Cover Board (all in one pedal board)

[@kjsdestin]

My feeling is that this thing would work every time you plug into it. And having that feeling is priceless I love what you did here and I am jealous.

[@jumbosunshade]

I wish this vid started with a low menacing voice saying "This is the pedal board Big Velcro doesn't want you to see..." @3:30 "weeow weeow" lmao. This is fantastic build. I'm same as the other guy; glad youtube decided to throw this vid at me 👍

[@chrissturley823]

Man. I was just telling my friend about this exact same idea the other day. I’m glad to see somebody actually did it because I know my lazy ass would never end up actually doing it.

[@antiphlex]

That's a really clean internal build. Well done to you, good sir.

[@MrNeilfatmonkey]

Such a great, well thought out and executed design. Awesome work.

[@riangarianga]

Great build, very neat! It reminded me of the classic Pete Cornish pedalboards used by many greats.

[@Bloor005]

Just what I was thinking.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

was it the Dymo labels? :o)

[@riangarianga]

@@UphillGardener-ly5sh Not only that, haha. Pete Cornish used to get rid of the original enclosures and put everything into a main board with everything hard wired.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

@riangarianga Yes, and he housed everything in plywood and painted them black if I remember right... every superstar guitarist, and some not so superstarry had him build one in the 70s/80s the Howard Dumble of stomp boxes :o)

[@VERMACIDE]

dude knew what he wanted, and executed. You're awesome

[@c.g.vonhagenstein7576]

Flipping brilliant idea! Would love to see Wampler take a crack at something like this too. Loved the concept of being able to run different FX loops while retaining the ability to control what's on and off in the loop. Cool stuff!

[@trevorus]

JAM pedals makes one for Greg Koch called the Koch ness monster. It's $2500, but it's basically this kind of thing.

[@fredfox3851]

DIY customization on steroids! Very nice design and build, Mr Guitar Nerd. Rock ON!

[@markhammer643]

I've been building myself a full modular system over the past 6-8 years. Probably 15 years ago, I bought some 4" x 2.5" nicely-machined black anodized face-plates from a local surplus place, that I figured I could find a use for eventually. At 3/$1, I figured what could I lose. I used them to make effect modules. I fit 12 modules into each cabinet I built. I'm now up to 8-1/2 cabinets full, and working on filling the 9th and 10th. Each cab has its own power-bus in the back, and the modules are connected via small Molex connectors. Since it is almost entirely analog (i.e., most modules will want

[@samuelwynn737]

Ive had a idea similar to this for a long time, it is so wicked to see that you actually did it!

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

4:40 would be an excellent addition to the board if you ever decide to make some to sell. The outlines really help distinguish what is what and really brings it all together

[@MikeWard70]

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while now. Very cool. The wiring is very well done.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@MikeWard70 thank you. surprised myself since it had been years since I’ve seen the inside

[@IAmSippycup]

Okay I've been screaming about this idea for years: This, but modular! The chassis provides 9V to a dozen or so slots, the pedals trade 1/4" jacks for Molex connectors or something so you can pop effects in and out or move things around. No more velcro, no more power supply spaghetti, no more batteries, no more jumper cables. Building a neat board takes minutes instead of hours.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@IAmSippycup yeah that is a cool idea, I’ve seen it done with guitar pickups but it actually makes more sense to do it with pedals.

[@mudsh4rk]

Yamaha sold a whole line of pedals based around this concept in the early 80s. All of the pedals in the PSE series had pin headers on the back that provided power, i/o and CV input for using an external expression pedal. The SB-200 pedalboard could hold 11 pedals, with a patchbay that let you access the input, output and CV input for each pedal, plus a few other things. It would cost a few thousand dollars to get one and enough pedals to fill it, if you could find one at all. Better that than a Klon Centaur, though.

[@IAmSippycup]

@@mudsh4rk Whoa, I'd never heard of that, thank you! I can see why it maybe didn't fly though: Guitarists have their favorite pedals and don't want to be locked in to Yamaha's ecosystem. I was thinking like an open standard kind of like what API did with the 500 series format. Now anybody can make preamps, EQs, or whatever else that fit the lunchbox format. Plus you gotta keep the artwork on the pedals so guitarists can collect gear like Pokémon cards.

[@Gear-Tube]

Beautiful work! I really dig this kind of project 👍😄

[@wallofsheep5645]

I was literally daydreaming about building ssomething like this last night. Aweesome!

[@chrissturley823]

7:59 is where he gets to the best part and shows us the goods (he reveals the guts)

[@rxones2897]

this thing is rad! id love to paint one of these up

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@rxones2897 I’ll keep that in mind if I ever build another one.

[@FrazySting]

Very very cool build.

[@jamielodberg]

Beautiful build!

[@Brati999]

Wow. Great idea. Beautifull build. Well done.

[@mrchamplinfoxborough4733]

Kudos! Very well thought out and designed.

[@satanbane]

Nice setup & design. I like how "expedient" it is, providing exactly what you personally need, instead of every possibility in exhaustive detail. If you were so inclined, I think you could sell these, just the blank enclosures with some nice laser etching, let's say, and people could populate them with 4-knob TC effects as desired.

[@jazz-ir8fw]

For me, AWESOME!! SUPER!! I've been thinking about something like this for a long time, of course only as an impossible dream, and now it turns out that it's possible!! If I had someone who would do something like that for me, I would probably go to such a person immediately! Huge applause for the idea and execution!! For me, something incredible! better than these various company combines! digital!! Warmest regards to the executor and implementer of this idea and project Bomba!!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@jazz-ir8fw I would definitely use different preferred brands but I ended up choosing the Toneprint pedals because they have a USB port with an editor program. My thoughts were; if I couldn’t find any decent setting on effects I would use the editor and make the effects sound the way I need them to sound. The editor has like 50 controls aside from the 4 knobs.

[@keepitshortnsweet]

Bloody brilliant! Genius.

[@prohunter717]

This is pretty neat and I can see how it would be more convenient to carry around and move with. I'm still using a mobile DAW setup and looking to move to a multi-fx pedal board when money permits but might think about making a custom board like this in the future.

[@dannybrickwell]

So grateful for the algorithm throwing this video my way! Very slick build! I'd never thought too much about this style of all-in-one board because it had always seemed impractical to me, but I'd never given myself enough time to consider the weight and reliability benefits. Neat! Did you document the build process at all? If you ever wanted to build another board, there's definitely one person here who'd love to see a video on the process! Really sick combo of pedals too, sounds great man!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@dannybrickwellthe all in one board is cool but there’s no reason why you can’t have a normal too….i have like 3 pedal boards. Unfortunately I didn’t document the build process since I built this before I started my KZbin channel

[@dannybrickwell]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd Yo thanks for the reply my man! My main hang-up is that the pedals that I would put in the all-in-one board would obviously be hard committed to that board, and I couldn't use them with any of my other gear! Unless I bought doubles of every pedal, but then I could spend that money on having DIFFERENT pedals that I don't need 😂

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@dannybrickwell heard dat, I had to buy two PS-6 and two Hall of Fame pedals.

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

One of the biggest problems in pedal board is we do not have access to the Midi switching hardware controllers in order to build rack mounted switching systems. There is a monopoly on these hardware devices as we still do not have access to any mid range hardware kits, it’s pretty much a custom purchase from Bradshaw and only a few others. These devices are brain dead easy to assemble and to me your own audio switching boxes but it’s the Midi to audio switching controllers that we do not have easy access to. That’s a great looking build there nice job!!

[@modelcitizen1977]

A MIDI switcher should be easy enough to build with a raspberry pi, I would think.

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

@ This audio switcher that gets midi signals to open audio relays. Some of this stuff is available on Aliexpress but very basic nothing complete. There is a virtual monopoly on this stuff and has been since the mid 80’s.

[@xpump876]

Nice job - and clean wiring. A ton of unshielded wiring makes me wonder which radio stations you received.

[@ArrakisOCE]

You can build these pedals into a rack unit instead, with wirelessly activated analog relay switches. That way all you need on the floor is a wireless MIDI footswitch.

[@1-eye-willy]

ive always wanted to build one of these. very cool

[@masterofreality230]

I mean, if you want more stability and you dont plan on altering your signal chain, cool. My pedal board is plenty stable and I know I would want to change the order. A really neat evolution of this sort of thing would be one of those programmable loop switchers that let you change your pedal order any way that you want.

[@1-eye-willy]

i would call this a work horse pedal board. something for the working musician who already knows what they want and reliability

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

dude this is crazy 😂 awesome work!

[@akm20-lx8jk]

THIS is kinda my dream pedalboard portable, light, built like a tank and with all the knobs on board so i don't have to spend time using a pc to get the tone i need

[@tabriel]

Well done sir !

[@roscius6204]

Nice build. Modern take would be a Loop Switcher which obviously gives more flexibility. The light weight and robust build here would be it's biggest win

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@roscius6204 it has two loop switchers built in. One goes before the overdrive and the other goes after the overdrive

[@roscius6204]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd Not re-orderable or presetable though.

[@NicleT]

Very impressive construction! It's like a multi-effects pedal without all the menu diving shebang. Love it! Do you have a carrying case for?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@NicleT exactly sometimes turning knobs on the fly is faster/easier an scrolling through menus. I have a leather suitcase for it but it’s not padded

[@stormriderkaos]

Timely video! I've been considering this for a few months and now that I've seen your video I definitely want to put one together. The box is Hammond Manufacturing 1456WL1 in several color options (20" wide, but also comes in 17"). Question: did you use shielded signal wire or is the box adequate shielding? My hunch is to use shielded signal wire... Thanks!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@stormriderkaos I used the box itself as the shielding just like standard pedals. I sanded the paint off in one area and riveted a terminal to the enclosure. Also paint should be removed bottom on one or more screw holes (the screw will transfer ground to the bottom portion.

[@leftpastsaturn67]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd No issues with the transformers being in close proximity to the boards?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@ no issues whatsoever

[@leftpastsaturn67]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd That's a well-made and thought-out board, good work.

[@jasonkirkham550]

I've been wanting to do that for a long time !

[@-processdrone-]

woah! that enclosure must have cost a bit but it's a really cool idea. My paranoia would have made me put an earthed plate between the power supplies and the effects but I expect you were happy with your noise level tests, and that's all that matters.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@-processdrone- actually the enclosure is about $35 USD plus shipping so not to bad. It has a very low noise level as I’ve used it in many different environments. Maybe the power is far enough to not cause issues 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Kpalsm]

Cool idea! Curious why you decided to go with TC pedals? For the extra flexibility of toneprint?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@Kpalsm yes it was the flexibility of toneprints. Being able to beam effects to the pedals from your phone and being able to use the computer app editor

[@Ottophil]

I love this idea

[@LysanderLH]

This is my dream pedalboard!

[@thesisters1349]

Very cool! Pure guitar Nerdery....

[@NisGaarde]

This reminds me of The Bathroom Buddy from 'Gremlins' 😅

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@NisGaarde or the starship enterprise

[@zdravkodimitrov]

You've just re-invented Boss ME90 but with TC pedals 😅 Joking aside, this looks awesome!

[@MrJackrockerman]

Wow .. impressive 🔥👍

[@BassRacerx]

You should get the Labels engraved into the metal. Imagine if all the stickers fell of that could be devastating!

[@jamesward3617]

Ever since I saw Randy's I wanted to do something like this but I keep switching stuff so I use a patch bay.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@jamesward3617 patch bays & loopers are absolutely the way to go. This was for a specific job. Currently have 3 pedalboards: Mother Board, Baby Board, and Cover Board

[@jamesbennettmusic2154]

Were you not tempted to incorporate a TC Plethora instead of all the individual TC pedals?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@jamesbennettmusic2154 yes most definitely but i decided to use the toneprints pedals because they have a USB and really nice editing software. I figured if I couldn’t get a decent effects I would just program my own effects.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

Plus I have 3 pedal board so wasn’t hard to commit to it

[@david894]

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen!!! I want one. How long did it take you to make? Ever think about making for customers?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@david894 I thought about making smaller modular versions of it. Total physical build was about 12 to 15 hours, but I did spend quite a few days just planning everything out.

[@david894]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd This one is awesome, but a smaller one would also be great! One with 4, 6 or 8 pedals would be fantastic. I personally would like one with 6 pedals: Overdrive, Distortion, Chorus, Flanger, Delay & Reverb for example. Man, I get excited at the possibilities. Well, if you ever decide to make for customers, please let us know. I'm sure you'll have customers.

[@nocaster5120]

This is so cool! Where did you get that box/enclosure?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@nocaster5120 mouser electronics

[@TreyAlexander]

Amazing! Can you make one with 4 cable method and can you put which ever pedals you want in it? This is so cool!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@TreyAlexander it has two effect loops/4cable method built in so you can do exactly that. One loop goes before the overdrive and the other loop goes after the overdrive

[@TreyAlexander]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerdis there anyway to contact you and have you build something for me?

[@TreyAlexander]

⁠@@ArtoriusGuitarNerdI use the overdrives of my amp and I want to place the overdrives of the unit in front of the amp and all the verbs and delays in the loop of the amp, also would be cool to have internal midi control of one multi efx unit for delays and verbs and trs switching of the tube amps I use which is a Victory MK Overdrive, but just shooting from the hip there might be some analog effects I could use in place of that as long as I could my amp controller in the unit somewhere

[@modscientist9793]

I love this...❤❤❤ pretty awesome. Makes me want to build one.

[@SlavaBass]

Nice, but where is your tuner? Why have not you built it in?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@SlavaBass my tuner & wah are on there own board and gets used with my other boards two.

[@mossy723]

"weeoooh weeoooh weeoooh weeoooh" 😂

[@frankybebop2913]

Love this! The built in loops are a thing of genious. Will you go further in to how tou made the loops? It looks cool too. Very “Abbey Road” in the 60ies!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@frankybebop2913 there’s a lot of truebypass loopers out there for cheap but I can send you a diagram if you wanna build one yourself. Email: [e-mail]

[@pedroschwartsburd237]

Awesome!

[@DreidMusicalX]

Pretty cool.

[@DrumKingSupreme-j5i]

Dude you r .. what. Omg . Bro damn . Words of a drummer. Neat

[@andriimotsyk3018]

Most if not all TC pedals are digital right? Wasn't it easier just to replace effect section with processor?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@andriimotsyk3018 absolutely. There’s pros and cons to doing it this way. I built it this way because i wanted to turn knobs on the fly and not scroll through a menu. I used the TC pedals because it has editor software so you can make your sounds beyond the knobs. I have 3 pedals board, this is the only all in one.

[@andriimotsyk3018]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd aren't you losing quality and resolution on constant DA AD сonverting in this case?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@ no because the pedals that have a digital converter aren’t in the loop. And all the pedals are true bypass so there’s no extra conversions going on in the loops if they are not engaged.

[@jmtab]

Very cool, but the TC Electronics Plethora series gives you all of those delay, reverb and modulation pedals in one enclosure.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@jmtab the plethora is a new pedal and I built this a long time ago. Plus the point of this board was to be able to turn knobs on the fly and not scroll through a menus

[@randydarklight]

Dude, all this is a Highschool project? Amazing.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@randydarklight thanks? I think I was inspired by Pete Cornish at the time

[@Viper-dz2kw]

Was this intentionally designed to look like one of the Motown Eq’s?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@Viper-dz2kw I wanted it to look like the Starship Enterprise

[@criscoleman4402]

Really cool

[@jasonmusic9938]

thats so cool

[@TreyAlexander]

I have been day dreaming about having someone do this so I can just take one thing with me to the gig

[@TreyAlexander]

So badly wish I could get everything I needed in one board and everyone always leaves out one very important piece of the puzzle for me and I would love to find a customer builder for this, it would be priceless

[@TreyAlexander]

Love the standard iec cable

[@guitartonetopia]

That is wild. WOW

[@anisopiavision]

Did you build this? And if so, can you build other versions with different pedals in it?? Very interested in this build style for sure but have some different pedals I would want in it

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@anisopiavision I did build it and it was scary fun lol. You can email me with your ideas and we’ll take it from there. Pricing will be all over the place depending on how many people and who supplying the pedals or if they have to be built. Another idea would to have a few pedals in separate smaller modules so it would like a hybrid of both “standard” and “all in one”. [e-mail]

[@LochNessAnthony]

That is freaking awesome

[@metaldemonseanknels]

You should really patent this. This is genius. I have been thinking about how I can set up a system to turn off/on a bunch of pedals at once with one button

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@metaldemonseanknels oh brother you can use a simple truebypass looper and plug multiple pedals into it.

[@metaldemonseanknels]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd my original thought was going the midi route and then lately o was thinking about getting a quad cortex and capturing the sounds I want and just saving those lol I think that would be the easiest

[@garyfaria3102]

I’ve been designing something similar…… where did you buy the enclosure???

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@garyfaria3102 it’s been a while but I believe I got it from Mouser and it came in like 2-3 days. Model number: 1456PH1BKBU

[@DrumKingSupreme-j5i]

Wow genius

[@Fogertian]

Aghh¡ .... I can't stop drooling .... I want it ¡¡?

[@nathansieg4467]

It was for sale on Reverb...not sure if it still is

[@manaras]

Chapeau

[@ImprovGuitarJams]

Clever idea

[@_yhs]

I'd put booster after compressor tho

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@_yhs the compressor has a loud enough volume knob to boost

[@_yhs]

@ yeah but if you put the booster first, the gain reduction from the compressor will be different when you turn the booster on.

[@peekhof]

how do you add toneprints? ;-)

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@peekhof well you can still beam toneprints like normal but you would need to open the enclosure to access the USB ports if you needed to

[@kidarcade]

How many hours did it take you to build this?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@kidarcade about 12-15 hours over a 3 days. Most of it was measuring and drilling everything straight & equal. Wiring went surprisingly fast maybe 3-4 hours.

[@kidarcade]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd Wow thats really fast for everything! I honestly would have said 100 hours or so! Are you an engeneer? Anyways: very well done!

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@kidarcade not an engineer but I’m good with measurements. I’m pretty fast at wiring when I get in the zone.

[@kidarcade]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd Damn. That rocks man! I´d hire (wire^^) you if you would be in Austria :)

[@dewil7313]

That is very cool =D

[@MotownGuitarJoe]

Is it April 1st already? How long was I sleeping!?!?

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@MotownGuitarJoe haha this ain’t no JHS prank

[@chrisfit]

That’s is awesome.

[@phonodella5273]

Since most effects are digital, wouldnt have it be easier to use 1 multi-effects like the mobius or boss md500 which even have midi? This would have reduced its size in half

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@phonodella5273 if you use a multi effects unit / processor then you don’t need something like this. This was made in a traditional format but in the manner of Pete Cornish. 1. It’s easier to turn knobs on the fly than to scroll through a menu 2. All digital processors sound & feel pretty good but not great. 3. This looks way cooler lol 4. The overall size is reduced since there’s 10 pedals and 4 loops. Any smaller and it would be difficult to press switches without hitting knobs or something

[@reghunt2487]

love this.

[@schurfrelay]

That's so cool. Completely redundant due to multi effects, but really cool nonetheless

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@schurfrelay well I built this when I was in a cover band I need to move settings around on fly and not be scrolling through menus

[@boddumblues]

Very Cornish, I like it!

[@KnuckleheadStuey]

That's pretty cool. Ok the inside just came up. Yeah, no way I'm attempting that.

[@danielebazzani]

a friend of mine did this 30 years ago, the problem is when you want to change a pedal! lol

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@danielebazzani that’s why I have 3 pedalboard lol. I made this one specifically for a cover band setting. It’s way easier to turn knobs on the fly than scroll through a menu

[@danielebazzani]

@ArtoriusGuitarNerd agreed

[@billahler7728]

Love this

[@michaelwilson2497]

Nice biild!!!

[@christophertaylor5403]

Smart

[@bltvd]

Fan fudging tastic!

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Awesome

[@robertstan2349]

neat but it'd be easier and cleaner to have a multi-effects rackmount with a midi pedal board, less foot-tapping and more combinations. although you would lose the ability to have a particular brand of effect.

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@robertstan2349 I don’t know about “easier & cleaner” but it definitely would be more expensive

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

dang does that tatoo ever get old

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@zvotaisvfi8678 nah

[@AradijePresveti]

I'm making something similar right now 🤣

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@AradijePresveti post it brother

[@AradijePresveti]

@@ArtoriusGuitarNerd Will do when it's finished. Also, great job on that wiring. Love it!

[@idiotburns]

Companies are afraid to make this

[@ArtoriusGuitarNerd]

@@idiotburns Jam Pedals just started doing this actually. Bet more companies will start to follow

[@thedailybeano3392]

3:30

[@kiethlewis4657]

OK ' wow!

[@CELERYLAWN]

DOOOD yes