Questions About LYT Pedalboards - Your Opinions?

[HughJasol]

I didn't want to hijack MarcoR's thread, so I'm "transferring" my part over here to continue.

Can I ask the dimensions of, and where you got that pedalboard in your signature? I'm in the process of building a board for my G-System and yours appears to be about what I'm looking for . . . thanks!

It's a custom from lytpedalboards. I wanna say its 48x20 but I don't remember off the top of my head. Honestly, I think its crap; I was really disappointed when I got it. For a hundred more I could have got a trailer trash board. The custom built case is OK which was most the cost but the board itself is just a flipp'n piece of Masonite painted black and is flimsy as hell. It is light which is nice and works well so function over fashion I guess. I would have got the Trailer Trash if Rooster would have been willing to do a cutout for the G-System to fit into but he said no...

 

[HughJasol]

Wow - I'm glad I hit you up! I was looking at the LYT boards too, as I thought they were very reasonably priced. I guess this explains why LYT highly recommends that you don't use forums to aid in your decision making . Oh well, back to the drawing board . . . thanks again!

 

[HughJasol]

Wow - I'm glad I hit you up! I was looking at the LYT boards too, as I thought they were very reasonably priced. I guess this explains why LYT highly recommends that you don't use forums to aid in your decision making . Oh well, back to the drawing board . . . thanks again!

As I think about this some more, if the case is good, and the board stays inside the case, would it really matter if the board is a little flimsy? I know there is a 2nd tier shelf that LYT puts on their boards, so I can see how the upper tier being flimsy would make a difference; but taking the upper tier out of the equation, I wonder if this is still a viable low-cost solution? And I wonder how flimsy the upper tier is, and whether it's at least somewhat usable?

 

[HughJasol]

So this is where I left off . . . anyone have any further experience with, opinions about, or input to provide regarding LYT pedalboards?

 

[MarcoR]

As I think about this some more, if the case is good, and the board stays inside the case, would it really matter if the board is a little flimsy?

It really doesn't matter and your right which is why I will continue to use it. I really didn't mean to bad mouth LYT as much as it came out that way. They were a pleasure to deal with and sent me progress updates as the case was built. I didn't feel compelled to call them back and say I wasn't happy plus the case was nice.

I also requested they didn't cover the board in velcro as it was my intent to screw the components into the board. However the finish was very unattractive so I ended up covering it in velcro they sent anyway. There was a note recommending that it should be covered to make the board less flimsy which I though was funny.

I know there is a 2nd tier shelf that LYT puts on their boards, so I can see how the upper tier being flimsy would make a difference; but taking the upper tier out of the equation, I wonder if this is still a viable low-cost solution? And I wonder how flimsy the upper tier is, and whether it's at least somewhat usable?

The upper tier is not flimsy at all and definitely functional albeit a bit ugly and cheap looking.

I'm sure there are other companies that will build a case to specs cheaper and then build something yourself.
I know LYT says its some special composite board they use but it sure looks like masonite to me and you can get a 4'x8' sheet at Lowes for 12 bucks and paint it black.

 

[HughJasol]

I would have got the Trailer Trash if Rooster would have been willing to do a cutout for the G-System to fit into but he said no...

Rooster just sent me some pics of a G-System-equipped pedalboard he did. I had asked him about the cutout as well. He says it works fine with the G-System just mounted to the top. But looking at the pics, with the back of the G-System being 4-1/2" tall, it seems like trying to toggle any pedals mounted directly behind (above) the G-System would not be easy, or would at least be less than optimal for a precisely-timed, smooth pedal switch going into a solo . . .

I'm going to ask Rooster why I couldn't just remove the top (I'll get the hard-top option) and make the cutout myself, and if I can buy replacement tops in the event that I ever ditch the G-System for an Axe-FX and use either a GCP or an MFC-101 (which I do foresee happening someday). Maybe I can get him to sell me a pair of those metal plates he's using underneath the G-System mounting holes too.

I also rekindled a conversation I had with Tim at X-Case last year. They don't showcase (or even mention!) their pedalboards on their eBay Store anymore, but he just emailed me and told me that they do still make them.

 

[Schaf]

Why couldn't you have the pedals in front? Then mount the G-system behind them?

 

[gtrwun]

You could do that, but with the G-System , with the pedals in the loops, they are always on, and there is never a need to stomp on the switch. Cleaner wiring to do it this way.

 

[HughJasol]

Thing is, I have the G-System's GFX-01 "brain" rack mounted, so the pedals in my G-System loops are actually mounted to a rack spacer panel on the back of my rack (this is why I only buy racks that have rails on both the front AND rear). The pedals I plan on putting on the pedalboard itself are pedals that require realtime interaction (like the Electro Harmonix Ring Thing, which will also be controlled by my dual-output Mission SP-2 expression pedal), or perhaps pedals that require tweaking during a set. As of right now, the Ring Thing is the only pedal I plan on mounting, although I've been contemplating mounting my Morpheus Drop-Tune too (as that would be in the same pre-G-System chain, and if I'm going to have an audio loop run out to my pedalboard, I only want to run one loop - I don't want multiple audio loops running from my rack out to my pedalboard).

The clubs we play at are really tight on space, so I don't forsee being able to use anything bigger than a 36" pedalboard (even 36" is stretching it); and the G-System, volume pedal, expression pedal, and wah controller for my rack wah will take up the entire 36" side-by-side (so there's no more room to mount other pedals adjacent to anything else - they'd need to go above) . . .