Wirring up a large pedal board advice

[the4thlast1]

I just ordered a nice size board from trailer trash. Gonna wire it up soon. I have about 4 pedals to go in front of the amp and 4 pedals to go in the loop of the amp. I will be using 2 Rjm mini effects gizmo loopers, one for infront and one for the loop.

My question is do I need to keep all the pedals that are in front of the amp on one section of the board and keep all the pedals in the loop on the other side for optimal performance. I notice sometimes people run into noise issues when having a pedal that's in front next to a pedal that's in the loop. Should this not concern me because all of the pedals on my board will be wired to the rjm loops ?

Thanks you guys are the best

 

[XSSIVE]

It's always best to keep all patch and power runs as short as possible but sometimes you need to bend that "rule" to get a good ergonomically usable layout. If possible I'd keep them separate just for the ease of creating the shortest wiring distances.

 

[rlord1974]

^ not arguing with the above but moreso responding directly to the OP's question: "do I need to keep all the pedals that are in front of the amp on one section of the board and keep all the pedals in the loop on the other side for optimal performance. I notice sometimes people run into noise issues when having a pedal that's in front next to a pedal that's in the loop. Should this not concern me because all of the pedals on my board will be wired to the rjm loops?"

I have had a number of boards and have never stuck to this convention, and have also never had noise issues. However, I also always lay out the pedals on the ground in the manner I plan to mount them on the pedalboard and play test the configuration first, to ensure there are no such issues.

You will need to power the pedals in front of your amp separately from the pedals in your loop. This can be accomplished by using any pedal power supply with ISOLATED taps, and ensuring you don't try to split the power coming out of a given tap across a pedal in front of your amp and a pedal in the loop.

 

[RG955TT]

^ not arguing with the above but moreso responding directly to the OP's question: "do I need to keep all the pedals that are in front of the amp on one section of the board and keep all the pedals in the loop on the other side for optimal performance. I notice sometimes people run into noise issues when having a pedal that's in front next to a pedal that's in the loop. Should this not concern me because all of the pedals on my board will be wired to the rjm loops?"

I have had a number of boards and have never stuck to this convention, and have also never had noise issues. However, I also always lay out the pedals on the ground in the manner I plan to mount them on the pedalboard and play test the configuration first, to ensure there are no such issues.

You will need to power the pedals in front of your amp separately from the pedals in your loop. This can be accomplished by using any pedal power supply with ISOLATED taps, and ensuring you don't try to split the power coming out of a given tap across a pedal in front of your amp and a pedal in the loop.

All same advice I would give...works for me. Delay, Verb, G string, boost all in the loop. All other pedals in front of the amp.

 

[XSSIVE]

^

You're very correct, thus why I said "rule" because keeping things short is always best on paper but even on my current board I had to "break" the "rule" of long runs to get the order I wanted. My wah is actually 4th in my chain if you count the wireless receiver and to have the board laid out ergonomically how I wanted it I had to run ~3/4 of the way across the board to get back to the wah input then into my tuner and back across the board. Thankfully it's a small board but still, sometimes ya gotta do whatcha gotta do lol.

To get this...

I had to do this...