How To Build A Pedalboard (our way) - With Pete & Joss - Andertons Music Co.

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👆 In today's video, Pete helps Joss put together his very own personal pedalboard!
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[@guitarfreak585]

I love these father/son bonding episodes

[@Subtle-System]

Father and son? It's his son? Lol... cool

[@flynn_22]

How about doing a series of this but it’s different genres for each pedalboard

[@WeileWorld]

Good idea

[@iwct]

Nice idea but a lot of us play in covers/function bands, so a “most versatile, but “not too big for a pub” board would be nice. Not a multi-fx.

[@oranchung]

Good idea!!!

[@maxfuster5602]

I wanna see it too

[@law6044]

Budget vs expensive with the same pedals but maybe a £500 board vs a multi effects vs £1000 board?

[@petoskeystoned6221]

Building a pedal board : Step one: Wear a cool jacket.

[@robbinwolfe9553]

Step two: roll up pant legs

[@LEgoiste]

Step three: Mess your hair up.

[@LEgoiste]

Step 4: Sit on a stool too small for you.

[@lithrawri]

I get scared when the mugs don't explode when they put em down

[@RudyAyoub]

that lava lamp at 2:15 gave away your magic trick fam

[@jcwab]

Hi Rudy

[@arch_6133]

035

[@keithyoung5247]

This whole Andertons video thing should be on TV, like BBC 2 on a Sunday evening, it's like Top Gear for geetar. Awesome 👏

[@robertj1303]

the BBC is dead except for their website period! Viewer ratings extremely low

[@FunkyMonkey-ip4xy]

Oi Andertons crew, your bloke Mayer is on Hot Ones, new episode.

[@40spinup]

*sits and waits for all the “ I wouldn’t do it like that “ comments*

[@andertons]

Right! :-)

[@Taurencowpew]

Hate to be "that guy" - BUT, I wouldn't put the tuner before the Tone Bender like that. Buffering that Germanium joy isn't criminal; but it does make it a little... impersonal.

[@Robstafarian]

To be fair, selecting a power supply without regard to one's power requirements is not good.

[@mcbrodz1663]

@@Taurencowpew tuners go last for Me, can mute everything if you’ve got noise

[@joshball8674]

@@mcbrodz1663don’t tuners just mute everything regardless of where they are in the chain?

[@versuswhat]

Outstanding video chaps. I was putting off building my first board. This certainly makes it less daunting. Cheers!

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Wipes it down to get rid of finger smudge and then proceeds to wipe his hands all over it???

[@jasonrhodes5034]

On boss pedals you can unscrew the bottom and flip it and screw it with the rubber inside

[@scottbulmer7160]

Good tip.. thanks.

[@joshuaschwarz9196]

Usually yes. But it doesn't work for every Boss Pedals...at some models the power jack sits at the bottom of the back side so by turning the base plate you just bend the power jack unit...so Be careful!

[@Fektthis]

that sounds shockingly like last night except there were no boss pedals involved.

[@Bealzeebozzo]

OooooEeeer that sounds a bit rude ;)

[@AnyTechReviews]

Doesn’t work for the Blues Driver. I just ended up taking the rubber foot off and sticking the Velcro directly on the metal plate.

[@justinbouchard]

I have one request and I think it's for most videos. Please Please Please balance the speech audio with the bits of music that come in. My ears thank you.

[@vinniesmyyth334]

Stevie ray vaughn has Pete honore posters on his wall

[@generalgrievous5589]

John Snow he should

[@rickeyryan303]

You mean casket..

[@vinniesmyyth334]

Rickey Ryan was that really needed?

[@rickeyryan303]

Yes because its true..He is dead right, so he has no bedroom..Just pointed out facts..Tho we live in a world now where people don't deal in facts or the truth..BTW i am a massive SRV fan, and knew him since i was a kid .His whole family where good friends with my family. we went to the same school and lived 5 mins from each other..

[@srvthesheep4682]

Rickey Ryan sigh

[@thejoshbtv]

The easiest way to get around that needing a long patch cable to get to the other side of the board is to just zig zag your way up and down across the pedal board. The pedals don't need to physically be in line, they just need to be connected in line.

[@johnbehan1526]

And it will make it easier to separate your patch cable from all those power lines, reducing the chance of hum.

[@johnbehan1526]

Ooh, and it means you can put a patch bay under the accessible top part of your board, in case you want to split your wet/dry fx chains around your preamp

[@leocubiasmusiclifestyle7460]

Omg this two together are hilarious 😂 totally made my day already love this two 🖤

[@Jester-Riddle]

I'd recommend keeping power cables away from signal cables as much as possible and especially not to put power cables around the signal cables … Also, bear in mind the height of the pedal switches and box sizes when deciding where to locate pedals on the board. Lower switch heights and smaller boxes nearest you can be preferable for better access to the switches rather than trying to reach your foot over to find multiple small unit switches ...

[@whoismichaelmoschos]

Buffered signal into a germanium fuzz is a no no for me, try it the other way!

[@Taurencowpew]

Yep, I'd try the Bender before the tuner, as well as after it, the difference is significant.

[@stuartbegley2085]

whoismichaelmoschos I put my boss tuner into havelina fuzz, works perfect

[@whoismichaelmoschos]

My experience especially with my germanium fuzzes is that they prefer the unbuffered signal. Try it both ways and see what fits you better.

[@marklewis7484]

A fab 37 mins on a pedal board, I'm looking forward to the 1hr30min review of the PRS MT15!

[@andertons]

You shall have it...

[@hieronymus932]

Digital pedals should not be daisy chained since they draw the most current. Overdrive and Fuzz pedals typically draw less current so when forced to daisy chain I would suggest doing those. The Pomeroy looks digital though.

[@Bealzeebozzo]

I like the True Tone 1SPOT CS12 isolated power supply myself. World Voltage switchable input and 9VAC outputs too. 3000mA Total supply for those Strymon demon pedals. I make my own cables, soldered not the solderless ones. I like to colour code all my cables and connections too. Years of electronic building and computer building taught me cable management lessons.

[@justinbouchard]

Omg I love you two together

[@nickmartin3838]

Am I missing something here...? Surely the solution to not needing a long patch cable is to reverse the top row! Given the guitar leads are long anyway, surely they can come out of the same side of the pedal board or is that a massive no no?

[@juangaruti1896]

To solve the cable length problem, couldn’t you just flip the positioning of the top 3 pedals? So that you could have the booster going straight into the mxr without a super long cable

[@chrisdrake447]

Hummus? That’s not what you need for a really good fix! You gotta use either cold porridge or well-soaked Frosties to get proper adhesion. Building my own Pedal Crane beast at the moment, and all I can say is that is going to be very tasty.

[@craigparse1439]

Where's your Miku pedal? That has to be paired with a Boss Metal Zone.

[@nitemunky76]

Bit of bad information here. I wouldn't advise daisy chaining any digital pedals or pedals with an internal clock together as they tend to dump noise to ground. More advisable to daisy analogue drives.

[@andertons]

Thank you for the advice...

[@SidBonkers51]

Surely a "How To Build A Pedalboard" video should start with. Find an old wooden pallet from the skip round the back of Andertons etc etc etc....

[@jaskiniamestwa]

I recommend watching from 34:00 on a 0 . 5 speed. Trust me.

[@BrianLeverett]

That’s hilarious!

[@venom663]

How to build a pedal board...... slap a helix on the floor. Done 😂 haha

[@thenotsoguitarguy9429]

My take-away from this vid: put some hummus on your soft bits.

[@cour1988]

The NotSoGuitarGuy Uh uh...ouch 😬😬😬

[@BretCahill]

When did Tobey McGuire and Leonardo DiCaprio start working for Andertons.

[@BrianLeverett]

Made me chuckle!

[@Mr_Bollie]

HELENE FISCHER written on the case. I hope she won't burst out of it and start to sing.

[@fischersen_85]

Bollie hahaha...wanted to write this as well. @andertons: are you Helene Fischer Fanatics? :)

[@Mr_Bollie]

Nope, Dansih Pete seems to be her tour guitarist. *coughs* Anyway, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvXo2iKeb5_qdU As much as I dislike her music, I imagine there are jobs that are much worse. ;)

[@nefdsnet]

Poor Pete...

[@fischersen_85]

Nef why? You don't have to like her music (I don't) but you have to admit that she's an entertainer and very good in what she's doing. And in her band are very good musicians. So Pete...have fun :)

[@Mr_Bollie]

He gets to play solos in huge arenas... Who wouldn't like to do that? :)

[@subezdo]

Pete: "...one brokeback mountain" Joss: "oh yeah" Joss, please don't sound too excited, for the sake of the camera

[@kevinkrohn6916]

I'm so confused. For every person that says the tuner should be first in the chain, there's a video like this. I don't get it, why would you want to have to switch off every pedal just to tune? How can you tune if the signal is laden with effects?

[@SweetSpotSC]

Pete! Please do an overview of your personal pedal board. If Anderson’s won’t let you, post it on your own channel. We’d love to see what you use and hear why you chose them. Thanks for the great video.

[@geraldfried2752]

If, instead of ordering the pedals from right to left on the bottom and then right to left on the top, you ordered them from right to left on the bottom and left to right on the top, you wouldn't need a longer patch cable.

[@generalgrievous5589]

That was the quickest 40 minutes of my life... I need more of these guys

[@paddling_out]

It's actually the digital or time based (delay, modulation) pedals that need isolated ("clean") power. They generate clock noise that can be introduced into the power cable and cause unwanted noise in your guitar signal. Analog drive pedals can share a single outlet (daisy-chained) because they don't (generally) cause this sort of noise. Old school fuzzes that are positive ground however should *not* be daisy-chained. edit: okay so 100 other people already mentioned this in other comments. Oh well..

[@OlderGuyLearningGuitar]

Just wondered, why not lay the pedals out in a clockwise pattern for connecting them? Then it would have completely negated the need for a longer custom cable going diagonally across the board. It would have been tidier underneath too. 🤔

[@jmwreck]

input side is usually on the right. the bottom row goes right to left, then same goes the top. if it's arranged clockwise, then cables on top row would be overlapping each other, those mxr cables are too short for that

[@rickeyryan303]

awesome job dudes..

[@bobafett4889]

This is awesome. I've literally been binge watching both of the pedalboard "quest" vids and the budget pedalboard vid. lol

[@MrNeilltupman]

Overhead cam: black tape onto a black Pedaltrain.. on a black box 😅😂

[@yorakhunt447]

So that's what my guitar can sound like when it's played by someone that knows what they're doing.

[@mjallenuk]

Wow this was recorded a while back... So guessing Joss has already pulled most of it apart and bought shares in zip ties and velcro.

[@MDXDMusic]

What was the brand of that longer patch cable that connected the boost to the uni vibe called and what's the length of it?

[@wolfgangvonkill9391]

BlackearacheXD I've been trying to figure it out. Your comment is from like a year ago. Did you ever figure out what cable it was?

[@robertj1303]

For eight pedals that dont need more the 500mv for all the pedals. I suggest SKB PS8, cheaper and quicker to build. The price is cheaper with power than the pedal train board alone. I have 3 of them and power them with a Strymon Zuma which also powers the high mv pedals which is far more flexible than the Pedaltrain spark. Its not just about order, its about power, buffers or not and what you want sound wise. When you build a board its also what you want in the future, otherwise you will end up spending too much on the base board. Whether you want a switcher in the future. This is a bit of mishmash of pedals definitely starter kit!

[@jasonrhodes5034]

Robert Twiddy but then they would have to do a whole video on how power supplies are the wrong size to show the new pedal train I fit everything supply. It’s marketing for pedaltrain in sheeps clothing

[@samiulhaquemusic]

So detailed, you guys are the best!

[@alansturgess1324]

Ahhh - the hammer!!!! My Dad was an engineer and valued the hammer as the greatest Birmingham Screwdriver ever invented.

[@nesicus]

I think the power supply might have been better mounted in the center.

[@danp2426]

I would like to watch this video but im interrupted by; HI IM GRAYDON AND I LEARNED TO PLAY GUITAR ON FENDER PLAY

[@captaindelculo1731]

love the niche references Joss makes, howling at the Ace Ventura one

[@Yupppi]

The description is still lacking those little thingies used for cable tying!

[@jjthejjetplane]

2:43 I was seriously waiting for that mug to explode when he put it down. 😂

[@etforde]

Voice volume: 5 Guitar volume: OVER 9000!

[@lordporcupine8767]

Nicolas Tesla...the real father of electricity as opposed to the imposter Edison...

[@ZenRyoku]

THIS IS 100 PERCENT TRUE!!!! Teslsa was The OG master of electricity... even Thor came down from Asguard to learn a few things from him back in the day...⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@Calcium_Penguin]

I just rip off the rubber on the back of my BOSS pedals. Sue me.

[@lukepowell1201]

Often times on the Boss pedals you can just unscrew the back plate and flip it over for a smooth surface.

[@Calcium_Penguin]

Thug Life.

[@untappedreality]

"Two included mounting screws... One broke back mountain.." -Pete Lol!

[@stevealleman9206]

This video makes me want to focus on acoustic guitar.

[@andertons]

Our job here is done then ;-)

[@maximal.ferdinand]

Wtf! I didn't know Pete played for Helene Fischer. :-D

[@peterwelsh1932]

Don't ever use Black Electric tape for anything like this! Never comes off clean. Stains Yer hands, tracks everywhere like grease. On Yer Baalsaac, In Yer face, ruin Yer pants and T-shirts. But all the other electric tape colors are fine. Red, Blue, Brown, Orange, Yellow, White , Grey, Green, Pink, Violet... leave no trace, -I use them as band-aids at work (electrician). That black electric tape gets oozy and gooey and it will make you sad. Colored costs the same. OTHER THAN THAT- Great Vid, Thanks, love the Phasor UniVibe into Overdrive explanation; never heard anybody actually explainwhat's the difference and why/ very cool/ coolAF

[@harryn4397]

This video is excruciatingly painful, dribble, more dribble and even more dribble. This is the 1st Andertons video I have disliked. Pete stick with playing the guitar, you’re and awesome player. 👎🏻😎

[@arthurdduda63]

Pete you should have MARTHA STEWART on and you can make pedal boards and do crafts...

[@livingthedream137]

I know very well how to build a pedal board. Especially one this simple. Yet I watch, why? Danish Pete. I would watch him change his strings.

[@tomvoigt]

Yeah but can you build a pedal board WHILE BLINDFOLDED

[@ferramirez4570]

Spreading some Danish Love here and there with his playing!

[@backplomer]

Instead of needing the long cable couldn’t you just put that pedal above the bottom left and just work the other way, 2 pedals in different locations but still same order 🤔🤔

[@deadviny]

no metalzone???????? wat

[@ZenRyoku]

BBBLLLAAAASSSPPHHEEEMMMYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯

[@anthonyrexhouse5858]

Personally, I wouldn't put electrical tape on the ends of the power connectors. If you ever want to take them off it will be a sticky, gummy mess.

[@buzzburb1]

its two screws omg !!!

[@Behc23]

1spot cs7 and cs12 is not worth buying? Not isolated? Or you mean the wall 1spot wall wart?

[@irmu4556]

Now do it with a piece of wood

[@Leatheryed1]

Could have done with better lighting on this. All the black stuff just disappears as one.

[@schminker0278]

Here's a cool list of current draw on most pedals, to help you plan which you can daisy chain etc. stinkfoot.se/power-list

[@JulianPatrickBronteGlenn]

Not a huge Josh fan to be honest. Maybe the kids get the lack of humour and non-existent camera presence?

[@marshallleaphart2165]

Pete do you have the links for the cable tie distributors and those lifters from your affordable board video with Lee?

[@simply3141592654]

How are those Fender pedals? I keep seeing comments they aren't very durable.

[@cadenjondle7479]

you can just take the rubber off the boss pedals with a pocket knife can't you?

[@dan82dare]

‘Just gonna use this cloth to get the fingerprints off’…… Then he rubs he mitts all over it 🤣

[@brianelkins8604]

Toby Maguire and either Edward Furlong or Jeff Tate.

[@1Guitar1joe1]

Stupid as it sounds I’ve never thought to daisy chain pedals out of one power supply output before. Thankfully I haven’t had to either but it’s still good to have in the bag if need be.

[@Cguy7]

Here's a quick tip: Almost all standard Boss pedals have a clean, flat surface on the reversed side of the back plate! (Rubber surface for floors, flat surface on the reverse for pedalboard mounting). Just flip the back plate to its flat surface, screw it back on and Velcro away! And don't worry, the awesome Boss labeling on the rubber side will not be damaged whatsoever when it's flipped. Scoopity Poop. 🌈

[@NicholasJens]

Flip the bottom plate of a boss pedal around. It’s flat on the other side.

[@vrilcraft]

Pete .. your chinglish instructions are terrible :)) best wishes

[@ellm8089]

What song is that which is played when they are sticking down the Velcro?

[@stimpsonjcat67]

The Gold Bender doesn't have an LED?

[@luciankolar]

We love you Andertons!!!! All of you!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@cassandralesh8536]

So to clean the surface of the board he wipes the oils from his hand all over it?

[@MarkArtyniuk]

when velcroing a boss pedal I found unscrewing and flipping the base plate over works nice to get a flat surface for the velcro to stick nicely.

[@johnbehan1526]

Now *that's* a great hack. Thanks!

[@marcionobrega5117]

Manda um coração pra mim um abraço

[@mheberling5939]

I think they used the wrong bracket.

[@womenandwheels]

I wonder at what point you'd consider using a switcher (Quartermaster etc.)? Ignoring the functionality for the moment, would it sound better?

[@buzzburb1]

what would he look like eating icecream , have a word Pete!!

[@EzyoMusic]

I built one but frankly it's a mess.

[@AhmadSleeq]

What would you do if you wanted the delays and reverbs into the effects loop? I never built a pedal board so is that normal to have the reverbs and delays connected all together ?

[@seanylewl]

KZbin channel for a guitar store, and you use stock solo guitar music in the timelapse?

[@vinceball355]

Hi, I'm building a pedal board using a pedaltrain Pro classic. I am using a a Strymon Zuma to power most of my pedals except for two as they both need more mah than the Zuma can supply. The two pedals in question are a Boss se-70 which uses a AC 12 volt psu 1.5A and a Hall and Collins signature echo which uses AC 12 volt 1A. If I plug both psu's into the same plug board will it cause a problem like hum? I live in the UK. Any advice or help would be appreciated. Vince Ball

[@adamscottv]

Helene Fischer's tour case as a workbench...ok.

[@itayashkenazy2895]

Or.. OR- You just get a sftwr smart pedals jiggy like Bias, for a price of one decent pedal, and forget ever buying a pedal again (Miku not included).. Guys, it's friggin 2018 :)

[@CagedPaps]

Call my crazy, but rather than creating your own cable or having to use a cheap one that's long enough, why not just flip the order on top? Then the patch cable is only going above and not across the board? The flow will still be the same order.

[@OrangutanTradeSalesmen]

The input output Jacks still go the opposite way. So working that direction calls for even more long awkward cables. This is just one. S method works but also some like the linearity of signal chain=layout.

[@Walliebal]

EBS makes very flat patchcables in different lengths form 10cm to 58cm. Rockboard (Warwick) has the same cables (rebranded EBS?), all available at Thomann. But these MXR patchcables are cool :-)