
Quote from: muddyfox on December 01, 2014, 04:29:21 PM
Oh damn...
I may just flatter you in the most extensive way and just duplicate your board! ;D
So... about that A board... spill it!
So you want to see the A board? ;) This is still a work in progress. I need to find a pedal to go in the first position. I am working on a Katana Boost or a LFO Wah to go there
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/4aeced7a-e90e-4076-ba7b-dc5361404304_zps7f985bbf.jpg)
No IO/Buffer on this one (maybe that will be first position?) -> Madbean Afterlife Compressor -> EP Booster (Vero) -> Minitaur (Pickdropper) -> Zendrive (Pickdropper) -> Madbean Runt -> THCustom Green Russian -> Madbean Smoothie -> Magnavibe (Vero) -> Delerium Tremolo (Pickdropper) -> Madbean Zero Point Micro II
Quote from: brejna on December 02, 2014, 12:05:19 AM
Great looking board! How do you supply it?
I am just using a One-Spot to power it. It goes into the IO/Buffer, and the power gets split from there.
And here are some previews of my large board that is still a work in progress. The empty spot next to the volume pedal will hopefully someday be the Harbinger II ;)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/Large_1_zps6ea795c3.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/Large_2_zpsb53df6f1.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/Large_3_zps22af38a7.jpg)
Lots of greatness there, Dan. But you know that 1590a board really speaks to me.
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Wow, I'm still amazed by the first board and now you throw these two at us? Not fair!
Quote from: Hogharry on December 01, 2014, 11:01:23 PM
Looks great and I bet it all sounds great too. It's a real shame that 125Bs are a virtually extinct species in the UK. Unless anyone knows where to get them?
Musikding has them (http://www.musikding.de/Alu-Gehaeuse-125B), although its from Germany and you are most likely cheaper ordering from tayda in low quantities to circumvent customs.
Dan, you might consider connectors like these to make the 1590A board even tidier:
http://www.musikding.de/Effektgeraeteverbinder-gewinkel (http://www.musikding.de/Effektgeraeteverbinder-gewinkel).
They work great as long as your jacks have approximately the same heigt! I bought a few straight connectors just to realize they wont work as all my jacks seem to have random heigts ^^
I tried some of those connectors first, but it just made things feel stiff. I was worried about it moving the jacks a little too much, causing issues down the road. These are squeezed together about as far as they go.
Any closer together with the "A's" and wouldn't you run into interference issues with the switches on either side of the one you want to plunge?
All these boards are just superb.
Quote from: m-Kresol on December 02, 2014, 04:31:46 PM
Musikding has them (http://www.musikding.de/Alu-Gehaeuse-125B), although its from Germany and you are most likely cheaper ordering from tayda in low quantities to circumvent customs.
Thanks Felix, I didn't realise Musikding had them, which is silly because I regularly buy things from them. Tayda is cheaper even with shipping and 20% VAT but the postal service charge so much for collecting the tax that Musikding is probably cheaper overall. It's always a problem with buying things for the US - the exchange rate is good for us in the UK but the post office rips us off!
The 125B board looks great (well they all do really). Top mounted jacks for the win. That's why everything I've been working on thus far is to be boxed in a 125B or 125BB.
Quote from: dan.schumaker on December 01, 2014, 02:17:02 PM
Ok, last post for a while :)
Finally finished up my 125B pedalboard that I have been working towards for a while. Its a two tiered board, bottom is wrapped in leftover tweed, top has aluminum channel around it (like the bass board I posted last week). Lots of knobs and switches on this one...
Signal chain is: IO/Buffer & Power -> GuitarPCB Mo-Wah -> Engineer's Thumb (vero) -> Wampler '57 Tweed (vero) -> ROG Britannia (vero) -> DLS MkIII (vero) -> GuitarPCB Lunar Module -> Iron Bell (vero) -> Madbean Fatpants -> GuitarPCB Dr. Phybes Phaser (I already replaced this with a Spaceharp Phaser) -> Madbean Current Lover -> 1776/Jon Patton Cardinal Trem -> 1776 Multiplex Jr. -> Madbean Moodring -> Back to IO/Buffer
Love it!
I need to really start building more pedals with the jacks in the back.
What's the one bottom right with the Jerry Garcia homage?
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Quote from: Jabulani Jonny on December 31, 2014, 01:48:15 AM
What's the one bottom right with the Jerry Garcia homage?
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Engineer's Thumb Compressor
Quote from: dan.schumaker on December 01, 2014, 02:17:02 PM
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_1_zps2d94d784.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_2_zps83d6c325.jpg)
I have been mulling over ideas for a pedalboard and
really like this design.
I don't want to be a nuisance, but is it possible you could could maybe add a closeup shot of how you anchored/installed the upper deck to the lower one?
Quote from: hylandren on January 02, 2015, 02:26:21 PM
Quote from: dan.schumaker on December 01, 2014, 02:17:02 PM
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_1_zps2d94d784.jpg)
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/dan_schumaker/125BBoard_2_zps83d6c325.jpg)
I have been mulling over ideas for a pedalboard and really like this design.
I don't want to be a nuisance, but is it possible you could could maybe add a closeup shot of how you anchored/installed the upper deck to the lower one?
I can try to get some pics later today. The spacer between the bottom and top deck are just some pieces of 1X wood. I attached it to the bottom with some screws from the bottom, and to the top deck with some pocket screws.
Hopefully pics later will clear anything up.
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I can try to get some pics later today. The spacer between the bottom and top deck are just some pieces of 1X wood. I attached it to the bottom with some screws from the bottom, and to the top deck with some pocket screws.Hopefully pics later will clear anything up.
Thanks for the offer, but your description is probably info enough.
As usual, I was just over-thinking it! :D