antichef
pornk rock
I'm starting to gig again, and now I'm using pedals - not many, but I had a dead battery screw me up once already, and now that I'm adding a wah and fuzz pedal and some others, I figure it's time to consider a pedal board with power. A friend recommended the voodoo labs power supply and I've been searching and see that it's sold a lot with the pedal train boards and cases, which seem nice. Strangely, there's no local dealer for Pedal Train in Houston, and so I can't go see them. I think I really want a hard case to go with the board.
I'm probably going to have these pedals: two distortion (one big and one normal sized, but with an additional tiny true-bypass pedal for it), one wah, one looper (small), one compressor (small), one fuzz (kind of big), and if I find a good reverb pedal and/or delay, then maybe those, also. *Maybe* a volume, and a channel switcher for an amp, which would need its own cord. So, like 10 pedals, ranging from big to small (jeez, 10? I guess so).
My questions for you guys -
How big of a board should I get? is 24" enough?
Is Pedal Train good enough to order sight unseen, any other ones to look at?
Is the voodoo labs power supply good, or are there alternatives?
If some of the pedals work best in an effects loop (one of my amps has one), and others don't, then that's three cords going to the amp, and with a channel switcher, that's 4 - seems unwieldy - any way to pull that off elegantly?
Does anyone use or recommend direct boxes for the run(s) to the amp?
I'm probably going to have these pedals: two distortion (one big and one normal sized, but with an additional tiny true-bypass pedal for it), one wah, one looper (small), one compressor (small), one fuzz (kind of big), and if I find a good reverb pedal and/or delay, then maybe those, also. *Maybe* a volume, and a channel switcher for an amp, which would need its own cord. So, like 10 pedals, ranging from big to small (jeez, 10? I guess so).
My questions for you guys -
How big of a board should I get? is 24" enough?
Is Pedal Train good enough to order sight unseen, any other ones to look at?
Is the voodoo labs power supply good, or are there alternatives?
If some of the pedals work best in an effects loop (one of my amps has one), and others don't, then that's three cords going to the amp, and with a channel switcher, that's 4 - seems unwieldy - any way to pull that off elegantly?
Does anyone use or recommend direct boxes for the run(s) to the amp?