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This weekend I reworked my noisecore band board onto a Pedaltrain 3 so I would have room for some extra pedals and a footswitch for my amp that does more than just switch the channels.
Here is the reworked board. All assembled with dual lock to keep the pedals rock solid and keep the parts of the board that dont have pedals on them free of dirt-collecting fuzzy velcro. You can pick up the whole 20-pound board by any one pedal and nothing budges. Its pretty awesome.
The space below the reverb and delay is for the amp footswitch. Here is what should go there:
The stock footswitch has a few problems though. Its really deep and the DIN connector is in the middle of the back so the cable wont fit into the footswitch if its on the board. Basically, I cant use it with this board. But I knew that going in. Fortunately, I have a solution.
Mammoth recently released this long cast enclosure they call a "looper" enclosure. To me it looks like the answer for anyone with a big amp footswitch and a pedaltrain board with an extra slat. The depth is almost exactly the same as a pedaltrain slat depth and the width is wide enough to fit four footswitches which generally covers most possible amp options.
Compared to the original footswitch this one is a little over half as deep so we're saving a ton of room using one of these.
So here it is taped up and laid out. Ready for the drill press which I will take care of tonight.
The new switch will have a 5-pin DIN connector on the left side which will allow me to wire a midi cable into my pedalboard snake and run all my cables with one compact assembly. The input and loop cables go to a breakout box at the top of the board so everything will be extremely quick to set up on stage.
Finally, here is the wiring diagram I made from the stock footswitch.
Back when I have the finished product. Also need to wire up the cable to go into the snake. That will be a DIN connector on one end and the cable breaks out into a pair of TRS plugs on the amp end.
Here is the reworked board. All assembled with dual lock to keep the pedals rock solid and keep the parts of the board that dont have pedals on them free of dirt-collecting fuzzy velcro. You can pick up the whole 20-pound board by any one pedal and nothing budges. Its pretty awesome.
The space below the reverb and delay is for the amp footswitch. Here is what should go there:
The stock footswitch has a few problems though. Its really deep and the DIN connector is in the middle of the back so the cable wont fit into the footswitch if its on the board. Basically, I cant use it with this board. But I knew that going in. Fortunately, I have a solution.
Mammoth recently released this long cast enclosure they call a "looper" enclosure. To me it looks like the answer for anyone with a big amp footswitch and a pedaltrain board with an extra slat. The depth is almost exactly the same as a pedaltrain slat depth and the width is wide enough to fit four footswitches which generally covers most possible amp options.
Compared to the original footswitch this one is a little over half as deep so we're saving a ton of room using one of these.
So here it is taped up and laid out. Ready for the drill press which I will take care of tonight.
The new switch will have a 5-pin DIN connector on the left side which will allow me to wire a midi cable into my pedalboard snake and run all my cables with one compact assembly. The input and loop cables go to a breakout box at the top of the board so everything will be extremely quick to set up on stage.
Finally, here is the wiring diagram I made from the stock footswitch.
Back when I have the finished product. Also need to wire up the cable to go into the snake. That will be a DIN connector on one end and the cable breaks out into a pair of TRS plugs on the amp end.
i used it just last month to build my own Splawn mini footswitch, that uses a standard MIDI cable.
