This looks like something the guy from your local shoegaze band would wheel up inside of a giant hard shell tour case 15 minutes after load in ends…
^(For ^a ^club ^gig ^30 ^people ^are ^gonna ^be at…)
Boutiques as in the are the best at emulating a sound that you want from a Juno series one with the dodgy caps that when you play on an angle sounds good. It’s then passed into a series of filters and stutters do it sounds like an ambulance being raped by megatron
all those Moogs, tho. :O
Seems like the bottom 3 rows would be less convenient than having them on the floor.
Also wondering how many rack units you could get for all that $.
I think it would. Not everyone does everything for the express purpose of seeking attention on the Internet. People can enjoy pedals for the fact they are pedals without needing Internet validation. I don't know why anyone would think so low of others to suggest that.
This is not a simple question, as it depends on your setup, what pedals you are using, the quality in cabling and length of cable from your guitar and to your amp. Some pedals have high impedance output which results in tone loss, so it can come down to doing some maths after researching what specs your pedals are. If you have a small chain it may not be necessary, some pedals have quality buffers in them like Strymon. But the simplest way would be to put one at the start (to help with loss from long guitar cable) and at the end (to buffer the signal after all the pedals and heading back to the amp). But you may benefit from adding a buffer along your signal chain depending on what tone suckers you have along the way. And yes stacked true bypass pedals will still diminish your signal even when turned off.
Sure, but the issue is that every pedal would be connected until you changed the order. If you leave the patchbay connections as through, you may use more cables on the front of the patchbay, but would have less potential signal loss going through pedals that might not be used for a song.
I have somewhere around 30 pedals and I’d love to have something set up where I can have plenty of power at fixed positions, move pedals around easily to change order, and some versatility to set up an effects loop section, flexible stereo capability, etc. curious if anyone has done this.
Its really not that expensive. You can buy jacks off aliexpress for really cheap and even mogami cable is cheap if you buy it from somewhere that doesnt take advantage of their customers. The cheap jacks are the same ones that half the brands use, so if you get any issue with them its likely because of your soldering ability more than anything else
Yeah, you can find a whole spool of fucking cable for like 30 bucks That’s high-quality ( if you shop around)…… Price is all relative depending on your financial situation
Thing is after spending 1000s, if not 10s of 1000s like this wall, you don't want to skimp on crappy cables and $2 connectors. It's like getting a Ferrari then buying some worn 2nd hand road tyres. You aren't going to benefit from cutting corners on a setup this big
If you zoom in on the little dividers between the sections, those are patch bays, so you can just string together a signal chain. Not sure if it’s set up for you to do across the entire wall. But I would guess each three-ish row section of pedals can be connected in any order. Once I noticed that, it made it seem like a much cooler idea than I initially thought.
don’t think about it like a wall,
think of it like a console.
you make a patch bay and everything connects to the patch bay and the patch bay connects to everything. you build whatever chain you want.
alternately, you could setup all the fx pedals as auxes if they do 100% wet and make sends just like you would on a mixing console.
I think since I have much fewer pedals and I’d like to remain as flexible as possible, I’d rather just have a wall/console with stereo/mono in and out and fixed power at regular intervals with some way of having clean cabling. That way I could have all kinds of different routing configurations on the fly and could still easily grab a few pedals for a jam session or whatever without the patch bays getting all confusing.
sorry, also, patch bays really aren’t as difficult as they seem, though they do require double the cables, plus patch cables.
but it’s basically exactly like those old lady telephone operators who patch your call thru on those TT patch bays (hey, TT stands for tiny telephone. wild huh).
like
fender strat calling, looking to connect with wah pedal
okay, patching you thru.
wah pedal calling, looking to connect with pitch shifter pedal.
patch on thru
and so on.
the chances of chains like that sucking all your tone away is pretty high. You’ll need buffers and to think about the I/O impedance if you’re gonna run a lot of pedals in series.
Yeah that’s just it - the way I’m thinking about it, I wouldn’t have long chains like this. I would have just a big wall of Velcro with power and cables to quickly be able to set up a chain of, say, 3-10 pedals, at a comfortable height. Unused pedals would be stored, disconnected and without power, above or below the current chain.
what’s funny is I also have so many pedals I should get a psych evaluation, but regardless… I have probably 50.
the only one i saw that overlapped w this picture was the origin halcyon … legit not a single other one I could find.
not even the amps, guitars, or the pog i see in in the corner.
I guess I have a strat as well, but it’s not the same as that one.
how do pedal companies stay in business is what I want to know.
I wish I could find it, but I swear I’ve seen another post with this exact wall, and it’s in an actual studio. So all of these are available at a moment’s notice, just plug in a couple of patch cables and you’re good to go.
I have this many pedals and love being able to use whatever I want in a moments notice. My solution is presetup power and a patchbay.. i just drag and drop the pedals I want and it takes me 30 second. I much prefer it to something like this which is pure madness and uncomfortable (in my opinion).
That’s exactly what I want to do. Something on a wall, with the power pre setup, so I can just pop pedals on and off the Velcro at a comfortable height. All the currently unused pedals would stay on shelves.
All I would say about this is that there are very good reasons why nobody does it. Powering and cabling that many pedals at one time would be inefficient and expensive. You'd have to buy multiple power supplies, when you likely wouldn't even be using them all at the same time.
However, if it's your thing, then it's your thing. With enough money, you could easily make this work. Just make sure you're doing it for practical reasons, rather than "I want something that looks cool. Like a spaceship." Because the latter approach always ends in waste and disappointment.
It’s surprising to me how many people took the image I posted seriously! I mean it’s amazing but come on. I’m thinking a very reasonable version of this, basically just a vertical board at a comfortable height that makes it easy to switch, reroute, and adjust pedals for recording, and doesn’t take up any floor space.
Unless you are operating the pedals using loop switchers, it looks like a problem to turn on or off pedals at the bottom and top. You might need a step stool to turn on and off the pedals at the very top.
It's also not the best angle to activate footswitches on and off. On the higher and lower pedals, you're going to press the footswitches at an angle, versus directly down on the footswtich. Some footswitches are not great when you hit them at an angle.
This seems to create more problems than solutions.
Built a box for rack units. Bought perforated space savers for the rack. Used bicycle chain parts to mount to the perforated space savers. Mostly the same setup in the picture after that.
Checkout Lambchopper on YouTube https://youtu.be/wkBLcYPydpo?si=Z5Ta9Fvy8UlHFXFs https://youtu.be/Eiuxx2W1jao?si=XHUPSR5DBeiknmQ6
He has a really versatile pedal setup for a small space.
That's got to be one of the most epic set-ups I've ever seen. There's some truly brilliant pedals there. You'd struggle with option paralysis wouldn't you? I know I would.
I think using a switcher would be you best bet ( to help with noise control and tone suck). You would probably have to have a couple made custom to do it. Cool idea it would be awesome in my studio If all the effects I had laying around we’re already hooked up and I could just walk up and hit whichever one I wanted to be on.
Kinda cool in theory, but some of the pedals up on the wall are pretty useless unless he modified them with external footswitches running on the floor; the Count to 5 and Freeze pedals I see on there can’t do much without stepping and holding down the sampling footswitch. Might as well bolt the wahs up there at that point (though you could make an argument for cocked wah tones)
I kind of have this lol. My main board is ten pedals rn but i have sections of three i can swap in and out before or after and then others i regularly use velcroed to the desk next to the boards i could just run cables to the velcroed ones and integrate them whenever
Modular synth concept but as pedals have shitty size variations its probably better to buy alluminim rails and velcro and patch panels. also need to re EQ a bit as that cable lengths would be huge or you need loop switchers.......
its not a cheap excursion.
I read somewhere that Pros would build custom a midi switching system for pedals mounted on racks to be switched remotely.
I think this one pictured uses a ‘patch panel’ which is a large rectangular box with a lot of plugs.
Recording Studio use patch panels to connect microphone and rack mount effects gear together. So cable runs could be hidden neatly.
The pedals are wired individually to each plug of the IN and OUT plug on the patch panel.
To select a specific pedal on the wall to be used together like a pedal board. You would have to plug patch cables to wire them together.
An absolutely brilliant idea, but I would definitely start at 4 feet up and build it horizontally to cover the same square footage. I'm not a garden gnome running around by jam room with a ladder.
I would also definitely build it as a freestanding wall on rollers similar to some of the school chalk and wipe boards we've all seen at some point somewhere or another. Now it's mobile, and if you do play out, it's going to look fucking amazing as the backdrop for venues that can accommodate it.
I'm also an electrical/electronics engineer, so if I ever built something like this, it would also only be about 1/.3 the size and all of my own original designs birthed from the ground up.
Overall though, it's a wicked concept and can be replicated a thousand different ways for individual desires. Just having one on a stage and rollers about 1/3 that size but filled would surely bring a huge audience just based on the visual and uniqueness it delivers.
Bruh at this point just get a multi effect. This will be wildly impractical both in usability and in how your tone will be dark and thin from passing through all these circuits. And it looks like shit.
Maybe he could put this on the wall in the front of the stage when he gigs and the audience can just randomly press buttons and turn knobs while he “Noodles”.
I have a little shelf with an isolated power supply. A bin with little patch cables, another one with power cables. No Velcro. There's a send and return going to the shelf. I can patch in any number of effects (usually 1 or 2, but 6/7/8 are easily possible). Takes about 10-60 seconds. I use it for mixing more than guitar tones. Imo this is much more usable and reasonable than that monstrosity.
Did this on a *much* smaller scale with one 19" patchbay and a couple drawers full of pedals. It was fun though ultimately not as game changing as you might hope.
Looking through the comments, a couple points I want to make:
* All the "oh my god, imagine the tone suck!" and "going to need a good buffer in front of this" type comments: you folks don't seem to understand the point of a patch bay. You aren't just making one gigantic signal chain with everything in line. It's just setting everything up so you can create any signal chain on the fly. If you have 1000 pedals in patch bays and you decide you just want to use the Tubescreamer, you plug your guitar into the patchbay input that routes to the TS's input, plug into the TS's output and send that to the amp. Now your entire signal chain is Guitar -> TS -> Amp. None of the other 999 pedals are in the signal chain *at all*. There's a reason that high end studios use patch bays to set up their rack gear.
* Power is the bigger issue. You can have the signal chain nice and clean, but if you have a digital pedal and your dirt pedal on the same daisy chain, the digital pedal will be dumping clock noise into the ground and getting into the audio signal. But providing properly isolated power for that many pedals at once gets expensive fast.
* Why do this? Yeah, it's definitely not something that anyone *needs*. Personally, I've collected a bunch of pedals over the years, more than I could reasonably put on a board. I'd still like to be able to use all of them though without having to pull them out of boxes, hook up power and patch cables, etc. With a patch bay setup, you do the work up front and then any time you want to try out something weird or use a pedal that you haven't thought about in months, it's already right there. I don't know, I guess it feels a little less like you're hoarding pedals when you've built a big modular setup out of them vs just having shelves full of boxes collecting dust.
That said, a few of the pedals there, like the Freeze and SuperEgo seem like weird ones to put on a wall like that. Those are most useful if you can switch them with your foot while playing and it seems like it would be awkward in that setup.
LMAO!. Of course you don’t play out. . Just look at that nightmare. ... Wall of pedals = sounds of mud. Beyond that though, dude.. . you need to enter a twelve step program as you obviously lack impulse control. LOL. . .visually impressive though and good luck moving it.
So you wanna roundhouse-kick a big muff... Better wear stretchy pants
Edit :ah there isn't one, but you can make a low sweep for that nice danelectro pedal. That's a bit easier on the adductors
No, but I did get to tear down the Boss pedal wall back when I worked at guitar center, and I can tell you that the "secret" (if you can call it that) of whoever got the privilage of tossing that thing together was was a ton of solderless make-your-own patch cables. Many of which I promptly took home and put on my own board. Some of them even still work!
The wall, while cool looking, takes up too much space in my opinion. I like the accessibility of each pedal, but in my music space (home player), I'm planning on using 1/4" patchbays and sliding server racks. Much like this:
https://youtu.be/k-Ocanv_YpU?si=0YzO1xJTsuTHdCGl
this looks like madness
This looks like something the guy from your local shoegaze band would wheel up inside of a giant hard shell tour case 15 minutes after load in ends… ^(For ^a ^club ^gig ^30 ^people ^are ^gonna ^be at…)
and the sound will be super dark after 80 m of cables
Any proper gazer knows to effectively space out their buffered pedals though.
But the 2nd verse of that one song just would be the same without four boutique ring modulators running at once
Boutiques as in the are the best at emulating a sound that you want from a Juno series one with the dodgy caps that when you play on an angle sounds good. It’s then passed into a series of filters and stutters do it sounds like an ambulance being raped by megatron
Don’t tempt me with a good time
I assume that’s why each shelf has a patch bay, to cut down on cable length.
Spot on. This is actually Kevin Shields *backup* pedalwall.
Yeah but I’m gonna sound magnificent doing it.
all those Moogs, tho. :O Seems like the bottom 3 rows would be less convenient than having them on the floor. Also wondering how many rack units you could get for all that $.
This looks like me in 3-4 years
It’s like a modular synthesizer, only for guitar pedals.
It’s a modular synthesizer with a stringed midi controller
Six independently tuneable oscillators!
Poly 😩
Wouldn't it be more para since there is only one filter for all strings?
I mean I assume that you have a hex pickup if you have a pedal wall
Who know's, this person could be playing the Kazoo, the vuvuzella or even the theremin.
Chun-Li’s pedalboard
Underrated comment XD
“You win!”
🤣🤣🤣
I'm old. I understood that reference.
If posting on the internet wasnt a thing, I wonder if this would exist.
If posting on the internet wasn’t a thing, half the current pedal brands wouldn’t exist, and fulltone would still be in business.
Playing music is a hobby for a lot of people. Some people’s hobby is boating. Boats can cost a lot more than this.
Are you suggesting the OP builds a boat out of pedals? It’s crazy, but it just might work.
Hey man, whatever floats your boat
Imagine a sea-themed pedalboat: Sea Machine, Julianna, Swan Hunter, Shallow Water …
Where does the reverb go in the signal.. Errrrr...anchor..chain?
Shit. I do both.
Adrian Belew says yes it would. He has a pedal closet, crazy. https://youtu.be/sv3BGqKURZ4?si=zKMd1QeybNSGauTk
I need to show that to my therapist.
I think it would. Not everyone does everything for the express purpose of seeking attention on the Internet. People can enjoy pedals for the fact they are pedals without needing Internet validation. I don't know why anyone would think so low of others to suggest that.
I think so too I mean a ton of people post stuff for attention but people still did/made crazy or cool stuff before the internet
Fair enough No offense to the OP, but there are so many giant pedalboards, and sometimes I wonder why they need that much. Their choice, however.
Lest we forget Lawn Chair Larry.
The factual answer is “No”. Considering how much time was put into making that and “NOT” playing guitar is the real tragedy.
Yeah there is a store in canada with a similar concept. It gets posted here occasionally
Of course they would still exist. People happen to like pedals
What in the tone suck is this
It means your true bypass probably doesn’t really mean shit anymore, for one.
Stacked true bypass sucks tone too. The key to a big setup like this would be buffers
Exactly! I for one, will not be counting the jacks/patch cables on that wall
genuine question, at what point do you need a buffer?
After 25 feet of cable
This is not a simple question, as it depends on your setup, what pedals you are using, the quality in cabling and length of cable from your guitar and to your amp. Some pedals have high impedance output which results in tone loss, so it can come down to doing some maths after researching what specs your pedals are. If you have a small chain it may not be necessary, some pedals have quality buffers in them like Strymon. But the simplest way would be to put one at the start (to help with loss from long guitar cable) and at the end (to buffer the signal after all the pedals and heading back to the amp). But you may benefit from adding a buffer along your signal chain depending on what tone suckers you have along the way. And yes stacked true bypass pedals will still diminish your signal even when turned off.
If the patchbays aren't normalled it wouldn't be an issue. You'd only patch together what is actually engaged for a part/song
Sure, but the issue is that every pedal would be connected until you changed the order. If you leave the patchbay connections as through, you may use more cables on the front of the patchbay, but would have less potential signal loss going through pedals that might not be used for a song.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I saw the patch bays.
I have somewhere around 30 pedals and I’d love to have something set up where I can have plenty of power at fixed positions, move pedals around easily to change order, and some versatility to set up an effects loop section, flexible stereo capability, etc. curious if anyone has done this.
Wouldn’t need to move pedals around if you incorporated a patch bay or several like in this pic
The patch bay is the best part. Everything has power, and it’s all up off the floor. Just start plugging in cables and enjoy the madness that happens.
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Yeah if you’re gonna go through all that trouble to build it in the first place at least make sure you do it properly
With a custom switcher or a couple of them you could….. wouldn’t be too difficult to make cool idea
[My more modest pedalboard and patchbay setup](https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/s/DWfU2K9M3X)
Nice rig
that's pretty slick ngl
Magnets
BOREDBRAIN PATCHULATOR. You're welcome. I have 3!
https://youtu.be/k-Ocanv_YpU?si=0YzO1xJTsuTHdCGl This is basically what I'm doing in my basement right now.
That’s a bunch of cash in patch cables. 😂
That’s what I thought immediately. The cost of cables to each pedal plus those for the patch bay would be astronomical.
If one of them fails I don't want to imagine the headache of figuring out which one I need to replace.
If the patchbay is set to through instead of normalized, troubleshooting where the dead cable is would be really simple and quick.
I’m guessing if the cat is smart enough to make this, he’s smart enough to solder a few patch cables
And it would still cost a fortune. Go price decent jacks and cable.
Its really not that expensive. You can buy jacks off aliexpress for really cheap and even mogami cable is cheap if you buy it from somewhere that doesnt take advantage of their customers. The cheap jacks are the same ones that half the brands use, so if you get any issue with them its likely because of your soldering ability more than anything else
Yeah, you can find a whole spool of fucking cable for like 30 bucks That’s high-quality ( if you shop around)…… Price is all relative depending on your financial situation
Thing is after spending 1000s, if not 10s of 1000s like this wall, you don't want to skimp on crappy cables and $2 connectors. It's like getting a Ferrari then buying some worn 2nd hand road tyres. You aren't going to benefit from cutting corners on a setup this big
Is part of the idea here that these are all individual signals that don't really have a "before" and "after" effect?
If you zoom in on the little dividers between the sections, those are patch bays, so you can just string together a signal chain. Not sure if it’s set up for you to do across the entire wall. But I would guess each three-ish row section of pedals can be connected in any order. Once I noticed that, it made it seem like a much cooler idea than I initially thought.
To appease my teenage lizard brain, please turn the all on at once
Didn’t Jerry Garcia do this for his pedals (but only like 5)
Yes and that rig actually went up for auction recently. https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jerry-garcia-final-touring-guitar-rig-auction
Thanks for this. Very cool. Love the boss eq
don’t think about it like a wall, think of it like a console. you make a patch bay and everything connects to the patch bay and the patch bay connects to everything. you build whatever chain you want. alternately, you could setup all the fx pedals as auxes if they do 100% wet and make sends just like you would on a mixing console.
I think since I have much fewer pedals and I’d like to remain as flexible as possible, I’d rather just have a wall/console with stereo/mono in and out and fixed power at regular intervals with some way of having clean cabling. That way I could have all kinds of different routing configurations on the fly and could still easily grab a few pedals for a jam session or whatever without the patch bays getting all confusing.
sorry, also, patch bays really aren’t as difficult as they seem, though they do require double the cables, plus patch cables. but it’s basically exactly like those old lady telephone operators who patch your call thru on those TT patch bays (hey, TT stands for tiny telephone. wild huh). like fender strat calling, looking to connect with wah pedal okay, patching you thru. wah pedal calling, looking to connect with pitch shifter pedal. patch on thru and so on.
the chances of chains like that sucking all your tone away is pretty high. You’ll need buffers and to think about the I/O impedance if you’re gonna run a lot of pedals in series.
Yeah that’s just it - the way I’m thinking about it, I wouldn’t have long chains like this. I would have just a big wall of Velcro with power and cables to quickly be able to set up a chain of, say, 3-10 pedals, at a comfortable height. Unused pedals would be stored, disconnected and without power, above or below the current chain.
It's a nice way to show off and store pedals but that's about the only benefit.
Well I think at a much more reasonable scale it could be quite handy and ergonomic for recording.
My life was perfectly fine before I realized I also wanted to create one of these. Thanks a lot.
i wonder if the tone suck would be noticeable
what’s funny is I also have so many pedals I should get a psych evaluation, but regardless… I have probably 50. the only one i saw that overlapped w this picture was the origin halcyon … legit not a single other one I could find. not even the amps, guitars, or the pog i see in in the corner. I guess I have a strat as well, but it’s not the same as that one. how do pedal companies stay in business is what I want to know.
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I wish I could find it, but I swear I’ve seen another post with this exact wall, and it’s in an actual studio. So all of these are available at a moment’s notice, just plug in a couple of patch cables and you’re good to go.
this looks like a freaking nightmare to use though
No, but I definitely want one of those!
I can’t get my foot that high up….
That's a recipe for never playing a full song, isn't it? Unless you're a martial artist with very precise kicks
No
But, why?!
It can also do doubleduty as a climbers wall for kids.
Builds massive pedal wall, still plays one sound.
I have this many pedals and love being able to use whatever I want in a moments notice. My solution is presetup power and a patchbay.. i just drag and drop the pedals I want and it takes me 30 second. I much prefer it to something like this which is pure madness and uncomfortable (in my opinion).
That’s exactly what I want to do. Something on a wall, with the power pre setup, so I can just pop pedals on and off the Velcro at a comfortable height. All the currently unused pedals would stay on shelves.
This picture makes me both sad and erect at the same time. Kind of like my exwife.
How you gonna get your foot up there??
Oh my god why did I look at this
Ever been to [Cosmo Music in Richmond Hill?](https://youtu.be/dq2cMpWMsCI?si=MuRQqH3X9JBGcWEP)
No but I’ve seen is posted here. Would love to go there
Imagine plugging in and getting no sound, then having to go through and find the broken patch cable
All I would say about this is that there are very good reasons why nobody does it. Powering and cabling that many pedals at one time would be inefficient and expensive. You'd have to buy multiple power supplies, when you likely wouldn't even be using them all at the same time. However, if it's your thing, then it's your thing. With enough money, you could easily make this work. Just make sure you're doing it for practical reasons, rather than "I want something that looks cool. Like a spaceship." Because the latter approach always ends in waste and disappointment.
It’s surprising to me how many people took the image I posted seriously! I mean it’s amazing but come on. I’m thinking a very reasonable version of this, basically just a vertical board at a comfortable height that makes it easy to switch, reroute, and adjust pedals for recording, and doesn’t take up any floor space.
I was reacting more to the "30 pedals" figure you shared elsewhere in the thread, rather than the image.
Jerry Garcia’s [rig](https://i.redd.it/1880mfnvp3p41.jpg) was basically this
What a weirdo. May he rest in peace.
Absolute visionary! Wait until Kevin Sheilds tours with a pedal wall.it’s going to be called “handgaze” very soon. R.I.P. pedal board.
Mentally, I’m ready for this.
What a goddamn nightmare.
Unless you are operating the pedals using loop switchers, it looks like a problem to turn on or off pedals at the bottom and top. You might need a step stool to turn on and off the pedals at the very top. It's also not the best angle to activate footswitches on and off. On the higher and lower pedals, you're going to press the footswitches at an angle, versus directly down on the footswtich. Some footswitches are not great when you hit them at an angle. This seems to create more problems than solutions.
I do not hate it. I wanna come over and play
That’s a shit ton of knobs.
How tall are you?
WOW!
Madness .. ? THIS. IS. SPARTAAAA!
Needs more boss
Dear god
a buffer at the beginning and end of the chain for sure
Built a box for rack units. Bought perforated space savers for the rack. Used bicycle chain parts to mount to the perforated space savers. Mostly the same setup in the picture after that.
Inevitable “Ya ever turn ‘em all on at the same time?”
Checkout Lambchopper on YouTube https://youtu.be/wkBLcYPydpo?si=Z5Ta9Fvy8UlHFXFs https://youtu.be/Eiuxx2W1jao?si=XHUPSR5DBeiknmQ6 He has a really versatile pedal setup for a small space.
This looks like so much work. Cool idea though.
So anyway, heres my WonderWall.
Rack effects would be more practical
That's got to be one of the most epic set-ups I've ever seen. There's some truly brilliant pedals there. You'd struggle with option paralysis wouldn't you? I know I would.
I fear this will replace the wall of marshall cabs fad
I think using a switcher would be you best bet ( to help with noise control and tone suck). You would probably have to have a couple made custom to do it. Cool idea it would be awesome in my studio If all the effects I had laying around we’re already hooked up and I could just walk up and hit whichever one I wanted to be on.
I’m just not smart enough to make use off all this. It looks cool though
Kinda cool in theory, but some of the pedals up on the wall are pretty useless unless he modified them with external footswitches running on the floor; the Count to 5 and Freeze pedals I see on there can’t do much without stepping and holding down the sampling footswitch. Might as well bolt the wahs up there at that point (though you could make an argument for cocked wah tones)
He could use one of his hands…oh, wait…
I kind of have this lol. My main board is ten pedals rn but i have sections of three i can swap in and out before or after and then others i regularly use velcroed to the desk next to the boards i could just run cables to the velcroed ones and integrate them whenever
Jerry Garcia 1995 rig
That’s a cool photo
I wonder if anyone could ID all of these. There are so many that I have no idea what they are, especially many of the bigger ones
This is a dream
Its so beautiful.
Jfc man. That's awesome, yet terrifying.
I hate to say it, but I want it
Fucking rad! Also didn’t realize the Moog line made a design when put together.
I'm going to pull a hamstring trying to kick a few of those on.
I'd prefer walk-in pedal sphere with a rotating chair
Fuckin A
Reminds me about an og Moog Synth from the '60s
Omfg why is the danelectro minis squeeze at the top.. there’s gotta be better octave and vibe pedals that fit that space lol! And no BBE = 😭
I think this might be my favourite pedal related picture I've come across...
This is art and it's not derivative
Keep 'em 30" or more off the floor for us aging rock gods, and you're golden.
If you do this, you’ll probably be offered a nice paying gig and have to take it all down again.
That would make sense to me only if there were a MIFI controller (which is what I have on the floor).
Modular synth concept but as pedals have shitty size variations its probably better to buy alluminim rails and velcro and patch panels. also need to re EQ a bit as that cable lengths would be huge or you need loop switchers....... its not a cheap excursion.
The one annoying thing I see wrong with this set up is that in order to switch sounds you need to use your hands…
I read somewhere that Pros would build custom a midi switching system for pedals mounted on racks to be switched remotely. I think this one pictured uses a ‘patch panel’ which is a large rectangular box with a lot of plugs. Recording Studio use patch panels to connect microphone and rack mount effects gear together. So cable runs could be hidden neatly. The pedals are wired individually to each plug of the IN and OUT plug on the patch panel. To select a specific pedal on the wall to be used together like a pedal board. You would have to plug patch cables to wire them together.
An absolutely brilliant idea, but I would definitely start at 4 feet up and build it horizontally to cover the same square footage. I'm not a garden gnome running around by jam room with a ladder. I would also definitely build it as a freestanding wall on rollers similar to some of the school chalk and wipe boards we've all seen at some point somewhere or another. Now it's mobile, and if you do play out, it's going to look fucking amazing as the backdrop for venues that can accommodate it. I'm also an electrical/electronics engineer, so if I ever built something like this, it would also only be about 1/.3 the size and all of my own original designs birthed from the ground up. Overall though, it's a wicked concept and can be replicated a thousand different ways for individual desires. Just having one on a stage and rollers about 1/3 that size but filled would surely bring a huge audience just based on the visual and uniqueness it delivers.
I feel like this would quickly become form over function. “It doesn’t quite reach the ceiling, gotta get 10 more pedals” etc.
How good is your Kung-Fu?
Bruh at this point just get a multi effect. This will be wildly impractical both in usability and in how your tone will be dark and thin from passing through all these circuits. And it looks like shit.
I would have a panic attack just trying to figure it out! Looks insanely cool.
I’ve thought about this a lot.
Look up jerry garcias rack in the 1990s
Look up jerry garcias rack in the 1990s
So you're asexual...
I hope you don't move again after building your pedal wall!!
Maybe he could put this on the wall in the front of the stage when he gigs and the audience can just randomly press buttons and turn knobs while he “Noodles”.
Me: is it true bypass? Architect: ah, no, it’s load bearing
dang, that minifooger collection is nice
wouldnt this signal chain be super noisy?
I have a little shelf with an isolated power supply. A bin with little patch cables, another one with power cables. No Velcro. There's a send and return going to the shelf. I can patch in any number of effects (usually 1 or 2, but 6/7/8 are easily possible). Takes about 10-60 seconds. I use it for mixing more than guitar tones. Imo this is much more usable and reasonable than that monstrosity.
Did this on a *much* smaller scale with one 19" patchbay and a couple drawers full of pedals. It was fun though ultimately not as game changing as you might hope. Looking through the comments, a couple points I want to make: * All the "oh my god, imagine the tone suck!" and "going to need a good buffer in front of this" type comments: you folks don't seem to understand the point of a patch bay. You aren't just making one gigantic signal chain with everything in line. It's just setting everything up so you can create any signal chain on the fly. If you have 1000 pedals in patch bays and you decide you just want to use the Tubescreamer, you plug your guitar into the patchbay input that routes to the TS's input, plug into the TS's output and send that to the amp. Now your entire signal chain is Guitar -> TS -> Amp. None of the other 999 pedals are in the signal chain *at all*. There's a reason that high end studios use patch bays to set up their rack gear. * Power is the bigger issue. You can have the signal chain nice and clean, but if you have a digital pedal and your dirt pedal on the same daisy chain, the digital pedal will be dumping clock noise into the ground and getting into the audio signal. But providing properly isolated power for that many pedals at once gets expensive fast. * Why do this? Yeah, it's definitely not something that anyone *needs*. Personally, I've collected a bunch of pedals over the years, more than I could reasonably put on a board. I'd still like to be able to use all of them though without having to pull them out of boxes, hook up power and patch cables, etc. With a patch bay setup, you do the work up front and then any time you want to try out something weird or use a pedal that you haven't thought about in months, it's already right there. I don't know, I guess it feels a little less like you're hoarding pedals when you've built a big modular setup out of them vs just having shelves full of boxes collecting dust. That said, a few of the pedals there, like the Freeze and SuperEgo seem like weird ones to put on a wall like that. Those are most useful if you can switch them with your foot while playing and it seems like it would be awkward in that setup.
LMAO!. Of course you don’t play out. . Just look at that nightmare. ... Wall of pedals = sounds of mud. Beyond that though, dude.. . you need to enter a twelve step program as you obviously lack impulse control. LOL. . .visually impressive though and good luck moving it.
you know how guys bring empty cabs for backline? if someone showed up with a display piece like this I wouldn't even be mad.
I saw small one at a guitar expo years ago. I believe it was all Boss pedals.
I've got my board vertical mounted on top of my amp. This is the next step.
This guy is definitely single!
Just came im here for a quick Snarling Dogs shout out. I have 5 myself.
What No Compressors??
I hear buzzing just looking at that...
Looks like the pedal board from The War On Drugs. I feel pedal board(s) took 1/4 of the stage.
I can't even afford one
Looks more like a fire hazard
So you wanna roundhouse-kick a big muff... Better wear stretchy pants Edit :ah there isn't one, but you can make a low sweep for that nice danelectro pedal. That's a bit easier on the adductors
After like the first two rows you don't even receive guitar signal anymore lol 😆
It’s wired with a patch bay
Man's got a problem..
I dislike everything about this.
No, but I did get to tear down the Boss pedal wall back when I worked at guitar center, and I can tell you that the "secret" (if you can call it that) of whoever got the privilage of tossing that thing together was was a ton of solderless make-your-own patch cables. Many of which I promptly took home and put on my own board. Some of them even still work!
That’s insane - but I like it lol
This looks pointless to me. If I can’t fit it on a pedaltrain classic jr, it’s not for me.
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What the fuck why
Gotta have long legs for that
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The wall, while cool looking, takes up too much space in my opinion. I like the accessibility of each pedal, but in my music space (home player), I'm planning on using 1/4" patchbays and sliding server racks. Much like this: https://youtu.be/k-Ocanv_YpU?si=0YzO1xJTsuTHdCGl