Pedal board accessories 6/5/2010 Pedal power supplies | Pedal boards | Guitar stores to see before you die | Low power amps | headphone amps |
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AB switches
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Simplest way of moving from one guitar to another
or run two separate banks of effects or run your output into either of
two amps. An A/B switch allows you to switch between either channel -
not BOTH questions. The BOSS AB2 is a very simple AB switcher. It is relatively compact and gives noise free switching of guitars or signal feed to different amps. |
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ABY switches
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Like above but you can choose BOTH as well. My Lehle DUAL AB does this nicely. |
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Amplifier switching
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The Radial Headbone is an advanced amplifier switching device that allows two different guitar amp heads to be used with a single speaker cabinet. How cool is that? There are different models depening on the nature of each amp ie. solid state or valve. |
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Boss LS-2 Line Selector
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LS-2: Line Selector
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Cabinet switching
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The Radial Cabbone is speaker cabinet switcher that lets you share different speaker cabinets with the one amplifier. |
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Pedal board tape
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Came across this product on eBay. A product that rights all the wrongs of Velcro! Designed specifically to attach guitar effect pedals to pedalboards, Pedalboard Tape not only holds pedals far more securely than traditional Velcro, but also does away with the 'fuzziness' you get with Velcro as it wears out. Pedalboard tape sticks securely to itself. It is adhesive-backed to attach to both pedal and pedalboard. Pedals can be attached, detached and reattached to your pedalboard thousands of times - try that with Velcro! Good enough for Guitar Buyer Magazine to give it their prestigious top '5 Plectrums' award in the March 2009 issue of the magazine. |
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Mighty Bright Pedal Board Light
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This looks cool. | ||||||
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Mounting Helpers from Single Coil
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- made
out of grinded SS304 stainless steel, impossible to destroy and to rust |
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Connects your guitar, amp, pedals and tuner to one convenient junction box. I don't have one of these but it looks very cool. |
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Patch cables
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Patch cables simply connect pedals to create
the required signal chain. BUy the best ones you can afford and use the
shortest lengths possible to prevent tone loss. They are usually
available for better value in packs eg Planet Waves Planet Waves 0.5' Classic Series 1/4 PATCH Cable - 3 pack
or you can buy kits comprising cable
and ends and you cut and assemble your own. eg
George L's Effects Kit |
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Pedal Pad Patch Pad
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A stereo routing module that makes setting
up quick and easy! The switching jacks in the Patch Pad can configure just about any mono or stereo combination imaginable. All of the connections in the Patch Pad are wired point to point. Even if you do not plan on using stereo routing or utilizing the Patch Pad stereo routing I/Os endless combination of routing capabilities, you can still use this Pedal Pad just to protect your valuable effects pedals from wearing out. No more constantly plugging and unplugging the last pedal in your pedal chain and risking the loss of your effects settings from handling your pedals. On the road or in the studio you will find lots more uses for the Patch Pad. Balanced Loop Feature: The balanced loop is nothing more than 2 stereo jack sockets hardwired together. Its intended use is for channel switching footswitches for your amp. As an example, say you have a Vibrato/Reverb footswitch for a Fender Vibroverb mounted on your board which uses a TRS (stereo) cable. This goes into one side of the balanced loop. You can then leave it connected just like any other pedal on the board. During setup you would then run a stereo cable from the other jack in the balanced loop to the back of the amp. The important part of the balanced loop is that it does not share a ground wire with the other jack sockets on the Patch Pad. Many amp footswitches have LED indicators which use the signal wire to power the LED and that makes for a noisy pedal board if you share a ground with the audio patch bay |
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Pedal mounting kits
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These are a more permanent mounting option and certainly more reliable and secure than velcro. They are available on eBay and Johnny Shredfreak |
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Pedal Snake
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PedalSnake all in one stomp box cable. Carries analog audio AND low voltage power together in one FLEXIBLE cable, without noise, crosstalk, or tone loss (patented). PedalSnake easily coils into a 10" circle to fit in any pedalboard case. |
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Power cables
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Daisy chain styles eg Godlyke PA9 Power Supply Chain Cable for 5 Pedals
or individual links for larger power supplies |
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Routing solutions
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The more pedals you have on you board the more tone loss you will have. This can be reduced by using effects loops for some effects, running banks of different effects and so on. The simplest options are switchers like the Voodoo Lab switcher on the left. 4 True Bypass audio loops |
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The Rocktron PatchMate Loop 8 Floor provides 8 discrete Loops all with True Bypass, buffered and non buffered signal paths, 128 programmable presets with Real time control using the 9 high quality metal foot switches. The eight loops may be configured for multiple purposes including
Channel switching, effects loops, guitar routing and more. Add preset
programmability along with pedal True Bypass to any standard pedal board
with ease! Other looping/routing options: |
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